Earlier, I did not have the skills. When I saw others making stoves, I felt weak. Now, I feel happy to make stoves and make others smoke-free. This skill is now used to run the household.

Now I am running a small workshop. The income from this has been able to make my family happy. The stove I make is modern and smokeless.

I am 71 years old now. I started this work at the age of 42. I live in Chandannath Municipality-5, Karkibada. Initially, it was difficult to sell stoves. Now it is difficult to meet the demand. There is a rush from ordering to buying and taking away stoves.

The month of Mangsir is almost over. In this cold season, hammering iron with a hammer gives a different pleasure. It was around 2040. A businessman from Bhota brought a modern stove for sale. After seeing it, my heart felt happy. I started thinking about how to make it. I learned to make a stove by looking at it. I didn't have the money to invest right away. I also wasted my skills for a while.

I am now 71 years old. I started this work at the age of 42. There is a saying that the stove returns after twelve years. The same thing happened in my life. In 2052 BS, an organization called ISIMOD prepared to take me to Kathmandu for stove-making training. I have never been as happy as I was then. I went to Kathmandu and learned in depth about how to build a stove. Now I am working on everything from fitting ready-made stoves brought from outside the district to making and selling them myself. I feel very happy when the stoves I made are sold.

Earlier, there was no telephone facility. It was customary to send orders by 'Raibar'. Now they order over the phone. Some people deposit money in their bank accounts. Some people happily hand it over. I was like unemployed until I took up this profession. Wherever I looked, there was no place that satisfied me. Stoves made using local resources are being sold for 3500 to 9 thousand rupees. I order zinc sheets from Nepalgunj and make pipes here. The price is determined based on the size, thickness, design and heating capacity of the stove.

Customers are satisfied with the stoves I have made. Customers are also demanding more because I make strong stoves. Now the local government is also running a campaign to make smoke-free villages. Due to which I have found that the demand for stoves has increased.

I have been making stoves during the rainy season. So it is easy to provide stoves as per the order in winter. Times have changed now. However, I am making materials by modernizing the old skills. With the income I earn from selling stoves, I am educating children. With this income, I buy salt and oil. With this enterprise, I have not had to go to Kalapahad. There is no compulsion to leave my family and go abroad.

The stove I have made has removed the smoke and dust from many houses. I am earning between four and four and a half lakh rupees annually by selling stoves. Out of which, up to two and a half lakh rupees are spent on salt oil, rice, children's education, clothes, etc. With the remaining money, I am buying raw materials to make stoves. The stoves are now supporting the expenses of 12 people.