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 Down with the dump [1]

in march 1997 when the heavy drilling machines ploughed into the barren land of the desert village Sanawada, just a few kilometres from India's nuclear weapons testing site, Pokran, officials of the public sector Mineral Exploration Corporation Ltd ( mecl ) told the residents, "There are precious stones beneath the village.' (Granite, experts say, is the cheapest stone

Publication Date: 
29/06/2000
Down to Earth [2]
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Health Effects [3], Landfill [4], Radiation [5], Nuclear Wastes [6], Public Participation [7], Nuclear Weapons [8], Rajasthan [9]

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