Women carry baskets of coal back to their village for sale,
after having scavenged the coal illegally from an open-cast coal mine in the
village of Jina Gora near Jharia, India. Claiming that decades-old underground
burning coal seams threatened the homes of villagers, the government has
recently relocated over 2,300 families to towns like Belgaria. Villagers claim
they were promised schools, hospitals, and free utilities for two years, which
they have not received.
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