<div dir="ltr">Dear Mr. Anil<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Sujoy Chaudhury</div><div>Center For Sustainable Solutions</div><div>Kolkata</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:43 AM, nari phaltan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nariphaltan@gmail.com" target="_blank">nariphaltan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">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!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">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!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">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!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">7. I think this jamboree (600 delegates from 50 countries) only resulted in deals and invitations to more conferences.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">Cheers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">Anil</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"> </div><div><div class="m_6252818927971879537gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)<br>Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road<br>P.O.Box 44<br>Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India<br>Ph:+91-9168937964<br><a href="mailto:e-mail%3Anariphaltan@gmail.com" target="_blank">e-mail:nariphaltan@gmail.com</a><br> <a href="mailto:nariphaltan@nariphaltan.org" target="_blank">nariphaltan@nariphaltan.org</a><br><br><a href="http://www.nariphaltan.org" target="_blank">http://www.nariphaltan.org</a><br><br><a href="http://nariphaltan.org/about-2/awards/" target="_blank">http://nariphaltan.org/about-<wbr>2/awards/</a> Awards for NARI staff<br><a href="http://nariphaltan.org/nari-in-press/" target="_blank">http://nariphaltan.org/nari-<wbr>in-press/</a> NARI in press<br><br></div></div>
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