After working long , hours in such appalling conditions, the workers have to go 'home' to mud huts, without water, electricity or sewage. Drinking water is a pressing problem. In the official data, there are six filtering plants for the residential colonies of Jhagra- khand area; but some of these plants are reportedly shut down. Water is most scarce in as many as six collieries
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