Uttarkashi Tunnel Collapse: NDMA reveals Six plans to rescue trapped workers from Silkyara tunnel

Updated:2 years, 7 months ago

New Delhi, Nov 26 (ANI): With vertical drilling underway to further aid the rescue of the trapped workers in Silkyara tunnel, the rescuers managed to make progress over a distance of 8 metres down the ground in the last one and a half hours. Vertical drilling, one of the several chalked-out options to bring out 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel started on Nov 26. Rescue teams have identified two locations for the vertical drilling. Multiple agencies are working on the rescue efforts including the Air Force. Amid the ongoing rescue operation, a member of the National Disaster Management Authority, Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.) held a Press Conference in the national capital on November 26 and said that all the trapped workers are safe and all the basic necessities are being sent to them. “All of them (workers) have been getting their sustenance, food, medicine...Medical and psycho-social experts are there and doing their work...All precautions are being taken for the safety of all...Six plans are working...These plans are being adopted in a very synchronised way…,” said Syed Ata Hasnain. Speaking about the malfunction in the auger machine, he informed that it was struck as its blades broke down after which manual cutting had to be done. In addition, he said that all the required equipments reached ground zero through Airforce and Indigo’s chartered flights. Earlier, the teams were getting a speed of 4-5 m/hr but now they might not achieve that speed, but it is a fail-safe technique, he added. “Yesterday the auger machine was stuck, the blades broke done so manual cutting had to be done and for that, the equipment had to come from outside...Through Airforce and IndiGo's charter flight...all three equipment have reached there...Earlier, we were getting a speed of 4-5 m/hr but now that might not be the case but it is a fail-safe technique…,” he added. Notably, 41 workers were trapped after an under-construction tunnel from Silkyara to Barkot in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi collapsed on November 12. Rescue operations in all possible ways have been underway since the unfortunate incident occurred.

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