Dhanbad coal mines: Confusion and corruption India Today
Dhanbad, July, 30,1978. Place: Office of Basantlal Wadhera, chairman cum managing director of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) a major subsidiary of the Governmentowned mining conglomerate Coal India Ltd. Barely five kilometres away, the vacant chairmanship of the Jharia (a town on Dhanbad's fringe) Water Board was being "auctioned" for Rs one lakh.