The Pootkee Balihari Area is located about 10 km to the south-east of Dhanbad Junction railway station.

National Highway 18 (old number NH 32)/ (locally popular as Dhanbad-Bokaro Road) runs just north of the Area.

It is located in the central part of the Jharia Coalfield on the Bhaga Putkee Road and has a mineable reserve of 571.03 million tonnes.

KB 10/12 Pits colliery operates in XV and XVI seam with hydraulic sand stowing.

It is on Putkee Bhaga DB Road and has a mineable reserve of 3.501 million tonnes.

Bhagaband Colliery, located 4 km east of Putkee was started by Bird & Heigers Co. in 1932.

Jharia is famous for a coal field fire that has burned underground for a century.

Two of his collieries, Khas Jharia and Golden Jharia, which worked on maximum 260-foot-deep shafts,[4] collapsed due to now infamous underground fires, in which their house and bungalow also collapsed on 8 November 1930, causing 18 feet subsidence and widespread destruction.

[5][6][4][7][8][9] The fire never stopped despite sincere efforts by mines department and railway authorities and in 1933 flaming crevasses lead to exodus of many residents.

[11] The government has been criticized for a perceived lackadaisical attitude[12] towards the safety of the people of Jharia.

[13] Heavy fumes emitted by the fires[14] lead to severe health problems such as breathing disorders and skin diseases among the local population.