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Around 900 kilometres from Delhi, it is difficult to find a single household unaffected by illness in Tiwaritola village of Ballia﹘a border district cushioned between Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Reason: presence of high levels of arsenic in groundwater.
“I have been taking medicines for my liver and arthritis since 2000. Even getting up or sitting down hurts, bones ache all the time; uric acid increases, there are problems related to thyroid,” says Tarkeshwar Tiwari, a 63-year-old villager suffering from liver cirrhosis. “I fell ill due to the arsenic. The water here has too much of it. We came to know about this because of my medical investigation.”
Watch this documentary - https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/01/24/arsenic-in-water-brings-death-and-disease-in-up-bihar
Silicosis is a deadly workplace disease, also known as the “well of death”. Workers become ill when silica mixed dust enters their lungs. Every year thousands of workers in India are dying due to this disease.
The exact number of silicosis victims in the country is not known, but different estimates and ICMR data show that in the year 2000 alone, about one crore people were affected by it. All these industries which take the workers to the door of death, spit out gold for the companies and contractors but these workers do not have any health or social security cover.
Watch this documentary - Silica in Breath, directed by Hridayesh Joshi, showing the ground reality from many states of India.