A high-level meeting was held here today under the chair of Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif to review different aspects of the process of setting up schools on solar energy under the Khadim-e-Punjab Ujala Programme.
While addressing the meeting, the chief minister said that 20 thousand schools will be provided with solar panels under this programme and told that resources worth billions of rupees would be provided for the purpose.
The Khadim-e-Punjab Ujala Programme will start from schools situated in southern Punjab and will light thousands of schools through solar energy. He said that hundreds of thousands of students and teachers will benefit from this programme and maintained that conversion of schools to solar energy is a unique project in Pakistan’s history. He hoped that the provision of solar panels to schools, where electricity is unavailable, will help to improve the educational environment there and added that the provision of resources for educating the youth is a beneficial investment. The Punjab government has taken revolutionary steps for the promotion of education, he added.
The chief minister directed the concerned officials to complete the survey at the earliest and said that this programme should be carried out with due diligence.
Provincial Minister for Schools Education Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan, Advisor Dr Umar Saif, Chairman Punjab Power Development Company Ch Arif Saeed, Secretary Schools Education Dr Allah Bakhsh Malik, a German expert and concerned officials attended the meeting.
