US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is embarking on a trip to India with an assurance that President Barack Obama is deeply committed to strengthening relations with India with a deep appreciation of common challenges posed by issues like terrorism.

T can tell you, I've sat with the president as he's met with the Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) at their principal meetings so far,' he told select Indian media ahead of the visit discounting suggestions about public perception in India that the relationship was losing momentum under the Obama administration.

'I've watched him, listened to the president on this kind of stuff and I know he shares that kind of view very strongly,' he said when asked about the sense of dismay in India about the level of US cooperation on issues like terrorism in the context of Mumbai terror attacks.

T think there's certainly a deep commitment on the president's part to strengthen this relationship, a deep appreciation for the challenges India's facing and the common interest we're facing on these kinds of things.'

'It would be helpful for me to be there and again try to do as much as I can to underscore the sense on the economic, financial side that we're working closely together on ways that we think are very responsive to these concerns, ’ Geithner said.

On terrorism finance, 'We have a lot of very productive, constructive things we've been able to do together on that front, we'll keep doing it,' he said declining to give any detail.