Economy, education key topics at India-US CEO meet Monday

Washington, Nov 23 (PTI) The reconstituted Indo-US CEO
Forum is scheduled to hold its first meeting Monday, setting
out the agenda for the next phase of relationship in business,
industry and economy between the two countries.

Among the areas of cooperation would be education,
science and technology.
The meeting would be co-chaired by Tata Sons chairman,
Ratan Tata and David Cote, chairman of fortune 500 Honeywell.
Tata heads the 12-member Indian delegation to the CEO Forum
while Cote leads the US side.
The Forum members would also be meeting its members to
get a private sector perspective on how to expand economic
cooperation.
"Our hope is that the Forum will inform the choices of
government leaders, as it has in the past, and thereby enhance
our joint competitiveness and ingenuity," Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs Bill Burns said last week.
Another area of partnership would be in developing clean
technology.
Speaking at a the Carnegie Endowment for Peace last week,
Burns had said, "We need to harness their creativity to find
new solutions for sustained economic growth, which will
greatly depend on the move away from old fossil-fuel
development to more low carbon, energy efficient
alternatives." MORE PTI LKJ
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