"Cant Stop Working Over Fear": Rescued Worker Back At Tunnel That Crashed

The highways ministry gave permission last week for work to resume, nearly two months after the collapse.

Construction has resumed on the Uttarakhand tunnel that collapsed last year, trapping 41 workers for 17 days -- with at least one of those men back on the job, reports Tuesday said.

Manik Talukdar, a worker from Bengal who was among those trapped in the under-construction Silkyara road tunnel, told the Times of India he was "on my way back" to his underground job.

"It was a fateful thing, but that doesn't mean we should stop working out of fear," he told the paper.