Sparkle Your Future
There is tremendous craze of Jewels and ornaments all over the world. Indian civilization and culture has always been merged with ornaments. In our society there has always been prevalence of silver and gold jewelry. The art of making jewelry by shaping gold, silver and diamond is prevalent from ancient times. But today it has emerged as a career where there are possibilities of earning wealth along with creativity.
Today jems-jewelry business has highest place in the business world. which can earn foreign exchange for India. In earlier times of India, the work of digging of diamonds and then shaping them was done.Indian diamonds are known for their quality, all over the world. Out of all, over world’s diamonds which are shaped, polished and then exported 2/3rd diamonds are exported from India. Almost 8 lakh trained people are working in this business. There is no competitor of India in sphere of diamond and other jewelry and other coloured valuable gems.
With the scope of gems Astrology and growing faith of people on them, there is an increment in prevalence of gems like diamond, pearl, emerald, topaz, coral, etc. This is not all there is growing importance of gems in the fashion world.
Today in the country, training courses are conducted for manufacturing of beautiful and attractive ornaments, identification of jewels and shaping of gems. This course is basically known as “Gemology and Diamond Polishing”. India’s gems specialists and Jewellery manufacturers are duly honoured in foreign countries.
So today many of young men-women are searching the golden possibilities as a career in this field. People who are deaf and dumb but have great interest in art and handicraft can benefit themselves from this training. After doing this training course one can easily express his creativity. There is a growing demand of shaping centres and people working in them because of the increment in the mining of gems in various places.
For training course in gemology and diamond polishing one can contact indian gem science, institute, delhi. Short term training course is also available here. Aligarh university, Aligarh, St. Xavier college, Mumbai and Gemological Institute of India, Mumbai also conducts training programmes in this subject.
By Commerce Ministry, Gem and Jewelry export promotion council and outfit jewelry product development centre also gives training in this subject every where, there is no need of academic eligibility.
In this course training is given on ways of blending of gold, ways of testing at criterion, manufacturing gold jewelry and dye etc. In this course one is taught how to make bangles, earings, chains, rings, bracelets, etc. During the training course one is also taught the works like melting gold, polishing or electroplating, purification of gold, grooving, and setting of jewels, etc.
There is a bright future of this field with the day by day growing demand of gold ornaments and valuable jems. Government has attracted the attention of big businessmen by establishing business free zones in places like Mumbai, Surat, Noida, etc.
Factories have been established for preparing jewels in places like Palanpur, Surat, Mumbai, Navsari, Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Coimbatore, Trichur, Jodhpur, Goa etc. Gemology business of Jaipur (Rajasthan) is famous all over the world for its art and talent. In Jaipur jewels are manufactured by both traditional and modern techniques.
Students who have cleared 10+2 are eligible for training in this field. In order to become an efficient gemologist, a person should be devoted to his work, and should possess qualities like vision, concentration, quality, imaginative power, etc. For unemployed people who have interest in creativity the Gemology business is not less than a boon for livelihood.
Major Training Institutes
- Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (U.P.)
- Gem Craft Training University, Jhalan Mahal, Jaipur – 302017
- Diamond Processing Institute, B-307, Viravali Industrial Estate, Goregaon, East Mumbai
- Gemological Institute of India, Gurukul Chambers, Mumbai – 400002
- Gem Training Lab, Gem & Jewelry Export Sanvardan Parishad, Commerce Ministry, Rajasthan Chamber Bhavan, Mirza Ismail Road, Jaipur – 302003 (Rajasthan)
- Indian Gem Institution, F-Block, Jhandewalan Estate, Rani Jhansi Marg, New Delhi – 110055
- Indian Diamond Centre, Patel Nagar, Surat, (Gujarat) 395008
- Indian Gemological Institute, 10th Floor, Nirmal Tower, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi – 110001
- Jewelry Export Promotion Council, D-15, Central Tardeo, Mumbai
- M.R. Morarka, GOC, Gramin Anusandhan Foundation, Naval Garh Jila, Jhunjhuna (Rajasthan)
- Saint Xavier College, Mumbai – 400007
