100 villages electrification nears completion

Initiated in September 2007 via a US$84 million loan from Swedish banks to the Botswana Government, the electrification of the 100 villages had a timeline of 36 months within which to achieve one of Government's major infrastructural objectives.

Yesterday, officials at Eltel Networks, the principal contractor for the project, said the Swedish company and its local sub-contractors were driving hard to electrify the remaining seven villages within the stipulated period.