Section 15(5)(b) in The Merchant Shipping (Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers) Rules, 2016
(b)the cost of repatriation of an abandoned seafarer, which includes the cost of such travel by appropriate and expeditious means, normally by air, and provision for food, clothing, drinking water supply, essential fuel for survival on board the ship, accommodation of the seafarers from the time of leaving the ship until arrival at the seafarer's home, necessary medical care, passage and transport of personal effect, the transportation of the mortal remains of a seafarer in the event of his death and any other reasonable costs or charges from the act or omission constituting the abandonment until the seafarer's arrival at home;