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      uttarkashi,  when heavy machinery broke down in an effort to drill through the debris that had trapped 41 workers in the silkyara tunnel, the rescuers resorted to rat-hole mining, a banned practice in the co

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These Rat-Hole Miners, as they are called are Hasan, Munna Qureshi, Naseem Malik, Nasir Khan, Firoz Qureshi, Rashid Ansari, and Irshad Ansari, along with Monu Kumar, Saurabh, Jatin Kumar, Ankur, Devendra who come from Delhi and Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh.

The leader of the 12-member team from Rockwell Enterprises, Wakeel Hassan, said he was approached for help by a company involved in the rescue operation four days ago. The work got delayed while removing the portion of the auger from the rubble. We started at 3 pm on Monday and finished the work at 6 pm on Tuesday, Hassan said, adding, We had said the work would be finished in 24 to 36 hours and that is what we did.

Rat-hole mining experts Qureshi and Kumar were part of a 12-member team from Rockwell Enterprises, a Delhi-based company that specializes in tunnelling work.

PM Modi lauded a successful operation to rescue 41 workers trapped in an under-construction road tunnel in Uttarakhand on Tuesday.

The first person to reach the workers was Munna Qureshi who was among the rat-hole miners who dug up the tunnel and achieved the last mile. Munna is now hailed as a hero., India News, Times Now

Feroze Qureshi and Monu Kumar, experts in the rat-hole mining technique, were the first to meet the 41 labourers rescued from the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand after they cleared the last bit of the rubble inside the structure.

The workers were kept under medical observation at a hospital in Chinyalisaur after their evacuation on November 28 night. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met them and handed over a cheque of Rs 1 lakh to each of them.

Uttarkashi Khan-did Talk: Speaking exclusively to News18, Nasir Khan, 25, a rat hole miner from UP, says even as the added challenges of gas-cutting and heat made their already dangerous task tougher, they kept going to do their bit for the country and the 41 trapped labourers