Ajit Kumar Jha
Inaruwa. The people of the potter community of Sunsari are busy making clay pots while others are busy making clay pots.
Everyone has the same objective, to provide soil rent easily to everyone during the festival. The people of the Kumbhakar community living in the local levels including Inaruwa, the district headquarters of Sunsari, Kosi, Bhokraha, Harinagar, Devagunj, Gadhi are now busy making clay pots.
Ramesh Pandit, a local of Inaruwa-2, said that the Kumbhakars or Prajapati community are busy making earthen utensils and items used in worship as Tihar and Chhath are approaching. Balaram Pandit, a local of Inaruwa-2, said that the members of the community, who have been making clay utensils as a traditional occupation since their ancestors, are now busy making lamps, kalash, elephants, lids, khutrukes and other worship materials required during the Chhath festival. Balram said that the Kumbhakar community is now in a hurry to produce and sell the pottery as the demand for clay materials is high during the festival.
With the development of modernity, alternatives made from plastic and other metals have increased in the market, but the importance of clay utensils associated with religious and cultural traditions still remains, according to the local potter community. Balaram Pandit, a local, said that due to the development of modernity, the ancestral profession has created a big problem in the livelihood of the community.
However, lack of easy availability of raw materials, increasing cost of production, market management and not getting fair prices for the products are some of the major challenges for the people involved in this profession. Balaram Pandit, a local, said that easy arrangement of soil, timely availability of firewood in the market and fair price should be made for the preservation of traditional skills and culture. The production of these artistic pottery has kept the religious and cultural significance of the festival alive and has made a significant contribution to the preservation of local skills, labor and original identity.
Therefore, it is the need of the time for the concerned bodies to focus on the preservation, promotion and promotion of clay pottery, which is the ancestral occupation of the potter community.
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