Rescued workers' stories of resilience & survival

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The workers rescued from the Uttarkashi tunnel shared stories with PM Modi of being trapped in the dark for 17 days.

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00:00You won't be able to find out about day and night, until that hole is not made.

00:05Yes sir, we used to save our mobile phones and keep it on to see the time.

00:10Everyone was so worried inside, the whole country was worried.

00:30First of all, I would like to congratulate you and all your colleagues, that we were able

00:43to come out of this crisis in a positive way.

00:47It is a very happy thing for me, I can't even describe it in words.

00:53Otherwise, if anything bad would have happened, it would have been difficult to say how we

01:00would have been able to handle it.

01:02It was the grace of Kedarnath Baba and Bhadrinath Bhagwan that all of us came out of this crisis

01:09successfully.

01:10And 16-17 days is not a short time.

01:13You all showed a lot of courage, showed a lot of courage and kept each other motivated.

01:20This is the biggest thing.

01:22Sir, we were trapped in the tunnel for 18 days.

01:26But we didn't feel that we were weak or scared.

01:35Because we were 41 members, sir.

01:38And we were from different states, sir.

01:41But we were like brothers, sir.

01:44If anyone was in trouble, we were together.

01:47If there was any problem, there was no problem.

01:50We used to eat together in one place, sir.

01:54In the morning, we used to tell our friends that we are eating and drinking.

02:00We don't have any other work inside.

02:02So we do some yoga and morning walk in the river.

02:06There is no such thing as going outside.

02:09My first request was that all the ambulance vans should stand there and

02:13everyone should be hospitalized first.

02:15But immediately the doctors told me that they are in good health.

02:20They have been inside with so much fun and so much courage that there is no problem medically.

02:26But you won't know about day and night inside until that hole is not made.

02:32Yes, sir.

02:33We used to save our mobile phones, sir.

02:36We used to turn it on to see the time.

02:38After that, the company provided us with mobile phones and chargers.

02:43Then we started feeling good.

02:46We are feeling very bored here.

02:48So they provided us with such facilities that we could talk to them.

02:52I used to feel light-hearted, sir.

02:54No, but still, it was a time of great concern.

02:59You handled yourself well.

03:01Because I don't know what we could have done if something bad had happened.

03:08Everyone was so worried inside.

03:10The whole country was worried.

03:12But the courage you have shown will inspire many citizens of the country in the coming days.

03:19What should we do in times of crisis?

03:22Everyone will get a little idea.

03:24When the young people of D.R.F. entered, our lives were saved.

03:27We thanked God.

03:29All the people there, especially our Pushkar Singh Dhami, who is the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, sir.

03:37We thank him from the bottom of our hearts.

03:39In times of crisis, all the people of Uttarakhand, all the countries are with us, sir.

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