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Last week during a meeting with 25 pupils from Sioma Secondary School, President Sata expressed surprise that ZESCO had not connected Shang’ombo to the national grid despite his directive when he went to open the district hospital.
Mr. Chitundu says his firm has already been to Shang’ombo to do scoping and the costing of the whole project of connecting the District to the national grid and that what is remaining is for government to release the funds for them to implement the presidential directive.
Mr. Chitundu explains that the best line to connect the District to the national grid will be a 132 KV line but that the power utility firm can still set up a 66 KV line which will cost approximately 20 million United States Dollars.
And Mr. Chitundu has disclosed that in tandem with the Presidential directive to connect Shang’ombo District to the national Grid,ZESCO also intends to connect some parts of North Western province to the national Grid.
Electrification is an essential part of development and education.
It is an important component which makes other progress possible – but its not the only one.
For a Western Province to be economically successful the local structures and decision makes need to create the conditions which allow development.
This means sometimes changing the way things are done.
It does not mean giving up your land for little return, in fact if progress in development is made those who who parted with
land for little gain will one day bitterly regret it and they will have to explain to their grandchildren why they did it.
Jaybs