Experts go to Kashmir tunnel collapse website, NHAI to submit report in 10 days

By Express News Service

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR : A committee of consultants visited the collapse website of an under-construction tunnel at Khooni Nallah on Srinagar-Jammu nationwide freeway in Jammu and Kashmir wherein 10 labourers have been killed.

The three-member panel will even recommend remedial measures to finish the venture.  The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways arrange the committee beneath the chairmanship of Professor JT Shahu of IIT-Delhi.  “Further action would be taken based on the committee report. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has already initiated a process to handle such emergency situations and is also taking all possible measures to avoid such accidents in future,” mentioned the ministry.

The ministry has additionally directed the NHAI to subject instructions to officers and has sought a report inside 10 days. On Thursday evening, a portion of the beneath building tunnel between Digdole and Khoni Nallah on the Jammu-Srinagar nationwide freeway had caved in Ramban district caved. 

While two employees have been rescued instantly, the rescue work was hampered by intermittent taking pictures stones and unhealthy climate. Rescuers ran towards time to avoid wasting 10 employees have been trapped contained in the tunnel, but it surely was too late by the point they entered the collapsed construction.

The ministry mentioned that the stretch is liable to frequent landslides or taking pictures stones on account of fragile geology.  “Before workers could be moved out, suddenly a huge rock mass fell above the false steel portal erected for construction of an audit which resulted in the trapping of 12 workers… It is yet to be determined what was the cause  of the collapse,” mentioned a ministry official.