New Delhi: In a dramatic flip of occasions, heavy-duty auger drilling machines have arrived on the Chinyalisaur helipad in Uttarkashi, marking a big step within the rescue operation of 40 labourers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel. The machines are being assembled and drilling work is predicted to begin shortly, in response to officers. Anshu Manish Khalko, Director of the National Highway & Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL), revealed that the Indian Air Force has airlifted a state-of-the-art machine from Delhi to expedite the rescue mission.
“In the next few hours, we will be able to install the machine and resume the rescue work,” Khalko assured. However, the state of affairs stays tense as protests erupted exterior the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel over the delay within the rescue operation. The employees are trapped contained in the under-construction tunnel since its collapse on Sunday.
Despite the continuing reduction and rescue operation, the falling particles from the tunnel’s roof is posing a big problem. The rescuers had ready a platform for the auger drilling machine to insert large-diameter metal pipes into the debris-filled tunnel, aiming to create a passage for the protected evacuation of the labourers.
Uttarakhand’s Director General of Police (DGP), Ashok Kumar, confirmed that the reduction and rescue work is continuing on battle footing, with the drilling work being carried out utilizing the auger drilling machine. “Due to natural obstacles, the speed of drilling is slow,” DGP Kumar admitted. He expressed optimism about safely evacuating all the employees with the assistance of the heavy auger drilling machine introduced in by the central businesses and the Air Force.
In a heartening growth, District Magistrate Abhishek Ruhela and Dr Prem Pokhriyal, a senior physician from the District Hospital, managed to speak with the trapped employees via a pipe. The officers reassured the anxious members of the family of the trapped employees who had gathered on the web site.
The rescue operation is being led by a crew of technical specialists and engineers who’re getting ready to begin the method of pipe pushing. This entails putting in a 900 mm pipe contained in the tunnel to assist the trapped employees come out. Officials confirmed that the employees are protected and are being supplied with oxygen, water, meals packets, and medicines via tubes.
Deepak Malik, GM of Uttarakhand Drinking Water Corporation and an professional in drilling and boring, is main the technical side and drilling means of this marketing campaign. “The process will start soon,” he stated.
The incident occurred within the early hours of Sunday when a portion of the tunnel being constructed between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri National Highway collapsed following a landslide, trapping 40 labourers inside.
