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One worker is still awaiting his medical report..
Forty of the 41 workers, who were pulled out of the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand on November 28, have been declared physically and mentally fit to return home after a thorough check-up at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Rishikesh, officials familiar with the matter said on Thursday..
The 41 workers were buried under a mountain on November 12 when they were attempting to complete the final 400m stretch of the 4.5km-long tunnel on the Yamunotri National Highway in Uttarkashi district..
Virendra Nautiyal, an official from the PRO department of the AIIMS-Rishikesh, said: We have discharged 40 of the 41 construction workers from our facility..
All our workers are fit..their detailed examination was done, including blood tests and X-rays were conducted..
