Controversy over uranium mining project in Meghalaya
"i don't know what is uranium, I don't know if it's good or bad. I'm only happy that the public hearing went off peacefully,' says Tina Thongenirit from Wakhaji, a village 120 km from Meghalaya's capital Shillong.
Wakhaji is 15 km from Nongbah Jynrin, the village where the public hearing for a proposed uranium mining project by the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (ucil) was held on June 12 (heavy rains had rendered the place inaccessible to this reporter). The hearing was held amid a general strike and fierce opposition by several civil rights and political groups.
The proposed mining and processing project