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...Will it work? "The policy is completely untenable," says Kishwar. "We have worked with the MCD on model hawker bazaars, but these don't work. Street vendors make their livelihood under conditions that cannot be created artificially in a new area." Narain Das, a food vendor in the Nehru Place commercial complex, says most vendors are ruled out from the start because they cannot comply with the court's hygiene requirements. "And where will they find land to build shops for hundreds of thousands of us?" he asks. Commercial property prices in Delhi are similar to those in major financial...
...Sunita Narain, director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the New Delhi-based NGO that conducted the research, says the hullabaloo misses the point. "This wasn't supposed to be about Coke and Pepsi," she says. "Our fight is with the government." In 2003 the CSE published a similar report to agitate for quality standards for soft drinks to match those for milk, baby food and bottled water. Rules have since been drawn up by the Indian Bureau of Standards, but Narain says the government is dragging its feet on their implementation. Last week's study was meant...
...soft-drink giants are less delighted. Coca-Cola says its drinks have been rigorously tested by independent laboratories and conform to strict quality standards, and both companies have taken out newspaper ads challenging the CSE's research methods and findings. Unconcerned, Narain counters: "We are not in this to prove Pepsi and Coke wrong-and as long as we get those standards, I don't give a damn if they prove me wrong...
...Task Force may even be making the crisis worse. In its recommendations, it tries hard to balance concern for the animals with promoting the rights of poor farmers and tribal groups who share their land. "There are villages inside core tiger-reserve areas with no food, no education," says Narain. "While we need to arm guards and build fences, we also need to find ways to improve the lives of tribals and other poor people." But any gain for people can be a loss for the tiger, and conservationists argue that the tribal communities sometimes assist poaching. "Every tiger that...
...pressing problem than air and water pollution. There is also a widespread feeling that the developed world, which grew rich while freely spewing carbon, should take most of the responsibility for climate change. "Our issue is that, first and foremost, the U.S. needs to reduce its emissions," says Sunita Narain, director of the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi. "It is unacceptable and immoral that the U.S. doesn't take the lead on climate change." The Bush Administration, in turn, has rejected Kyoto partly because developing countries were exempt from emissions cuts...