The trapped employees on the Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarakhand must wait even additional because the rescuers have hit recent roadblocks. While there was no progress for the final 24 hours, work is underway to take away the blades of the Auger machine utilizing a plasma cutter. The blade broke inside throughout drilling. Meanwhile, some Indian Army personnel and certainly one of their JCBs have reached the location.
Official sources have reported {that a} protecting protecting is being put in throughout the Silkyara tunnel, the place 41 employees have been trapped for a length of two weeks. This measure goals to safeguard the rescue staff throughout their operations.
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Additionally, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has taken steps to ease the misery of the 41 trapped employees within the Silkyara tunnel by offering them with a landline connection, facilitating communication with their households. Kundan, a BSNL consultant, talked about their ongoing efforts to ship a compact landline cellphone to the employees through a pipeline.
BSNL has established a small phone change on the tunnel website to assist this service, connecting the cellphone by means of a devoted line. In parallel, a senior official engaged within the rescue efforts talked about that cellphones have additionally been dispatched to the trapped employees, enabling them to have interaction in leisure actions like gaming throughout their confinement.
“There is no mobile network nearby but we are also considering providing Wi-Fi connectivity. We are also considering providing a cricket bat and ball to the workers so that they can play cricket. You can spend your time playing because there is a lot of space inside the tunnel where the workers are trapped, so cricket can be played easily,” the official stated.
National Disaster Management Authority Member, Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain (retired) on Saturday stated that there was no motion within the final 24 hours within the drilling work to rescue the 41 employees trapped within the Uttarkashi tunnel for 13 days. The NDMA member stated {that a} portion of the American-Auger machine was damaged, blocking the potential escape route.
“The current update is that (in) the last 24 hours, there hasn’t been any movement within this bore tunnel that was being made for the rescue. Because…the Auger machine itself has had a bit of an accident. A portion of it (has actually) broken, and that broken portion has to be pulled out (of the escape pipe),” Hasnain informed ANI.
After a portion of the tunnel caved in on November 12, the particles falling within the 60-metre stretch on the Silkyara facet of the tunnel trapped 41 labourers contained in the under-construction construction. (With ANI inputs)
