Rescue teams battle on in Tapovan tunnel
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Last Updated: Feb 12, 2021, 02:41 PM IST
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Rescue teams battled on against various odds for the sixth consecutive day on Friday to get to the over 30 people trapped inside the sludge-choked Tapovan tunnel amid fading hopes of their survival.
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Rescue teams battled on against various odds for the sixth consecutive day on Friday to get to the over 30 people trapped inside the sludge-choked Tapovan tunnel amid fading hopes of their survival. Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar, in Dehradun, said sludge clearing and drilling operations are simultaneously underway at the tunnel to reach the smaller tunnel underneath where they may be trapped.
NTPC’s installed power generation capacity crosses 64GW
February 12, 2021
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NTPC’s overall installed power generation capacity reached 64,075 MW with the commissioning of Kameng hydroelectric plant in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday.
The 600MW hydro-project has been built by North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTPC.
Even as it marks this feat, over hundred workers at its under-construction Tapovan Vishnugad hydro-project in Uttarakhand remain missing, with hopes of them being found alive having dimmed. The 520MW Tapovan Vishnugad project was hit by a massive flash flood on February 6 after a glacial outburst.
NTPC has set up a medical camp in the region to aid the local villagers who were affected by the floods, the firm said in a statement. A public information centre has also been working at the project site to provide information and facilitate the family members of the missing workers.
Uttarakhand glacier burst: Death toll rises to 34, 204 people still missing ANI | Updated: Feb 11, 2021 12:24 IST
Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India], February 11 (ANI): The death toll in the Uttarakhand glacier burst incident has mounted to 34 and 204 persons are still missing, informed the State Secretariat on Thursday.
Out of the 34 recovered dead bodies, 10 have been identified while 24 of them are yet to be identified.
The Secretariat reported that the two persons working in the Rishi Ganga company informed to be missing before, have safely reached their homes.
The rescue operations are underway inside Tapovan tunnel in Chamoli. There is a possibility that some more people could be stuck inside the tunnel, National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) team using vertical drilling to find their whereabouts, said Aparna Kumar, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
India News: Hope is splintered in 40-second fragments here. Every time an excavator moves into Tunnel 1 of the Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project, inside which