DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 13 (NNN-IRIN) – Tanzanian Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa, said yesterday, 10,361 villages out of the country’s 12,317 villages, have been connected to electricity by Oct, 2021.
Adjourning a two-week parliamentary session in the capital, Dodoma, Majaliwa said, the number of villages connected to electricity was equivalent to 84.12 percent of the East African nation’s villages.
“The government will ensure that the remaining 1,956 villages will be connected to electricity by Dec, 2022, through the second phase of the Tanzania rural electrification programme,” he told the House.
He said, electrification of the 1,956 villages will cost 1.24 trillion Tanzanian shillings (about 539 million U.S. dollars).
In Addition, Majaliwa said, implementation of the 2,115MW Julius Nyerere Hydroelectric Power Plant, in the Rufiji River Basin, reached 55.6 percent, and the implementation of the 80MW Regional Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project reached 81.2 percent.
Majaliwa said, the government was also implementing a number of electricity generation projects, aimed at making the country power self-sufficient in the near future.– NNN-IRIN