While giving an update on the ongoing operation to rescue labourers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi following the Uttarkashi Tunnel Collapse, Additional Secretary Technical of Road and Transport Mahmood Ahmed on November 21 said that they will be able to provide some more good information in the next 30 to 40 hours. “We have gathered multiple agencies. We are coordinating with them. Each agency has been assigned a specific task... Our team is monitoring everything so that coordination between all agencies is maintained... We are taking all possible contributions from the army, BRO and other agencies ... the district administration is cooperating with us... NDRF and SDRF are also working. We are making constant efforts to rescue our workers trapped inside,” said Mahmood Ahmed. “First, the NHIDCL has ensured the facility of oxygen supply, food, water or medicine. There are lights and an electricity supply inside...There is a place up to 2km inside as the tunnel was already built... From the 4-inch pipeline, we were sending dry fruits and other eatables... Through the 6-inch pipeline, we sent a walkie-talkie inside and established communication... We also got a video showing that all of them are in good mental and physical health. We may able to provide some more good information in the next 30 to 40 hours,” he added.