Operation Brahma
Myanmar Earthquake Response
India launched Operation Brahma within a day of the 28 March 2025 earthquake in central Myanmar. Six aircraft and five naval ships delivered 625 tonnes of relief material, an 80-member NDRF search-and-rescue team worked in Mandalay, and an Indian Army field hospital treated more than 2,500 patients.
What India sent
9 recorded itemsEvery line below carries its own source. Items whose quantity was never published are listed anyway — that India sent them is a fact, even when the amount is not public.
80Personnel
Total so far · updated 29 Mar 2025
NDRF Heavy Urban Search and Rescue team
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Operation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material ↗- Published
- 30 March 2025
Technical details
Record src-pib-brahma · retrieved 30 August 2026 · last verified 30 August 2026
1Hospital
Total so far · updated 29 Mar 2025
Indian Army field hospital, Mandalay
Flown in on two IAF C-17 aircraft from Agra and established with a 200-bed capacity offering surgical and in-patient care.
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Operation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material ↗- Published
- 30 March 2025
Technical details
Record src-pib-brahma · retrieved 30 August 2026 · last verified 30 August 2026
6Aircraft
Total so far · updated 10 Apr 2025
Indian Air Force aircraft carrying relief
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Operation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material ↗- Published
- 30 March 2025
Technical details
Record src-pib-brahma · retrieved 30 August 2026 · last verified 30 August 2026
5Ships
Total so far · updated 10 Apr 2025
Indian Navy ships carrying relief stores
Included INS Karmuk and LCU 52 from the Andaman and Nicobar Command.
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Operation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material ↗- Published
- 30 March 2025
Technical details
Record src-pib-brahma · retrieved 30 August 2026 · last verified 30 August 2026
625Tonnes
Total so far · updated 10 Apr 2025
Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief material delivered
Running total across the air and sea lift. The 15-tonne first tranche to Yangon and the 30-tonne naval consignment are part of this total, not additional to it.
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Operation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material ↗- Published
- 30 March 2025
Technical details
Record src-pib-brahma · retrieved 30 August 2026 · last verified 30 August 2026
4Units
Total so far · updated 29 Mar 2025
Canine search units
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Operation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material ↗- Published
- 30 March 2025
Technical details
Record src-pib-brahma · retrieved 30 August 2026 · last verified 30 August 2026
123Personnel
Total so far · updated 10 Apr 2025
Army medical contingent, final strength
The contingent grew during the operation. The earlier 118-member figure is kept below as a separate claim rather than being added to this one.
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Operation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material ↗- Published
- 30 March 2025
Technical details
Record src-pib-brahma · retrieved 30 August 2026 · last verified 30 August 2026
2,500Patients treated
Total so far · updated 30 Apr 2025
Patients treated at the Mandalay field hospital
Reported as over 2,500. Recorded at the stated floor rather than rounded up.
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Operation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material ↗- Published
- 30 March 2025
Technical details
Record src-pib-brahma · retrieved 30 August 2026 · last verified 30 August 2026
65Surgeries
Total so far · updated 30 Apr 2025
Major surgeries performed
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Operation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material ↗- Published
- 30 March 2025
Technical details
Record src-pib-brahma · retrieved 30 August 2026 · last verified 30 August 2026
Monetary value not publicly disclosed.
The physical assistance is the recorded figure — this site does not convert goods into a rupee value of its own.
How the figure grew1 earlier figure, superseded but never deletedView history →
Each consignment India announced, in order. These are kept so the progression is visible — but they are not added together. The headline above is the running total the government itself published, which already includes them.
- 29 Mar 2025118PersonnelArmy medical contingent, as first deployedrunning total1 of 1
Background
The response combined Indian Air Force transport aircraft, Indian Navy vessels carrying relief stores, a National Disaster Response Force search-and-rescue contingent, and a field hospital staffed by Indian Army medical personnel. India was among the first countries to land assistance in Myanmar after the earthquake.
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Humanitarian
PIBOFFICIAL SOURCEOperation Brahma — Indian Naval Ships sail with relief material30 March 2025↗Additional official repositories
Official publishers whose individual supporting document has not been resolved to a direct link yet. These do not carry the same weight as the sources above.
MEAREPOSITORYMinistry of External Affairs — Press ReleasesDate not stated↗Ministry of DefenceREPOSITORYMinistry of Defence — Press ReleasesDate not stated↗Every published figure keeps its source provenance. Direct links to the exact official document are shown wherever they have been resolved.