India sends US$ 1 million Humanitarian Relief to Vietnam as Operation Sadbhav

The Government of India has launched Operation Sadbhav to provide humanitarian relief/assistance to countries affected by Typhoon Yagi. This will Express Solidarity with Storm-Hit Nations, India Dispatches of Aid to Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos.

About operation Sadbhav

• India has extended assistance to the Government of Vietnam to provide relief to the affected communities in northern Vietnam impacted by the natural disaster.
• A consignment of 35 tons of humanitarian assistance, including water purification items, water containers, blankets, kitchen utensils, and solar lanterns, among others, was airlifted to Vietnam today by a special aircraft.

India’s role as a Big Brother/Act East Policy

• The humanitarian support to Vietnam is testament to the enduring close ties between the two countries, marked by our Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had conveyed sympathies and solidarity to the Prime Minister of Vietnam, H.E. Pham Minh Chinh immediately after the typhoon struck Vietnam. 
• External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar had also extended sympathies to the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam, H.E. Bui Thanh Son.
• India has been among the first responders in providing Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) to impacted countries. Operation Sadbhav is part of India’s broader effort to contribute to HADR within the ASEAN region, in line with its longstanding ‘Act East Policy’.

India’s Aid relief assistance

• As India always stands with their neighbors and always helps them with “Neighborhood first policy” by several assistance.
• Also helped to flood affected countries, earthquake impacted countries and also for humane perspectives by providing numerous aid relief to those countries.
• Ex. like Operation Dost, Covid vaccine delivery to least developed countries and developed countries, assistance to Sri-Lanka, Afghanistan, Ukraine, etc.

What is Typhoon Yagi and why is it devastated?

• Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, cost Vietnam roughly $1.6 billion and may cut into the country’s growth rate, according to preliminary estimates from the investment ministry.
• The typhoon, which made landfall in September, killed at least 292 people and left 38 missing as of Monday morning, according to data from Vietnam’s disaster agency.
• Floods have also inundated 190,000 hectares (469,500 acres) of rice fields, 48,000 hectares of cash crops such as corn and cassava and damaged nearly 232,000 houses in northern Vietnam.