The light of lamps began to extinguish with soil shortage, business of kumbhakars in crisis; Order must cancel - Due to a lack of DIYAS, the Dimmer Business of Potters, canceled problems canceled

Updated: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:18 PM (IST) The Potters’ enterprise has come to a standstill due to a lack of land in Jhajjar. The rain disrupted the land supply and prices. Orders are canceled that have affected production. Complaints of pollution have also increased problems. The potters demand the administration to ensure the supply of land, so that the lamps of the lamps continue to burn and their culture remains. Jagran correspondent, jhajjar. Each year before Deepawali, a different beauty is seen in the side of Jhajjar. The soil that moves on the crayon, the shaped lamps, the smoke coming from the ovens and the hand running in each house was not only the characteristic of a traditional art, but also a living of hundreds of families. Remove the ad, just read the news, but this time is not chalk or lamps. Reason – Heavy land shortage and rising prices. When seen, the non -availability of land in Cantonment Mohalla almost brought a traditional business to a standstill. Looking at the land crisis, it’s not just the crisis of the potters, it’s the crisis of our society, culture and local economy. The rain has spoiled the math of Kumbhakaras in recent months, has made the land of Jhajjar and surrounding areas completely wet and unusable. At the same time, the way to get to these areas has stopped, or the soil is not available due to the water. Surajbhan Prajapat, a resident of Cantonment Mohalla and who has been doing pottery for thirty years, says earlier a trolley available for Rs 2500, now he went above Rs 4500. It is also if you get ground. The situation now is that even after giving money, land is not available. At the same time, they say that the complaints of neighbors have become a major problem for the kumbhakars struggling with soil shortage. Once someone burns an oven, people complain about pollution. Surajbhan says the oven will have to be burned. Now people in the area are complaining to the police or the city council. They began to say that it caused the air to deteriorate. Now where will our house come from? Preparations for Deepotsav are incomplete; Orders are ordered every year by the Kumbhakaras of Cantonment Mohalla – from cities such as Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Delhi. Orders are discussed in May-June themselves and the production begins in full swing as soon as Navratri begins. But this time nothing happens like this. Kumbhakar Mahavir said that an order of 6 Lakh Diyas came from Mumbai. As each year, the agreement was done at a fixed price, but if the land was not found, the work did not start. The client had to refuse. He has now shifted an order from Gujarat. He says that goods at the old rate are now a loss agreement, because the raw material has become expensive three times. What will be made if not land? Statues of lamps, axles, sculptures, incense, Ganesh -Lakshmi – All of these products are made from the soil. Their biggest question is from Navratri to Deepawali. But the non -availability of land stopped the entire production. Kumbhakar Raju, who has made lamps out of land and decorative items of the home for the past 15 years, could not be prepared this time. Earlier, we burned ovens all over the area. Now there is no land or work. It has also become difficult to export home costs. While the new problems of pollution have increased, pottery problems have increased on one side, cheap lamps and sculptures of Pop (plaster of Paris) and plastic are quickly making their place in the market. Local shop owner Sunil says this crisis is not limited to one business or income from some families. It is also associated with our culture, tradition and heritage. Arde lamps are not just decorations of Deepawali, it is natural, reuse and environmentally friendly options. The biggest question of the kumbhakars is that the administration makes a permanent system regarding the supply of land. At the same time, they must also ensure that unnecessary action should not be done with regard to traditional ovens.