Operation Kaveri

Operation Kaveri

Subject : International Relations

Section: Places in news

Concept :

• India has initiated an operation to evacuate its nationals from conflict-hit Sudan.
• Operation Kaveri
• As per reports, close to 3,000 Indians are stuck in various parts of Sudan such as the national capital, Khartoum and other provinces like Darfur.
• Operation Kaveri has been initiated to bring back such stranded Indian citizens from Sudan.
• Stranded Indian citizens are being evacuated from Port Sudan.
• India has deployed two C-130J heavy-lift aircraft in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) and has sent INS Sumedha to Port Said (Egypt) for the operation.

Major evacuation operations

• Operation Ganga: In a mission to evacuate stranded Indians from war-torn Ukraine, the Indian government kicked off Operation Ganga in February 2022
• Operation Devi Shakti: An evacuation operation by the Indian Armed Forces (IAF) was kicked off in August 2021 to safely bring back Indian nationals from Afghanistan after the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul, the capital city of the Taliban.
• Vande Bharat Mission: Special flights were operated across to globe in this mission to bring back the nationals who were left stranded in foreign countries due to the coronavirus pandemic.
• Wuhan Airlift: In one of the most difficult evacuation flights, India airlifted its citizens safe from China’s coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan in January 2020.
• Operation Maitri: The government of India carried out this mission to safely bring the nationals from Nepal after the deadly earthquake in 2015.
• Operation Raahat: Hundreds of Indians and other nationals were rescued under this operation during the unrest at Yemen’s capital Sana’a after the complete takeover by Houthi rebel fighters in January 2015
• Operation Amnesty Airlift: The mission was carried out in September 1996 to bring back the Indian nationals who did not have valid permits from the United Arab Emirates.
• Kuwait Airlift: In one of the most massive operations in Indian history, the Indian Air Force joined hands with Air India in airlifting stranded Indian nationals in Kuwait in August 1990.