#Prelims2024
Rescue Operations by India
1. Operation ‘Indravati’ (March, 2024): to evacuate Indians from Haiti to Dominican Republic.
2. Operation Ajay (2023): India has formally launched Operation Ajay to facilitate the return from Israel of those Indians who wish to come back home as a series of brazen attacks on Israeli towns by Hamas militants over the weekend triggered fresh tensions in the region.
3. Operation Kaveri (2023)
The Indian government initiated ‘Operation Kaveri’ to rescue over 3,000 Indian people stranded in Sudan, an African country tense due to fighting between the army and a paramilitary force
4. Operation Dost (2023): Operation Dost is an ongoing search and rescue operation launched by the Indian government to assist Syria and Turkey following a violent earthquake that devastated both countries on February 6, 2023.
5. Operation Ganga (2022): to bring its people, stranded in Ukraine, back to their homeland.
6. Operation Devi Shakti (2021): from Afghanistan after the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul, the capital city, to the Taliban.
7. Operation Vande Bharat (2020-21):
Launched in 2020 when the India brought back Indians stranded in different countries in the Covid-19 pandemic-hit world.
8. Operation Samudra Setu (2020-21): to bring back Indian stranded overseas during the Covid-19 pandemic, Operation Samudra Setu was a naval operation that brought back over 3,000 Indian citizens.
9. Operation Nistar (2018): It is an Indian Naval operation to evacuate 38 Indian nationals from Yemen’s cyclone-ravaged Socotra island.
10. Operation Insaniyat (2017): Due to the large influx of Myanmar refugees into Bangladesh, India’s Ministry of External Affairs launched Operation Insaniyat to assist Bangladesh in overcoming the humanitarian crisis.
11. Operation Sankat Mochan (2016):
During the South Sudanese Civil War.
12. Operation Raahat (2015): from Yemen
13. Operation Maitri (2015): It was launched in 2015 as a joint relief and rescue operation by the Indian government and the Indian Armed Forces in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake.
14. Operation Safe Homecoming (2011): Librya. In 2011, when a civil war broke out in Libya, the Indian government launched Operation Safe Homecoming and rescued 15,400 Indians.
15. Operation Sukoon (2006):
It was launched in 2006 as Israel and Lebanon broke into a military conflict.
The operation is now famously known as ‘Beirut Sealift’.
16. Kuwait Airlift (1990): After Vande Bharat, Kuwait's airlift remains the second-largest rescue operation by the Indian government. It was carried out after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Given the scale of evacuation, Air India found a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records for airlifting the largest number of people in a civilian plane.
17. Operation Poomalai (1987):
Operation Poomalai, also known as Eagle Mission 4, was a mission undertaken by the Indian Air Force on 4 June 1987 to airdrop supplies over the besieged town of Jaffna in Sri Lanka to support the Tamil Tigers during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Rescue Operations by India
1. Operation ‘Indravati’ (March, 2024): to evacuate Indians from Haiti to Dominican Republic.
2. Operation Ajay (2023): India has formally launched Operation Ajay to facilitate the return from Israel of those Indians who wish to come back home as a series of brazen attacks on Israeli towns by Hamas militants over the weekend triggered fresh tensions in the region.
3. Operation Kaveri (2023)
The Indian government initiated ‘Operation Kaveri’ to rescue over 3,000 Indian people stranded in Sudan, an African country tense due to fighting between the army and a paramilitary force
4. Operation Dost (2023): Operation Dost is an ongoing search and rescue operation launched by the Indian government to assist Syria and Turkey following a violent earthquake that devastated both countries on February 6, 2023.
5. Operation Ganga (2022): to bring its people, stranded in Ukraine, back to their homeland.
6. Operation Devi Shakti (2021): from Afghanistan after the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul, the capital city, to the Taliban.
7. Operation Vande Bharat (2020-21):
Launched in 2020 when the India brought back Indians stranded in different countries in the Covid-19 pandemic-hit world.
8. Operation Samudra Setu (2020-21): to bring back Indian stranded overseas during the Covid-19 pandemic, Operation Samudra Setu was a naval operation that brought back over 3,000 Indian citizens.
9. Operation Nistar (2018): It is an Indian Naval operation to evacuate 38 Indian nationals from Yemen’s cyclone-ravaged Socotra island.
10. Operation Insaniyat (2017): Due to the large influx of Myanmar refugees into Bangladesh, India’s Ministry of External Affairs launched Operation Insaniyat to assist Bangladesh in overcoming the humanitarian crisis.
11. Operation Sankat Mochan (2016):
During the South Sudanese Civil War.
12. Operation Raahat (2015): from Yemen
13. Operation Maitri (2015): It was launched in 2015 as a joint relief and rescue operation by the Indian government and the Indian Armed Forces in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake.
14. Operation Safe Homecoming (2011): Librya. In 2011, when a civil war broke out in Libya, the Indian government launched Operation Safe Homecoming and rescued 15,400 Indians.
15. Operation Sukoon (2006):
It was launched in 2006 as Israel and Lebanon broke into a military conflict.
The operation is now famously known as ‘Beirut Sealift’.
16. Kuwait Airlift (1990): After Vande Bharat, Kuwait's airlift remains the second-largest rescue operation by the Indian government. It was carried out after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Given the scale of evacuation, Air India found a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records for airlifting the largest number of people in a civilian plane.
17. Operation Poomalai (1987):
Operation Poomalai, also known as Eagle Mission 4, was a mission undertaken by the Indian Air Force on 4 June 1987 to airdrop supplies over the besieged town of Jaffna in Sri Lanka to support the Tamil Tigers during the Sri Lankan Civil War.