Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that the Government is closely monitoring the situation and is committed to safeguard the Indian people from any impact of the conflict. Mr Singh said this while chairing the meeting of an Informal Group of Ministers constituting several Senior Ministers in New Delhi on Saturday. The meeting was held to review the risks to energy supplies, domestic availability of essential commodities, critical infrastructure resilience and robustness of India’s supply chains in the wake of the ongoing conflict in West Asia. In a social media post the Minister said that the meeting involved in-depth discussion on all the measures being taken by the Government. The meeting was attended by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Power Minister Manohar Lal, Health Minister J.P Nadda among others.