After a present, a dream come true: Alcohol at Surat diamond bourse | India Information

“The house division and different businesses will chalk out tips governing the consumption and sale of liquor as soon as the proposal is cleared,” the supply mentioned.

GANDHINAGAR/SURAT: Surat Diamond Bourse, the glitzy behemoth constructed to deal with India’s aspiration to be a world diamond buying and selling hub, is aiming for a distinct excessive in dry Gujarat. After GIFT Metropolis in Gandhinagar, the state authorities plans to dilute prohibition legal guidelines for DREAM (Diamond Analysis and Mercantile) Metropolis as half of a bigger technique to assist it entice enterprise, a prime authorities supply informed TOI.
“The house division and different businesses will chalk out tips governing the consumption and sale of liquor as soon as the proposal is cleared,” the supply mentioned. “If all the things goes to plan, the announcement may very well be made inside two months.”
The diamond bourse, which homes 4,500-odd places of work, is a part of the two,000-acre DREAM Metropolis unfold aimed toward encouraging and selling diamond buying and selling and associated mercantile actions. The bourse was inaugurated in Dec final yr however remains to be to take off the best way it was anticipated to. The proposed easing of prohibition, which sources mentioned can be in step with liquor-law dilutions in GIFT Metropolis.
Workplace-bearers of the bourse had communicated to the state govt the potential advantages of easing prohibition. “This can be an necessary step to draw enterprise right here. Stress-free prohibition in DREAM Metropolis will create a global enterprise atmosphere,” diamond businessman Dinesh Navadiya mentioned.