The Indian side is in contact with China to firm up a meeting for Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office, Prithviraj Chavan, for seeking Beijing's support on the deal but no date has yet been fixed.
"We are still in the process of working out," official sources said. The meeting is likely to be held early next week as the IAEA is to meet on August one.
Chavan last visited China in October 2007 as part of the delegation of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who was on a visit to the Communist nation at the invitation of President Hu Jintao in his capacity as the ruling CPC General Secretary.
China, a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG), has so far maintained studious ambivalence on its position on support for the deal, to which Pakistan has raised objections on the ground that it would trigger a nuclear arms race in South Asia.
Pakistan, China's "all weather ally", is also pushing for a deal similar to India's with the US while Beijing has already assisted it in building two nuclear reactors.
