Drilling from the Silkyara end was put on hold Friday afternoon when the auger machine encountered a hard obstacle...
The officials said the government has undertaken a five-option action plan to rescue the workers.
Numerous attempts to rescue the trapped workers faced challenges due to the area's topography and rock formations.
The Silkyara tunnel, about 30 km from the district headquarters of Uttarkashi and a seven-hour drive from the...
Out of the forty workers who are trapped there, five are labourers from Odisha.
The incident is highly likely to cause them mental trauma, for which the workers would need to undergo psychological...
The incident happened at 4 am when a 150-meter-long section of the 4.5-kilometer-long tunnel collapsed.
