'Silkyara Saviours' Win India's Heroes Award | NDTV Indian Of The Year Awards

A group of men who rescued 41 workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand were honoured with NDTV's India's Heroes Award. The workers inside the tunnel in Uttarakhand's Silkyara had been trapped for 17 days, and some of the world's best experts and equipment had failed to make any progress - until these men came with basic tools and started digging, using an outlawed technique known as "rat-hole mining". They are the Silkyara Saviours. The men honoured with the award are Vakeel Hasan, Munna Qureshi, Nasheen Md, Rasheed Md Eshaad, Feroz, Naseerudin, and Kalimullah.