The Meghalaya government has asked for high-capacity pumps fromCoal India Limitedto dewater the flooded coal mine at Umpleng area inEast Jaintia Hillsdistrict, where five miners have been trapped inside for five days.
The rescue and search operations which is being jointly conducted byNational Disaster Response Force(NDRF) along with theState Disaster Response Forceand the State Fire and Emergency has become all the more challenging with the rising water inside the 500-feet shaft of the mine amid incessant rainfall.