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Brick kiln factory unit in the middle of wheat fields and a canal in Uttar Pradesh. We have not figured out yet that one of the major sources of winter time air pollution are the thousands of brick kiln units functioning outside the NCR Delhi region... See an aerial view of a brick kiln semi automatic unit with dryer. Brick kiln workers at a brick manufacturing unit in Uttar Pradesh. The workers use wheel barrows to move bricks that have come out of the foundry with the chimney. They organize the brown baked bricks into neat and organized rows. This is a particularly large unit for manufacturing baked bricks, with a drying yard that is many acres large in spread. The canal next door provides the brick operation with lots of water, and the soil must be suitably clayey for bricks to be made