International migration has a long-standing history in Nepal. While Nepalese migration to other countries is not uncommon, India remains the main destination. A large number of Nepalese began to migrate to the coal mining areas in the Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya during 1970s. One of the factors attracting them to Jaintia Hills was the presence of coal mines that needed plentiful of labour. The coal mines offered them with an opportunity to generate income. In Jaintia Hills coal mining is done by means of private ownership. Landowners have adopted a crude form of excavation that employs “rat hole mining” (narrow shafts dug). Most of the Nepalese migrant workers can make a decent earning within a short span of time. However many lose their lives due to accidents resulting unscientific mining and also the continuous exposure to coal dust has resulted in a high prevalence of many diseases among these migrants. This paper deals entirely on the everyday life of Nepalese migrant workers in the coal mines. I will describe their social life, working conditions (types of works, time and money), day to day activity of the miners, entertainment (games, addiction, less responsibility and extra free time, and prostitution), health facilities (accidents and death, no doctors in the hospital, illegal pharmacy and medicines), different institutions prevailing in the mining area (schools in the camp, labour association), etc. I will also try to understand how unhealthy living condition and working inside the coal mines ultimately lead to many health problems. Moreover with the entertainment and addition facilities in the mining site many Nepalese migrant workers have forgotten to go back to Nepal. Although many Nepalese migrant workers speak of going home they hardly do so and in fact many have settled down in the coal mining sites. Though Nepalese migrant workers face many difficulties living and working in the coal mines many somehow prefer the difficult lives in the coal mines then in interior villages of Nepal. This paper based on empirical research will try to understand the everyday lives of Nepalese migrant workers living and working in the coal mines of Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya. Thus the finding of the present study is based on field work in both Jaintia hills of Meghalaya, India and Bhojpur district of Nepal.