Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Top official mentions rescue op Day 11 as ‘most crucial,’ sets 2-15 days timeline
Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: With the rescuers focusing on the 'horizontal drilling' method to evacuate trapped labourers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel, a top official said that the time from now is the 'most crucial' and that if everything goes right, some 'good news' will come up in the next 40 hours.
As the evacuation process to rescue trapped workers intensifies, top government official said that if the drilling machine work as per the action plan, trapped labourers can be pulled out from tunnel within the next two days, but however if the plan doesn’t work out, the rescue operation could even stretch to 15 days.
Setting the 2-15 days timeline to evacuate trapped workers, top government authorities said that the next two days are the most crucial ones.
Notably, a total of five agencies-- ONGC, SJVNL, RVNL, NHIDCL, and THDCL-- have been assigned specific responsibilities to evacuate the trapped labourers trapped for 11 days in the 2-km-built portion of the under-construction structure following a landslide.
Despite the rescuers achieving a breakthrough on Monday evening by laying a 6-inch-wide pipe.
Labourers trapped in Silkyara tunnel were supplied veg pulao, matar-paneer, and chapatis with butter for dinner Tuesday night through a food pipe stuck through the collapsed part of the structure.
The collapse occurred on November 12 during the construction of a tunnel from Silkyara to Barkot, trapping 41 labourers due to a muck fall in a 60-metre stretch on the Silkyara side of the tunnel.
The tunnel under construction holds significance as part of the expansive Char Dham project, a national initiative aimed at bolstering connectivity to revered Hindu pilgrimage sites like Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri.
The emergence of visuals and the sustained efforts to communicate and provide necessities offer a glimmer of hope amid this tense situation, amplifying the resolve of the ongoing rescue mission.
- With inputs from agencies
