U.S. Army Offers Its Engineering Expertise to India

 WASHINGTON: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has offered India its expertise in fields ranging from water resource management to research and development, environmental issues and construction of facilities for soldiers and civilians.

"I think it's a wonderfully advanced country in many respects, and their engineers are some of the brightest, I think, in the world," Lt Gen Thomas Bostick, Commanding General and Chief of Engineers for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.

"So I think where we can best help is where India feels it has a need," he said briefing foreign media on the corps' operations in the Asia Pacific region.

"For India it's really their decision or any other country to advice on what they can provide."

Bostick, who has travelled to India though not in his official capacity and "studied with a lot of engineers from India" listed among his corps' strengths "great water resource management expertise," research and development, work on environmental issues besides construction.

"So any one of those areas," he said. "I think that the first step is probably to continue to have the dialogue with countries to see where needs may not be met and if those needs can be met by an organisation like the Corps of Engineers."