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{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Braithwaite and Co. Limited<br />
| type = [[Public sector undertakings in India|Central Public Sector Enterprise]]<br />
| industry = {{Unbulleted list|[[Heavy equipment]]|[[Structural steel]]|[[Railroad car|Rail wagon]]|[[Foundry|Foundry products]]|[[Machine industry|Machinery]]}}<br />
| founded = {{Start date and age|1913}} in [[Kolkata]], [[Bengal Presidency]] <br /> {{small|(as a subsidiary of Braithwaite & Co. Engineers Limited (U.K.))}} <br /> {{Start date and age|1930|2|28|df=yes}} <br /> {{small|(as Braithwaite & Co (India) Ltd)}}<br />
| hq_location_city = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
| hq_location_country = [[India]]<br />
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list<br />
|[[Piyush Goyal]] <br />{{small| [[Minister of Railways (India)|(Minister of Railways)]] }} <br />
|Yatish Kumar, [[Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers|IRSME]] <br /> {{small|(Chairman & Managing Director)}}<br />
}}<br />
| owner = [[Government of India]]<br />
| parent = [[Ministry of Railways (India)|Ministry of Railways]]<br />
| website = {{URL|https://www.braithwaiteindia.com/}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Braithwaite & Co. Limited''' is a manufacturing company which is fully owned by [[Government of India]] having its headquarters at [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]. The company has three units – Clive Works, Victoria Works both in Calcutta and Angus Works in [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]] District, West Bengal. From 2010 the administrative control of the company has been taken over by the [[Ministry of Railways (India)|Ministry of Railways]].<ref name=a>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbunl.com/co_braithwaite.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-12-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917125637/http://www.bbunl.com/co_braithwaite.html |archive-date=17 September 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name=b>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiamart.com/braithwaite-co-ltd/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-12-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423132713/http://www.indiamart.com/braithwaite-co-ltd/ |archive-date=23 April 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Yatish Kumar appointed as Chairman, MD of Braithwaite|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/yatish-kumar-appointed-as-chairman-md-of-braithwaite/articleshow/64510924.cms|access-date=2020-07-18}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
The company was established in 1913 as the Indian Subsidiary of Braithwaite & Co. Engineers Limited (U.K.), for undertaking fabrication of structural steel works. In 1930 it was incorporated as ''Braithwaite & Co (India) Ltd'' at Calcutta. In 1960 Braithwaite's Angus Works located at [[Champdani]] was set up for manufacture of cranes, foundry products, machinery components etc. The Project Division at Calcutta was established in 1978 to execute turnkey projects for material handling plants. In 1987 Victoria Works was taken over, which is equipped with all facilities for the manufacture of pressure vessels, railway wagons and heavy structurals for bridges and other engineering applications. In 1976 company was taken over by [[Government of India]], and in August 2010 the administrative control of the company was taken over by the [[Ministry of Railways (India)|Ministry of Railways]].<br />
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==Present status==<br />
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In 1986, Braithwate & Co., Ltd. came under umbrella of [[Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam]], which became [[holding company]] of five companies in eastern India; Braithwate & Co. Ltd, [[Burn Standard Company]], [[Bharat Wagon and Engineering]], [[Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction Company]], [[Jessop & Co. Ltd]].<ref name=a/> Later, Jessop & Company was privatized.<br />
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However, with effect from 2010, the management of Braitwate & Co. Limited has been transferred from Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises to Ministry of Railways, Government of India.<ref>http://www.bbunl.com/</ref><br />
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Today Braithwate is an engineering conglomerate which manufactures, railway wagons & bogies, heavy duty cranes, structurals, jute mill machinery, forging & casting jobs.<ref name=a/><ref name=b/><br />
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==Miniratna category-I status==<br />
Braithwaite & Co, under the [[UPA Government]] in 2010 got enlisted for disinvestment, since the engineering firm made a turnaround with a manifold increase in annual turnover and making profits for three consecutive years, in January 2022 it received recognition as a Mini Ratna-I public sector undertaking.<ref>{{Cite web|last=NYOOOZ|title=Mini Ratna-I status for Braithwaite & Co {{!}} Kolkata NYOOOZ|url=https://www.nyoooz.com/news/kolkata/1644350/mini-ratnai-status-for-braithwaite--co/|access-date=2022-01-12|website=NYOOOZ|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.braithwaiteindia.com/ www.braithwaiteindia.com Braithwaite]<br />
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