The ASCE leadership will also seek the Section’s good counsel and advice on the proposed global strategy for India. Following reports that the Indian government will further accelerate invest¬ment in infrastructure and that in so doing has found that there appears to be a deep skills shortage in the civil engineering profes¬sion in India, there may be ways for ASCE to assist with specific needs as identified. It is hoped that the India Section will have knowledge of what the civil engineering profession and Indian civil engineers perceive their needs to be, to both empower them in their personal employment activities and to build capacity within the civil engineering profession in India.