“A date was offered by the US side for the meeting and both the countries are working on it,” official sources said.
It is understood that Washington has proposed September 30 as the date for the meeting but the Indian side is looking at clubbing the bilateral meeting with Modi's visit to the US for the United Nations General Assembly around September 26.
US Secretary of State John Kerry last month had conveyed to S Jaishankar, the Indian Ambassador to the US, that the US looks forward to welcoming Modi to the country.
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal is scheduled to hold meetings in New Delhi over the next several days establishing the first high-level contact between the Obama Administration and the Modi government after the new government assumed power on May 26.
