Hyderabad, March 9 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy announced an ex-gratia of Rs 25 lakhs for the family of Gurpreet Singh, one of the eight workers whose body was recovered from under the debris at the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) collapse site on Sunday, March 9.

The CM and irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy expressed condolences over the death of the worker engaged in the SLBC tunnel works. The rescue teams at the SLBC collapse site identified the human remains of Gurpreet Singh who is a native of from Punjab.

Gurpreet Singh was working as a tunnel boring machine operator in the American company Robbins, said a press release from Revanth Reddy's office. The mortal remains of Gurpreet Singh has been sent to the hom...