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"Total yearly income of urban households in India is expected to reach USD 4 trillion in 2030. So, India's
emerging regions and cities are now at the top of the list of our Growth in Emerging Metropolitan
Sectors (GEMS) initiative," Bryson said here at an IACC function.
GEMS had been launched by the US to look around the cities in the world that have huge potential for
growth and business.
"We are strongly encouraging businesses across the US to consider the full spectrum of opportunities
and partnerships throughout India and not just in four metros (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai),"
he said.
Bryson, who will visit Jaipur tomorrow, said that close working of businesses and governments of both
the countries can help support India's path towards inclusive growth.
"I will continue to spread the word that India's success and India's future are not solely defined by Delhi
or Mumbai alone, just like America's success and America's future are not defined by New York,
Washington," he said.
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US supports India's investment in nuke projects
The US is strongly supportive of India's investment in the civil nuclear power, and its support to the
NGOs goes for development and democracy programmes, the Obama Administration has said.
"We are supportive as a government of India's investment in civil nuclear power. That's not what we
support NGOs to do in India," the State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters at her
daily news conference on March 1, 2012.
"Our NGO support goes for development, and it goes for democracy programmes," Nuland said when
asked about the recent remarks by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an interview to the
Science magazine that three US-based NGO are funding anti-nuclear power plant projects in Tamil Nadu.
The US official said that the country is supportive of India's investment in civil nuclear power and the
NGOs funded by it are involved in the same kind of democratization projects.
"Are you surprised and shocked that this statement comes from the prime minister of India, and if the
secretary is aware of this?" she was asked. "I can't speak to that one way or the other," Nuland said.
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U.S. tech groups alarmed by India purchasing plan
Leading software and technology companies on Wednesday pressed President Barack Obama's
administration for quick action on a new Indian government policy that they said threatens exports to
the fast-growing economy.
The Business Software Alliance, Telecommunications Industry Association and other groups said in a
letter to Trade Representative Ron Kirk that they were "deeply concerned" by a plan that would require
the Indian government to give domestic electronic goods preferential treatment in its purchases.
The plan by India's Department of Information Technology's also covers "products that have undefined
'security implications'" and potentially software, the groups said. "Most troubling, however, are the
(Indian government's) plans to use its regulatory power to force government licensees to purchase