New Delhi, Nov 29 (PTI) A day after 41 staff had been rescued from the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand, the Congress on Wednesday demanded a radical audit of all tasks underneath implementation whereas additionally calling for placing on maintain all future tasks within the Himalayan area and subjecting them to skilled ecological scrutiny.
Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh mentioned whereas “we salute the rescued staff and applaud your entire rescue crew”, there ought to be a mirrored image on some bigger questions thrown up by the tunnel collapse.
“Whereas we salute the rescued staff and applaud your entire rescue crew -especially the twelve ‘rat-hole’ miners who displayed each ability and daring, and who absolutely deserve a extra applicable identify for the work they do — we must also mirror on some bigger questions thrown up by the tunnel collapse,” the previous setting minister mentioned in a submit on X.
The fragility and complexity of the Western Himalayan ecosystem has been introduced house to us in a stark method, he mentioned.
“What has additionally been revealed is the failure of the environmental appraisal course of with regards to planning, designing and executing civil development, and different tasks on this area. Within the Char Dham challenge for example, of which the collapsed tunnel was a component, development works had been awarded in a method in order to flee environmental impression evaluation altogether!” Ramesh alleged.
Studies have come on the absence of broadly accepted security options on the tunnel, he mentioned.
“The trauma that the 41 staff have needed to undergo for 17 days ought to make us pause a bit. A radical audit of all tasks underneath implementation ought to be carried out, and all future tasks within the Himalayan area should be placed on maintain and have them topic to skilled ecological scrutiny,” Ramesh asserted.
“The entry to the workplace of the Ministry of Surroundings, Forests and Local weather Change that was inaugurated over a decade again has these phrases: Prakruti Rakshati Rakshata. It is a easy but highly effective maxim embedded in our civilisational heritage. Sadly solely lip service is being paid to this maxim with disastrous penalties for ourselves,” he mentioned.
Rescue staff pulled out all 41 staff trapped in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel in a multi-agency rescue operation that hovered between hope and despair for nearly 17 days.
A portion of the under-construction on Uttarakhand’s Char Dham route collapsed on November 12, blocking the exit of the employees who had been inside.
Meals, medicines and different necessities had been despatched to them by a six-inch pipe pushed by the particles.
Aid was felt far and large over the secure evacuation. PTI ASK ASK DV DV
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