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On 22 February, a part of this tunnel was demolished, in which a total of eight engineers and laborers were trapped.
A part of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel located in Nagarkurnul, Telangana fell on 22 February. 8 laborers were trapped in it. The rescue team found another body on Tuesday, 32 days after the accident. Efforts are on to take it out. Earlier on March 9, the body of Gurpreet Singh was found.
Rescue team officials say the body has not been identified as to which worker it belongs to. The body will be removed soon with the help of advance machines. Still 6 workers trapped in the tunnel are not detected, the rescue team is looking for them. The possibility of his alive is negligible.
Automatic Hydraulic-Eable Robot deployed
Earlier, on March 15, an automatic hydraulic-eable robot was deployed to search for laborers. This robot is equipped with a particular technology, which will help in increasing the speed of search operation.
According to officials, with this robot, 30 hp capacity liquid ring vacuum pumps and vacuum tank machines have been deployed, which will lead to the work of soil removal. Instead of manual excavation, this robot is capable of removing debris in an automatic manner. About 620 cubic meters in an hour can be extracted from the soil tunnel.
State Special Chief Secretary (Disaster Management) Arvind Kumar is monitoring this search operation. The operation includes the Indian Army, NDRF, SDRF, Human Remune Dog (HRDD), Singreni Colliers, Hyderabad -based robotics company and others.
Warned 5 years ago, no action was taken In 2020, the tunnel survey was conducted by a company named Embg Tech AG. The company alerted the threat to some fault zone and weak rocks in the tunnel. The survey report was also given to the tunnel making company Jayaprakash Associates Limited.
The report stated that the rocks from 13.88 km to 13.91 km of the 14 km long tunnel are weak. This part is also filled with water. There is also a danger of slipping the ground. According to rescuers, the part which was described as dangerous in the report has fallen.
However, whether the irrigation department of the state government knew whether it was not clear. An irrigation department official says that he is not aware of any such report.
Workers leaving work According to reports, some laborers working in the tunnel after the accident have left the work due to fear. The senior government official said that 800 people are working in the Srisalam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) project.
Of these, 300 are local and the rest are from Jharkhand, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. The officer also said that there is definitely fear among laborers in the beginning. However, the company has set up residential camps for them. Some people may want to go back, but we have no report that all the workers are leaving together.
3 photos related to rescue …
Employees present in the tunnel are cutting iron from the gas cutter.
Tunnel view from Telangana CM Revanth Reddy’s helicopter.
The graph of the tunnel made by officers, accordingly the rescue is being run.
5 to 8 thousand liters of water is coming every minute in the tunnel From social activist Nanala Govardhan, told Dainik Bhaskar that 5 to 8 thousand liters of water is falling every minute from the upper slab of the tunnel. Not only companies like Robinson and JP, Telangana Irrigation Department is also failing to estimate this danger correctly. This is the biggest failure of the SLBC project.
According to Govardhan, the rules were ignored in the Kaleshwaram Dam Project and Polavaram irrigation scheme of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The diaphragm wall built at a cost of 460 crores was demolished here. Foreign motors worth crores have been broken in Medigadda and Annaram. Now these things are coming out in the SLBC tunnel project. Read full news …
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CM visited the site of the incident, BJP bid- accident caused accident
On the 9th day of the accident, CM Revanth Reddy visited the spot and inquired about the situation. CM had said that if needed, the help of robot will be taken in the rescue. BJP MLAs also visited the tunnel. The party MLA alleged that the accident was the result of the government’s wrong management. Read full news …