On the 16th day of the Telangana tunnel accident, the rescue team has found the first body. The body is stuck in the machine. The work of cutting the machine to remove the body is going on. On March 7, sniffer dogs were taken to the tunnel. The rescue officer said that only the hands of the body stuck in the machine were visible. Yesterday, the state’s irrigation minister Uttam Kumar Reddy had said that the search dogs have detected a strong smell at a particular place. It has been found that three people are present there. After this, the debris accumulated there was being removed. However, it is not clear yet whether the body has been found at the same place or at some other place. Robots are also being used to speed up the rescue operation. 525 workers are engaged in the search of the workers. A part of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel in Nagarkurnool of the state collapsed on February 22. Due to this, 8 workers working inside were trapped. The state government had said that there is very little chance of their survival, but we will make every possible effort. Warning was given 5 years ago, no action was taken
In 2020, a company named Amberg Tech AG surveyed the tunnel. The company had alerted about the danger of some fault zones and weak rocks in the tunnel. The survey report was also given to the tunnel building company Jaiprakash Associates Limited. It was told in the report that the rocks of the 13.88 km to 13.91 km part of the 14 km long tunnel are weak. This part is also filled with water. There is also a danger of land sliding. According to the rescue workers, the part which was described as dangerous in the report is the same part that has collapsed. However, it is not clear whether the irrigation department of the state government was aware of this or not. An official of the irrigation department says that he is not aware of any such report. Workers leaving work
According to reports, after the accident, some workers working in the tunnel have left their work due to fear. A senior government official said that 800 people are working in the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) project. Of these, 300 are local and the rest are from Jharkhand, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. The official also said that initially there is definitely fear among the workers. However, the company has built residential camps for them. Some people may want to go back, but we have no report that all the workers are leaving together. 3 pictures related to the rescue… 5 to 8 thousand liters of water is coming into the tunnel every minute
Social activist Nainala 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, but the Telangana Irrigation Department is also failing to correctly estimate this danger. This is the biggest failure of the SLBC project. According to Govardhan, 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 Rs 460 crore collapsed here. Foreign motors worth crores have broken down in Medigadda and Annaram. Now the same things are coming to the fore in the SLBC tunnel project. Read full news… ………………………………… Read this news related to the accident as well… CM visited the site of the accident, BJP said – accident happened due to government’s negligence On the 9th day of the accident, CM Revanth Reddy visited the site of the accident and inquired about the situation. The CM had said that if needed, help of robots will be taken in the rescue. BJP MLAs had also visited the tunnel. The party MLA alleged that the accident is the result of wrong management of the government. Read full news…
