A 35-year-old Kailash Mahakur of Charpali village in Dhankauda block of Odisha has come up with cow dung diyas to promote eco-friendly traditional lamps this Diwali. To support people suffering economically,15 people are engaged in making and marketing the diyas. Kailash’s effort is a driving force for adopting cow dung instead of earthen soil or clay to make diyas. Kailash owns a cattle form of eight cows, he wanted to make use of cow dung in a sustainable manner.
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He was inspired by a video in social media showing the process of making cow dung diyas and decided to give it a try. The raw material includes cow dung powder and a premix powder. The premix powder comprises tamarind seed and cluster bean seed powder besides ‘multani mitti’ acts as binding agent. Utilizing the flour mill machine the entrepreneur he himself made the cow dung powder. The premix powder source was extracted from the internet and ordered 40 kg of it online for INR 100 per kg. He also ordered a few molds for making the diyas, each for INR 600 and is a month old venture.
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Kailash gives the perfectly mix raw material mixture and the moulds to the people who are instructed to make the diyas and the village people return the finished earthen lamps to him after drying them. For colouring and packing two persons were involved separately.
