Besides the appointment of a leading lawyer, the set up a two-member committee comprising higher and technical Education minister Chandrakant Dada Patil and excise minister Shamburaj Desai to monitor the on-going litigation before theSupreme Courton theMaharashtra-Karnataka border dispute.
The decision was taken at the first meeting of the high-level committee headed by chief minister Eknath Shinde to resolve the border dispute between the two states. Besides Shinde, the meeting was attended by deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan. NCP president Sharad Pawar and leader of opposition Ajit Pawar did not attend the meeting though both are members.