India has 695 operative assaying and hallmarking centres on the BIS register, and ten cities hold 383 of them — 55% of the country's capacity in ten postcodes. The…
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Ninety centres — nearly twice the next city, and one in eight of everything BIS has recognised nationally. Zaveri Bazaar in Kalbadevi is the seat of…
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Kolkata's position is built on making rather than selling. Bowbazar holds the country's largest concentration of goldsmith workshops, and the…
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Delhi's thirty-six split between two eras. Dariba Kalan, the silver and gold lane inside Chandni Chowk, has been trading since the Mughal period and…
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Manek Chowk is a vegetable market in the morning and a bullion market by afternoon, and ten of Ahmedabad's thirty-four centres work within it.…
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T. Nagar's Panagal Park stretch is among the highest-turnover jewellery retail streets in the country, and fourteen of Chennai's thirty-three centres…
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Thirty-two centres puts Coimbatore one behind Chennai on a fraction of the population, which makes it the densest hallmarking cluster on this list…
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Hyderabad separates its wholesale and retail trade cleanly: Begum Bazaar handles bullion, while Basheerbagh and Punjagutta hold the showrooms.…
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Centres cleared for silver
This is the city that breaks the pattern. Bengaluru has twenty-eight centres, level with Hyderabad, but twenty-three of them are cleared for silver…
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Surat is known for diamonds, and the gold trade here grew up beside the polishing workshops rather than ahead of them. The Varachha market sits in…
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Rajkot is not among India's twenty largest cities and it finishes level with Surat here. Soni Bazaar is Saurashtra's manufacturing and bullion…
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Counts are of operative recognitions on the Bureau of Indian Standards register of Assaying and Hallmarking Centres, read on 9 September 2026. A recognition is a licence to hallmark, not a…
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