A resolution to this effect was passed at the special board meeting which was convened to file a reply to the interim report submitted by the committee instituted by the Bombay High Court on the status of the garbage dump giving short term and long term solutions to the problem. The tragic death of Great Secret, the three-year-old race horse which was found dumped in the garbage yard only to be devoured by animals and flies sparked off a major controversy on the inhuman abandoning of the carcass and the resultant health hazard.

Incensed by the apathetic attitude of the cantonment board in the disposal of waste in a primarily industrial zone, the Hadapsar Industrial Environment Estate Group filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court in the month of March. The division bench comprising of the Chief Justice and Justice A P Shah recommended the formation of a two-member committee to look into the issue.

Accordingly social activist Almitra Patel from Bangalore and S K Chawla from Delhi, a solid waste management expert prepared an interim report on the subject which came up for hearing at the board meeting. The report suggested shifting the dump from its present site by the year 2001 AD and absorbing the existing dump into Devachi Urali consisting of 42 acres which is run by the Pune Municipal Corporation.