Section 15(5)(a) in The Merchant Shipping (Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers) Rules, 2016
(a)the cost of the repatriation of a stranded seafarer, which includes the cost of such travel by appropriate and expeditious means normally by air and provision for food, clothing, accommodation of the seafarers 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;