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PTI. 5. Earlier on Saturday, Former Prime Minister Office (PMO) advisor Bhaskar Khulbe said that teams deployed at the Silkyara tunnel require a coordinated action for the rescue operation which is underway at the site adding that multiple options are being explored to save their lives. Speaking to ANI, Bhaskar Khulbe said, “We are exploring as many options as possible to rescue workers.

Catch LIVE updates of Uttarkashi tunnel collapse recue operation with LivemintThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the authorities concerned, including the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL), on a petition claiming lack of some protection works on the Gangotri National Highway in Uttarkashi district of Uttrakhand.According to the petition, NHIDCL failed to take action for the construction of a landslide protection gallery, slope protection work and river protection work.The 4531-metre Silkyara Tunnel is part of the Chardham Project of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and will link the Gangotri and Yamunotri axis under the Radi pass area.Another high-performance drilling machine airlifted from Indore in Madhya Pradesh arrived in Silkyara on Saturday where its three parts will be assembled before it is deployed for drilling, officials on the spot said. Meanwhile, the number of workers who have been trapped inside the tunnel since Sunday has been revised to 41.

National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the authorities concerned, including the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL), on a petition claiming lack of some protection works on the Gangotri National Highway in Uttarkashi district of Uttrakhand. According to the petition, NHIDCL failed to take action for the construction of a landslide protection gallery, slope protection work and river protection work.

collapsed highway tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district on Friday temporarily suspended the rescue operation after hearing a sudden "cracking sound" and the drilling machine developed a snag. The state-run National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) stated that a "large-scale cracking sound" was heard during efforts to restart the drilling machine. The sound "created a panic situation in the tunnel and the team working.

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Also read: Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Without food, one can survive for…, an official on how they are helping 40 trapped labourers The machine stopped working after its bearings were “damaged". The drilling couldn't make any progress after 9 am on Friday as the machine ceased to work anymore at 22 meters. The machine was deployed at around 10:30 am on Thursday after the previous machine got damaged due to a landslide.

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Uttarkashi, NHIDCL Director Anshu Manish Khalkho said the delay was due to the fragile nature of the location. Explaining to the reporters, Khalkho said, "Where you feel the fragile nature and vibration needs to be taken care of equilibrium also has to be maintained.

rescue operation for the safe evacuation of the 40 trapped labourers at the under-construction Silkyara collapse site in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district is going on in its full swing. “As of now 22.0 meter pipe pushing has been completed Positioning of fifth pipe is under progress,” a report, issued by National Highways and Infrastructural Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) on Friday morning, said. NHIDCL is involved in the rescue operation.

collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarakhand has entered sixth today on Friday. A heavy-duty drilling machine began the process of digging through the debris of the collapsed tunnel and rescuing the trapped workers. Officials said that a six-meter section of a steel pipe had been inserted into the bored passage.

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Loose rocks have been falling into a tunnel that rescuers are trying to create and this is the main challenge facing the operation at the moment, said a top official in Uttarakhand state, where the disaster occurred. The men are trapped in an area of about 50 metres and are safe, officials said, with food, water and oxygen being supplied through a pipe since the collapse early on Sunday, and frequent contact is being made with them through walkie-talkies. «The plan is to drill through the debris, put mild steel pipes in it and make a path for the labourers to move,» Ranjit Sinha, the top disaster management officer in Uttarakhand, told Reuters by phone. «The only challenge is to remove the debris as it is very loose and it keeps coming back.» India's Himalayas are prone to landslides, earthquakes and floods. The tunnel collapse follows incidents of land subsidence that have been blamed on rapid construction in the mountains. A high-powered auger drilling machine is being set up at the site to cut through the debris at 2.5 metres an hour as opposed to one metre by the previous machine that suffered a glitch, Sinha said. An estimated 50 metres remains to be drilled through before the trapped workers are reached, said Anshu Manish Khalkho, an official of the state-run highway management company NHIDCL. CRITICISM There were up to 60 men on the night shift in the 4.5-km (3-mile) tunnel when it caved in before dawn.

Uttarkashi. Since Sunday morning, the debris is being removed from the site to create an escape tunnel for the workers. Officials have “contacted the Thai company which rescued the children trapped in the cave," the Uttarakhand government's department of public relations said in a statement.

Workers chanted slogans at the mouth of the tunnel on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri National Highway, protesting over the «slow» pace of the operation to rescue their colleagues trapped inside for over 72 hours now. The plan was to use an 'auger machine' to drill through the rubble of the tunnel's collapsed portion and insert 800-mm and 900-mm diameter sections of mild steel pipes — one after the other. Once this happens, the workers trapped on the other side of the rubble can crawl out to safety.

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It’s a relief that the 40 workers trapped in the 4.5km-long highway tunnel being burrowed in Uttarakhand that saw a section of it collapse are reported to be safe even as efforts to rescue them are underway. Food and oxygen are being supplied via tubes through the 60-metre-stretch of debris that isolates them. A 3-foot-wide steel pipe is also being extended with the aid of hydraulic jacks to extract them.

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«If everything goes as planned, the trapped labourers will be evacuated by Wednesday,» he said after visiting the tunnel and taking an update on the operations from officials at the site. Most of the day went into preparing a platform inside the tunnel to position the auger machine for drilling through the rubble. The drilling machine and the pipes arrived at the site early on Tuesday.