Telangana Tunnel Collapse: Rescue Operation Continues On seventh Day To Save Trapped Employees

Seven days after eight individuals had been trapped when the roof of an under-construction tunnel collapsed in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district, the search operation continued on Friday with no indicators of survivors. 

An enormous rescue operation by 12 companies continued within the partially collapsed Srisailam Left Financial institution Canal (SLBC) tunnel with a give attention to the removing of silt and particles.

Groups of Military, Navy, Nationwide Catastrophe Response Pressure (NDRF), Hyderabad Catastrophe Response and Asset Safety Company (HYDRAA), Railways, Singareni Collieries Firm Restricted (SCCL) and rat gap miners had been busy in intensive efforts to desilt the tunnel to clear obstruction to achieve the tunnel finish the place the employees had been trapped.

The rescue groups had been additionally making strenuous efforts to take away the particles of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), which broke into items within the February 22 incident. Fuel and plasma cutters had been getting used to chop elements of the tail portion of the TBM.

Groups are coming into the tunnel by rotation to hold out the particles removing work. On Thursday, 5 groups eliminated 6,000 cubic meters of silt.

In the meantime, SCCL determined to ship 200 extra rescue employees for the operation, which continued for the seventh day. About 100 personnel have already reached the tunnel with superior gear.

SCCL Chairman and Managing Director N. Balram mentioned if crucial, the corporate would ship extra males for the rescue.

Particular Chief Secretary of Catastrophe Administration Arvind Kumar is supervising the rescue operation from the location workplace on the mouth of the 14-km-long tunnel.

South Central Railway has deployed a workforce of metal-cutting specialists together with requisite equipment to clear particles.

On a request by the Nagarkurnool district Collector, South Central Railway (SCR) despatched two groups to assist in the rescue operation by clearing the particles of metal and iron which have been hindering the rescue work.

The SCR groups have been deployed with requisite equipment, together with a plasma reducing machine, Brocho reducing machine, moveable air compressor, and extremely thermic reducing gear.

The rescue employees had been additionally engaged within the efforts to make sure that the loco practice reached as much as the final level and the conveyor belt grew to become operational, which is able to velocity up the removing of particles.

Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, who’s monitoring the rescue operation, mentioned plasma cutters, high-grade shutters, and particles removing equipment had been getting used whereas worldwide specialists had been overseeing the technique. He mentioned dewatering processes had been reactivated to clear obstructions.

He posted on ‘X’ {that a} multi-agency rescue operation was in full swing on the tunnel, with the nation’s finest specialists and superior gear deployed to avoid wasting the trapped employees.

The rescue and aid operations could be accomplished inside two to 3 days, and the tunnel works would resume in two to 3 months, he added.

The authorities imposed restrictions on the web site after a go to by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders led by former minister T. Harish Rao amid a tense scenario.

Uttar Kumar Reddy mentioned precautionary restrictions had been imposed on the web site to make sure the protection of each employees and rescuers.

The minister said that the incident was one of the difficult and sophisticated tunnel accidents in Indian historical past, and for the primary time, so many nationwide and worldwide companies have been introduced collectively below a unified command for the rescue mission.

“That is an especially difficult operation, and the most effective specialists within the area are concerned. They’re working selflessly, risking their very own lives to finish this rescue,” he added.

The Minister additionally introduced that after the employees had been safely rescued, the federal government would make sure that tunnel works resume within the subsequent two to 3 months and are accomplished inside the stipulated time