Burn Standard Company
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Bern Standard Company Limited (BSCL) is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) of the Government of India
. Headquartered in Kolkata
, India
, BSCL is engaged in civil engineering
projects and is a subsidiary of Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam
. The company was formed with the merger of two companies — Burn & Company and Indian Standard Wagon, and was nationalised in 1975. In fiscal 2006, the company reported aggregated revenues of .
According to UK based newspaper Independent John Messer, the lead in-house lawyer for US engineering group McDermott International, was back in India again in March 2008. It's a country he and his predecessors have got to know better than anyone would have imagined back in the late 1980s, when the contract was drawn up to build a giant offshore platform for the Mumbai High oil field. For the past 17 years, McDermott has been trying to get paid. In October 2006, Burn Standard, the Indian engineering company that sub-contracted work on the project to McDermott, lost its appeal against a court ruling instructing it to pay the US group $90m (£45m). The money has still to be received.(Ref 3)
Government of India
The Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...
. Headquartered in Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, BSCL is engaged in civil engineering
Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
projects and is a subsidiary of Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam
Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam
Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam is a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of India and is the holding company for four eastern Indian engineering companies — Burns Standard Company, Braithwaite & Company, Bharat Wagon and Engineering Company and Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction...
. The company was formed with the merger of two companies — Burn & Company and Indian Standard Wagon, and was nationalised in 1975. In fiscal 2006, the company reported aggregated revenues of .
According to UK based newspaper Independent John Messer, the lead in-house lawyer for US engineering group McDermott International, was back in India again in March 2008. It's a country he and his predecessors have got to know better than anyone would have imagined back in the late 1980s, when the contract was drawn up to build a giant offshore platform for the Mumbai High oil field. For the past 17 years, McDermott has been trying to get paid. In October 2006, Burn Standard, the Indian engineering company that sub-contracted work on the project to McDermott, lost its appeal against a court ruling instructing it to pay the US group $90m (£45m). The money has still to be received.(Ref 3)