Vasant Gajera

Vasant Gajera (born 25 May 1954) is an Indian businessman. He is the founder of Laxmi Diamond Group, a diamond manufacturing and exporting company.

Biography Gajera was born on 25 May 1954 to a farmer family in Amreli, Gujarat, India to the late Shri Haribhai Gajera and Shantaben Gajera. He left his home town and moved to Surat in 1968 at the age of 14. After studying diamond cutting and polishing for a few years in Surat, he started his business under the name of Laxmi Diamond in 1972.

Gajera, born in Amreli and originally from Kathiawad, realized at a very young age that to earn out a living from the parched land for a farming community, especially in the absence of rainfall, is indeed an impossible and tall task. He left his home town and arrived in Surat where he worked in jewellery factory for two years. He left that job to try his hand at his own business in the diamond market. Since 1995, Laxmi Diamond has been a sightholder of the Diamond Trading Company (DTC).