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Jharia in India’s eastern Jharkhand state is literally in flames. This is due to the open cast coal mining that takes place in this area.
For more than 80 years, the Jharian coal mines have been alight with coal mining villages of around seven hundred thousand people settling in.
Most of the mining is done in open-cast as the price to mine is relatively lower to produce profits.
Underground fires have been burning for all those years now. All efforts to put out the fires have been in vain.
Everywhere you look, there will be a coal mine.
And so villagers in Jharia go everyday to scavenge whatever coal there is in the ground to support their families after selling the coal at the black market.
People here are too poor to move from their crumbling shelters, and continue to live in the area, risking their lives.