Labor organizations expressed their gratitude to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in the 'Respect Abhinandan, Gratitude Mission Silkyara' program organized at the Chief Sevak Sadan in the Chief Minister Camp Office to show appreciation to the work done by the management in the
Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi got "very emotional" during the cabinet meeting after learning that the 41 labourers trapped inside the Uttarkashi tunnel were evacuated after a gruelling rescue operation of 17 days.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the government and all the agencies together are leaving no stone unturned to evacuate the workers trapped in the Uttarakhand tunnel for the last two weeks and that we have to pray for them to get out safely and as soon as possible.
As the ongoing operation to extricate 41 labourers trapped inside the collapsed portion of the under-construction Silkyara tunnel of Uttarkashi entered its tenth day, rescuers on Tuesday packed solid food items such as veg pulao and matar paneer for them.
With the rescuers focusing on the 'horizontal drilling' method to evacuate 41 labourers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel, an official on Tuesday said that the time from tonight is the 'most crucial' and that if everything goes right, some 'good news' will come up in the next 40 hours.
A six-inch pipe has been laid at the Silkyara tunnel through which nutritious food and medicines could be supplied to the 41 labourers, trapped for over a week after parts of the under-construction structure collapsed following a landslide.