Senior official on the Uttarakhand underground rescue operation says the timeframe is incorrect, digging is scheduled to resume at eleven. Principal points

Authorities in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district think the rescue mission to extract 41 workers buried under the debris of the collapsed construction is likely to conclude today, after 11 days of intense labor and drilling down to a depth of 46.8 meters in the Silkyara tunnel. But according to authorities, the whole operation is akin to a “war,” and assigning a deadline for this effort would be inappropriate since it would just put more strain on the personnel, which is already working nonstop under difficult circumstances.

“A lot of specialists are speculating that they could be saved tonight or early tomorrow, but keep in mind that these operations resemble battles. There should be no timeframe assigned to these activities. We never know how the opponent would respond in a conflict. The geology of the Himalayas is against us here. At a news conference, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) member Lt. General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain said, “We are unsure of the angles from which the tunnel fell.

He made the point that it would be incorrect to confine the operation to a certain time frame and that it is crucial to ensure the safety of both the trapped individuals and the rescuers. “This labor is difficult. The workers are under pressure to continue thinking that a rescue would take place within the next two hours. It’s incorrect, he continued.

Drilling was stopped on Thursday night after reaching the last section when the auger machine developed a problem.

Bhaskar Khulbe, a former counselor to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), thought that drilling will resume between 11 and 11:30 am. “Ground penetration radar study has shown that there is no metallic obstruction in the next 5 metres,” he said.

Pushkar Singh Dhami, the chief minister, spent the night in Uttarkashi to keep an eye on the rescue efforts for those stranded in the Silkyara Tunnel. To ensure that nothing gets in the way of his everyday business, he has established a makeshift camp office there.

Chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Atul Karwal, said that the staff has previously practiced safe evacuation procedures and is “prepared in every way.” “The lads are going inside first.To enable us to remove patients off the stretchers one by one as we enter, we have placed wheels underneath them.

Rescuers had thought of forcing workers to crawl out of the opposite side one by one, just to keep things open. But after 12 days of living in the shadows, without light, and with just complete meals, their health may not allow them to complete the physically demanding mission.

Officials said that the NDRF staff would use a rope to draw out the stretcher, which would force each employee to lay down. According to Karwal, the workers will clean the rescue pipeline that was threaded in from the tunnel’s entrance to make sure that no debris gets in the way of the stretchers’ progress.