: ‘Capsule Gill’ Biopic: True Story of Mining Engineer Jaswant Gill, Who Saved 65 Lives #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment Akshay Kumar is all set to start shooting for Capsule Gill, a biopic on the life

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‘Capsule Gill’ Biopic: True Story of Mining Engineer Jaswant Gill, Who Saved 65 Lives #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment
Akshay Kumar is all set to start shooting for Capsule Gill, a biopic on the life of Jaswant Singh Gill. While working as a chief mining engineer, Gill saved the lives of 65 people when a coal mine in Raniganj, West Bengal, was flooded.
The mine was flooded on 13 November 1989 and 220 miners were inside. The incident occurred when someone touched the upper seam of the mine accidentally and water gushed in, according to a report in The Asian Age.
While many workers managed to evacuate the mine in two lifts, 71 miners were trapped as the shafts filled with water. Six people drowned and 65 were trapped.
According to a report in the Asian Age, four teams were formed for the rescue operations. One team came up with an idea to dig a parallel tunnel and join it with the mine. Another team tried to reach the mine through the route from where water was seeping in, but that didnt work out either.
How Gill came up with the idea of a capsule
 
Mining Engineer Jaswant Singh Gill with a replica of the capsule he used to save 65 miners
The team led by Gill came up with the idea of making a steel capsule that could carry one person at a time. The capsule was to be sent through the borewell hole.
In an interview with SBS Punjabi, Gill recalled that the authorities had to drill multiple bore wells to communicate with the miners and send them food and drinking water.
“We drilled another well to send a rescue capsule to pull them out. A 2. 5 m tall steel capsule was fabricated on the spot. It was attached to an iron rope and crane to be lowered into the pit. I volunteered to go down for this rescue mission,� Gill told SBS Punjabi.
Gill’s son Dr Sarpreet Singh said that his father got a 22-inch bore drilled at the most likely high point where the miners may have taken shelter.
“His study was perfect as the bore­hole was connected at the exact point where the trapped min­ers had as­sem­bled. Oxy­gen was de­plet­ing and the roof of the mine was slowly col­laps­ing. All the trapped min­ers had given up any hope of com­ing out alive. My father immediately got drilling rigs hired and started the process of mak­ing the new bore­hole at the ear­li­est. The biggest chal­lenge was that the drilling bits had a max­i­mum di­am­e­ter of eight inches. This was over­come by weld­ing new bits on the older bits, then weld­ing a plate on them, and again weld­ing new bits on the plate to make the bore 22 inches in di­am­e­ter,� he told World Sikh News.
Gill drew plans for the capsule and sent them to a fabrication factory nearby. The capsule was ready by midnight of 15 November, with a steel rope to be lowered into the bore.

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