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In October 2013, the NHRC recommended a compensation of Rs 5 lakhs each for their families and asked the state government to submit a compliance report by February 2014. 

JASWANT Manjhi had not heard of silicosis, even after it started eating away at his body. Today, he fears it may be too late for him.

This 40-year-old has already lost his elder brother Mukesh, younger sister Kokila and her husband Tansinh — all workers like him at stone quarries in Godhra — to the respiratory disease. And he is among the survivors still waiting for justice from the Gujarat government.

“We had no idea that it would completely eat away our bodies. We quit the job within three years, but the damage had been done,” said Manjhi from Shankarpura village in Dahod’s Jhalod taluka.

The story of these stone quarry workers made headlines after the Supreme Court, in a rare order last week, directed the Gujarat government to release more than Rs 7 crore as compensation to the families of 238 workers who died due to silicosis after working in its quartz and stone crushing industries.

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