Seventeen workers from Jharkhand who were rescued from the Uttarkashi tunnel accident will reach Ranchi on Thursday. The family members of rescued workers are now waiting for their safe return to homes.
According to JAP-IT and the Labour Department, medical examinations of the workers are being done after being taken out of the tunnel. If everything is found normal during the medical test, the workers will be sent back to their native homes on Thursday. The workers are being examined at Rishikesh AIIMS. As soon as the approval is received from the team of doctors here, the way for the return of the workers will be cleared. JAP and the Labour Department have been given the responsibility for the return of the workers trapped in the Uttarkashi tunnel accident. Even during the rescue operation, Labour Department and JAP-IT officials had gone to the operation site.
The final medical checkup will be done on Wednesday. In such a situation, there is a possibility that on November 30, the workers will be brought from Delhi to Ranchi through air service. Before this, labourers will be brought from Rishikesh to Delhi. After this it will be brought from Delhi to Ranchi. Let us tell you that on November 12, a tunnel accident took place in Silkyara, Uttarkashi, where debris was spread in a 70 meter area of the tunnel. 41 labourers from across the country were trapped in this. The operation was finalized after 17 days. After which 41 workers were taken out. This also includes 15 laborers from the state. In which two labourers were included from Giridih, three from Ranchi, seven from East Singhbhum and three from Khunti. The rescue team has informed that all the workers are healthy.
Twelve “rat-hole miners” burrowed through a wall of rock, mud and debris with hand-held tools in the final breakthrough on Tuesday, as the country heaved a collective sigh of relief.
Anil Bediya, one of the 41 labourers, told to media persons that the men initially survived the ordeal by eating 'muri' (puffed rice) and licking water dripping from rocks. "Loud shrieks punctuated the air...We all thought we would be buried inside the tunnel and had lost all hope during the first couple of days," Bediya told the news agency over the phone from Uttarakhand on Wednesday morning while narrating their harrowing tale.
In Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district, the father of one of the labourers died hours before his son was rescued from the Uttarkashi tunnel. Baset Murmu, 70, had been waiting to see his 29-year-old son, Bhaktu Murmu, coming out of the Uttarkashi’s Silkyara tunnel. However, he died of a heart attack on Tuesday.
