TNPSC Thervupettagam

Uttarakhand Tunnel Crash rescue

November 29 , 2023 379 days 797 0
  • A successful rescue operation by NDRF and SDRF teams has led to the extraction of all the 41 workers who were trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand.
  • The authorities, till now, have used multiple techniques to bring the workers out of the tunnel section.
  • Among the different rescue techniques, rat-hole mining (manual drilling) is considered to be the most dangerous and risky.
  • Rat-hole miners were the last resort of the rescue operation after the US-made auger machine was extracted from the tunnel after it went kaput.
  • Rat-hole mining is a method of taking out coal by digging small pits.
  • It involves manually digging up small tunnels, around 3-4 feet, through which workers enter and extract coal.
  • But it was banned by NGT in 2014 as a coal-extracting method for being unscientific.
  • Rat hole mining is largely prevalent in Meghalaya, particularly West Jaintia Hills, East Jaintia Hills and West Khasi Hills.

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