The Senegalese Rural Electrification Agency, as part of its electrification project for 90 villages in the country, financially set at 1.429 billion, spent Thursday in the district of Ndindy to ratify the enrollment of 04 villages of the locality. The ceremony chaired by Jean Michel Sène, General Director of the structure, allowed the populations to welcome the commissioning of their strongholds.
Jean Michel Sène clarified that he and his teams are working to electrify several other regions, knowing that the electrification rate is still quite low in reference to the number of villages or even in relation to households. “The authorities of this country have assigned us to achieve universal access by 2029. More than 600 villages are, as we speak, in the process of being electrified. The rate is 65.67% of non-electrified households in the country. In the Diourbel region, including Touba, there are 2,168 villages and only 790 villages are electrified. Which makes a rate of 35% of villages electrified.”
Jean Michel Sène regrets that the gap is still quite gigantic considering that development is almost strictly linked to electricity…
