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Anuj Wankhede
The dark underbelly of uranium mining in India.
It is one of India's best kept secrets. This is the story of genocide.
After over 50 years of Independence, there is another India which nobody talks about.
Why?
Because nobody knows about Jaduguda.
I spoke to hundreds of people in Mumbai and not one person has ever heard of Jaduguda or its sad legacy.
What is happening in the name of National Pride and Self-Sufficiency is a NATIONAL SHAME. A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Next time you charge your mobile phone, switch on the AC or your TV, think about an enormous and horrifying cost which is being extracted.Jaduguda in Jharkhand is one such cursed place. Cursed, because it has India's largest uranium mines. A curse called uranium has poisoned generations and will continue to haunt all future generations too.
This is a story which a few people have tried to tell. Many times over.
Yet, no solution is in sight to this living horror.
But then, probably nobody has found an answer because nobody WANTS to find an answer?
Yet, no solution is in sight to this living horror.
But then, probably nobody has found an answer because nobody WANTS to find an answer?
SUMMARY:
The power that is fed into homes using nuclear energy has its genesis in Jharkhand from where the raw material – Uranium - to power the reactors is extracted.
The power that is fed into homes using nuclear energy has its genesis in Jharkhand from where the raw material – Uranium - to power the reactors is extracted.
India has sufficient uranium deposits to build a few hundred nuclear bombs but, it does not have the required amount of uranium to fuel its Atomic Power Plants. The largest deposits were found in the 1960’s at Jaduguda and the nuclear lobby in India rushed in to exploit the ore there. Since 1967, the Jaduguda region of Bihar has been exploited for its uranium and so have its people.
The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) formed the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. (UCIL) with a mandate to explore and mine this precious ore. UCIL started the exploitation of man and nature the very next year in 1968.
Forty four years later it has created a tragic legacy which includes loss of health, disease, deaths, ruining of snail fabric and professions, environmental destruction and an irreparable damage to the ecology.
The only ones who have profitted from this deprivation are those associated with the Nuclear Club - those who need uranium for dubious power and atomic weapons.
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