Rat mining: Hamas to Silkyara Machine lost, human skill won

- The glory of the Jagannath Sutra was seen in his hand

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- Rat miners move by burrowing like rats: first the rat loosens the soil by blowing, then it digs.

Rat mining has become the talk of the town these days. It can be called a miracle that 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel of Uttarkashi were rescued after 17 days. Late on Tuesday evening, when the trapped workers were pulled out one by one, the whole country screamed with joy. Pujas and yajnas were started for these trapped workers across the country. Where modern manata drilling machines from abroad have failed, the technique of rat (rat) miners has excelled.

Rate mining is the technique of rat mining. Rats first loosen the soil by blowing and then start digging there. An example of tunnels created by Hamas to attack Israel is rate mining. Despite Israel having the most intelligent intelligence agency called Mossad, Hamas rate miners built tunnels into Israel.

Such tunnel diggers have to stay away from mobiles or other electronic devices. That is why the Mossad did not even smell the subversive activities of Hamas. Hamas also dug a tunnel under the hospital and hid the abductees there. Hamas used large quantities of weapons and tunnels to hide its leaders as weapons.

In the month of July 2018, the tunnel was used in the robbery of a gold and silver shop in Mumbai. Police later arrested four men who were selling mangoes in a tent erected a short distance from the shop.

These hawkers had set up a mandao, pretending to sell mangoes, a short distance away from the jeweller's shop. After digging a tunnel from there, they reached below the jewelery shop. Criminals dig tunnels at night. He had been doing this job for two months. Once the tunnel reached below the gold shop, they broke through the floor and entered. He completed the tunnel after looting the gold shop. The surprise is that the thieves were successful with CCTV and 24-hour security.

A tunnel was used in a bank robbery in Solapur. Taking a tip from this example, the gold shop robbery case could have been solved. Prisoners also dig rat tunnels to escape from prison.

It may be mentioned here that rate mining in Uttarkashi was banned from 2014 due to the fear of workers being buried. Rate mining could perform miracles where vertical mining, horizontal drilling etc. could not be tried. Although it was banned, private contractors in some projects were using it at the risk of laborers' lives.

Infrastructure projects are underway in this area on a large scale. In remote villages, special accommodation arrangements are made for workers near the project sites. Sometimes the entire family of the laborer is engaged in labour. Some companies take care of the welfare of such workers, some do not provide any facilities. Very few people think about the safety of these labourers.

In some cases, a child falls into an open pipe of a bore in the fields. In such a situation, the authorities take a lot of effort to save the child.

The performance of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is being appreciated. The entire incident in Uttarkashi and its aftermath is full of miracles. 41 laborers remained hungry and thirsty for 17 days but they came out with smiling faces. The joy of liberation was on his face. Reports of initial failures in the event disappointed the public, but rescue efforts continued steadily. Success was achieved by adopting rate drilling technique instead of conventional drilling by machine.