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Saibal Dasgupta | TNN


Beijing: China has agreed to include India in a three-nation (China, Japan and South Korea) joint mechanism on climate control, minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday. "We must plug into what they are doing,'' he said.
Ramesh said India wanted to emulate China on the use of technology and management controls to reduce emissions and poisoning of rivers. He told his Chinese counterparts that India would like to be made part of a mechanism on climate control issues. China has promised to take up New Delhi's request with the two other member countries, he added.
Impressed with the way Chinese have taken up cleaning up of rivers and lakes, Ramesh said: "We do not have a major scientific institution in the area of environment.''
Two Indian teams would be visiting China by the year-end to study Chinese methods of dealing with industrial pollution and cleaning up of lakes and rivers, Ramesh said. "China has followed a more scientific approach in cleaning up rivers and lakes,'' he said, adding that crores spent on the Ganga and Yamunna have not yielded significant results.