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Days after tunnel rescue, netas rush to fete city's 'dirty diggers'

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December 02, 2023

THEY are the "dirty diggers of Delhi," though what they do was actually banned in 2014 by the national environment watchdog, the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

- ANUP VERMA

The job is such: laying down narrow sewer lines and pipelines for the Delhi Jal Board. However, after the heroics of these rat-hole miners - six of the 12 from Delhi-in rescuing 41 miners from the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, Delhi politicians have rushed in to felicitate them.

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