Uttarakhand tunnel crash: The narrower 5-inches pipe was substituted with a wider 6-inch one in the course of a slight success. Thus, more oxygen, food, water and medical supplies were supplied to 41 miners.
It has been confirmed that shortly, horizontal drilling and vertical drilling operations would be started in order to construct a 53 metre tunnel aimed at rescuing workers who are trapped. One small problem caused this process to stop until people trapped were safe.Rescuers try to reach out to trapped males in the debris.
Images of trapped workers First visuals, six inches into the crush of a large pipe pushed through, reaching those 41 workers trapped within the rubble by rescuers.The endoscopy camera has made a breakthrough in the Uttarakhand tunnel crash.Ten days into an endoscopy operation, it located the stranded workers in the Uttarakhand tunnel collapse.
Uttarakhand HC gave Centre 48 hours to answer about what steps were taken to save 41 people who got stuck under the rubble of collapsed tunnel in Uttarkashi.Rescuers may be sent with mobiles into the collapse of the tunnel in Uttarakhand.The rescue team will also use a mobile phone camera after endoscopic camera to help the workers communicate with their family members.
Rescue personnel are creating escape tunnels from both ends and supplying the 41 trapped people with food via the 6 inch ventilation shaft.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again contacted the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami to monitor the situation at the spot where the tunnel has collapsed .
Arnold Dix, an international tunnelling expert, says that the vertical drilling meant to save the forty-one captive miners would commence very soon provided they follow the basic security principles.
The rescue operations of the 41 trapped workers had been discussed by the Uttarakhand PM Pushkar Singh Dhami recently. Now they can get some cooked meals through a pipe, and Centre has done everything that he asked the state in order to help them.The rubble drilling operation will begin on day ten in the Uttarakhand tunnel rescue works.
On day ten of Uttarakhand tunnel collapse to save the life of 41 workers drilling from silkyaraside is expected to begin.Brother of the trapped worker says that she has been talking to him everyday.Indrajit Kumar told me that he talks with the trapped worker in the collapsing part of the tunnel almost everyday. He said everybody is safe down there.
“I talk to him daily. Today too I spoke through the large tube that was pushed in. They are all safe, from what I hear,”said Kumr for PTI.
‘Action will be taken but at the moment our priority is to save the works’, says CM Dhami. Speaking to the press on Tuesday, Uttarakhand’s chief minister, Pushkar Singh Dhami stated that the administration will conduct an extensive research in relation to the ‘suspicions’. However, the primary concern at this point focuses on the rescue of the workers.
On the Uttarkashi tunnel incident the chief minister of Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami stated that action would be taken on all suspicions but right this moment the primary issue was rescuing all workers.A governmental effort it is, they have all necessary support from Onc officials during the rescue operation.
In the second week of the rescue operation, officials have devised five evacuation strategies which would be adopted for bringing out the marooned workers.Currently, officials are trying to drill through the tunnel vertically at the surface creating an escape route.
Uttarakhand update: Five plans that the rescuers are developing.
- Vertical hole from above: It has also been planned to dig a one point two metre wide hole vertically down from above the tunnel, and about ninety metres below to access the workers. It was entrusted with Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam, which means that one machine is digging already on the spot. In addition, another two machines will arrive from Gujarat and Odisha within the next two-three days.
- Horizontal boring using an auger machine: NHIDCL drilling team will resume drilling from the mouth of tunnel, towards Silkyara side after it faced a difficulty on Friday when it dug approximately 22 metre through rubbles.
- Another horizontal drilling from the side: The Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) has been mandated to conduct micro-drilling from the left side of the tunnel for emergency alternative lifesaving escape. For this operation, equipment has been moved in from Nashik and Delhi. The horizontal tunnel will measure 1.2 metre wide and 168 metres long.
- Another vertical tunnel from the top: ONGC is expected to bore further a vertical well on the last section of tunnel at 2.3 kilometres in the direction of silkyara side. It will span approximately 325 metres deep while all equipment used in this project was imported from the US, India (Mumbai and Ghaziabad).
- The second hole will be done at the Tehri Hydro development corporation which would use a conventional drill and blast technique on the Barkot end of the tunnel (483 m but smaller than the first one).
