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    Environmental injustice in India: Jaduguda Uranium Mining Cluster

    Originally published: Frontier Weekly on November 18, 2023 (more by Frontier Weekly)

    Adivasis (literally, “original inhabitants”, equivalent to “indigenous peoples”) have been and are being sacrificed in the union government’s uranium mining and processing projects in what is now the State of Jharkhand, earlier the State of Bihar, where the public enterprise, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) began underground uranium mining and processing plant, twenty-four km west of Jaduguda.