American businesses focusing on Indian states for investment:

With the US-India relationship getting "broader and deeper" under the Trump administration, American businesses are now focusing on Indian states for investment purposes, the president of a new advocacy group established to deepen bilateral partnership has said.
This week Madhya Pradesh Chief Ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu visited the US to attract American investment.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is slated to lead a high-powered delegation to the US next week.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper was in India recently. Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and Texas Governor Greg Abbott are soon leading a delegation to India. California Governor Jerry Brown too is likely to travel to India.

With the investment from the US going to states in India rather than to New Delhi, it is important that the businesses build relationship with the state bureaucracies, state political leadership, said Mukesh Aghi, president of recently formed US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF).
"What we're seeing is business leaders who come here or state chief ministers who come here tend to be much more receptive to some of the issues the companies face and much more receptive to inviting more investment into the State level," Aghi told PTI.

The strategy is to keep on working building relationship on a state by state basis, he said.

Early this week, a big delegation went to Lucknow to meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
"The relationship is now getting broader and deeper. What we're seeing is now we businesspeople are bypassing Delhi, bypassing Washington DC and they are building relations at the state level. This is because states have more authority...from a taxi user perspective, policy perspective...to make a business friendly environment itself," Aghi said.
Responding to a question on flurry of state-level visits, Aghi said this trend is likely pick up pace.