A meeting was held on Wednesday in Mumbai to discuss the issue. State assembly speaker Dilip Walse-Patil and officials from the PMC, PCMC and the Pune Zilla Parishad, were present. The issue of water pollution had been discussed at the last assembly session and at that time Walse-Patil had promised to convene a meeting to discuss the matter.

An official present at the meeting told TOI that the state government had decided to appoint secretary-level committee which will collect information, look out for pollution of water sources and submit a report to the state government.

The rivers in Pune are polluted as the PMC treats only 55 per cent of the sewage generated. Of the 700 million litres a day (MLD) sewage generated, only 500 MLD is carried to the treatment plants and just 382 million litres actually gets treated. The PMC plans to further augment its network of sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the next two years. A provision of Rs 93.59 crore has been proposed by the PMC to augment the sewage treatment plants in the PMC's 2010-11 budget draft. The PMC has also received grants under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to augment the STPs.