The State has sent a letter to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) demanding why only a nine-metre green belt has been demarcated on either side of the Ramnadi instead of a 30-metre belt, despite it being been designated as a river by the PMC general body. 
The State has also questioned the PMC's move to approve the survey of hilltops and hillslopes in Pune based on studies by a company called Monarch and not the one carried out by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
The questions were asked in response to BJP corporator Ujwal Keskar's recent letter to the State.
In the letter, Keskar had demanded that the Ramnadi continue to be given the status of a river as stated in the 1987 Development Plan. He had also objected to the PMC forwarding a survey of hilltops and hillslopes to the State without seeking the approval of the PMC's general body.
Source: Times Of India, Dated, April-05-2008
