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Book On Gemstones & Diamond released too! Gem &Jewellery Exporters’ Association (GJEA) one of the pioneer organizations in the Gem &Jewellery Industry in India organized a glittering function to honor Shri Kirtilal K. Doshi, a founder Member and past President of GJEA, who is a living legend. The function was held at MCA, the Lounge, Wankhede Stadium, Churchgate, Mumbai. The function commenced with a music program presented by Avishkar group. The audience enjoyed popular Gujarati and Hindi songs for over an hour. Shri Seventilal P. Shah, Partner, Venus Jewel, was the Chief Guest and Arunkumar R. Mehta, Chairman, Rosy Blue (I) Pvt. Ltd. was Guest of Honor. Dr. AVR Reddy, Chief Cordinator, GII, introduced dignitaries Sri Kirtilal K. Doshi, Shri Seventilal Shah, Shri Arunkumar Mehta, Shri Arvind C. Parikh, President GJEA and Shri Navin Jasnani. Vice President, GJEA. Shri Arvind C. Parikh in his welcome address briefly narrated the contributions of Shri KIrtib

Seminar on present status of colour stones Gemmological Institute of India (GII), a pioneer institute for gem stone certification and education organised a half day interactive seminar on “Present status on the developments in the area of colour stones and future Directions” in Mumbai. The main objectives were to review continuous developments in this subject and interact with our valuable customers.   Participation was by invitation. About thirty major gemstone traders and fifteen GII scientific colleagues participated in this seminar. Seminar was inaugurated by Shri Bakul R Mehta, Chairman-GII and in his inaugural address; he spoke on the need for openness in the market, use of scientific methods for the identification as well as origin determination and requirement of quality data for certification. He conveyed to participants the importance of using harmonised protocols and standardisation of laboratories, and the progress made in this direction. Shri Kirti Das w

Gem and Jewellery institutes came together under one umbrella to form AGA National Gem Testing Center (NGTC) organised a half day open Forum meeting Win-Win on 28th afternoon with CIBJO, GIT, GII, CGL, DFHK, GHK and HKIG as co-organisers. NGTC invited many experts from many institutes to talk or present views in Win-Win. For the first time, an effort is being made to bring Asia-pacific countries under one umbrella to form Asia-Pacific Gemstone and Technology Standardisation Alliance (AGA). The idea was seeded through bilateral meetings between NGTC and GII, and is progressively evolving. This meeting consists of three sessions and each session begins with a lead invited talk followed by panel discussion. The topics of lead talks in the three sessions were 1. Challenges of International Trade, 2. Uniform rules and International Jewellery Industry and 3. Prospects for International standardisation in Asia-pacific and China. Besides, panelists will cover various area

Industry losses sparkle! “Industry losses sparkle! Indeed he was of Himalayan stature yet very humble player with refined heart! Industry would always remember his all those contributions in gemmology!” Right now gem-n-jewellery (GJ) industry & trade mourns upon K T Ramchandran passes away. Whole of the GJ industry & trade is expresses their deep grief. Nayan Jani, Editor- JNI said, “Industry losses sparkle! Indeed he was of Himalayan stature yet very humble player with refined heart! Industry would always remember his all those contributions in gemmology!”   In a tribute-n-grief Jayshree Talgeri-Panjikar- who served longest time with K T Ramchandran says, “It's indeed very sad when your old colleague is battling for life and then he is no more...K.T.Ramchandran was my batch mate for the Gemmology London Exam FGA way back in 1976-1977... Over the years we became colleagues, friends and a good dedicated team at GII that actually made GII international