Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif presided over a meeting here on Wednesday to review progress on the Ujala Programme aimed at converting schools to solar power.
Addressing the meeting, the chief minister said that the programme would convert 20,000 schools in the province to solar power and that the programme was the first of its kind in Pakistan.
He was informed during a briefing that survey work of schools for implementing the programme had been completed.
Punjab Schools Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed, Provincial Minister Ayesha Ghaus Pasha, Adviser Dr Umer Saif, the chief secretary, and other concerned officials also participated in the meeting.
