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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jharkhand's invisible citizens: Netas don't have time for one of India's poorest districts -Anumeha Yadav

Jharkhand's invisible citizens: Netas don't have time for one of India's poorest districts -Anumeha Yadav

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published Published on May 2, 2019   modified Modified on May 2, 2019
-Newslaundry.com

The election season seems to have skipped adivasis in the state that has recorded 19 deaths from starvation since 2017.

On New Year’s Eve, Baghiya Birijiya lost her mother Budhni Birijiyan to hunger, cold, and extreme poverty in Latehar, one of India’s poorest districts. The family had so few means that they could not cremate the 80-year-old’s body for two days, until public pressure led the administration to intervene to provide ?2,000 for the expenses.

Baghiya, who works in a brick kiln in Mahudanr, says that just a few months earlier, she had witnessed her older brother and sister die.

“A day before last Holi, my brother Ropna went to Satbarwa taking an ox there for someone for payment,” says Baghiya. “He returned home with a foot injury. A few days later, he fell very ill and died.” That same week her sister Seeta died, Baghiya adds, though the cause of her illness was not detected. Baghiya’s youngest brother Sudhan, who had worked in a brick kiln in Varanasi had died of tuberculosis earlier.

“We were four siblings, and I am the only one surviving now,” she says. A few weeks after her mother’s death, her nephew Basant Birijiya’s family, the only ones in the family’s young generation, left for Kerala to look for work.

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Newslaundry.com, 29 April, 2019, https://www.newslaundry.com/2019/04/29/jharkhand-bauxite-mines-adivasis-elections


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