SHILLONG: With a hope to break the ice over uranium mining issue in Meghalaya, the Centre is sending its emissaries one after another to the State. The latest one, after the recent visit of Union Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrashekar and Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar, is Principal Advisor to Department of Atomic Energy VP Raja. Mr Raja will arrive in Shillong on September 22 to discuss with the State government, political parties and prominent NGOs the proposed Kylleng-Pyndeng-Sohiong uranium mining project in West Khasi Hills. Official sources are hopeful that the Principle Advisor would be able to convince the parties in the State Government and the NGOs opposing the uranium project. It may be mentioned that both Mr Chandrasekhar and Mr Kakodkar said they had received mixed response from the political parties and NGOs in the State over the project. KSU recently rejected a Rs-800 crore compensatory package offered by the Centre for the people of West Khasi Hills saying that this was one form of 'bribe' to appease the people to carry out mining. Besides construction of important roads, a community health centre and five PHCs were proposed to be set up under the package in West Khasi Hills. The package also offered a polytechnic to train the locals to be employed in the uranium mining sites.