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World Operation Kaveri

OPERATION KAVERI

Safety of every Indian:

Government's top priority

Like the Kaveri River, which flows uninterrupted to its destination, Operation Kaveri ensured
the safe return of Indians stranded in crisis-ridden Sudan. The operation to evacuate Indians
from war-torn Sudan, known as Operation Kaveri, has concluded. Approximately 4000
Indians were evacuated from Sudan as part of Operation Kaveri.

"That place is in a terrible situation. There are to the Indian Embassy, the Indian Army, and the
bombings and shootings going on. Shells are being Central Government for their assistance in bringing
fired from the tank. It's a great feeling to return to us back to our homeland."
your homeland after being in such a situation." This was not the first time the government
There is a serious situation over there. "The Indian ensured the safe return of Indians stranded abroad.
Embassy in Sudan did a good job," I said when I If any Indian, anywhere in the world, has a problem,
returned home. "It's great for us. It was excellent the government acts until it is resolved. Whenever
coordination. India is great." The Indians who were Indians were in trouble abroad, Prime Minister
rescued from the unstable Sudan and returned Narendra Modi came forward to help them. Whether
home are the ones who said these words. Indians it is the safe return of over 4,000 Indians during the
who returned safely to India from war-torn Sudan conflict in Yemen, the return of crores of Indians
as part of Operation Kaveri thanked the Central stranded abroad during the COVID period, the safe
Government. "We have been brought here safely," return of Indians following the Taliban occupation
says Haider Abbas of Lucknow. We are grateful of Afghanistan, or the return of Indians caught up

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