Since there was no mobile phone network inside the tunnel and their walkie talkies were not working properly, they came up with an improvised plan to send a signal to the outside.
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Since Praveen Yadav, an underground tunneling expert for Trenchless Engineering, arrived with the American Auger Machine, he and his colleagues have been spending 16-18 hours inside the tunnel without any significant break.