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Significance of India for Maldives
Essential Commodities: India supplies Maldives with its everyday essentials; rice, fuits, spices, vegetables, poultry, medicine and life saving drugs
Education: Every year, Maldivian students come to Indian higher educational institutions.
Economic dependency: of the Rs 50 crore total trade between India and Maldives in 2022, Rs 49 crore was India’s exports to Maldives. India emerged as Maldives’ second largest trade partner in 2022.
Disaster Relief Assistance: When a tsunami struck the islands in 2004, India was the first to send in help.
In 2014 Male had a drinking water crisis as the major desalination plant broke down, India overnight airlifted drinking water to the islands.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, India sent essential medicines, masks, gloves, PPE kits and vaccines for the island country.