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What is meant by borewell mishaps Wikipedia

Answer 1

Actually the borewell is  the boring of the well deep in the soil with the help of machinery in order to retrieve water from the earth. While "mishaps" word is applied for any "accident or misfortune" . So any bad accident related to borewell are known as "borewell mishaps" . For example in india there are the number of cases of borewell mishaps where some people died due to falling in a borewell.
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Answer 2

A borehole, or borewell is a narrow shaft that is bored in the ground horizontally or vertically. It may be constructed for many purposes like extraction of ground water, gases like natural gas, or other liquids like petroleum or as a pilot hole during mineral exploitation, geotechnical assessment, investigation of environmental site etc.

In everyday lives, a borewell is used as a water well that is constructed by using a vertical pipe. A well-screen and casing is used to avoid caving.

However, due to the carelessness of the people in charge, many borewells have been left open in the past, which has caused many borewell mishaps with the children falling in accidentally and getting stuck there for hours.

Many children have been stuck without food, water, and proper oxygen for hours to days. It also caused the death of many children due to suffocation.

To avoid these borewell mishaps, the Supreme Court of India has advocated a few guidelines to prevent mishaps with regard to borewells.