‘Challenging op’: Gadkari says rescuers to reach trapped tunnel workers in 2 days
New Delhi: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday reviewed the rescue operations at the Silkyara tunnel collapse site in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand and said that if everything goes according to plan, rescuers will be able to reach the 41 trapped labourers in two days.
“A 900-mm diameter pipe with the help of the auger machine is being inserted at the tunnel site. If the machine works properly, we will be able to reach them in 2 to 2.5 days,” Gadkari told the reporters from the tunnel site. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami also accompanied the Union minister.
