{"id":38142,"date":"2023-11-14T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T06:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=38142"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:44:30","slug":"uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand tunnel collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>What is Char Dham all weather road project?<\/li>\n<li>News Summary: Uttarakhand tunnel collapse<\/li>\n<li>Silkyara Tunnel Accident<\/li>\n<li>The rescue operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>About 40 workers are trapped inside a tunnel after the under-construction tunnel structure collapsed in Uttarakhand on November 12.\n<ul>\n<li>The tunnel is a part of the\u00a0Char Dham all-weather road project which commenced in 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This has prompted the authorities to launch a mega search and rescue operation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Char Dham all weather road project?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a highway expansion project to widen 889 km of hill roads to provide all-weather connectivity in the Char Dham circuit.<\/li>\n<li>The project, envisaged in 2016, covers Uttarakhand\u2019s four major shrines \u2014\u00a0<u>Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri\u00a0<\/u>\u2014 in the upper Himalayas.<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-us.googleusercontent.com\/TBwQExAy4GbH1mRzbyQWK3r5iciR46htsSGLg3FIpKYn9tw_rQhUg19MN4Fn_kT86nuANdUY3ngHtu5WFzyA_UcRBIzA2ehW-EzniyXvTcgaN5k3rBYAp8OF6xsoADlAzQxmUmad0BSZkKedW2ccIQ\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Image Caption: Line diagram of Char Dham Project<\/p>\n<h2>News Summary: Uttarakhand tunnel collapse<\/h2>\n<h2>Silkyara Tunnel Accident<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>About the tunnel\n<ul>\n<li>The total length of the tunnel, which is meant to connect\u00a0Silkyara to Dandalgaon\u00a0in Uttarkashi district, is 4.5km.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The double-lane tunnel is\u00a0<u>pegged as one of the longest tunnels under the Char Dham all-weather road project<\/u> and aims to reduce the journey from Uttarkashi to Yamunotri Dham by 26 kilometres.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>From the Silkyara side, 2.3km of tunnel has been constructed, while 1.6km of tunneling work has been completed from the Barkot end. Approximately, a 400m stretch of the tunnel is yet to be constructed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The accident\n<ul>\n<li>The workers are trapped in the\u00a0Silkyara Tunnel located on the Uttarkashi-Yamnotri Road.<\/li>\n<li>The collapse happened about 270m from the entrance of the Silkyara side.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-us.googleusercontent.com\/D_XM6TMReANyepYvc3PfLX_zrGGbOycRnSEDnftSzC-iFkcboNfK4HNOrRGLbNqoDpjeMvY43KyvvKi84oit50e6XShAuCcZBe70gII_tiLdOqBt4Km6qJIiQ5dX2h1zTpdSQ1Z14DnMw6emzI3VZw\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Image Caption: The Uttarakhand Tunnel Collapse<\/p>\n<h2>The rescue operations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Agencies involved\n<ul>\n<li>The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the State Disaster Relief Force (SDRF) and the police are among the main figures in the multi-agency rescue operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Current situation\n<ul>\n<li>As per the officials, the labourers are safe, and are being provided with food, water and oxygen.\n<ul>\n<li>The people trapped were contacted through walkie-talkies, through which it was learned that all of those trapped were unharmed.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>As per their request, food was provided through a compression pipe. The distance to reach those trapped is approximately 60 meters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-us.googleusercontent.com\/saQqtEbnv60E7mi-iVWB5u2ar9AvNBwXXrTg8RExFpEzY6Fdw8do_7JKeg38fso8uRS2X6pUZjHWq4eDR4SS7y3K2QS5Q3-D6ExdyblQ2xQ-wDaGHEJ8Fdtddq_6a5FRUCc2atfLGTMx7gDjEVZADw\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Image Caption: Silkyara Tunnel Accident &#8211; Rescue operation<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)?<\/h3>\n<p>The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is a specialized force in India for disaster response. The NDRF was established in 2006 under the Disaster Management Act, 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What is Silkyara Tunnel?<\/h3>\n<p>The Silkyara Tunnel is a 4,531 meter-long, two-lane, bi-directional tunnel being constructed in Uttarakhand. The tunnel is part of the Chardham Project of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse-what-we-know-9024452\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What we know of the Uttarakhand tunnel collapse<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/dehradun\/uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse-what-we-know-so-far\/articleshow\/105185148.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Times of India<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse-uttarkashi-tunnel-collapse-40-workers-trapped-after-uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse-what-we-know-so-far-4569877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NDTV<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/char-dham-road-debate-supreme-court-army-7618880\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Char Dham Project is a highway construction project in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}