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Beneath the Surface of Jadugoda Lies a Nuclear Graveyard
Where Everything Is Poison!
The name Jadugoda sounded magical to me. I had never heard of it before, but as soon as I came across a documentary about this village, I expected something charming.
After all, Jadugoda literally means “land of magic.”
But what I saw was anything but magical.
The documentary started with visuals of green hills and tribal homes. They seemed calm, earthy, peaceful. But then the voiceover spoke about the tragic village.
It spoke of uranium, minning and radiation and how people are suffering in silence.
Jadugoda is a village in Jharkhand, India. Beneath its soil lies uranium..which is used for generating nuclear energy.
Since the 1960s, the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) has been mining in and around the area.
That might sound like progress, but the people living there never got the benefits after all— they just faced the consequences.
As I watched the interviews, it became clear how deeply the village had suffered and is still suffering.
Children are born with physical deformities.
