[Stoves] Delhi clean cooking forum meeting

[Sujoy Chaudhury]

Dear Mr. Anil

I could not make it to the Forum and your very succinct feedback is most
appreciated. I would like to think why a forum for working with the poor
should costs $ 300.

Regards
Sujoy Chaudhury
Center For Sustainable Solutions
Kolkata

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:43 AM, nari phaltan <nariphaltan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just came back after attending the clean cooking forum meeting. I am
> writing detailed articles on my observations and suggestions and hope these
> articles will be syndicated. Here are my cursory impressions.
>
> 1. The data on daily deaths from indoor pollution is suspect. It will
> always be since it is impossible to pinpoint one cause when there are
> millions of causes for death. So the issues raised by Nikhil are valid.
>
> 2. However this scarce has raised the level of engagement of rich and
> famous people - people who would not have thought at all about how poor
> people live. This might have an effect of raising funds and putting people
> to focus on rural poverty.
>
> 3. Also this also has a danger of raising brain-haired schemes like
> electric induction cooking for rural poor. The poor households have never
> seen electricity and now they will supposedly get electricity for cooking!
>
> 4. The LPG program of GOI is in full swing. This gives mileage and brownie
> points to the present administration despite the fact that 90% LPG in India
> is imported (50% imported and 40% produced from imported oil). There are
> serious problems on the ground (both logistics and otherwise) but it looks
> good to brag in international forums.
>
> 5. The registration cost of US $ 300/- was steep and I have no idea where
> it was used. Except we got sumptuous meals (most of the food was also
> wasted) and a big Bollywood tamasha on the gala dinner eve. I do hope the
> excess food (there were innumerable meat dishes) was given to rural poor
> and at least on those days the Delhi air might have gotten less pollution
> from indoor cooking!
>
> 6. The Delhi air was polluted and the visibility was 50-100 meters. Kirk
> Smith told me that it is due to indoor air-pollution and not due to
> vehicular pollution - really taxing the credibility of the data and the man!
>
> 7. I think this jamboree (600 delegates from 50 countries) only resulted
> in deals and invitations to more conferences.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Anil
>
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