[1] Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited is a subsidiary of the state owned Petrobangla.

[3] In Pre-partition era of British India, coal from Garo hills of Meghalaya was transported and traded through East Bengal.

Mining offices opened in Dhaka and trade was aided by British Rail network in India.

In 1989 a coalfield was discovered in khalashpir, Rangpur District and another in 1995 in Dighipara by the Geological Survey of Bangladesh.

[5] Bangladesh has an estimated 2 billion tonnes of coal in underground reserves in the Northwest region of the country.