Aside from thorny bushes and that occasional yellow desert flower there is very little that meets the eye on the plains that forms Solapur.

The criteria for the award were: an addiction free environment, clean village with appropriate water facilities for drinking as well as other uses, availability of basic primary health care facilities, implementation of most applicable government schemes, sophisticated farming practices, among others.

There are some tributary streams that flow south to the Man River, but these only have water during the monsoon season.

[2] Percolation tanks provide some water, but not enough to ensure the survival and quality fruiting of pomegranate trees using traditional irrigation techniques.

However, the introduction of the efficient technology of drip irrigation changed the scope of farmers' cultivation.

Farmers began experimenting with pomegranate installed drip irrigation systems in the early 1980s.

In fact, marketing of pomegranate has become such a good business that several youth in the village have entered it.

A few farmers from this village were invited to make a presentation on development of horticulture at the World Bank conference held in Pune in 2010.

And the farmers agree that prosperity is possible only because of effective water management and the drip irrigation systems.

If farmers collectively decide to not to exceed this depth, it will solve the problem to some extent and save their money that usually goes waste in taking deeper bore wells, costly/ high Hp pumps & the heavy cost on electricity bills.

There is also a government funded childcare and mother-care center (Anganwadi) within the village as part of the Integrated Child Development Services program started by the Indian government to combat child hunger and malnutrition in 1975.

Ajanale is connected by the State Transport Buses that ply between Sangole and Atpadi.