SHIVA RUDRAKSHA AND GEMS LABORATORY involving testing and authentication of Rudraksha beads. SRGL was established with a purpose and mission to help people identify the genuine Rudraksha beads.

It is a known fact that under the garb of religion, innocent people get cheated and duped by unscrupulous traders, supplying impure or substandard items as there are no ISI or other guidelines which are to be necessarily followed in this business. SRGL , since the day it was born, has laid down benchmark specifications for its testing ability and efforts are on to try to include these in standards of Government recognized institutions like with the Ministry of Ayush, Ayurveda, Siddha, or related institutions.

The Indian market has become flooded with imitation Rudraksha in the last few decades as the demand for rarer beads has gone up. Many scores of people found to their dismay that the expensive Rudraksha they had bought was actually a fake when it was examined by an expert.
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