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A felicitation ceremony was held at the residence of Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel at Raipur where he heaped praise on the NDRF team from Odisha which played a major role in rescuing Rahul Sahu from the abandoned borewell.
The ceremony was attended by all officials including the Janjgir-Champa district administration, local police, fire fighters, SDRF and NDRF, who helped make the 104-hour rescue operation a success.
Speaking at the ceremony, Baghel said, “The NDRF team from Odisha made the difference in the operation. Without them, it would have been difficult to rescue him.”
Apart from felicitating all the personnel involved in the marathon operation, Baghel also thanked the locals of Pihrid village in Janjgir-Champa who had formed a group and assisted the rescue teams in whatever way possible.
Rahul while playing had fallen into an 80-foot-deep abandoned borewell in the Phirid village of Janjgir-Champa district on June 10.
Informing about the operation, rescue Commander, NDRF, Bardhhaman Mishra said they had adopted a two pronged approach to rescue Rahul. “We had tried to evacuate him through the borewell. But we had to leave it as he was not responding to our instructions. The second approach was to rescue him through a tunnel which had already been started along with the first approach,” Mishra said.
“As we went on making a tunnel we came to know about the nature of rock. Subsequently we changed our cutting technology. However, we made our operation fast to reach at him at the realist. After we came nearer to him, we had to be extra careful as safe rescue was our aim,” said Mishra.
It is worth mentioning here that the team also cashed in on the experience of the district Collector and ADM as they both are Civil engineers. To make it sure that the water level in the borewell should not increase, all the borewell points in the locality had been left opened during the entire period of the operation.
