"I congratulate these colleagues of mine. The people trapped there faced a lot of trouble. The rescue work lasted for 17 days. I want to say that those who save the lives of others are priceless. These people do not fear about their lives and help others selflessly," the Samajwadi Party chie
Australian High Commissioner to India Philip Green on Monday honoured international tunnelling expert Arnold Dix for the Uttarkashi rescue and called him the hero of Australia-India bilateral relations.
Joy and celebration filled the air in Jharkhand's Khirabera village as three local workers rescued from the Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarakhand returned home.
Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party President Virendra Sachdeva and party MP Manoj Tiwari on Friday felicitated 6 Rat Miners who helped in rescuing 41 trapped workers from the Silkyara Tunnel.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday gave Rs 2 lakh each as relief to the workers of Odisha rescued safely from the Uttarkashi Silkyara tunnel.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is scheduled to meet the resilient rat miners who overcame the final hurdle to rescue the 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel for 17 days.
Having cooperated and stayed in touch with the agencies all through the rescue period, tunnelling expert Dix appreciated the efforts of the media and said, "If they (National agencies) hadn't cooperated the way they did, there's no way we would have got this outcome. We were all one big team
Days after the rescue of 41 trapped workers from an under-construction tunnel in Uttarkashi, a video surfaced showing the interiors of the 2-km-long stretch inside the tunnel in which they were confined for close to 17 days.