Indo-US relations |
The 3.5 million Indian-American community has an important role to play in strengthening Indo-US ties, Indian Ambassador to the US Arun K Singh said, underlining that people-to-people contact is a key dimension of the bilateral relationship.Singh told members of the Indian American community in Cleveland and those attending Republican National Convention at a reception hosted in his honour.At present there are 3.5 million Indian-Americans in the US and they are all over the US. There are 110,000 Indian- origin doctors in the US, he said, adding that recent statistics show that every seventh patient in the US is seen by an Indian doctor. Forty per cent of the all hotel rooms in the US are owned and managed by people of Indian-origin, generating USD 13 billion to the US economy. Besides, every year about 140,000 Indian students come to the US for higher studies bringing is about USD 4.5 billion to the US economy.
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