The growing Indian-American community will play a major role in strengthening ties between India and the US, with the diaspora making significant contributions in fields such as technology, services and economy, a senior US State Department official has said.
"The US-India relationship will be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century, but we know that governments alone cannot realize the full promise of this potential and that is why we need the Indian-American community's ideas, energy and commitment," Desai said.
In his role at the State Department, Desai, a second generation Indian-American, engages with the private sector, NGOs as well as various diaspora organisations to strengthen coordination between experts from the two countries.
Desai said the Indian community living on foreign shores has a crucial role to play on a range of issues, including facilitating people-to-people exchanges, internship projects, philanthropy, as well as further accelerating US-India state-state and city-city
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