Under its Rural Electrification program, the Rabaul District Administration continues to pump more money into making electricity more accessible to people in the communities. A recently approved RE project at the cost of K100, 000 will cover Iawakaka ward, Clifton resettlement ward 5 in Rabaul Urban LLG and Kuraip ward in Gazelle District. Under the public-private-partnership arrangement, BTK Constructions is being engaged to construct and rollout the programme in Rabaul district under the district services improvement program while the PNG Power is the regulator. District Architect Nathan Midian when giving an update on the project said 10 poles and an existing transformer is already available for Kuraip. Rabaul and Gazelle districts will share costs for electricity to be established at Kuraip, as it is located in Gazelle. He said Kuraip ward is also covered under the Kurakakaul Growth concept which will see a proposed police barracks also built therefore the RE project will be constructed. Mr Midian said 40 households at ward 5 in the Clifton resettlement will benefit from the project. The overall population residing within and along these communities will benefit and economic activities can be boosted for the people. During the progress of the RE project, wooden poles used to transfer power will be changed to galvanized steel poles to cut down on maintenance costs. This work will kick off next week. Meantime District Administrator Benedict Mode has commended the progress work so far on the district RE programme. He said power cables lying on the ground is dangerous and risky to commuters especially students and villagers. He appealed to ward members and their development committees to assist the technical team moving around in their wards to address these issues.