120 mosques, schools to be powered by solar energy December 28, 2006.
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He said those villages would be selected which had no electricity and were not included in the government’s priority list for rural electrification within the next 20 years. He said many people living in Pakistan’s rural areas had no access to electricity and added that the provision of electric utilities to remote rural areas was a social service that the government would provide in order to increase their standard of living, health, and education.
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Solar energy to illumine 400 villages
““The PC-1 for electrification through solar energy has been approved and an amount of Rs 450 million allocated for the project,” he said. He said the Adviser to the Prime Minister, Dr Mohammad Ali, held a meeting with the district Nazim Arbab Anwer recently and tenders for illuminating Pakistani villages through solar energy were being evaluated.
He said the Asian Development Bank has defended the project on solar energy in the Planning Commission of Pakistan but the funding is being done by the government of Pakistan. “We hope to involve the private sector in a big way,” he added.”

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