Nancy J Powell, US Ambassador to India, made her maiden visit to the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute of India office in Ranchi on Tuesday. A brief presentation about CMPDI and new areas of colloboration identified for cooperation from USA was made before Powell by RK Chopra, director (T/RD&T) at CMPDI.
The Ambassador addressing the head of departments, told that USA is interested in developing business environment, better education in Jharkhand, etc. and particularly, to the Indian business community that wanted to invest in USA. India, Ethiopia and USA need greater cooperation in the field of technical innovation, business development, etc, she said.
Powell stressed on commercial development of shale gas, which might be the game changer for India’s energy scenario. It was emphasised that the dilogue with India on issues pertaining to the energy sector viz. coal sector, clean energy, nuclear energy and other source of energy sector would be taken up further in coming times by US side. She expressed that one of the major aim of her visit is to betterment of Indo-US relationship. She stated that in contrast to the earlier days when the cooperation was almost one sided, India has developed a lot and now it can co-operate in development of USA also in many areas.
Subsequently, Powell also visited CBM/CMM clearing house of India and CBM lab at CMPDI. Helen G lafave, US Consul General and Gaurav Bansal, Consul for political and economic affairs accompanied the ambassador during her visit to CMPDI. The meeting was also attended by DK Ghosh, Director (T/ES) and MK Jha, CVO, CMPDI.