Mr Mwijage made the remarks at Kamachumu Secondary School located at Irogelo Village in Muleba District, Kagera Region, when inaugurating power projects in the area.
The Deputy Minister asked development stakeholders to help supplying rural secondary schoos which have been connected with electricity with electric appliances, including computers.
"It is our anticipation that apart from motivating students to study during the night, the power will make it possible for the schools to adopt modern teaching-learning aid, including computers and projectors" he said.
Mr Mwijage said recent statistics indicate that the demand for power have gone up after the government started implementing rural power projects through the Rural Energy Agency (REA).
He advised rural dwellers to seize the opportunity of power availability in their areas to initiate income generating projects, including establishing small-scale plants for processing crops.
"After the completion of installation of a gas pipeline from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam, we expect that we would be capable of supplying reliable power to our clients as well as reaching more people especially in rural areas" he said.
REA representative Hussein Shamdasi said until June this year when the second phase of rural electrification project will be finalized, a total of 250,000 clients will have been connected to power.
For her part, the senior manager with the Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (TANESCO) in the Lake Zone, Ms Joyce Ngahyoma, said smooth implementation of REA project was hampered by the fact that residences of most rural people were widely scattered.
"Most houses in rural areas are located for from one another as each family possesses large farming land near to their residences" said the manager.
Credit: The Citizen
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