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Down with the dump

  • 29/06/2000
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Down with the dump 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

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