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| Sunday, 19 October 2003 |
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'Deepaloka' brightens Jaffna peninsula by Elmo Leonard Seventy-percent of households in the Jaffna peninsula, now have access to electricity, following the commissioning early this month of 11 electricity projects in the northern district, funded through government expenditure of Rs 1 billion. Ten of these electricity projects have been built in Chavakachcheri and one in Vadamarachchi, all with local CEB _ Ceylon Electricity Board, expertise. Hitherto, the war-torn northern district, with less than 20 per cent of households in access to electricity, had the lowest rate of electrification in the country, a spokesman for the Ministry of Power and Energy said. The electrification rates in the country vary from 92 per cent in Colombo, to 47 per cent in rural areas against the national average of 62 per cent, according to CEB statistics. The lighting up of the Jaffna peninsula is part of government's efforts to increase the availability of electricity to 72 per cent of the population within 290 days, beginning September 29. |
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