Living Conditions in Chillika Daad Village

'Chillika Daad' village lives with the irony of being surrounded by a coal mine overburden (50 meters from the village boundary), a railway line carrying coal wagons (cutting across the village) and NTPC's Shaktinagar super thermal power plant located within a kilometer on the opposite side of the mine overburden. The villagers feel duped. They claim that if they had known that in a few years a railway line and a coal mine would come up in their newly allotted lands they would not have accepted it. The villagers continue to fight for justice even as they bear the thunderous blasting twice or thrice a day and the inroads of constant coal dust from the mine haul that runs adjoining the village just prior to the overburden.