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After a long days' work, miners gather to distribute the days wage in village Bokapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. miners work for 9-10 hours a day and make Rs.150 ($3.5) a day loading the coal trucks in the BCCL coal mines in Jharia. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Photo: Sanjit Das
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Hell beneath Earth - coal mine migrants of Jharkhand.
After a long days' work, miners gather to distribute the days wage in village Bokapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. miners work for 9-10 hours a day and make Rs.150 ($3.5) a day loading the coal trucks in the BCCL coal mines in Jharia. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet, noxious gases spew up from fissures, making the environment toxic. Photo: Sanjit Das