While the Navy has brought out numerous evacuations of Indian nationals and HADR objectives in the past, the one that’s being carried out now is all the more challenging given the risk it presents to the ships’ team and the naval fraternity, by extension. Op Bloom in 2011, to evacuate around 15,000 stranded Indian nationals from Libya to Malta; Op Rahat in 2015 to leave around 5000 from Yemen; Op Nistar to bring back stranded anglers from Socotra; are all recent examples of evacuation operations undertaken by the Indian Navy. In addition, to cater to the safety of the evacuees, relevant areas on board the ships have actually been thoroughly sanitised, extra medical gear and medical personnel embarked, rationalized the capacity to guarantee requisite security procedures such as social distancing, produced seclusion facilities on board in ca
