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6,000 villages will be connected with electricity through the
Rural Energy Agency (REA) phase three, the government has said nearly.
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| Dr Medard Kalemani |
Deputy Minister for Energy and Minerals, Dr Medard Kalemani, told
a parliamentary committee on Energy and Minerals when giving details of the
implementation of REA budget in 2016/2017 fiscal year.
The deputy minister said the implementation of the third phase
would kick off after the end of phase II at the end of June this year and that
about 6,000 are expected to be connected with electricity.
“We expect to implement the third phase in three years and we
expect to spend 1.5trillion/- in the project,’’ he noted.
According to Dr Kalemani the government is struggling to
distribute electricity in rural and urnab areas in its bid to make sure that 85
percent the country’s population has access to electricity.
“Electricity distribution in rural areas has now reached 89
percent and all villages that were not covered during the second phase would be
incorporated in the third phase which is final,’’ he added.
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