Rescue and relief efforts are already underway on a war footing after almost 70 hours of rescue operation at the Silkyara Tunnel collapse, trapping 40 labourers, as per officials.Superintendent of Police Arpan Yaduvanshi, Chief Development Officer Gaurav Kumar, Superintendent of Police Abhishek Ruhela, Chief Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) Commandant Manikant Mishra, and numerous other officers are on the scene and participating in the rescue effort.According to the sources, the officials are hopeful that they will be able to take out the stranded labourers out today. Visuals from Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand as rescue operations continue to rescue 40 workers trapped inside an under-construction tunnel between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri National Highway that collapsed on Sunday morning.#Uttarakhandtunnelcollapse pic.twitter.com/qk0PeNwTZP— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) November 15, 2023How 3-feet long pipe will help in rescueWhile speaking to media persons, DM Ruhela said that a team of technical experts and engineers is at the incident site to start the process of pipe pushing, the process to form a passage by installing a 900 mm pipe inside the tunnel to help the trapped workers come out, who officials say are safe and being provided with oxygen, water, food packets and medicines through tubes.Eight mild steel pipes with a diameter of 900 millimetres (nearly three feet) and five pipes with a diameter of 800 millimetres, both of which are six metres long, have been carried to the evacuation location. The idea is to use drilling equipment to force through both pipelines, one after the other, into the debris in order to free the workers and establish an escape route.#WATCH | Work to put large diameter pipes inside the Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarakhands Uttarkashi to rescue 40 trapped labourers to begin soon pic.twitter.com/t3lmNZvFxt— ANI (@ANI) November 14, 2023A portion of an under-construction tunnel between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway collapsed in the early hours of November 12, entrapping 40 labourers.(With ANI inputs)
