India-US ties strong; no way around leveraging tech prowess India offers: Nasscom Chairperson

India and US have maintained strong ties in strategic areas of cooperation and techlogy over years and that focus is expected to continue, Sindhu Gangadharan, new Chairperson of IT industry association Nasscom said on Wednesday.

comment assumes significance as re have been broad concerns about implications of US Presidential elections for over $250 billion Indian outsourcing industry as well as on employment-based immigration.

On how she sees outcome of US elections impacting Indian outsourcing industry, Gangadharan told PTI: "I think India and US have always focused on strategic areas of cooperation, when it comes to tech...I think re's doubt that cooperation has been extremely strong over last years."

"So matter what outcome of US election will be, I think re's way around leveraging phemenal tech prowess that India has to offer....t just for US, but rest of world," she added.

India has scripted a strong Global Capability Centre (GCC) story, and number of such centres being set up and expanded are "mind-boggling".

"Today, if I just look at number of GCCs in 2024 that have come in from US, and really look at t just setting up from scratch, but also expanding set-ups that y have, it has been just mind-boggling to see those number of conversations that we've had throughout course of year. So matter what outcome of elections, that is going to continue," she said.

Gangadharan - who is MD of SAP Labs India - was named new chairperson of Nasscom in August this year. She succeeded Rajesh Nambiar who was appointed as President Designate of apex IT industry body.