Coal Mafia

Coal India plans biggest tech overhaul in 4 decades to check rampant theft

Corruption and crime: How coal mafias fuel India's power crisis

Coal workers pay a cut to crime bosses to join their unions, which control access to jobs, according to law-enforcement and industry officials. Unions demand a "goon tax" from buyers, a fixed fee per tonne, before loading their coal.

PM should reveal names of MPs who pressurised for coal allocation: BJP

BJP on Saturday termed as "explosive" former Coal Secretary PC Parakh's 2005 letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleging coal mafia in the ministry and asked the latter to reveal the names of MPs who reportedly pressurised government.