A child wiping his eyes, health risks of living in polluted toxic waste around coal mines.

A child wipes his eyes in Jharia's toxic environment. Jharkhand's Jharia remains the most important coal mine of India. With its largest reserves mining has become a source of income for the poor local villagers. They are so poor that their children suffer from malnutrition. In spite of that they are forced to send their little ones to work in the dangerous mine which is a common ground for underground fires, suspension of poisonous gases, and pollution, etc. Additionally, illegal mining activities have made their conditions even worse. The poor villagers are forced to sell their child to the coal mining mafias.