{"id":6311,"date":"2023-11-28T08:18:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T08:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2023-11-28T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T08:18:38","slug":"manual-drilling-at-silkyara-tunnel-on-uttarakhand-cm-says-pipes-inserted-up-to-52-metres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/manual-drilling-at-silkyara-tunnel-on-uttarakhand-cm-says-pipes-inserted-up-to-52-metres\/","title":{"rendered":"Manual drilling at Silkyara tunnel on, Uttarakhand CM says pipes inserted up to 52 metres"},"content":{"rendered":"

UTTARKASHI: Up\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>52\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pipes\u00a0<\/span><\/span>have\u00a0<\/span>been\u00a0<\/span><\/span>placed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>through\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>debris\u00a0<\/span><\/span>at\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Silkyara\u00a0<\/span><\/span>tunnel\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Uttarakhand<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>As\u00a0<\/span><\/span>efforts\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>free\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>41\u00a0<\/span><\/span>workers\u00a0<\/span><\/span>who\u00a0<\/span><\/span>are\u00a0<\/span>trapped\u00a0<\/span><\/span>there\u00a0<\/span><\/span>continue\u00a0<\/span><\/span>for\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>seventeenth\u00a0<\/span><\/span>day,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Chief\u00a0<\/span>Minister\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Pushkar\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Singh\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a>Dhami<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>stated\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Tuesday.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>He\u00a0<\/span><\/span>informed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>reporters\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Silkyara\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>breakthrough\u00a0<\/span><\/span>point\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is\u00a0<\/span><\/span>57\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Since\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Monday,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>twelve\u00a0<\/span><\/span>rat-hole\u00a0<\/span><\/span>mining\u00a0<\/span><\/span>specialists\u00a0<\/span><\/span>have\u00a0<\/span>been\u00a0<\/span><\/span>working\u00a0<\/span><\/span>horizontally\u00a0<\/span><\/span>through\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>final\u00a0<\/span><\/span>10\u00a0<\/span>or\u00a0<\/span>12\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>debris\u00a0<\/span><\/span>from\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>partially\u00a0<\/span>collapsed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>section\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>under-construction\u00a0<\/span><\/span>tunnel\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Char\u00a0<\/span>Dham\u00a0<\/span><\/span>route\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Uttarakhand<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>A\u00a0<\/span><\/span>massive\u00a0<\/span><\/span>auger\u00a0<\/span><\/span>machine\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>was\u00a0<\/span><\/span>drilling\u00a0<\/span><\/span>earlier\u00a0<\/span><\/span>became\u00a0<\/span>trapped\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>debris\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Friday\u00a0<\/span><\/span>at\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>depth\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>about\u00a0<\/span><\/span>47\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Chris\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Cooper,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>leader\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>L&T\u00a0<\/span><\/span>team,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>stated\u00a0<\/span><\/span>early\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Tuesday\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>“we\u00a0<\/span><\/span>have\u00a0<\/span><\/span>just\u00a0<\/span><\/span>crossed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>50\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>It\u00a0<\/span><\/span>gave\u00a0<\/span><\/span>rise\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>hopes\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>an\u00a0<\/span>early\u00a0<\/span><\/span>evacuation\u00a0<\/span><\/span>because\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>rescuers\u00a0<\/span><\/span>only\u00a0<\/span>needed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>go\u00a0<\/span><\/span>ten\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>gain\u00a0<\/span><\/span>an\u00a0<\/span>advantage.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>speed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>operation,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>however,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is\u00a0<\/span><\/span>contingent\u00a0<\/span><\/span>upon\u00a0<\/span><\/span>whether\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>rescuers\u00a0<\/span><\/span>face\u00a0<\/span><\/span>any\u00a0<\/span>obstacles\u00a0<\/span><\/span>during\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>excavation\u00a0<\/span>process,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>which\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>frequently\u00a0<\/span>complicated\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>various\u00a0<\/span>factors.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Subsequently,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Chief\u00a0<\/span>Minister\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Dhami\u00a0<\/span><\/span>declared,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>“Pipe\u00a0<\/span><\/span>has\u00a0<\/span>gone\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>up\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>52\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres,”\u00a0<\/span><\/span>during\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>visit\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>rescue\u00a0<\/span>operation\u00a0<\/span><\/span>site.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>It\u00a0<\/span>was\u00a0<\/span><\/span>51\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres\u00a0<\/span><\/span>earlier.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>In\u00a0<\/span><\/span>front\u00a0<\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>me,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>it\u00a0<\/span><\/span>was\u00a0<\/span>propelled\u00a0<\/span><\/span>one\u00a0<\/span>metre\u00a0<\/span><\/span>farther.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>After\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pushing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>it\u00a0<\/span><\/span>two\u00a0<\/span>more\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>height\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>54\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>one\u00a0<\/span>more\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pipe\u00a0<\/span><\/span>will\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span><\/span>installed.”<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>In\u00a0<\/span><\/span>response\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>question\u00a0<\/span><\/span>about\u00a0<\/span><\/span>potential\u00a0<\/span>obstacles,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>he\u00a0<\/span><\/span>stated\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>there\u00a0<\/span><\/span>were\u00a0<\/span><\/span>no\u00a0<\/span><\/span>steel\u00a0<\/span>or\u00a0<\/span>iron\u00a0<\/span><\/span>girders\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>way.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>chief\u00a0<\/span>minister\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remarked,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>“Stones\u00a0<\/span><\/span>are\u00a0<\/span>getting\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>way,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>but\u00a0<\/span><\/span>cutters\u00a0<\/span><\/span>are\u00a0<\/span>breaking\u00a0<\/span><\/span>them.”<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>800-mm\u00a0<\/span><\/span>diameter\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pipes\u00a0<\/span><\/span>are\u00a0<\/span>being\u00a0<\/span><\/span>inserted\u00a0<\/span><\/span>through\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>rubble\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>an\u00a0<\/span>auger\u00a0<\/span><\/span>machine\u00a0<\/span><\/span>while\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>competent\u00a0<\/span>team\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>labourers\u00a0<\/span><\/span>removes\u00a0<\/span><\/span>muck\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>hand\u00a0<\/span><\/span>using\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>rat-hole\u00a0<\/span><\/span>mining\u00a0<\/span><\/span>technique.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>51\u00a0<\/span><\/span>metres\u00a0<\/span><\/span>have\u00a0<\/span>been\u00a0<\/span><\/span>drilled,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>according\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Praveen\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Yadav,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>who\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>charge\u00a0<\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>cutting\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>removing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>obstacles\u00a0<\/span><\/span>from\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>rubble.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>According\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>worker\u00a0<\/span><\/span>from\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Trenchless\u00a0<\/span><\/span>company,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>which\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>pushing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>pipes\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>auger\u00a0<\/span><\/span>machine,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>some\u00a0<\/span>positive\u00a0<\/span>news\u00a0<\/span><\/span>should\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span><\/span>available\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>this\u00a0<\/span>evening\u00a0<\/span><\/span>if\u00a0<\/span><\/span>no\u00a0<\/span>obstacles\u00a0<\/span><\/span>are\u00a0<\/span><\/span>encountered.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>In\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>contentious\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>dangerous\u00a0<\/span><\/span>practise\u00a0<\/span><\/span>known\u00a0<\/span>as\u00a0<\/span><\/span>“rat-hole\u00a0<\/span><\/span>mining,”\u00a0<\/span><\/span>miners\u00a0<\/span><\/span>work\u00a0<\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>small\u00a0<\/span>groups\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>extract\u00a0<\/span><\/span>tiny\u00a0<\/span>amounts\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>coal\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>descending\u00a0<\/span><\/span>small\u00a0<\/span><\/span>burrows.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Neeraj\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Khairwal,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>nodal\u00a0<\/span>officer\u00a0<\/span><\/span>for\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Uttarakhand\u00a0<\/span><\/span>government,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>made\u00a0<\/span>it\u00a0<\/span><\/span>apparent\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>men\u00a0<\/span><\/span>being\u00a0<\/span>brought\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>site\u00a0<\/span><\/span>were\u00a0<\/span>not\u00a0<\/span><\/span>rat-hole\u00a0<\/span><\/span>miners\u00a0<\/span><\/span>but\u00a0<\/span>rather\u00a0<\/span><\/span>specialists\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>field.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>They\u00a0<\/span><\/span>will\u00a0<\/span>probably\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span><\/span>split\u00a0<\/span><\/span>up\u00a0<\/span><\/span>into\u00a0<\/span>two\u00a0<\/span><\/span>or\u00a0<\/span><\/span>three-person\u00a0<\/span><\/span>teams.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>For\u00a0<\/span><\/span>brief\u00a0<\/span>intervals,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>each\u00a0<\/span>team\u00a0<\/span><\/span>will\u00a0<\/span>enter\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>steel\u00a0<\/span><\/span>chute\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>is\u00a0<\/span><\/span>part\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>escape\u00a0<\/span><\/span>route.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Expert\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>drilling\u00a0<\/span><\/span>rat\u00a0<\/span><\/span>holes\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Rajput\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Rai\u00a0<\/span><\/span>explained\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>one\u00a0<\/span>man\u00a0<\/span><\/span>will\u00a0<\/span>drill\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>hole,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>another\u00a0<\/span><\/span>will\u00a0<\/span>gather\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>debris\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with\u00a0<\/span><\/span>his\u00a0<\/span>hands,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>third\u00a0<\/span><\/span>will\u00a0<\/span>load\u00a0<\/span><\/span>it\u00a0<\/span><\/span>onto\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>trolley\u00a0<\/span><\/span>so\u00a0<\/span>it\u00a0<\/span><\/span>can\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span><\/span>removed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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UTTARKASHI: Up\u00a0to\u00a052\u00a0metres\u00a0of\u00a0pipes\u00a0have\u00a0been\u00a0placed\u00a0through\u00a0the\u00a0debris\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0Silkyara\u00a0tunnel\u00a0in\u00a0Uttarakhand. As\u00a0efforts\u00a0to\u00a0free\u00a0the\u00a041\u00a0workers\u00a0who\u00a0are\u00a0trapped\u00a0there\u00a0continue\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0seventeenth\u00a0day,\u00a0Chief\u00a0Minister\u00a0Pushkar\u00a0Singh\u00a0Dhami\u00a0stated\u00a0on\u00a0Tuesday. He\u00a0informed\u00a0reporters\u00a0in\u00a0Silkyara\u00a0that\u00a0the\u00a0breakthrough\u00a0point\u00a0is\u00a057\u00a0metres. Since\u00a0Monday,\u00a0twelve\u00a0rat-hole\u00a0mining\u00a0specialists\u00a0have\u00a0been\u00a0working\u00a0horizontally\u00a0through\u00a0the\u00a0final\u00a010\u00a0or\u00a012\u00a0metres\u00a0of\u00a0debris\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0partially\u00a0collapsed\u00a0section\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0under-construction\u00a0tunnel\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0Char\u00a0Dham\u00a0route\u00a0in\u00a0Uttarakhand. A\u00a0massive\u00a0auger\u00a0machine\u00a0that\u00a0was\u00a0drilling\u00a0earlier\u00a0became\u00a0trapped\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0debris\u00a0on\u00a0Friday\u00a0at\u00a0a\u00a0depth\u00a0of\u00a0about\u00a047\u00a0metres. Chris\u00a0Cooper,\u00a0the\u00a0leader\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0L&T\u00a0team,\u00a0stated\u00a0early\u00a0on\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0that\u00a0“we\u00a0have\u00a0just\u00a0crossed\u00a050\u00a0metres.”It\u00a0gave\u00a0rise\u00a0to\u00a0hopes\u00a0of\u00a0an\u00a0early\u00a0evacuation\u00a0because\u00a0the\u00a0rescuers\u00a0only\u00a0needed\u00a0to\u00a0go\u00a0ten\u00a0metres\u00a0to\u00a0gain\u00a0an\u00a0advantage. The\u00a0speed\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0operation,\u00a0however,\u00a0is\u00a0contingent\u00a0upon\u00a0whether\u00a0the\u00a0rescuers\u00a0face\u00a0any\u00a0obstacles\u00a0during\u00a0the\u00a0excavation\u00a0process,\u00a0which\u00a0is\u00a0frequently\u00a0complicated\u00a0by\u00a0various\u00a0factors. Subsequently,\u00a0Chief\u00a0Minister\u00a0Dhami\u00a0declared,\u00a0“Pipe\u00a0has\u00a0gone\u00a0in\u00a0up\u00a0to\u00a052\u00a0metres,”\u00a0during\u00a0a\u00a0visit\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0rescue\u00a0operation\u00a0site. It\u00a0was\u00a051\u00a0metres\u00a0earlier. In\u00a0front\u00a0of\u00a0me,\u00a0it\u00a0was\u00a0propelled\u00a0one\u00a0metre\u00a0farther. After\u00a0pushing\u00a0it\u00a0two\u00a0more\u00a0metres\u00a0to\u00a0a\u00a0height\u00a0of\u00a054\u00a0metres,\u00a0one\u00a0more\u00a0pipe\u00a0will\u00a0be\u00a0installed.” In\u00a0response\u00a0to\u00a0a\u00a0question\u00a0about\u00a0potential\u00a0obstacles,\u00a0he\u00a0stated\u00a0that\u00a0there\u00a0were\u00a0no\u00a0steel\u00a0or\u00a0iron\u00a0girders\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0way. 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