In the first two years of the second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP-II), some 993 villages have received access to electricity and 146 towns’ electric supply has been upgraded, according to the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity. The Ministry further said that during the last six months, under the National Electrification Program, 254 villages have got access and the electric system of 35 towns has been upgraded.
The National Electrification Program aimed at raising the electric access of the country to 90 percent at the end of the GTP-II through electrifying 10,205 towns and villages.
Accordingly, during the last two years of GTP-II, the Program has electrified 65 new villages and upgraded the services of three towns in Amhara State, has electrified 346 and upgraded the services to 82 towns in Oromia and 228 and 47 in Southern Regions respectively.
GTP-II still has two years and a half to go. At the end of the first Growth and Transformation Plan, about 4727 towns had access to electricity. The electricity coverage was 54.25 percent.
