Shillong, Nov. 3: A day ahead of the proposed meeting on uranium mining between Meghalaya chief minister D.D. Lapang and the KSU, the students’ organisation made it clear that it would not change its stand on the mining issue in West Khasi Hills.

The organisation is demanding that the Lapang government scrap the Rs 209-crore pre-development projects at the uranium mining sites.

Lapang will meet the KSU delegation at the state secretariat tomorrow in the afternoon.

KSU president Samuel Jyrwa told The Telegraph today that there was no question of changing their stand during the scheduled dialogue.

“We have worked hard to force the government to cancel the pre-development projects at the uranium mining sites and there is no question of going back on our stand,” he said.

The KSU had earlier launched a series of night road blockades to compel the government to cancel the pre-development project as well as the actual mining of uranium.

Asked on the incidents of torching of vehicles and government offices during the KSU-sponsored agitation, the KSU leader said: “This is the sign of the people’s frustration against the adamant stand of the government on the issue of uranium mining.”

Before the meeting with the KSU, Lapang will also meet the pressure group, the Co-ordination Committee of Social Organisations, comprising Federation of Khasi Jaintia and Garo People, Ri-Bhoi Youth Federation, West Khasi Hills Students’ Union, Jaintia Youth Federation and War Jaintia Students’ Union.

Recently, the members of the co-ordination committee had barged into the main secretariat as part of the “black flag day” protest against uranium mining.

Lapang had earlier said there would not be any change in the August 24 cabinet decision to allow the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) to carry out pre-development projects in the mining sites.

He, however, told the pressure groups that he would convince the UCIL to carry out the development activities in the whole of West Khasi Hills district and not in the uranium mining sites of the district alone.