Kent Mayor Dana Ralph and two other city officials recently traveled to India to learn more about Indian culture and economic development opportunities.
In October, Ralph, City Councilmember Toni Troutner and Kent Economic and Community Development Director Kurt Hanson joined a 16-member delegation of Washington state mayors and council members on a trip to India. The delegation included State Sen. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines, and local mayors and a few city council members from Issaquah, Tukwila, SeaTac, Mukilteo, University Place and DuPont, according to the Consulate General of India, Seattle.
The trip was sponsored by the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), a private university in Bhubaneswar in the Odisha province of India. KIIT is currently building alliances with Washington colleges for academic and industrial exchanges. According to Ralph, the university has memorandums of understanding with the University of Washington’s Seattle and Bothell campuses and Seattle University, and is also working with Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma…