A hillock caving in at Badi village was neither the start of large geological shifts nor the first time villagers have had to encounter uncertainty and crippling worry.  Authorities in charge of pollution control have been keen to brush the real issues aside, even if the effects of lignite-mining in the area are hard to miss.  The access roads leading to these villages are dominated by open trucks ferrying raw materials and mining waste, and the air is unbreathable.  For a project that took off in 2017, the villagers had to give up on their land rights way back in the 90s.  Many villagers, however, continued to cultivate the land.