Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 17 inaugurated Surat Diamond Bourse. Notably, it will be the world’s largest and modern centre for international diamond and jewellery business. The Surat Diamond Bourse will be a global centre for trading both rough and polished diamonds as well as jewellery. The bourse will comprise a state-of-the-art ‘Customs Clearance House’ for Import –Export. Other than that, it will have a jewellery mall for retail jewellery business and a facility for International Banking. The bourse is larger than Pentagon, which has been the largest office in the world. Encompassing 4,500 offices for national and international traders, the bourse aims to promote Surat’s thriving diamond industry. The bourse has been built at a cost of Rs 3,000 crore and it can accommodate 65,000 diamond professionals.