Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Aparupa Poddar on Sunday expressed concern over the well being situations of three labourers who’ve been trapped contained in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi.

Poddar additionally skilled her weapons on the BJP-led authorities in Uttarakhand for not having sufficient infrastructure that would have delayed the rescue course of. “It is unfortunate that these people have been trapped for so long. Don’t these people have any importance? Aren’t their lives precious? Is not there any infrastructure?” Poddar mentioned.

Poddar met the members of the family of two Bengal labourers who’re from Hooghly. She additionally mentioned that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been inquiring about these trapped labourers from Bengal.

The Bengal authorities is with the members of the family of the individuals trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand. A recent rescue operation began on Sunday. The auger machine’s blades have been caught contained in the rubble and a plasma cutter was wanted to take away it.

With the auger machine going through repeated troubles delaying the rescue of 41 labourers trapped for the previous 13 days contained in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Saturday mentioned the operations could resume within the “next 24 to 36 hours” as machines are being positioned on a platform on high of the tunnel. Briefing the media on the progress of rescue operations, NDMA member Lt Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hasnain added that the main focus was now on vertical drilling to convey out the employees.

Among these trapped embrace fifteen from Jharkhand, eight from Uttar Pradesh, 5 every from Odisha and Bihar, three from Bengal, two every from Uttarakhand and Assam and one from Himachal Pradesh.