Colleague gifting is a narrow lane. You know this person well enough to want to mark the moment, but the office context means anything too personal creates a debt neither of you asked for. In Indian workplaces a promotion gift from a peer carries a specific message: I noticed, and I am not competing with you. Most people default to a box of chocolates, which is not wrong — just forgotten by Friday.
₹1,000 to ₹3,000 is the right band for that message. Below ₹1,000 it reads as an afterthought grabbed at a checkout counter. Above ₹3,000 between peers starts to feel like a statement about the relationship, which is uncomfortable in a hierarchical office. Inside this band, work gear is the safest category: a laptop bag between ₹999 and ₹1,579, or headphones between ₹1,149 and ₹2,499. All of it gets used at work, which keeps the gift in the professional register where it belongs.
The trap is implying they needed to change. Fitness trackers, self-help books, productivity journals — the subtext lands badly on someone who has just been promoted. The Fire-Boltt on this page is the borderline case and it sits last for exactly that reason: give it as a calling device to a colleague you actually know, or skip it. If this is a group gift from the team, the bags scale better than headphones, because colour and size are the only two variables you have to get right.