The 41 workers who are trapped beneath the debris of a collapsed under-construction tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi have spent nearly 180 hours waiting to be rescued. And it may take at least another two days if the current rescue plan works with full accuracy. Along with food, water and essential medicines supplied at regular intervals, some of the trapped workers are also being given anti-depressants now.
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00:00 The 41 workers who are trapped beneath the debris of a collapsed under-construction tunnel
00:08 in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi have spent nearly 180 hours waiting to be rescued.
00:15 And it may take at least two and a half days if the current rescue plan works with full
00:21 accuracy.
00:22 Along with the food, water and essential medicines supplied at regular intervals, some of the
00:27 trapped workers are also being given antidepressants now.
00:31 In the ongoing rescue operation of tunnel workers, around six agencies are engaged in
00:35 different roles at the accident site.
00:37 ONGC, RVNL, Satluj, Jal Vikas, Nigam Ltd, BRO and State PwD, besides NHIDCL, will be
00:44 the agencies carrying out different responsibilities to establish early access to the trapped workers.
00:50 Along with food and water, multivitamins, antidepressants are also being sent to workers
00:54 trapped inside the under-construction tunnel at Silk Yara in Uttarkashi, said an official.
00:59 "There is a high chance of further collapse in the vicinity of the tunnel," warned an
01:03 expert involved in the rescue operation.
01:05 Subsequently, the pipe-pushing activity was stopped on Friday.
01:09 Around 2.40 pm on Friday, during the positioning of the fifth pipe, a loud cracking sound was
01:13 heard in the tunnel, after which the rescue operation was suspended, a statement issued
01:17 by NHIDCL late on Friday night said.
01:20 No drilling has begun at the site till Sunday as the rescue teams continue to work simultaneously
01:25 on different plants for the safe rescue of workers trapped in the collapsed tunnel.
01:29 The rescue team is preparing to restart the organ machine to bore through the rubble and
01:33 insert large diameter steel pipes to prepare an escape route for trapped workers.
01:39 Whatever is required to save the 41 trapped workers will be done, and keeping the morale
01:43 of workers and their family members high should be everyone's collective responsibility,
01:47 Union Minister Nitin Ghatkari said on Sunday as he reviewed the rescue operation at the
01:51 partially collapsed Silk Yara tunnel.
01:54 Ghatkari said horizontal drilling with the American auger is the quickest method in the
01:58 given circumstances to reach the trapped workers.
02:01 The American auger was working all right when it was drilling through soft soil.
02:05 It faced some problems after it encountered some hard obstacles that left the machine
02:09 applying greater pressure and creating vibrations following which it was stopped for safety
02:14 reasons, said Ghatkari, adding that the administration is working on six options simultaneously.
02:20 Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhamanand said the rescue operation is challenging as the
02:24 soil strata in the Himalayan region is not uniform.
02:27 It is soft at some places and hard in other places, which makes any mechanical operation
02:31 difficult.
02:32 Union Road Transport Secretary Anurag Jain also said that five different agencies have
02:36 simultaneously started work on all the options to evacuate the trapped workers.
02:41 Disaster Management Secretary Ranjit Sinha on Sunday said that rescue work is going forward
02:46 at full speed.
02:47 He also threw light upon possible plans that will be executed to rescue the trapped workers.
02:51 As rescue operations continue for eight days to save the 40 trapped workers at Silk Yara
02:55 tunnel, Uttarkashi, the government has taken a decision to work on all fronts to save the
03:00 precious lives of the labourers trapped in the tunnel at Silk Yara.
03:03 For more information, visit www.fema.gov.il/disastermanagement