Amb. Sandhu urges corporates to help realize full potential of India-US ties

Washington: India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu has urged the corporate sector to help realize the full potential of the India-US relationship that has witnessed the strength of bipartisan support under the Biden administration. This would create value for companies and jobs for people, he said in his address at the annual board of directors meeting of the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF).

He told the illustrious group in attendance including USISPF chairman John Chambers, Deloitte CEO Punit Renjen,  Cohen Group CEO William Cohen, and FedEx president Rajesh Subramanian: “Your efforts will bring in, of course, value to your companies, money for your shareholders, benefits for your customers, jobs for the people and in a much larger plane, strategic strength to our two nations. India and US’ relationship can only be strong if you are strong and if you make us strong.”

Amb. Sandhu tweeted after the meeting, “Exchanged views on the dynamic relations between India and US across multiple sectors, and the key role  of industry in adding strategic strength to the partnership.”

Indeed, he told USISPF about multiple events that had happened recently that signified the truly multi-faceted partnership between India and the US. Those included: the Quad Leaders Summit, the successful visit of Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin to India, bilateral initiative on artificial intelligence under Indo-US Science and Technology Forum,  Apple starting to manufacture iPhones in India, Ocugen, a biopharma company based in Pennsylvania, announcing that it would approach the FDA for emergency use authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by their partner in India, Bharat Biotech, US becoming India’s second-largest supplier of oil overtaking Middle Eastern countries and ISRO shipping the radar payload made in India to NASA, for the world’s first earth observation satellite with two different radars, which will give very high-resolution images for a variety of space applications.

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