Khattar, on a visit to the US, met officials of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health yesterday in the city of Baltimore in Maryland state, to invite them for the construction, maintenance, expert training and research activities of the Kalpana Chawla University in Haryana.
The chief minister said the Haryana government wants to promote super speciality services in the health sector so that people could get specialist health care services in the state, a media release said.
Chawla was one of the seven crew members killed in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster.
Later, the Haryana delegation led by Khattar met Maryland Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford, in state capital Annapolis where they agreed to explore the possibilities of cooperation in the fields of bio-technology, life sciences and agriculture, cyber security and engineering.
In a bid to take forward sister-state relations between Haryana and Maryland, the chief minister said that the state government was also looking forward to exploring cultural exchanges and avenues for cooperation.
Later, the chief minister paid rich tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, offering flowers at his statue in Washington DC. He also visited Swami Narayan temple at Robbinsville.