Indian Gold Book:Indian Gold Book - Gold Bars Worldwide
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />
GIR FIELDTRIPS<br />
GIR visited New Delhi and 11 States: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan (north), West Bengal<br />
(east), Gujarat and Maharashtra (west) and Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala (south).<br />
There was a focus on the south as it is the most important gold consuming region.<br />
GIR conducted interviews in 38 cities, towns and villages. Apart from New Delhi, the cities were Ludhiana, Panipat, Agra,<br />
Meerut, Mathura and Jaipur (north), Kolkata (east), Mumbai, Thane, Ahmedabad and Nagpur (west), and Hyderabad,<br />
Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cochin/Ernakulam and Trichur (south).<br />
Meetings were held with representatives of 16 government-related departments and organisations, 14 banks and other<br />
official gold importers, 31 bullion dealers, refiners and coin fabricators, 114 jewellery fabricators, wholesalers and retailers,<br />
and 16 other gold-related entities.<br />
In total, GIR interviewed more than 200 people at 191 gold-related businesses and institutions. Several were visited two<br />
and more times to try to clarify the outcome of earlier discussions. GIR is indebted to everyone for their patience and<br />
support, and especially to WGC India and Mr Daga.<br />
INDUSTRY SUPPORT<br />
The encouragement, advice and trade introductions of the dedicated WGC India team were greatly<br />
appreciated: G.S. Pillai, Hiroo Mirchandani, Kumar Shivram, Madhumita Manna Kulkarni, Manos Mukherjee<br />
and Sharmili Rajput.<br />
Madhusudan Daga, India’s leading authority on the <strong>Indian</strong> gold market since the early 1950s (50 years), acted as a<br />
consultant on many aspects of the market. His knowledge of the market and his views communicated over several days,<br />
including a fieldtrip to the remarkable rural town of Jalgaon (Maharashtra), were invaluable and enormously stimulating.<br />
GIR is particularly grateful to several leading jewellery retailers who continued to provide information after the meetings.<br />
Notably, R.K. Nagarkar and P.C. Gupte (Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri, Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai) who also kindly sent photographs<br />
to illustrate regional gold jewellery styles, Rakesh Saraf (Girdhari Lal Saraf, New Delhi), Mukesh Kohli (Raj Jewellers, New<br />
Delhi), Dr Nawal Agrawal (Birdichand Ghanshyamdas, Jaipur), Subir Kumar Sen (B.C. Sen, Kolkata) and Biplabankur<br />
and Shibankur Roychowdhury (M.P. Jewellers, Kolkata), G.B. Umesh (Ganjam, Bangalore), and Ashwin Vummidi (Vummidi<br />
Bangaru Chetty, Chennai).<br />
D.C. Karel (D.C. Karel, Kolkata), Dinesh Zaveri (Harjivandas Juthabhai Zaveri, Ahmedabad), S. Santosh Kumar (National<br />
Institute of Jewellery Design, Ahmedabad), Senthil Kota (Kota, Coimbatore), Vr. Gunashekar (Kirtilals, Hyderabad) and S.<br />
Sanathana Pai (A. Geeri Pai, Cochin) also kindly assisted GIR to visit local towns and villages in their States. When visiting<br />
rural areas in the Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, GIR was accompanied by an interpreter, Pawan Bhardwaj.<br />
Many others also went out of their way to support the project. Professor T. Haque (Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi)<br />
contributed greatly to GIR’s basic understanding of the rural economy. S.P. Batra (National Council of Applied Economic<br />
Research, New Delhi) and Mita Roychowdury and A. Basu (DGCIS) provided much written information on request. Jose<br />
Alukka (Alukkas, Trichur) and Fahim Kahn (Hutti <strong>Gold</strong> Mines, Bangalore) provided supplementary photographs. V.S.A. Sury<br />
and V. Sreedhar (GJEPC, Mumbai), Dr K.K. Chatterjee (<strong>Indian</strong> Bureau of Mines, Nagpur), Dr Sneh Bhatla (Bureau of <strong>Indian</strong><br />
Standards, New Delhi), Anand Trivedi (MMTC, New Delhi), Rajan Venkatesh (ScotiaMocatta, Mumbai) and Raghav Kamath<br />
(Corporation Bank, Mumbai) kindly reviewed relevant draft texts.<br />
The observations of Bhargava Vaidya (gold market consultant, Mumbai) were also much appreciated.<br />
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