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Relief material sent to Rohingya refugees
With approximately 900 tonnes of relief material, INS Gharial reached Chittagong Port on Thursday. The relief material is part of the humanitarian assistance being provided by the Government of India to Bangladesh as an aid to Rohingya refugees.
Visakhapatnam: With approximately 900 tonnes of relief material, INS Gharial reached Chittagong Port on Thursday. The relief material is part of the humanitarian assistance being provided by the Government of India to Bangladesh as an aid to Rohingya refugees.
The relief material is customised in family packets containing rations, clothes, mosquito nets and daily necessary essentials. The present relief aid is likely to cater to 70,000 families approximately.
On completion of unloading of relief material, the ship is scheduled to undertake a bi-lateral passage exercise with Bangladesh Navy ships on departure from Chittagong on September 30.
INS Gharial is the second indigenously built Landing Ship Tank (Large) commissioned on February 14 and is part of the Eastern Fleet under the Eastern Naval Command. Carrying four Landing Craft Assault (LCAs) and a helicopter, the ship is capable of undertaking amphibious operations.
A versatile platform, the ship has been deployed for many Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) missions in the past including for delivery of relief material/ supplies to Chittagong post cyclone Sidr’ in 2008.
