After several setbacks, the Indian military sent in specialized equipment on Sunday as the third week of operations to liberate the 41 trapped workers began. They’re digging in three ways.
On November 12, a portion of the incomplete Silkyara road tunnel in Uttarakhand fell. The Indian Air Force said on Sunday that they were “responding with alacrity” to a rescue operation, transporting their third load.
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The engineers pounded a metal pipe through 57 metres (187 feet) of rock and concrete with metal girders and underground construction equipment. The remote mountain rescuers wanted a superheated plasma cutter.
A massive earth-boring machine broke nine meters below the surface.
Plasma cutting will remove the huge earth-boring drill that broke and the metal obstructing the horizontal path before hand digging.
vertical shaft
Standard oxyacetylene cutters have difficulty removing the heavy metal girders that clog the narrow channel of the wreckage-filled tunnel.
Without giving further details, the air force said that the “critical” equipment originated from the Defense Research and Development Organization, the government’s defense technology research branch.
Uttarakhand state minister Pushkar Singh Dhami claims vertical drilling has begun 89 metres below the surface, creating a perilous route above workers in a fallen part.
The third, longer path from the road tunnel’s far side is under construction. The third, longer walkway from the far side of the road tunnel is being built, covering 480 metres.
On Tuesday, the first day they were observed to be alive, staff members observed the rescuers installing a line that supplied food, water, electricity, and oxygen through the endoscopic camera.
A basic phone conversation has benefited the guys’ families, many of whom are low-income migrant laborers from all around India, according to Dhami, who also reports that the lads are in “good spirits.”
“Hard to operate”
Drilling equipment problems and falling debris have made the job agonizingly slow.
The government’s warning on Wednesday about the “challenging Himalayan terrain” crushed hopes that the crew was making headway.
Indrajeet Kumar, the stranded laborer, told his brother Vishwajeet that he “fell like crying.” Vishwajeet asked why they were stuck after being informed that they “would be out soon.”
Syed Ata Hasnain, a former general and top rescue officer, pleaded for “patience” on Saturday.
The media was informed that a highly challenging operation is currently in progress.
“When you do something with mountains, you cannot predict anything,” he stated. “This situation is exactly like war.”
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