CWEH Activists Blog post: Mining, Adivasis and the Corona Pandemic
By: Martin Wingfield
Last updated: Thursday, 18 June 2020
By Gladson Dungdung
30-year-old Raju Champia (name changed), resident of Chiria village located in the middle of Saranda forest in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, had migrated to Bangalore in search of a job. While working as a labourer in a construction site, he got infected with Covid-19, but wasn’t aware about it. When the countrywide lockdown was declared, he lost his job and was forced to return to his village.
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