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The German Marshall Fund and the Robert Bosch Stiftung organized a four-day study tour to India for members of the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag. The study tour participants included bipartisan groups from each body as well as senior staff from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and GMF. In Delhi, the delegation met with senior U.S. and German diplomats, leading experts on the Indian economy and strategic affairs, government officials – including National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma – and over a dozen members of parliament in a meeting hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). In Mumbai, the study tour included a meeting – organized by Mumbai think tank Gateway House – with Indian industrialists and business leaders on issues such as financial regulation, the automotive industry, agriculture, and urbanization. The group also made a site visit to Dharavi, one of Mumbai’s largest slums, where they saw housing and sanitation initiatives undertaken by the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC). Image: India Study Tour participants with Indian National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon.