BRO making road to tunnel where laborers are trapped to transport heavy equipment

Border Roads Organization (BRO) is also busy in rescuing the laborers trapped in the tunnel of Uttarkashi.

Efforts are on to safely rescue the workers from the tunnel. BRO has built a 1150 meter long unpaved road from the main road to the mouth of the tunnel. BRO has prepared it after 24 hours of hard work in about one and a half days.

Heavy equipment used in tunnel boring is going through this road. Now BRO will also make the way to reach the vertical tunnel from the upper part of the tunnel.

Sources say that the work of vertical tunnel has been entrusted to ONGC. As soon as ONGC finalizes the location of the tunnel, BRO will start its work.

Transporting equipment for the tunnel from the bottom to the top of the mountain is not an easy task. The agency is also using many equipment from Border Roads in rescue and relief operations.

Hundreds of soldiers and officers are engaged in this campaign under BRO's Project Shivalik. Senior army officers have inspected the tunnel and have been put on high alert.

The rescue operations entered its 11th day on Wednesday. On Tuesday hot meals were sent into the tunnel for the labourers.

Experts from the country as ell as abroad were currently busy devising plans to rescue the labourers who hailed from West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

First visuals of the trapped labourers had emerged on Tuesday. The labourers spoke to the rescuers and also their family members. The officials said that there was enough oxygen, water and light in the tunnel and also that all the laborers were safe and sound.