Those are the headlines news continues on aljazeera after people and power keep their. We understand the differences. And the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al jazeera will bring in the news and Current Affairs that matter to aljazeera. An underground fire has been burning for over a century beneath indias largest coal for two decades of under strange open calls mining has brought the fire to the surface with dreadful consequences for three quarters of a Million People thousands of homes have already been destroyed their inhabitants forced into school with commendation hospitals have been inundated with victims of toxic fumes so what lies behind supporting human and environmental disaster. This is here. Wolfie is over into. The jail here there who knew him when we were children it was a very small dont. Leave but he knew each other. In the kind of eldorado and that. People from all over india came and settled over because they would make the fortune and today you look at the desolation of this place theres a massive village of year and look at what is left of the village today this very cool has become a curse for us with gold fires actually in government i believe. Its been exactly a century since underground finds the first ignited in the shariah coal fields in abandoned mines that went decommissioned properly coal was left to spontaneously combust and since then around forty Million Tonnes of the field with billions of dollars have gone up in smoke. Situated in east india these come fields of the largest in the country covering two hundred seventy square kilometers nearly a tenth of this land is now regarded as unstable thanks to the more than sixty fires burning beneath it. See this year is crack because the fires are has been gradually approaching and that is that as it comes nearer nearer the ground gets cracked up and then hell eventually for people have deserted this place will go the fire is gradually gone under the houses and it does become a place where people generally live. Eighteen years ago a chicago wild and others set up the save geria coal Fields Committee to help locals who are waking to find a fire literally on their doorsteps because i mean i guess itll to. Ask. One of your hands on. Something but its only youre not going to be on much our. Jury is vital to indias economy almost seventy percent of the countrys electricity is coal based plus geria contains its main supply of prime coking coal an essential ingredient in Steel Production whilst they are burning in underground mines the fires went a big problem for the local population but in the one nine hundred seventy s. The Government Owned Company bought it coking coal ltd b c c o started open cast mining here taking the coal out from the surface but only one diesel decided to go involvement does mining the idea well theyll get quick call and then god keep cool. With that idea they started to open which is actually not conducive to this place there was underground mining already done over here so there were a lot of galleries you know gully that tunnels read these people make their extract call the ground of the galleys is always full of these of course and that thats when he went in for pentagons mining about already underground mining has been done you opened up the fears of the galleries and then there was a flea free floor air inside and now weve got a massive fire. The cavities the fans the hollowing out on the ground have created a treacherous landscape the day before we arrived have you take a fall so far into collapsing ground that only the body of its driver can be retrieved. And people like melty davy struggle just to keep their houses together. That is how well the last part about whats been there that. Above all they dont mean. Melty and her children have just meters from an open cast pit. Here as have you got us out of the view so ill go a little party is a dad of one of the good part ali that he is the hero give us a run of us out of the way were off on a lot of the got a lot of heart but i want to get numb we want this image of law isnt that half what al well i give that a lot of it what is that imo you gotta look out for. Apart from subsidence houses like melty its also take a pounding from blasts in the nearby mines you see that. Something likes more words not really small the blast has been has taken place over just to track up the place and that is the poor doesnt just play imo this sort of blast explains all the data. Geria is one of the most polluted places in india thanks not just to the usual byproducts of coal mining but also to the myriad toxic gases released by the fires. These are all sides of. Them of course. Those are girls club and moral so thats a very poisonous gas so. For those with a certain extent and then the clothes of nitrogen when it gets some of your body service of that only as good of other because the other life. And they are the course theres only the bansal of your mother last. Q loss and other respiratory illnesses are filling up the hospitals in this area an area. He will be up to know what. Went past go like a blast explosive blast get out of. All of our dust you know what i want to do. Was go wider spread. But it will be one hundred. Ninety nine percent effective hey. If you could give me hope yeah get with them ok if you go. If youre going to. Kill our illiteracy is equally a schema problem which. I know less is i doing it. Was came back but i had this probably picked up with when you know my lady has up everywhere if there is an ideal. Public with that it would kill me if i had no health that desire to do whatever it was called but janet leigh it. Things are unlikely to improve as Prime Minister nuri interim government is seeking to double in just Coal Production to one point five billion tonnes by twenty twenty. And so many injuria depend on it for their survival on the bottom rung of the ladder here are those who sneak into the mines at night to scavenge coal which is then hauled into town to sell on the black market. Without. Almost you for theres a load of these to their advantage over there when you keep it up or did the public. Good on the issue that no one. Should always feel like if i did that. This is all illegal but many would starve without it and b. C. L. Tends to turn a blind eye to the scavengers. And didnt get that i think i hear a lot of them know that. The but it. Was all i think it was. So. All i would i would probably go with my grandma danielle. Van dam was that what you know you know youre funny. You know why you may have had me looking up at the bus how america will go to youre going to get it will have to live better than it ever will come let you know you got it going to get the negativity like in a letter you got it at seven nothing. Bilger it is the name of one of the new build projects the government in b. C. C l a constructing in order to evacuate up to seven hundred thousand people after the disaster zone that is geria the scheme is known as the master plan but has got off to a very slow start in the seven years since it began less than ten thousand have been moved it is managed by the jr da the jury a rehabilitation and Development Authority which is overseen by the Deputy Commissioner for don but district for the last one of them i think. Progress or there are some of the tissue that we had the job title to. Thats why at some time the pace is very fast sometimes. Quite slow. But even the few that have been moved far from happy the biggest problem is that thousands of urban families are being shifted to a rural area fifteen kilometers away from where they were earning their livelihood from the convenience is a form of scavenger. Hunt up and down they do. You think you actually get a nice. Or you hear. An answer. Believe. Me i do believe. The other day i dont know if i can only say. But beyond any kyra. I think of anything that our. Livelihood issues do. But this was much bigger when forced a lot of people was sifted to build it here because going to go to. The market because so many people said apart from that were giving two years minimum and as for five hundred days. These five hundred days of minimum wage is less a gift than a guarantee of work for that length of time usually on the construction sites theyve been moved to and that minimum wage is less than even scavengers like graham can living before. Its something you have a. Dont know how long you have. To remember that i have a. Movie thats like to have that without having it myself when you. Start to get a good five a good. Other problems include a scarcity of basic amenities like education or health care. To convince the people that they are in the. In their benefit. Or some other sites so that if you have mostly going to. Go for that school and hospitals and other facilities. They seem to have been quite a few oversights in the master plan control is another one this tower block was only built a year ago. To get out of here. In that line i live in. The left finally i let them know. That im not yet a little down doing it take a look in the eye of the kid. And found that he can i would say you know. Sometimes he also has. A more specific complaint is there some complaints in the building that can be to confide that community that. We have needed people of problem one place to or that this type of problem emerges but if you look at. What is no place it. That is also not so. Big. But this isnt how many people in the new build see their old homes. Just down the road from a similar settlement could comment on to some to construction. Their home nobody has a plan of what theyre. Really about two thousand laid up for years upon who want to come and live up there. Not. They have the our government not upon whose television he got a plan. Here could only happen he. Could only have. Someone that can occur when they. Travel but you. Dont have a port do you have the. Money would it matter. Come on i have to. Vote out a boom town local market is so. Much a part of the gov to muster total. Rooted bunkered of the year. You would have me home looking up on a part of your. Income a chant as elsewhere the master plan has been moving slowly. By lucy laconic jungly lock up how would you counsel darling. To go to jail but not the obscene with the law ill give you well i would say its not worth the half. Of the op would have. Come up with. The frustration of the resettled here is nearly matched by that of the Construction Company who the first port of call for their complaints. That you got yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. No. Dont you know. That you know he wasnt you. Know that we. Ought to in. The back dont want. Somebody really had. It remains to be seen whether the settlements will eventually create their own source of livelihood and commerce but there is another group in the area who feel that these have already been taken from them the peasant farmers who owned the land which is being built on. The last three or. So so everybody going well. He is a local politician and activist fighting for the rights of the villages. The c. C. L. Boat much of this land in the one nine hundred eighty s. For the macondo open cast mine project with the promise of local jobs in the end the project was scrapped so the farmers continue to till the land then in two thousand and nine b. C. When the jr da started to encircle the village with tower blocks for the refugees from syria. Your dick your body building up on the bone were deliberating upon the year in general but if you follow gives everybody a pretty good if they were able to work out of the idea or theory of building up and i got a lot of the building up on the. Way longer was either god or whatever gospel sanogo i had ordered into the room by god if you do what i got out there. On the pentagons budget going to see india did it there gentlemen oh god oh god yeah look what would you do or do. A. J. Im not going to pull a new one out at the young locus of my style get down low but cant take that step then not going down another i was so michael just how so maybe ive been meddling and we dont know when they ask us a payment because you get mad when a. Nobody to see. This con can do them in the. Scope you were seeking to not say here to sort of hope you know that they are. No more than i was someone thing that he had. In his office in the district comes to done has been inundated by villages bringing in their grievances because songs how can pick a song harder to move us you have. Lost someone now this is of this accompanied love. Also minimal coupes the congo. Blue sky vocal. On kasamh theres a me so probably. When i got i didnt they work with not i can handle german get bottom edge on. The one im leveling theyre going to download just gotta get im saying it will not going to dog him like he had lost all my medical does im going to go its just not that nickel get. Loved. In the nearby village of nipping near the jail ideate has been acquiring land for another settlement and pharmacist started the sit down protest. Construction hasnt started here yet but the grievances a similar to those in belgrade the exchange of land for jobs that havent materialized and the general sense of being cheated by the authorities have a man loquat look they may not like. Jeb sound of hamas the man had the ad that well you have some money and know whats happening so you will see who new facilities will relocate the yemeni and putin yeah fifty percent is really high have one year old when youre asleep because that he really are they going to deal with boss getting it wasan oh yeah both of these a government reports but within four years the amount of barren land jumped up from seven point five acres to sixteen and by law the government can force people to sell in fertile land well you can this is real that what are they going towards the got a load better the other way yang will give out of activity out of highly kindness toward yeah i got what you hear. Nonviolence that this protest is local police have still threatened to charge these people with breach of the peace and the man in charge of the jr is inventing. Comedy an example is not. Going to. Get well says i mean nobody can. But he has your work to do. You know. How to look at because. You dont want to have to think about it to be put up in a group. Yeah you can see me but we could cover to sponsor. One of those trespass is shows the some of the lands the jail da wants to build on your do a look at the dog domain go get a da bun got a bull got they got and got. A little judgment to see how women a ding dong when they get a good look its only thinking. This is clearly first ill lend you to many villages took the money offered by the jr da. I talked a little going to the i got that im gonna get but im going to get like im out i got. Back what i said i hang in there just gotta get them in german eyes on it at the get go then get i started to get up i got to get up i got to put dummy not go for not having a better agent recently see how gas the Global Solutions are at because the land it was the government had. To save all my days was here but all we have let us say. Was i thought maybe one of them can see the boat they can have was about to buy something rather bizarre but im going to think it was got something. Big something what about that. Yeah you put what i know but what Community Groups are going to be. Who are not good unity or even the shadows of america or move towards you but i think it is some go on dont you but. If youre going to think about the coming of the company i thought american troops are going to work under german how do you have come up with a regular talk a little boy and i sometimes argue we are not of the use of the car that were going to come under. Whoever wins in the open air it doesnt seem that the fuss it may get creates two waves of refugees are going to stop burning anytime soon i chicago suspects deeply cynical motives if you go around the whole of the year dont you had a poll for you would never see five writing going on and that is something to be zealous not done and if you ask me they have not done it deliberately but it was because you see the board of first address in the fire the fire traveled underneath using more and more places become dangerous so people have to be record while the people evacuated then they get their diet plans for expansion of the open gas mines for better than the gore group. The c. C. L. Declined our request for an interview say for another opinion on why the fires havent been put out we turn to a scientist from india Central Institute of mining and Field Research he only agreed to talk to us in an unofficial capacity i think it is the guy who didnt think forty years in forty years but infrastructure meant power and Decision Making good Decision Making that big combined effort is required what is stopping this from happening i feel this is the only policy decision sponsor this is a v. M. On points you can see just yet simply saying just b. C. And who not own companies will not be can one little that be had the technology to build the fire her. I didnt get the. Then production on the other teams then began to be said for nixon most rather than sit. In the. Case. So. We can not think unemployment of this think. We can say. Whatever the truth behind the matter is resigned to the into the town he grew up in. When she needed it jed yeah but today it is disturbing to bizzle is going on and they want to double the bar exam by two leaders in that case more and more money in mining will be done over and one many more villages will have to be shipped out so eventually this place is going to become absolutely desolate how our good the struggle continues to get b. C. Seattle and the government to take responsibility for letting this conflagration rage out of control and putting hundreds of thousands of lives in the line of fire. In russia many. Creasing need for many of. Us labor force left vulnerable to exploitation the. People in power investigate. At this time. January on the african heads of state and government. 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