Verma will cover Jaipur, Chandigarh and New Delhi and the focus sectors besides energy and climate change will include education and skills training and retail sector.

"I am looking forward to returning to India to play my part in further strengthening our relations. I am particularly delighted that I will be accompanied by business people keen to explore opportunities for business and collaboration in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan," the Indian-origin Minister said in a statement here.

"The UK is committed to being India's partner of choice and it is our strong and long standing business, education and low-carbon energy links that provide the backbone of this relationship," she added.

The UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State's visit is part of a series by senior British government representatives, and follows her participation in the Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in London last month.

In Jaipur, the UK minister will call on Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and will deliver a keynote address at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) event on 'Strengthening UK Trade with Rajasthan'.

In Chandigarh, the minister will call on the deputy chief minister of Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal and senior officials in the Haryana government.

She will deliver a second keynote address at a CII event in the city titled 'Strengthening UK Trade with Punjab and Haryana' followed by the closing address at a panel discussion on UK education and Chevening Scholarships.

In New Delhi, she will call on the ministries of the environment, forest and climate change, and power, coal and new and renewable energy; parliamentarians active on climate change, and Dr RK Pachauri, director-general of the Energy and Resources Institute and chief of the intergovernmental panel on climate change.

She will also attend a round table discussion on energy efficiency and renewables organised by CII, and a Chevening-McKinsey Round Table on the economics of climate change.