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Due to occupy the land Jharia people turn to refugee. Poor villagers have accepted this condition as their struggle for existence and, maybe, as their fate. Villagers survive by picking illegal coal from the mines to sell at local markets for about a dollar a basket. They collect the coal, and burn it once in order to improve its quality, breathing in the poisonous smoke containing carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and fine coal dust, among other things.