Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi listens to a group of potters at his janata darbar in Patna on Tuesday. Urban development minister Prem Kumar (left) brought the potters to the darbar. The members of the potters’ community urged Modi to constitute a Maati Kala Board for their uplift. The urban development minister said such committees had been formed in states like Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh for the economic development of potters. Picture by Nagendra Kumar Singh