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MANIFESTO WEEK: Government To Electrify A total of 620 Administrative Centres

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Government secured funding to electrify a total of 620 administrative centres, accorinding to Energy Minister, Mary Goretti Kitutu.

These include 558 Sub-County headquarters, 52 Town Councils and 10 divisional headquarters.

Kitutu was presenting the status report on the implementation of the manifesto for the past five years.

Construction commenced in October 2019 and currently covers 20 districts. Forty five (45) sub-contractors have been approved for the project and twenty (24) of the sub-contractors have already been deployed.

A total of 252,460 connections was achieved under the Electricity Connections Policy since 1st November, 2018 when it started implementation.

Government is promoting use of renewable energy technologies in the Country. The Country now has 40MW of solar grid connected systems. Solar water heaters have been installed in various health units across the country.

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