WB-banked technology project underway soon

MWANZA: A 37bn/- worth Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP) at Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT)-Mwanza Campus is expected to be in full operation by the end of this financial year, it has been revealed.

The World Bank-sponsored project is composed of administration and academic blocks, two hostels, and a leather processing ginnery, with part of the infrastructure already in use.

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The Institute’s Principal, Professor Preksedis Ndomba, has said today, April 24^th, during the project’ steering committees’ tour to inspect the EASTRIP that:

“The hostels and a part of the teaching block are in use. Upon its full completion, the project will have a capacity to accommodate 2,000 students from the current 200,” he said.

The EASTRIP Coordinator, Dr Fredrick Salukele, commended the progress, affirming that apart from academic issues, the project is also for pastoralists after the leather processing ginnery becomes operational, provided that the Lake Zone has a high number of livestock.

“The ginnery, therefore, will be serving as a reliable market for hides and skins, to change people’s livelihood, economically,” he said.