Despite the setback caused by the collapse, the 4.5-kilometre Silkyara tunnel, a critical component of the Char Dham Yatra All Weather Road, is slated to progress following a thorough safety review and necessary repairs
CM Dhami added "manual drilling of the passage is moving ahead smoothly as no hard obstructions are coming in the way. Only cement blocks are being found by the miners working hard to drill escape passage."
On the sixteenth day of the operations to rescue the labourers under the tunnel in Uttarakhand, authorities are examining various options as the vertical drilling to free the forty-one trapped workers from the collapsed part of the Uttarkashi tunnel continues
It is the third visit of the Union Minister of State for Road Transport and National Highway (MoRTH) to the accident site.
A helicopter and a harness rope will be used to rescue the 41 stranded workers out of the collapsed tunnel when the vertical drilling is finished
Drilling was stopped on Thursday night after reaching the last section when the auger machine developed a problem
Medical equipment reached the site as efforts to rescue 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi continued on the 12th day on Thursday.
Portions of the tunnel had collapsed following a landslide on November 12, leaving 41 workers trapped behind a huge mound of debris
'Construction work will resume after completion of rescue operation'
The Thai company had in that long and intense operation rescued 12 boys from a junior football team and their coach who had been stuck in the Tham Luang cave complex for more than two weeks
