Even as 22-year-old Anil Bediya from Jharkhand remains stuck for the 12th consecutive day inside the Silkyara tunnel near Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand along with 40 other workers following a collapse, his parents said they would have never allowed the young man to be involved in such risky work had they known about it.
“He just told us he was going away for work, but did not tell us what kind of work he was going to do. If he had told us it was this type of (risky) work, we would not have let him go,” Anil’s mother Sanju Devi said.
Outlook’s Md Asghar Khan visited the Khirabeda village, 40 kilometres south of Ranchi, to talk to the families of three locals who are stuck inside the tunnel, even as rescuers are now merely 12-metres away from them as per reports. Residents said that poverty and lack of employment opportunities are the main reasons why the village’s youth is forced to migrate in search of work.
in Video: Md Asghar Khan
#UttarkashiTragedy #WorkersSafety #RuralMigration #RiskOfWork #RescueMission #EmploymentChallenges #FamilyConcerns #Jharkhand
“He just told us he was going away for work, but did not tell us what kind of work he was going to do. If he had told us it was this type of (risky) work, we would not have let him go,” Anil’s mother Sanju Devi said.
Outlook’s Md Asghar Khan visited the Khirabeda village, 40 kilometres south of Ranchi, to talk to the families of three locals who are stuck inside the tunnel, even as rescuers are now merely 12-metres away from them as per reports. Residents said that poverty and lack of employment opportunities are the main reasons why the village’s youth is forced to migrate in search of work.
in Video: Md Asghar Khan
#UttarkashiTragedy #WorkersSafety #RuralMigration #RiskOfWork #RescueMission #EmploymentChallenges #FamilyConcerns #Jharkhand
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00:00 Namaskar, my name is Mazgar. I am 30 km away from Ranchi in the village of Khira Beda.
00:05 This is the same village where three labourers are trapped in the tunnel of Uttarakhand.
00:10 I have reached a house of three of those labourers.
00:15 And the father's name is... What is your name?
00:18 Charku Bediya.
00:21 So this is Charku Bediya. This is his father and this is his mother.
00:25 What is your name?
00:26 Sanju Devi.
00:28 And what is the name of the person trapped there?
00:31 Anil Bediya.
00:33 So I have come to know from him that what was the reason for his son to leave this village to do such risky work.
00:43 So you tell me first. You are his mother.
00:47 So you tell me what was the reason for him to go there to do such risky work.
00:52 No sir, I could not understand whether he was going there or here.
00:56 He told me that he was going to work.
00:59 He did not tell me that he was going to work there or here.
01:05 If he knew that, then he would not have let me go.
01:09 What could I do?
01:11 He did not tell me that he was going to work there.
01:15 I asked him for 2-3 days how he was going to work.
01:19 He said that he did not know about the place.
01:23 If he had told me about the place, I would have gone there.
01:28 I was looking for him everywhere.
01:32 Now when you came to know about this, when I came to this house, I saw that these people were watching news on mobile.
01:46 They were watching news about the Uttarakhand tunnel and the process of saving it from the Indian government.
01:56 Do you watch the news all day?
01:58 No.
01:59 Okay.
02:00 I am watching it now.
02:02 Okay.
02:03 So will you let him go again?
02:07 No.
02:08 No.
02:09 No.
02:10 We have caught him.
02:12 The most number of workers in the tunnel are from Jharkhand.
02:19 Out of the 40 workers trapped in the tunnel, 15 are from Jharkhand.
02:24 3 workers are from this village, Kheera Beda.
02:27 The rest of the workers are trapped in other districts of Jharkhand.
02:34 His family says that they did not know that he was going to do such a risky job.
02:38 If they knew that he was going to do such a risky job, they would not have let him go.
02:42 They also say that he is praying to God that he should return.
02:48 They say that they will never let him go.
02:52 They hold their ears.
02:54 They will be hungry, but they will not let him go for such a risky job.
03:00 The door.
03:01 The door.
03:02 The door.
03:03 The door.
03:04 The door.
03:05 The door.