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02 Mar 2022 ‘Operation Ganga’

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Recently the Government of India has started a ‘multi-pronged’ initiative named ‘Operation Ganga’.
A dedicated Twitter handle ‘OpGanga Helpline’ has also been announced to assist in the safe evacuation of Indians from Ukraine.
Current tensions between Russia and Ukraine have escalated with the outbreak of war in Ukraine after the recent spate of attacks by the Russian military.

It is an evacuation mission to bring back all the Indian nationals who are currently stranded in Ukraine.
Around 20,000 Indians, including students, were trapped in Ukraine.
So far more than 900 Indians from Ukraine have been safely brought back to India by three Air India flights.
Indian evacuation flights are operating from neighboring countries like Romania and Hungary.
The Indian government is also providing facilities to rescue Indians trapped in the borders of Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

Other evacuation operations undertaken by India:

‘Vande Bharat Mission’ has been run to bring back Indian citizens stranded abroad due to the ban on global travel due to Coronavirus.
Under this mission, about 60 lakh Indians were brought back till April 30, 2021 in several phases.

It was a naval operation as part of the national effort to bring back Indian nationals from abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under this, 3,992 Indian citizens were successfully brought back to their homeland by sea.
Indian Navy ships Jalashwa (Landing Platform Dock), Airavat, Shardul and Magar (Landing Ship Tank) participated in the operation, which lasted 55 days and covered 23,000 km by sea. More travel was involved.

In March 2016, Belgium was hit by a terrorist attack at Brussels Airport in Zaventem and at the Malbec metro station in central Brussels.
Under this, a total of 242 Indians, including 28 crew members, were brought to India by Jet Airways flight.

Operation Rahat, launched by the Indian Armed Forces during the 2015 Yemen crisis, evacuated over 4640 Indian nationals along with 960 foreign nationals from 41 countries from Yemen.
The operation was conducted both by air and by sea.

Operation Maitri was conducted by the Government of India and the Indian Armed Forces as a rescue and relief operation in the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
The Indian Armed Forces had evacuated about 5,188 people, while about 785 foreign tourists were granted transit visas.

It was started by the Government of India on 26 February 2011 for the safe return of Indian citizens trapped in the Libyan Civil War.
Around 15,000 civilians were rescued in this operation.
In this both the air route and sea route were used by the Indian Navy and Air India.

As the military conflict in Israel and Lebanon began in July 2006, India launched Operation Sukoon, now known as the ‘Beirut Sealift’, to rescue its stranded civilians.
It was the largest naval rescue operation since the Dunkirk evacuation.
The task force evacuated approximately 2,280 people, including some Nepalese and Sri Lankan nationals, between July 19 and August 1, 2006.

When 100,000 Iraqi soldiers armed with 700 tanks invaded Kuwait in 1990, royals and VIPs fled to Saudi Arabia.
At the same time the life of the general public was put at risk.
More than 170,000 Indians were among those trapped in Kuwait.
India launched an evacuation operation, in which over 1,70,000 Indians were airlifted and brought back to India.