Uttarakhand Tunnel Crash News Live Updates: CM Pushkar Singh Dhami felicitates families of workers rescued from Silkyara tunnel

Former Engineer-In-Chief and BRO DG Lieutenant General Harpal Singh (Retd) says "Everything went according to the plan. PM Modi was constantly monitoring the rescue work. All departments of the Government of India were involved in the operation...We were the happiest when we saw the workers coming out on their own feet. They were extremely happy..."

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During the rescue operations, one of the workers showed victory sign while he was being rescued.

Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.), Member, NDMA, says "...Visuals have been there of all the ambulances lined up. Individually these vehicles are being marched off and sent to the district hospital which is 30 km away and is just incidentally next to the airfield where a Chinook helicopter is also parked that will be available in the morning if the doctors decide that all 41 can be held together in that hospital...Tomorrow probably in two flights, the Chinook helicopter will be able to transport all of them to Rishikesh AIIMS and they will probably be kept for about 48 to 72 hours under observation to make sure that there's nothing secondary which emerges after they have come out from this confinement for the last 17 days..."

Union Minister General VK Singh (Retd) says, " Whatever things we were in need of, we received them all because of the guidance of PM Modi...there was good coordination(among members) in all the work that was done"

CM Pushkar Singh Dhami says, "They(workers) all have come out from a different environment and condition so we will do as per the advice of the doctors...first they will be kept under medical supervision, their monitoring will be done...no one is critical"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and gave his best wishes on the safe evacuation of 41 workers from Silkyara. During this, the Prime Minister took information from the Chief Minister about the workers: Uttarakhand CMO

Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and Union minister General VK Singh meet the workers who have been rescued from the Silkyara tunnel.

Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.), Member, NDMA, says "...In the last 1-2 hours, the NDRF has led the operation. They have gone inside and brought the trapped workers outside. Before that, it was the rat miners and the army engineers who were there working on this manual digging which was taking place. At every phase of this operation, there have been different agencies going in and doing specialized work. When the 41st person Is out, I am told that now at 60 to 80 meters away from the site of the collapse, within the opening of the tunnel, there is an 8-bed hospital which has been created there, and all of them are coming. There the little medical checkups are being done..."

Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.), Member, NDMA, says "...India has achieved this tremendous achievement under the leadership of our Prime Minister and the various organisations that he leads, the PMO itself, from where his Principal Secretary has been leading the efforts, who has been on the ground himself and spoken to the workers at some time also gone to each and every site of the options which were being pursued by all the disaster management authorities at that particular time...The only message which needs to be realized and communicated is, this has been all of government and all of India operation.."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and took update on the rescue efforts.

President Droupadi Murmu tweets, "I feel relieved and happy to learn that all the workers trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand have been rescued. Their travails over 17 days, as the rescue effort met with obstacles, have been a testament of human endurance. The nation salutes their resilience and remains grateful to them for building critical infrastructure, even at great personal risk, far away from their homes. I congratulate the teams and all experts who have acted with incredible grit and determination to perform one of the most difficult rescue missions in history"

PM Narendra Modi expresses happiness over the rescue of all the 41 workers trapped inside the Uttarkashi tunnel.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari tweets "I am completely relieved and happy as 41 trapped laborers in the Silkyara Tunnel Collapse have been successfully rescued..."

Ambulances leave from the Silkyara tunnel site as all the trapped workers have been successfully rescued.

All workers are currently in the safety tunnel inside the Silkyara tunnel. The workers will be evacuated soon in the Ambulance.

All 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand since November 12, have been successfully rescued

35 out of the 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand since November 12 have been successfully rescued.

33 among the 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand since November 12 have been successfully rescued.

15 among 41 trapped workers rescued from Silkyara tunnel.

Locals distribute sweets outside Silkyara tunnel as trapped workers are being rescued.

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Ambulances leave from the Silkyara tunnel site as nine workers among the 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand since November 12 have been successfully rescued.

Micro tunnelling expert Chris Cooper says, "Three workers have come out. All the members of the rescue team are very happy..."

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Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami meets the workers who have been rescued from inside the Silkyara tunnel.

Five among the 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand since November 12 have been successfully rescued. Currently, all the labourers are in the safety tunnel inside the Silkyara tunnel.

The first among the 41 workers trapped inside Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand since November 12, has been successfully rescued.

"One person has been rescued...", says Chandran, engineer from the rescue team.

NDRF, SDRF men will go inside Uttarakhand tunnel and bring trapped workers out on wheeled stretchers one by one, says a rescuer.

NDRF, SDRF personnel take position for safe evacuation of workers trapped in Uttarakhand tunnel: Officials

A worker involved in the rescue operation says, "The rescue work has been completed and the trapped workers will start coming out in the next 15-20 minutes. NDRF teams will pull out the workers now. It will take around half an hour to rescue all the 41 trapped workers. There are no hurdles now..."

"There has been a great success in the ongoing rescue operation in the Silkyara Tunnel, the work of pipe pushing has been done across the debris. Now preparations have been started to evacuate the workers safely." tweets Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami.

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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and other officials at the Silkyara tunnel rescue site.. Operation intensifies to rescue the 41 workers.

NDRF and SDRF personnel enter inside the tunnel. The operation to rescue the workers is about to start in a few minutes

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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami leaves from the site of Silkyara tunnel rescue.

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Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.), Member, NDMA, says "...According to me, it will take the entire night to complete this operation..."

Father of trapped worker Manjeet from UP's Lakhimpur Kheri waiting for his son to be rescued near the Silkyara Tunnel site.

Sweets being distributed in Ranchi among the family members of Anil Bedia, one of the workers who is trapped in the Silkyara Tunnel.

Uttarkashi rescue Ops: Temporary medical facility set up inside Silkyara tunnel, doctors deployed

On Silkyara tunnel rescue mission, Vishal Chauhan, Member, NHAI, says," NHAI has again started the work of audit of all tunnels. We are working on this with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and one other agency."