17.04.2025 – (12:01 PM)

The Indian Embassy has announced the arrival of the prefabricated office/housing units from India.

The prefabricated office/housing units, transported by the Indian Air Force C17, arrived in Nay Pyi Taw on April 15 and were received by the First Secretaries of the Indian Embassy, ​​Ms. Ritu Yadav, Mr. Amit Shreeansh, Ms. A. Sowmiya, along with the Director General of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, U Min Thein, and Colonel Min Zaw, Ministry of Defence.

Similarly, the 60 Para Medical Corps of the Indian Army left Mandalay for Hindan on April 15 and were seen off by the Indian Ambassador, Abhay Thakur.

The 60 Para Medical Corps of the Indian Army treated 2,519 patients in Myanmar during the 14 days they spent in the country.

Similarly, today (April 16), another batch of prefabricated office/housing units, transported by an Indian Air Force C17, arrived at Mandalay Airport and were received by the Indian Embassy’s Military Attaché, Colonel Jaswinder Gill, and the Indian Consulate General, Sundeep Kaushal, who saw off the Indian Army’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on the flight.

India is providing assistance to Myanmar under the Brahma Project in the wake of the earthquake. A team of Indian Disaster Management and Relief Engineers inspected and assessed six earthquake-affected areas in Mandalay and six in Nay Pyi Taw, assisted the Myanmar authorities in the assessment of the railway track of the old Innwa Bridge on the Ayeyarwady River in Mandalay, and an Indian medical team provided medical care to 70 patients at the Nay Pyi Taw General Hospital.

India has dispatched a total of 625 metric tonnes of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) supplies to Myanmar for the earthquake relief efforts and has also set up a 200-bed temporary hospital at the earthquake site in Mandalay.