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India sends food for Nargis survivors
May 12, 2008: (Business Standard) The fifth Indian Air Force plane that landed in Yangoon this morning was carrying ready-to-eat-meals for the survivors of a devastating cyclone that had killed nearly 1,00,000 people and left hundreds of thousands without food, shelter and water in the tiny south-east Asian country.
India, one of the first countries to send relief supplies to Myanmar after cyclone Nargis hit Yangoon, has so far sent two ships of the Indian navy and five IAF planes with supplies of medicines, tents, roofing materials and food.
According to officials, External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee called up his Myanmarese counterpart U Nyan Win today to ask him as to what help India could offer to the cyclone-affected country.
While Win was grateful for India's prompt response to Myanmar's humanitarian crisis, Mukherjee told him that "India was ready to assist Myanmar in all ways, both the relief and rehabilitation efforts".