Savarkundla Scales

The town of Savarkundla in Amreli district has earned a singular reputation across India: it is one of the country’s great centres for manufacturing weighing scales, balances and weights. For generations, Savarkundla’s workshops and small industries have produced weighing instruments of every kind — from traditional balance scales to modern weighbridges and electronic scales — supplying markets, shops and industries far beyond Gujarat. The town’s name has become almost synonymous with the trade, and the skill and enterprise of its makers are a point of local pride. This craft-industry heritage is an unusual and characterful thread in Amreli’s identity — a reminder that the district’s culture includes not only forests, poetry and pilgrimage but also the ingenuity of its trades and towns. Savarkundla also has its own historic character as an old Saurashtra town. For the curious traveller, Savarkundla offers an offbeat glimpse of small-town industrial Gujarat — a town that, quite literally, helps weigh the nation. (A craft-industry town in Amreli; known for weighing scales; an offbeat cultural-industrial attraction.)