Wine from Compensation took its toll Thuramde Uranium Mines, Jadugoda, Jharkhand

The Horrors of land acquisition are experienced by mining affected communities in a similar manner or perhaps more severe in nature, then that of dams and other big projects. When mining leases are given the immediate threat to local communities is displacement relocation and rehabilitation, which are inevitable features, especially with regard to large scale mining like this uranium mining project in Thuramde. Rehabilitation has never addressed the need for women livelihoods and land rights as it is only the family as a unit and the men in the family who are considered to be compensated for their loss of lands. Shanti devi a mother of 3 children has to live in make shift house on sides of Jamshedpur - chaibasa highways road. Her husband who got compensation money and a job in UCIL, got addicted to liquor and died leaving his wife and 3 children with no money or livelihood options. She works as a contract labourer in road laying unit. There is no law to safeguard the economic rights of displaced women due to mining