Uttarkashi: Amid the ongoing efforts to rescue the 40 workers trapped in the Uttarkashi tunnel, a portion of which caved in earlier, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami reached the spot to review the ongoing rescue and relief operation on Sunday. They were accompanied by Uttarakhand Chief Secretary SS Sandhu at Silkyara.
CM Dhami said, “We are working on all the possibilities available. All types of expert teams are working here…” CM Dhami said that the state government is ready to provide all the help required to the agencies involved in the rescue operation. “Saving everyone’s life is our first priority… For this, the state government is ready to give all the help required to all the agencies… I will pray to God that they get rescued sooner, as their trouble is increasing with each passing day…,” CM Dhami said.
On Saturday, Deputy Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, Mangesh Ghildiyal, also visited the incident site to take stock of the situation. A former advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) also took stock of the relief operations at the under-construction Silkyara Tunnel located at the Uttarkashi-Yamnotri road. The local administration informed on Saturday that it would deploy a tree-cutting expert as part of the ongoing efforts to extricate 40 workers trapped inside the tunnel for seven days now.