Open Pit Coal Mine at Agariya in Mandu Block of Jharkhand's Ramgarh district.
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Open Pit Coal Mine at Agariya in Mandu Block of Jharkhand's Ramgarh district.
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Deprived of their farmland given over to the coal mines surrounding their villages, residents make a living by scavenging coal from the scrap heaps around their houses. Agariya, Mandu Block, Ramgarh district, Jharkhand.
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Deprived of their farmland given over to the coal mines surrounding their villages, residents make a living by scavenging coal from the scrap heaps around their houses. Agariya, Mandu Block, Ramgarh district, Jharkhand.
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Deprived of their farmland given over to the coal mines surrounding their villages, residents make a living by scavenging coal from the scrap heaps around their houses. Agariya, Mandu Block, Ramgarh district, Jharkhand.
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Deprived of their farmland given over to the coal mines surrounding their villages, residents make a living by scavenging coal from the scrap heaps around their houses. Agariya, Mandu Block, Ramgarh district, Jharkhand.
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Deprived of their farmland given over to the coal mines surrounding their villages, residents make a living by scavenging coal from the scrap heaps around their houses. Agariya, Mandu Block, Ramgarh district, Jharkhand.
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Deprived of their farmland given over to the coal mines surrounding their villages, residents make a living by scavenging coal from the scrap heaps around their houses. Agariya, Mandu Block, Ramgarh district, Jharkhand.
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Lobin Logun stands at the edge of the open cast coal mine a few meters away from his house in Tapin Basti, Ramgarh, Jharkhand.
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Bauxite mining in Gumla, Jharkhand.