More than 40 hours after a towering garbage heap at Pune’s Moshi waste-to-energy plant buried the administrative building of the company operating the facility, rescue teams are still searching for eight employees believed to be trapped beneath the debris.
The collapse, which occurred around 1.30 pm on July 8, has transformed a facility inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2023 and under the jurisdiction of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation into the centre of a massive multi-agency rescue operation – involving the National Disaster Response Force, the Indian Army, firefighters and the police.
