A Madhya Pradesh labourer claims his life has been transformed forever after discovering a big diamond in the state’s famous Panna mines. Raju Gond, 40, spotted a 19.22-carat diamond days ago, and it is anticipated to bring roughly Rs 80 lakh at a government auction. According to CNN, Gond earns a daily payment to support his family. He usually makes about Rs 300 per day working in fields or when driving tractors for wealthy farmers in Madhya Pradesh.
Raju Gond and his brother Rakesh, on the other hand, occasionally pay Rs 800 a day to mine for gold on a 690-square-foot government plot of land. This is where, last Wednesday, they found the precious jewel.
“It shone spectacularly; I knew it was a diamond right then!” Raju Gond expressed his happiness to CNN. The fact that it took the daily wage labourer 10 years to find a diamond made the finding even sweeter for him:.“I worked all afternoon to get this stone. However, I had put in ten years of work to get here,” The Indian Express quoted him as saying.
Without much delay, Raju and Rakesh Gond took the diamond to the nearby Panna Diamond Office for an assessment. The official diamond examiner, Anupam Singh, told CNN that the 19.22-carat diamond is estimated to bring roughly Rs 80 lakh. “In 1961 someone found a 54.55-carat diamond, then in 2018 someone found a 42-carat diamond, and now this,” Singh elaborated.
Reports state that Raju Gond had been looking for a gemstone in Panna’s diamond riches for 10 years. Explaining the process of finding the gemstone, he told CNN, “What we have to do is fill in a form, give identification proof, provide photos, and pay Rs 800 to the government.” “We can reapply to search for diamonds on a different plot of land once we have finished our current search there,” the labourer explained.
The big rock represents a new beginning for the Madhya Pradesh native, especially in an era when large diamond discoveries are becoming increasingly rare.
When asked what he would do with the big amount of money, Raju Gond said that he wants to take care of his children’s education. He also hopes that his financial hardship will ease, reported The Indian Express. Moreover, his immediate goal is to settle the Rs 5 lakh debt that is looming large over his family’s future. With the money from the sale, he also plans to construct a house and purchase some land for farming.
It is, however, unclear how much he will get when government royalties and taxes are removed.
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