Indian business in the last 5 years have invested more than USD 26 billion in the US New Delhi’s top diplomat in Washington has said. He also maintained that Indian IT companies employed more than one lakh people in that country,
“Indian companies are now contributing strongly to local State economies in the US with a presence in 43 states and having invested over USD 26 billion in the last five years in several key areas of the economy, in manufacturing as also in services,” the Indian Ambassador to the US, Nirupama Rao, said yesterday.