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ABSTRACT: Brick Industry is one of the informal and unorganized industries in Assam. Gradually the Brick industry has been expanding to real estate business. It is a labor intensive industry. The industry employs lakh of workers. Sizable portions of the workers are women. They live in below poverty line. At work place, they are exploited, deprived and do not get the status which the men workers enjoy. There are facing varied natures of problems in work place, particularly the brick industry those are establish in remote area of Gauripur Town . Their socio-economic conditions cause concerns. In this backdrop, an attempt has been made to ascertain and examine the Health related problem faced by the women workers engaged in brick manufacturing industry. The data collected in this regard have been interpreted through percentage analysis. They and their children are mostly illiterate. Most of them are coming from remote area of the district in search of employment .Their annual incomes are very small. They are not given the scope of doing skilled work. Very often they express dissatisfaction on working environments. In this regard the present study tries to explore the significance for the study on the Health Problems faced by the Woman Brick Workers in Gauripur of the Dhubri District so that Working environment needs to be improved and working women get motivated and enthused that may result in development of the Brick Industry.