Million Coal Workers At Risk: China, India Face Biggest Cuts By 2050 – Analysis

By Subel Rai Bhandari

In the bustling hot city of Siliguri in northeast India, Jitendar Kumar spends his days breaking up and shifting cinder pieces at a coal depot. 

The 30-year-old has been working for half his life with coal, a legacy he inherited from his father, who spent 40 years in Ranigunj, India’s first...