Will Deliver On Promises, Build India Of Your Dreams: Modi To Indians Abroad

"India can supply the workforce to the world," he said, suggesting that India should export its trained teachers and nurses across the world.

He also proposed that the diaspora should join in the efforts to rebuild the country, a "vikas jan andolan" or a mass movement for development - in helping in any way they could.

He referred to the skill development that his government has launched for the youth. He said his government has created a skill development ministry and would invite other countries to join in the effort.

He also referred to the Make in India campaign the government launched ahead of his U.S. visit to invite investments and to manufacture in India as also the sanitation campaign to make a Clean India, a movement which he said would gladden the hearts of Indian abroad who often get turned away by India's pervasive squalor.

After two days in New York, Modi travels to Washington Monday for summit talks with President Barack Obama, his top cabinet colleagues and congressional leaders to renew and revive a bilateral dialogue and strategic partnership that seemed to have run into uncertain weather in recent times.

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