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AURANGABAD: A day after chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said that the government was seriously contemplating the introduction of Shirpur pattern of water conservation in drought-hit Jalna district, senior geologist and water expert Suresh Khanapurkar, one of the pioneers of the pattern, expressed confidence on making the district least dependable on the newly inaugurated water supply scheme. Shirpur pattern has been successfully implemented in drought-hit Dhule district and impressed by it, the chief minister announced an aid of Rs 8 crore for the Jalna administration to introduce the pattern. "It is just a matter of time that the residents will no more be dependent on any other source of water than the ones within the district limits," Khanapurkar told TOI. "As per the monsoon pattern, Jalna gets rain at least three times more than their annual consumption. However, as the district is poorly equipped, all the rainwater gets drained away. To tackle the problem, the w

AURANGABAD: The Jalna civic administration was in for a shock to find that as many 30,000 water supply connections in the city as against 16,000 legal connections. The civic body has appointed a 12-member squad to trace, disconnect and regularize such connections. The municipal corporation stumbled this factor only after it started supplying water only alternate day, from May 1, after a gap of several years. Jalna, around 60 km from here, is the worst drought-hit district in the state. It started receiving regular water supply through the 88-km lwater pipeline from the Jayakwadi reservoir recently. The administration heaved a sigh of relief, which did not last long, because it stumbled upon the fact that the city has more than 30,000 illegal water connections in the city, compared to only 16,000 legal water connections. According to the Jalna Municipal Council (JMC) records, the city has around 45, 000 properties registered with its property tax department. However, there are only 1