Achieving a major success, on the 17th day of the tunnel accident, the 41 workers were finally taken out of the tunnel. The Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami welcomed all the individuals by garlanding them. The Prime Minister also spoke to the workers over the phone and asked about their well-being. All workers are safe, in good health and are being taken care of at the Community Health Center at Chinyalisaur. They are from Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Himachal Pradesh and had been trapped inside the collapsed tunnel since the 12th of this month. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced Rs 1 lakh financial aid to all workers who were trapped in the Silkyara tunnel. He said arrangements will also be made to provide complete medical treatment.

It may be recalled that various agencies of the Central and State Government acted quickly and diligently to rescue stranded workers. The successful outcome of the rescue operation was made possible through the Center’s unwavering cooperation. The Prime Minister’s constant communication and updates by phone added to the effectiveness of the rescue operation. During the entire rescue operation, essential items including food, water, medicines and oxygen were provided to the workers with the help of dedicated four and six-inch pipelines.

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He breathed his last at 12.05 pm, AIIMS Director Ravikant said. Bahuguna, one of India’s best known environmentalists, was admitted to the hospital on May 8 after testing positive for Covid-19.

He had been critical since last night with his oxygen level dropping drastically, and was on CPAP therapy in the ICU of the premier hospital.

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has expressed deep grief over the passing away of noted environmentalist, Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna.

In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, “Passing away of Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna Ji is a monumental loss for our nation. He manifested our centuries old ethos of living in harmony with nature. His simplicity and spirit of compassion will never be forgotten. My thoughts are with his family and many admirers. Om Shanti.”

He started social activities at the age of thirteen, under the guidance of Shri Dev Suman, who was a nationalist spreading message of non-violence and he was with the Congress party of Uttar Pradesh (India) at the time of Independence. Bahuguna also mobilised people against colonial rule before 1947.He adopted Gandhian principles in his life and married his wife Vimla with the condition that they would live among rural people and establish ashram in village. Inspired by Gandhi, he walked through Himalayan forests and hills, covering more than 4,700 kilometres on foot and observed the damage done by mega developmental projects on the fragile eco-system of the Himalayas and subsequent degradation of social life in villages.

Chipko movement was started on 26 March 1974 spontaneously in Uttar Pradesh, in an effort to save areas of trees and forests from cutting by forest contractors. In Hindi, “Chipko” literally means “hug” and people started hugging and holding onto trees when it was being cut. One of Sunderlal Bahuguna’s notable contributions to the Chipko movement, and to environmentalism in general, was his creation of the Chipko’s slogan “Ecology is permanent economy.” Sunderlal Bahuguna helped bring the movement to prominence through about 5,000-kilometer trans-Himalaya march undertaken from 1981 to 1983, travelling from village to village, gathering support for the movement. He had an appointment with the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and that meeting is credited with resulting in Mrs. Gandhi’s subsequent 15-year ban on cutting of green trees in 1980. He was also closely associated with Gaura Devi, one of the pioneers of the movement.

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The 12-foot high and 15-foot wide tunnel at Tapovan in Chamoli was blocked with slush and debris, trapping workers of an NTPC thermal power plant that was washed away. The tunnel is over 2.5 km long with just one entry and bifurcates into two, officials said, adding that it was hard to tell where the workers were trapped or whether they were together at all.

An official said it was believed that 34 people were trapped in one of the offshoots and five in the other. There has been no contact with any of them so far.

“It will be a 24X7 operation,” the official said.

Earth movers and shovels were used by hundreds of personnel and locals in the night-long mission to unclog the tunnel’s opening. In the day, personnel held sticks for better grip as they entered the sludge-filled tunnel.

Rescuers were seen in images and videos carrying wooden planks that are to be used to wade in through the slush and help create a platform to pull out the trapped people.

Teams are on standby with dragon light sets, oxygen cylinders and stretchers to provide immediate help to those brought out.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asserted that his government is taking all measures to support the people of Uttarakhand, parts of which were hit by floods following a glacier burst on Sunday, and assured a delegation of state MPs that it is working to further strengthen infrastructure there to deal with any natural disaster in future.

According to BJP MP Anil Baluni, a Rajya Sabha member from the state, Modi said that the central government stands with the people of the hill-state in this hour of crisis and is constantly monitoring the ongoing rescue operations. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda were also present at the meeting. Modi said several institutions of the central government, be it the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, National Disaster Response Force, Army or Air Force, are part of the rescue mission and state bodies are also working effectively, according to Baluni.

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हिंदी फिल्म के बहाने ही सही फिर से एक बार मराठों की ऐतिहासिक लडाई पानीपत तृतीय की चर्चा शुरु हो गयी है.इसके साथ ही इस बात पर खोजबीन शुरु हो गयी है कि पानीपत में बचे मराठे आखिर कहां चले गये .

पानीपत की कहानी बडी ही दिलचस्प है . अहमद शाह अब्दाली का मुकाबला करने के लिए पुणे से सदाशिवभाऊ के नेतृत्व में करीब फौज जब दशहरे के बाद रवाना हुयी तो रास्ते में हजारों मराठी भाषिक लोग भी इसमें जुड गये .इसमे बडी संख्या में महिलायें, बच्चे और बूढे भी थे  .ये लोग इस आशा में गये थे कि युदध जीतने के बाद मराठा पेशवा बडा इनाम देंगे और इसके साथ ही तीर्थक्षेत्र के तौर पर विख्यात कुरुक्षेत्र के ब्रहम सरोवर में मकर संक्रांति के दिन स्नान का पुण्य मिलेगा. पेशवा की फौज के साथ उस समय जाने वालो की संख्या डेढ लाख रुपये से ज्यादा हो गयी . युदध हारने के बाद इनमे से बहुत से लोग महाराष्ट्र वापस नहीं लौट पाये . तो ये कहां चले गये . अब इसका खुलासा होने लगा है .

इनमें से बडी संख्या में ब्राहमण उत्तराखंड में चले गये इसलिए आज भी उत्तराखंड में पंत और जोशी जैसे सरनेम बडी संख्या मे दिखते हैं. इन लोगों के घरों में हर त्यौहार और कई पकवान में नारियल और सुपारी का इस्तेमाल होता है जबकि ये दोनों ही महाराष्ट्र के कोकण में मिलते हैं. इसी तरह गणेश उत्सव और रांगोली जैसे कार्य भी मराठी ब्राहमणों की ही देन रहे हैं .

इसी तरह पानीपत के आसपास के 230 गांवों में बसे रोड समुदाय के छह लाख लोग दरअसल उन 500 मराठा सैनिकों के ही वंशज हैं, जो अब्दाली की फौज के हाथों, तितर-बितर कर दिए जाने के बाद जंगलों में छिप गए थे. सन्‌ 1761 से पहले के रिकॉर्डों में इस इलाके में रोड जाति का कोई उल्लेख नहीं मिलता. गौरतलब है कि पानीपत की लड़ाई में 50,000 से ज्‍यादा मराठा सैनिक मारे गए थे, जो बचे, उन्हें जंगलों में छिपना पड़ा क्योंकि अफगानों ने युद्ध का नारा ही दे रखा था, ‘एक मराठा मुंडी लाओ, सोने का एक सिक्का पाओ.’ युद्ध में मारे गए लोगों में सदाशिवराव भाऊ, पेशवा बालाजी बाजीराव के पुत्र विश्वासराव, ग्वालियर के राजघराने के जनकोजी और तुकोजी सिंधिया, धार और देवास घराने के यशवंतराव पवार जैसे मराठा सेनापतियों के अलावा जाधव, निंबालकर, भापकर (चव्हाण), भोंसले, कदम, फाल्के, भोइते, पैगुडे, सावंत और कई अनजान मराठा परिवारों के जत्थे थे.

इनमें से बहुत से युदध के बाद घायल होकर या बचकर हरियाणा के आसपास के गांवों में छिप गये और बाद में वहीं बस गये. इनके घरों में आज भी मराठा शैली के कई निशान देखने को मिलते है , साथ ही खानपान और त्यौहारों में भी मराठा झलक साफ दिखाई देती है.

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In Uttarakhand, three people were killed and 22 are reported missing following a cloudburst.

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