New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI): A member of the National Disaster Management Authority, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Saturday mentioned that the rescue operation at Uttarkashi’s Silkyara tunnel has turn out to be technically advanced including that rescuers are working in an surroundings of unpredictability.
Syed Ata Hasnain mentioned that every one 41 staff who remained trapped within the tunnel had been steady and protected.
Addressing a press briefing in Delhi, NDMA Member Syed Ata Hasnain mentioned, “You are seeing that this operation is getting technically complex. Earlier there were not many complexities and that is why some people in media were assuming timelines but we never gave timelines from our side. We are conducting rescue operations on hills. We are working in an environment of unpredictability.””I have experienced that when you do something with mountains, you cannot predict anything. This is exactly a situation like war,” he added.
He additional knowledgeable that superior equipment is being airlifted by the Indian Air Force to deliver the broken a part of the auger machine out from the tunnel.
“The good news is that the 41 workers are stuck inside are stable. All the basic things are being sent. The relatives of the workers have also come, and they are talking to the workers. As far as the rescue operation is concerned, there are certain problems we are facing. There has been damage in the auger machine and some part of it has not come out,” Hasnain mentioned.
“Advanced machinery is required to bring that part of the auger machine out which is being airlifted by the Indian Air Force and it will reach the tunnel site soon,” he added.
NDMA member additional knowledgeable that the method of drilling will begin within the subsequent one to 2 days.
“Whatever methods we are using right now, we have to have some patience. We need to understand that a very difficult operation is going on. Two methods are being used currently, but a third method that is draft method may also be used soon. Currently, the situation is that the 47-meter digging has been done, we have to keep it stable and remove the broken part of the Auger machine. I feel in the next 1-2 days the drilling will again start,” he mentioned.
Stating that the remainder of the drilling will probably be executed manually, Vishal Chauhan, Member, NHAI mentioned, “As we have reached 47 meters. We now have to go 12-15 meters more. It could be 10, 12 or 14 meters, that we have to go manually now.””The environmental impact assessment of this project has also been done. There are several things that cannot be predicted but our first priority is to rescue the workers,” he added.
Earlier right now Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami mentioned a plasma cutter is being flown in from Hyderabad to chop the auger machine that has bought caught within the particles of the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi.
After visiting the location of the tunnel inside which 41 labourers have been trapped after it collapsed on November 12, Dhami mentioned that the auger machine that was concerned in drilling by way of the particles from the Silyara aspect is anticipated to be pulled out by tomorrow morning after which handbook drilling will start.
Meanwhile, a 12-member group of the Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) is on standby mode to do vertical drilling on the tunnel. A ultimate determination on the vertical drilling possibility is more likely to be taken by Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
After a portion of the tunnel caved in on November 12, the particles falling within the 60-metre stretch on the Silkyara aspect of the tunnel trapped 41 labourers inside. The staff are trapped in a 2 km-built portion. (ANI)