India, Feb. 21 -- The Maharashtra government has formed a 12-member committee under the leadership of the additional secretary of the urban development department to revisit blue and red flood lines of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad and prepare new development rules. The committee has been instructed to submit the review report within two months.

Earlier, Pimpri-Chinchwad MLA Shankar Jagtap had raised the issue of flood lines in the Maharashtra assembly, demanding that they be revised. Following Jagtap's demand and previous petitions by social activists such as Sarang Yadwadkar, Vijay Kumbhar and Vivek Velankar, the state government decided to constitute the 12-member committee.

A government resolution (GR) for constituting the committee was...