U.S. Working On Ambitious Roadmap For PM Modi-Barack Obama Meeting: Nisha Biswal

Biswal said that following his meetings with Modi and senior Indian government officials, Kerry came away "with a conviction that there is an enormous amount of energy, enormous amount of opportunity, possibility that we want to focus on."

The Strategic Dialogue was a forum where the U.S. officials were able to sit down with their Indian government counterparts to "lay a bit of a path" for what kinds of actions and initiatives the two nations want to focus on.

Biswal said in the economic sphere, there is a great deal of desire to see what can be done to create an infrastructure platform that will allow American companies to be able to focus their tools, technologies and capabilities around the priorities identified by the Indian government.

"This would essentially allow a bit of information, analysis and match making to take place and this is something that both sides are working on," she said.

Biswal said the U.S. is also very focussed on Modi's desire to boost manufacturing adding that they are more possibilities ahead of investments by major U.S. companies into creating manufacturing platforms in India.

"We think that fundamentally for these things to really launch in a big way, both countries need to work together to create the right enabling environment, so that the regulatory and policy environment is one that is conducive of attracting the maximum amount of investment collaboration. That requires actions in both countries. So we are looking to see how we can work together to advance that," she said.

Another area identified by the Indian government as a key priority is energy security.