To firm up the mandate of hallmarking, which will soon apply to the Indian jewellery industry, from January 2008, the board and members of the All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF) held a video conference discussion.

The talk represented varied views from various cities including Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Ranchi, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, New Delhi, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Kolkata,.

A proposal of the hallmarking report will be finalised and submitted to the Government of India by the end-July 2007.