Potters to assist Bharatpur’s clay griddle makers in upgrading kilns
The Hindu
IIT-D initiative makes furnaces more efficient and less polluting
Traditional potters from Bharatpur district’s nondescript Unch village will travel to Deeg teshsil’s Punchari village next week to assist clay griddle makers in fabricating their kilns with a modified design. The furnaces set up with technical upgradation in Unch have helped potters scale up their production of earthenware with better strength and lesser breakage.
The potters, forming the Kumhar community, in Unch have benefited from design interventions and new baking techniques for their furnaces, making the kilns more efficient and less polluting, as part of an experiment undertaken by Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi’s (IIT-D) Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG). A total of 14 such kilns have been set up in the village since January this year.