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AURANGABAD: A group of activists staged a demonstration in front of the municipal corporation building demanding that corporators take up the Jayakwadi water issue with the state government. The agitators on Friday said the peoples' representatives should join the fight to get the government to release more water from upstream dams into the Jayakwadi, the city's only source of drinking water. They resorted to a whistle-blowing agitation in front of the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). Raising slogans against the civic body, Jayakwadi Pani Sangharsha Kruti Samiti convener Jayajirao Suryawanshi said the representatives were not being vocal about the issue. "The city is solely dependent on the Jayakwadi and a drop in its water level directly affects the distribution. But the corporators have not pushed for water to be released from dams upstream. We appeal to them to come forward against the injustice," he said. Suryawanshi added that the 99 corporators and five

AURANGABAD: The civic body's anti-encroachment department on Saturday cleared a 600-metre long passage of a nullah between two housing societies at Garkheda Parisar. An administrative officer in the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, Priyanka Kesarkar, said residents had blocked the passage of the natural nullah situtated near Shahanoormiya Dargaha, by installing concrete pipes, measuring four feet in diameter, inside it. As a result, the fifteen foot wide nullah passage was reduced to a mere four feet. On Saturday, when the AMC team when to the spot with two bulldozers, residents in the area tried to justify their actions They said the water flowing through the nullah would give out a foul smell. But the AMC team managed to convince them that narrowing the nullah would lead to water logging during the monsoon, said Kesarkar. Another AMC officer said that the residents were issued notices while the nullah was being covered that blocking the flow of water was illegal, but they had g