Click to play videoJadugora: The Uranium mining in this Jharkhand village ushered in jobs and money, but the euphoria was short lived. The residents feel that the progress may have come at too high a price.
According to local NGO reports, the villagers face the risk of contracting diseases resulting out of radiations emanating from nearby mines.
"We didn’t know about the ill-effects of Uraninium mining earlier. Then we found out about the radioactive rays and how they are slowly affecting our health,” says a disgruntled villager Ganesh Murmu.
The studies conducted by the NGOs found out that most of its one-lakh villagers suffer from various kinds of serious diseases, women are unable to conceive and many children are born with deformities.
“People here suffer from tuberculosis, polio and all kinds of skin diseases,” Murmu adds.
Notably, a sizable amount of uranium ore mined in India comes from Jadugora and it’s the government-owned Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) that runs all its mines.
Residents blame UCIL's unscientific mining techniques for the radiation hazard.
UCIL refused to comment when it was contacted by CNN-IBN.
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