• Shilpa Ghosh
• Dr. Manjari Bhattacharji

Health issues in terms of illness and disease is very common to every industrial sector in our country. Mining industry has always been ranked one among them, which has the most dangerous working environment as well as adverse impact to the surrounding periphery. In this context open cast mining is more hazardous than underground mining because the former is more environmentally destructive than the latter. Health issues around open cast mines are not only restricted to the people directly engaged with mining activity but also the people living around the periphery of the mines

"Incidence of Health Issues in and around Open Cast Mines: A Case Study of Raniganj Coalfield, West Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.1038-1048, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W94.pdf

"Incidence of Health Issues in and around Open Cast Mines: A Case Study of Raniganj Coalfield, West Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp1038-1048, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W94.pdf