ETVBHARAT
  • 2 days ago
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00:00What can you tell us about the other agencies, the district administration, the police and the rescue operations?
00:11The rescue operations started after yesterday's incident.
00:16But due to the late night, it could not be done.
00:18Today, it started again in the morning.
00:20SDRF, NDRF, Assam Rifle Army, everyone is involved in this.
00:26The joint operation is going on.
00:28But so far, we have not seen any success.
00:30People from the Navy are also coming.
00:32They will also reach here in some time.
00:34They will come by helicopter from Vishakhapatnam.
00:38So, all the arrangements and agencies are being set up so that we can rescue people.
00:43Our primary target is to rescue the people who are trapped in it.
00:47Nine people have been named.
00:50It can be more or less.
00:53Nine people have been named.
00:55So, it is our priority to rescue them.
00:58Yesterday, the CM also tweeted the names.
01:03So, only nine people have been named or more than that?
01:06I think there are nine people.
01:09It can be more than that.
01:11Some people are saying that it can be more or less.
01:15But nine people have been named in the tweets that the CM has tweeted.
01:23The rest of the people who were with him left.
01:26But no one knows about these nine people.
01:28That's why we are saying that these nine people can be in it.
01:33So, the red hole mining that is going on,
01:36was it happening inside the Assam Mineral Department?
01:43No, look, it is under the Assam Mineral Department.
01:46What is it? Is it legal or illegal?
01:48We have not started the investigation yet.
01:51Our aim is to rescue the people first.
01:53After that, whatever is there, we will do it according to the CM's instructions.
01:59Whatever has to be done, whatever inquiry has to be done, we will do it.
02:02So that people can know how this incident happened.
02:04But the primary goal is to rescue the people.
02:07So, you have also reached here.
02:09The CM has also been continuously tweeting.
02:11The CM was monitoring the whole thing from Guwahati.
02:15Yesterday he was in Mumbai.
02:16He was monitoring from there too.
02:18He has been monitoring these things all night.
02:20The district administration has also been involved since yesterday.
02:22Our Home Secretary has also come here.
02:24People from the Army have also come here.
02:26I have also been here since last night.
02:28The Chief Minister has been monitoring this so that we can get people out.
02:32That's why I am telling you again that the first task is to rescue our people.
02:36After that, we will do the rest of the things.
02:41I am Nirpen Tiwari, Deputy Commandant, 1st Battalion, NDRF.
02:44I have been deployed in Guwahati.
02:56We were told yesterday evening around 6.30pm
03:01that there is a coal mine here in the area of Mount Sur.
03:10And in that coal mine, the red coal mine,
03:13some miners have been trapped there.
03:17The water has filled up in it and they have not been able to get out.
03:21They are trapped in it.
03:22And as per the information, NDRF has received information
03:25through Asthma, the state emergency control centre here.
03:30Our alert team departs from there immediately.
03:34I also went with them.
03:37Our team left at 7pm and after travelling all night,
03:40we reached here around 4am in the morning.
03:44And the last journey here,
03:47the journey of 2 hours to 2.15 hours,
03:51due to the condition of the road, it took a little longer.
03:57We reached here in the morning and started our operation around 7.15am.
04:04First of all, what is the water level in the well?
04:08We found that the depth of the well is more than 300 feet.
04:13And the water level is more than 100 feet.
04:16And because it is more than 100 feet,
04:19there is a limitation of NDRF.
04:23Our deep divers are experts in working from 35 to 40 feet in general.
04:29But here the water level is more than 100 feet in the well.
04:33So it is very difficult to search there by deep diving.
04:37Once our team got down from the crane of the deep divers.
04:41And the army also came.
04:42The army also had deep divers.
04:43We also went down with them.
04:45Once again our team has gone down and is searching down.
04:49If we find any victim there, we will be very happy.
04:56Because the purpose for which we have come.