Gone girls | Death of 14 Juang girls from Odisha in Tiruvallur ammonia gas leak exposes tribe’s socio-economic struggle

The death of 14 girls from the Juang community, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, from Odisha at a seafood processing plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur has brought to the fore the socio-economic realities of marginalised tribal populations despite decades of targeted interventions. Satyasundar Barik visits the Juang villagers who lost their daughters to understand what went wrong in the development journey The death of 14 girls from the Juang community, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, from Odisha at a seafood processing plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur has brought to the fore the socio-economic realities of marginalised tribal populations despite decades of targeted interventions. Satyasundar Barik visits the Juang villagers who lost their daughters to understand what went wrong in the development journey