The collapse of a 150m section, connecting Silkyara with Dandalgaon, of a 4.5km under-construction tunnel is a significant blow to the Chardham Project, the all-weather road which would have cut the distance between Uttarkashi and.
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The trapped labourers are continuously being provided with water, food, oxygen, and electricity inside the tunnel, in addition with small food packets pumped inside with compressed air through a pipe, says the government undertaking
NHIDCL, the firm building the tunnel, in a report released to media Monday afternoon said that while removal of loose muck continues along with shotcreting (concrete spraying) inside the tunnel, the strategy is to push inside a steel pipe of 900 mm diameter with the help of a hydraulic jack to evacuate the trapped workers.
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