⇒ Tri-services Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief Exercise: PANEX-21, a multi-national – multi-agency exercise was organised in Pune from 20-22 December 2021.
Aim:
3rd Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise was organised with a focused aim to foster common and develop capabilities in Disaster Management aspects for the BIMSTEC nations.
Participants:
The exercise was attended by delegates and subject matter experts from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
» Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh witnessed the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise PANEX-21 for BIMSTEC member nations organised at College of Military Engineering in Pune, Maharashtra on December 21, 2021.
» The first BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise (DMEx) was organized by India on 10-13 October 2017 in New Delhi, and the second BIMSTEC DMEx on 11-13 February 2020, in Odisha.