Shubho Ghosh lays bricks at the construction site and talks to himself. But when it comes to "coal projects", the 26-year-old young man has obvious anxiety. As he later revealed, his family was very worried, very worried. A resident of Makdamnagar, Birbhum District, West Bengal, located in the tip of what is said to be India's largest coal mine project, Ghosh fears that in the coming months, when work on the coal mine begins, the family will face a double blow. speed up.

They live in Makdamnagar in the Ghosh Para area in the Deocha-Pachami coal block area. Saldanga, about 10 kilometers away from their home-Shubho's father Debashis operates a drilling rig in a quarry there, and his brother Subal operates a "pokland" (excavator) machine in another quarry-also Belongs to the proposed coal mine.

"Our family is about to lose their jobs and homes," Shubo told Mongabay-India. "My father is suffering from anxiety." He operated excavators in the quarry in winter and summer, and worked as a mason during the monsoon season, when the quarry had limited capacity due to the accumulation of water in the pit.

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