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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed his joy following the successful evacuation of 41 workers trapped for nearly 17 days in the collapsed Silkyara tunnel. Dhami thanked the rescue teams, local deity Baba Baukhnag, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He emphasized the need for a balance between ecology and economy and announced a review of all tunnel projects in the state.
'We all thought we would be buried inside the tunnel and had lost all hope during the first couple of days,' Anil Bediya told
The Chief Minister also spoke to their family members waiting outside the hospital. They thanked him for safely evacuating the trapped workers after almost 17 days
The government has asked the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Konkan Rail Corporation DMRC, and international tunnelling experts Chris Cooper and Arnold Dix to come out with the SOPs by January-end.
While applauding the entire rescue team including the rat miners to bring out 41 trapped workers from Uttarakhand's Silkyara tunnel, the Congress on Wednesday said the incident has also revealed the failure of the environmental appraisal ...