ISLAMABAD:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government has launched a programme to properly utilize solar energy to overcome shortage of electricity.
A Spokesman of Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization (PEDO) told our Peshawar correspondent that under the programme, about six hundred million rupees have been spent on converting tube wells to solar energy. Similarly, efforts are underway to convert four thousand five hundred mosques to solar energy.
The spokesman added that work on solarizing one hundred villages across the province will start next week.
About two hundred Basic Health Units are also being converted to solar energy to provide uninterrupted power supply to them. APP/AFP