Is there Diamond market in small villages?

Today you will find lot of small towns & villages in Gujarat which have 100s of Diamond factories and many people working hard and earning their livelihood.

Kambhat, near Ahmedabad is one such example. In this most of work is done of color stone re-cutting and diamond cutting also.

In Bhavnagar, Bharuch, Narmada, Navsari and Dang – diamond cutting industry is striving since long time. Some of the big companies are located in these place. Shree Ramkrishna Export is one such company.

Many of the big time company owners migrated to cities from these small towns and villages. After doing well in life these successful people decided to give back prosperity to their hometown. By setting up factories and work force in these towns and villages, gives boost to local community and economy.

How to start career in Indian Diamond market?

Diamond market in India is full of opportunities. Diamond industry is growing in to multi-billion dollar industry and India is becoming stronger in its presence with every single day. Some of the common way people enter and start career in market are below:

Basic knowledge of diamond

One can join Diamond Assorting classes located in Mumbai at places like Charni Road, Vile Parle, Malad, Borivali, Ghatkopar and many other places. These classes give you basic knowledge and prepare you for the first job in Diamond market. Shreeji Rajendra Diamond Classes is one of the well know classes at Charni Road. I personally took help from them when I started working in market 6 years back.

Begin with Jewelry firm

Working in jewelry firm could be good way to gain high level knowledge about Diamond details & specification. Jewelry industry has more opportunities for beginners compared to Diamond market. It allows to you to get close to diamonds and upgrade your knowledge and build your social & professional network.

Start with Diamond Polishing

Start working in Diamond Polishing firm in Surat. This is best way to gain knowledge in Diamond Polishing industry. Surat is full of opportunities and is good place to begin and grow career.

Family or Friends

Diamond market is fortunately or unfortunately biased towards family members and friends. If you know a family member or friend who already is part of industry, he or she can refer you for a good opportunity. Personal referral gives lot of help in Indian Diamond market.

Some histroy of diamond cutting industry in Gujarat.

Since 100s of years – Surat (Gujarat) is in to diamond cutting & diamond polishing business. Some of the other cities in Gujarat where Diamond cutting industry has grow are – Bhavnagar, Navasari, Ahmedabad.

Due to large population of low cost & hard working work force, surat has rapidly turned in to one of the biggest diamond cutting hub in the whole world. Surat is know as “Diamond city of India“.

Bhavnagar is known for manufaturing the smallest stones, with final polished sizes of between 0.005 cents to 0.020 cents.

Surat – biggest diamond hub in the world!

Since many years Indian diamond market has become one of the leading player in global diamond industry.

Diamond - rough to polish

Surat is largest diamond manufacturing hub in world. INDIA is Excellent in manufacturing small diamond’s in world. South Africa is precisely the country that majority people would associate with the diamond industry. But business centers in the other parts of the world are catching up fast and steady. Surat is one of them — this little known Indian industrial hub is fast emerging as a big player in the world diamond.

Surat has left its mark of excellence in all the three departments of the business— manufacturing, importing and the export of processed diamonds.

So how big is it actually?

Let’s try to find the answer from the following statistics.

• The city contributes to more than 80% of the Indian annual export amounting to Rs 70,000 crore.

• Every 9 out of 10 diamonds you get to see in the stores in the big cities all over the world is cut and polished in India and 75 % of all these diamonds owe their shine to the Surat Diamond industry.

• Over 1.5 million people are engaged in the diamond & diamond jewelry industry of Surat.