GHB's jewellery park begins ops with 3 units at Ichhapore.

Gujarat Hira Bourse (GHB) is urging diamond jewellery manufacturers from Surat and Mumbai to set up units at its gems and jewellery park at Ichhapore, which began functioning last month. This gems and jewellery park has become functional when some diamond barons in the city are still working on the designs for Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) project to come up at Dream City on a 2,000-acre land at Khajod, allotted by the state government recently. GHB office-bearers said three units were operationalized in September and that 20 jewellery manuafacturers had approached them with request to allot them plots at the park at the earliest. GHB and some leading diamantaires of Surat had urged the state government in 2004 to allot them land at Ichhapore for a gems and jewellery park. The then chief minister Narendra Modi had allotted 1 million square metre land at Ichhapore for the project.