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Title tite | NATION

n During Operation Samudra
Setu, Indian naval ships
Jalashwa, Airavat, Shardul
and Magar steamed more
then 23,000 kilometres.
Through this, 3,992 Indian
nationals were successfully
brought back.

Under the Vande Bharat Mission, one of the largest Evacuation from China amid covid
n
missions in history, more than 2.97 crore people were At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020,
brought back through 2.17 lakh flights between 7 May India acted swiftly to evacuate 637 Indian citizens and
2020 and March 2022. Both commercial and chartered 7 Maldivians from Wuhan, China. The early response
flights under the air bubble arrangement ensured that helped prevent potential risks and demonstrated
stranded nationals could return to their homes. prompt crisis management.

an example. On June 19, 2019, the Modi government trapped in Nepal due to the earthquake. In 2016,
ensured the safe return of Indians trapped in Saudi given the incidents of conflict in South Sudan, India
Arabia. Hundreds of Indians were trapped in Saudi launched 'Operation Sankatmochan' to bring back
Arabia due to a fight between two companies. On its people, in which 156 Indians and 2 Nepali citizens
the initiative of the Modi government, 1200 Indians were evacuated safely. 'Operation Samudra Maitri'
were brought back to the country. The Indians who was launched for the victims of the earthquake and
returned to the country thanked Prime Minister Modi tsunami in the Republic of Indonesia, while during
for their return. The success in getting its 8 former the 2019 storm in Mozambique, India provided
naval personnel released after being sentenced to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and
death in Qatar has given a new confidence to the rescued more than 192 people. Similarly, in 2021,
common Indian. 'Operation Devishakti' was launched to safely evac-
Fulfilling the thinking of 'Neighbor is the first uate Indians stranded in Afghanistan. After the ter-
helper', India sent NDRF teams after the devastat- rorist attack in Sri Lanka on the occasion of Easter,
ing earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015, which Prime Minister Modi was the first world leader to
reached Nepal within 6 hours and also provided visit that country. India's emergency ambulance
assistance of about 67 million dollars. 'Operation service in Sri Lanka is still available in all 9 provinces
Maitri' was launched to evacuate the Indian people of the country.

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