Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Tuesday passed strict instructions to collectors of all districts to ensure that no borewells are left open and emphasized that the state government would not tolerate any negligence in this matter.
A 10-year-old boy fell into an open borewell in a village in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday evening, and was declared dead by doctors after rescuers finally retrieved him on Sunday morning from a depth of about 40 feet after a 16-hour-long rescue operation.
A rescue operation was launched, which was going on till late night, when this report was filed.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Sunday said that they did not build a borewell at Keshopur near a Delhi Metro construction site nor did they make any use of it.
The five-year-old girl, who fell into a 25-feet deep borewell, was rescued by NDRF and SDRF teams on the intervening night of Wednesday in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh
Rescuers managed to bring the two-and-a-half-year-old baby girl out of the borewell after an almost 52-hour-long rescue operation.
The boy was rescued by the SDRF rescuers who pulled him out with the help of a net after six hours of struggle.
Provisions have been made for oxygen supply in the borewell and a tunnel is being dug parallel to the borewell with the help of two JCB machines.
The victim Nimbaram Choudhary playing outside his home in absence of his parents coincidentally fell into the open and dried out well and stuck at 90 feet.
Last week also in one such mournful accident , decomposed body of the two -year-old boy, Sujith Wilson , who was stuck in a borewell in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchirappalli district since 25 October, was recovered.
