Access to electricity for minority communes
Feb. 25 (VNA) -- Minority people in six communes in the Central Highlands will have access to the national electric grid by the end of April.
A project to bring electric light to 1,750 minority households in Ro Men, Lieng Sron, Dam Ron, Da Long and Da Tong communes in Lam Dong province and Krong No commune in Dac Lac province started in Ro Men commune on Feb. 24.
The project, consisting of a 1,600 KVA-35/22 KV intermediary transformer station, 19 subsidiary transformer stations with total capacity of 958 KVA and 35 km of medium-voltage lines, is estimated to cost more than VND 7 billion.
In addition, about 40 km of 0.4 KV lines will be installed at the cost of VND 2 billion, which will source from the provincial budget.
Lam Dong province supplied electricity to 36 communes, most of them being ethnic and new economic communes, in 1997.
Up to now, as many as 87 out of its 106 communes or 46 percent of rural households have accessed to the national power grid.
The province plans to pour about VND 18 billion to bring electricity to 14 remote minority communes this year, raising the communes having light to 96 percent.--VNA
