Ahead Of New Delhi Visit, Kerry To Deliver Major Policy Speech On India

"By launching India: 2020, the Center for American Progress will set the stage to help India and the United States work toward enhancing peace and economic prosperity across Asia and moving global governance institutions beyond their current structures into the 21st century," the major American think tank said.

"India 2020 is a new Center for American Progress initiative to better understand and explain the changing dynamics in India. We call it 2020 because we are focused on the direction India is moving; we are more focused on where India is going, than where it's been," Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress told PTI.

Rich Verma, a Senior Fellow at CAP (and former Assistant Secretary of State under Hillary Clinton), will be leading this initiative in close coordination with Vikram Singh, CAP's national security vice president, who served in various capacities at the State Department and the Pentagon in the Obama Administration.

"We call it 2020 because it will look at India with clear eyes. As an example, so many policy makers think of India as its central government alone; however, we'll explore issues also at the state and regional level," Tanden explained.

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