55 year old Parain Bai lives next to BALCO plant, Parasavbata village, Korba district, Chhattisgarh. BALCO is polluting the water and air in the region, residents of Parasavbata village are suffering from skin infection and breathing problems. According to her, BALCO is not doing anything to help the residents' health. Villagers suffer from fly ash in summer months, their houses are covered with ash and villagers have breathing and skin infections. Unfortunately residents are not aware of the health hazards of SO2 & NO2 emission from the TPP. Their only concern is what is visible in summer months, which is fly ash and it is poisoning the air, water and land in areas close to the power plants.

Parasavbata village, Korba district, Chhattisgarh, India, 2017.