Rural Electrification

Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas, to facilitate availability of electricity for accelerated growth and for enrichment of quality of life of rural and semi-urban population.

Electric lighting expands the productive and social hours in the day. Radios and television provide accessible, affordable entertainment and education. Power machinery can raise productivity and improve working conditions. Most important, electrification brings with it expectations for progress and a better future.

Rural Electrification has a crucial role to play in the spread of irrigated farming, mechanization of other agriculture development programs such as threshing, milking, and hoisting grain for storage; in areas facing labor shortages, this allows for greater productivity at reduced cost improving the standard of living and the economic competitiveness of the family farm.

Gatanga Rural Electrification Programme seeks to facilitate competitive, client-friendly and development-oriented organization for financing and promoting projects covering power generation, power conservation, power transmission and power distribution network in the Gatanga. Working to fulfill the Gatanga Constituency's power requirements by providing timely and prompt services, by mobilizing funds from various sources at lowest possible cost striving to improve Gatanga Constituents’ Living Standards on continual basis.

The following projects have been completed;

Other completed projects include;

• Gitiri Trading centre
• Gataka-ini Trading center
• Mugumo Trading centre
• Gacheria Market