It’s ‘Surat’ \u2013 the “Diamond City of India ” where 90% of the world’s diamonds are polished that certainly makes Surat the World’s largest Diamond polishing & cutting Hub. Located in Gujarat, Surat is the 8th largest city of India, ranked No. 4 in the list of cleanest cities in India and is on its way to become a “Smart City” under India’s “Smart Cities Mission. Diamond cutting & polishing was started in Surat in 1901 & exports began in 1970 (firstly to USA). Since then, Surat has never looked back & been the No. 1 Diamond city of all times. Well done Surat. We are proud of it!<\/p>\n
Source: Gulliver’s India<\/a>, Business Today<\/a>, Wikipedia – List of Cleanest Cities in India<\/a>, Wikipedia – Surat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s ‘Surat’ \u2013 the “Diamond City of India ” where 90% of the world’s diamonds are polished that certainly makes Surat the World’s largest Diamond polishing & cutting Hub. Located in Gujarat, Surat is the 8th largest city of India, ranked No. 4 in the list of cleanest cities in India and is on its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,2,31,6,4,8,5],"tags":[127,128,74,82,129,50],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9-out-of-10-diamonds-are-polished-in-India-WinfiY-crunch.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-81","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}