5.1 Infrastructure

Regarding infrastructure the town has four main inlet and outlet roads connecting it to different weredas in the zone and surrounding zones.  The distribution of roads as per the type of construction materials shows that 140.5 km are gravel, 8.4 km asphalt, 2 km cobblestone and 135 km are compacted earth roads.

The town gets 24 hours electric supply from the national grid, and has wireless, mobile and fixed telephone lines, internet services, and a postal service with 500 boxes. The main water supply source of the town is ground water and spring distributed through piped network and thirty public taps. The town has open ditches to discharge storm water.

5.2 Houses

There are 3,024 houses in the town, while the estimated backlog is 351. The available dominant construction materials are wood and mud.

5.3 Transport

There is daily inter-urban transport service to and from ten towns. The town has a bus station for inter urban mode of transportation. There are one minibus and 235 Bajaj taxis giving intra-urban transport services.