Tsunami devastation in Nagapattinam has severely affected about 80 villages. Many more have faced damage in varying degrees. Fishing villages dominate this coastal district and nearly 70 percent of the severely affected villages are fishing villages.

The NGO Coordination and Resource Centre (NCRC) is a coordinating and facilitating agency set up post tsunami to link the tsunami affected communities with aid organisations and the government. It also ensure appropriate, adequate and timely information flows between all stakeholders involved in relief and rehabilitation efforts in Nagapattinam.

Within a few months of its operation, NCRC selected 12 strategic locations in this region and has set up village information centres covering all the affected villages in the district. The information centres were set up in consonance with the "Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre". By September 2005, all the 12 centres became fully operational.