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Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>THE government has set aside 41.8bn\/ to connect electricity to 125 remaining villages to ease electricity woes in Rukwa.<\/p>\n

Tanesco\u2019s Rukwa acting Region Manager, Eng Danford Yungu, said here, during the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) held here in municipality recently under the chairmanship of Regional Commissioner (RC) Mr Joseph Mkirikiti.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe remaining 125 villages will be connected to electricity during round two of the third phase of rural electrification programme,\u201d Eng Yungu said.<\/p>\n

The region has 339 villages out of which 184 equivalent to 54.3 per cent have been electrified under Rural Energy Agency (REA) programme. The villages to be benefited are 55 in Sumbawanga, 47 in Kalambo and 23 in Nkasi. Two contractors, JV Pomy Engineering and Qwihaya General Enterprises, have been contracted to undertake the project for 18 months at 41.83bn\/-.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe execution of the project started in August under supervision of consultant engineer Mercados\u2014Aries International in cooperation with Tanesco.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe contractor is currently undertaking detail survey and network design whose implementation works has so far reached 60 per cent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The RC, Mr Mkirikiti, urged REA to ensure the remaining 125 villages are provided with electricity as contractual schedule.<\/p>\n

The government plan is to ensure all remaining villages are provided with power in the round two of the third phase rural electrification project at over 1.2tri\/- to ease electricity woes countrywide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Tanzania. THE government has set aside 41.8bn\/ to connect electricity to 125 remaining villages to ease electricity woes in Rukwa. Tanesco\u2019s Rukwa acting Region Manager, Eng Danford Yungu, said here, during the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) held here in municipality recently under the chairmanship of Regional Commissioner (RC) Mr Joseph Mkirikiti. \u201cThe remaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-39022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"\nRukwa to receive 41.8bn\/- for rural electrification - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE government has set aside 41.8bn\/ to connect electricity to 125 remaining villages to ease electricity woes in Rukwa. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/rukwa-to-receive-41-8bn-for-rural-electrification\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rukwa to receive 41.8bn\/- for rural electrification\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE government has set aside 41.8bn\/ to connect electricity to 125 remaining villages to ease electricity woes in Rukwa. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/rukwa-to-receive-41-8bn-for-rural-electrification\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-19T16:55:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/img-616ee061b60a2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/rukwa-to-receive-41-8bn-for-rural-electrification#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/rukwa-to-receive-41-8bn-for-rural-electrification\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rukwa to receive 41.8bn\/- for rural electrification\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-19T16:55:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/rukwa-to-receive-41-8bn-for-rural-electrification\"},\"wordCount\":229,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/rukwa-to-receive-41-8bn-for-rural-electrification#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/img-616ee061b60a2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/rukwa-to-receive-41-8bn-for-rural-electrification#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/rukwa-to-receive-41-8bn-for-rural-electrification\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/rukwa-to-receive-41-8bn-for-rural-electrification\",\"name\":\"Rukwa to receive 41.8bn\/- for rural electrification - 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