Anuj Sahu from Jharkhand is among those eight workers who have been trapped inside the Telangana tunnel collapse case for over two days.  

The rest seven have been identified as Manoj Kumar and Sri Niwas from Uttar Pradesh, Sunny Singh (Jammu and Kashmir), Gurpreet Singh (Punjab) and Sandeep Sahu, Jegta Xess and Santosh Sahu. 

Though a team of Army, NDRF AND rat miners, who rescued the construction workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand in 2023, has joined rescue efforts, chances of their survival is dim. 

In a grim comment on the possibility of survivors in the SLBC project tunnel collapse, Telangana minister J Krishna Rao said on Monday that rescue workers shouted the names of eight trapped workers but didn't get a response. The minister further said chances of their survival are "very, very, very, very remote".