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Article

1 May 2009

Author:
Moushumi Basu , Infochange News & Features [India]

India: Jadugoda: No expansion until promises are met

The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL)...is all set to expand the tailing dam and enhance its ore processing capacity plant in Jadugoda,...Jharkhand...the company has operational mines in Jadugoda, Bhatin, Turamdih, Narwapahar and Banduhurang...the veracity of the environmental and health status of areas around the uranium mines, as underlined in...Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)...reports, has been questioned by international experts...a survey conducted by Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)...shows a significant increase in congenital deformities among babies of mothers who lived around the uranium mining area...JOAR [Jharkhandi Organisation Against Radiation] claims that Uranium Corporation of India Limited has kept people in the affected villages in the dark about its proposed expansion plans. [The Resource Centre invited Uranium Corporation of India Limited to respond but it did not do so]