Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Without food, one can survive for…, official on how to they are helping 40 trapped labourers

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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.

So this needs to be done very precisely/ We also have to take care of the morale of people trapped inside and as well as the rescue team outside." When asked about what time trapped labourers will be able to sustain, Khalkho said, "Without food, a man can survive for six days. Here food and water are provided so from physical health to mental health of the workers is fine.

We are communicating with them, and now doctors from the administration have reached out to counsel them." During an earlier update, Khalkho said that rescuers have managed to drill through 24 metres into the rubble inside the Silkyara Tunnel, and are getting closer to 40 labourers who have been trapped inside, following the collapse of the under-construction tunnel for six days now. "We have reached 24 metres inside which is a good situation.

We are trying to reach the other end as soon as possible...We are airlifting another machine from Indore, it will reach here tomorrow morning..." NHIDCL Director Anshu Manish Khalkho said today. The under-construction tunnel between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway collapsed in the early hours of November 12.