U.S. MNC Consortium To Aid Smart City Operations In India

This initiative is especially likely to benefit Vishakhapatnam, Allahabad and Ajmer, which have been identified by the Indian government for smart city operations.

Officials of the U.S. government have interacted with the state governments in these three cities and set the tone for private sector participation by American companies.

The capability deck bridges the information gap and Indian partners will find it much easier to work out high technology solutions across the board.

"The consortium will offer competitive and cutting edge technologies of U.S. expertise, products, services, know-how and solutions in fields of infrastructure, energy and smart city domains," Singha said.

"Transformation solutions across urban development, transportation, energy, IT and telecom are on offer," he added. 

The group will endeavour to synergise their efforts with the inter-ministerial committee for U.S. investments set up by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce, the trade body said.

The inter-ministerial committee has already met twice and has taken upon itself the onerous task of addressing individual challenges faced by U.S. companies while implementing and expanding their business plans in India, it said.

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