01 — Local economy
Business in Rajkot
Diesel engines, submersible pumps, machine tools, bearings and castings come out of thousands of small and medium engineering workshops in Rajkot, supplying farmers, OEMs and export buyers. Gold and imitation jewellery made around Soni Bazaar sells across India, and the city is a trading centre for groundnut, cotton and edible oil from Saurashtra.
Where software helps: Engineering units here make hundreds of pump and engine variants in small batches, so they need bill-of-materials control, casting and machining job-work tracking, and dealer-wise warranty and spare-parts records.