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Ravi Shankar Prasad calls on US tech firms to invest in 'improved' India

Minister skips Facebook, WhatsApp offices during four-day trip to Silicon Valley

Ravi Shankar Prasad
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Ravi Shankar Prasad

Kiran Rathee New Delhi
Electronics and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, on a four-day trip to the US, met leaders of Silicon Valley tech firms, calling them to forge deeper partnership with India and invest in an “improved” climate.

Firms such as Apple, Amazon, Mastercard, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Walt Disney, and PayPal, among others, met the minister at a seminar organised by US-India Strategic Partnership Forum and the Consulate General of India. Prasad also met chiefs of Google, Wipro, Oracle, and GE.

Inviting the US companies, Prasad said: “India offers improved investment climate, growing market, a large pool of talent and improved profitable destination