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IITs bring US closer to India
On a day this month when the US Congress was not in session, hundreds of graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) filled members seats in the House of Representatives to listen to a handful of Congressmen speak about India-US technology cooperation.
Congressman Tom Davis, a Republican from Virginia, looked at the Indian audience and quipped: It is unlikely we have ever had this much brainpower in Congress before.
Davis remark was typical of the praise lavished on alumni from Indias elite technology schools by politicians and pundits during a conference here May 20-22.
Participants at the conference, titled Technology Without Borders, focused on US and Indian collaborative efforts in technology, education and business. They discussed potential risks and impediments to new trade and economic development for India.
As India and the US stand poised to upgrade their cooperation in high technology, engineers, hi-tech entrepreneurs and scientists produced by the IITs have been at the forefront of a technology boom in both countries.
Arun Shourie, a former Indian information technology minister, said though he regretted the fact that the country loses 100,000 professionals a year who emigrate, the IIT graduates have changed the worlds perception of India.
Some 40,000 IIT graduates live and work in the US.
Trade between the US and India in 2004 reached USD 20 billion
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