{"id":55241,"date":"2019-09-15T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=55241"},"modified":"2019-09-13T18:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T13:17:50","slug":"schools-in-punjab-to-shift-to-solar-power-by-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/schools-in-punjab-to-shift-to-solar-power-by-december.html","title":{"rendered":"Schools in Punjab to shift to solar power by December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Minister for Energy Akhtar Malik has announced that all schools in Punjab will be shifting to solar power by December this year, a news source reported. The shifting will take place in phases and in the first phase, the government will switch 10,862 schools to solar power.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/10800-south-punjab-schools-run-solar-power.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Over 10,000 South Punjab schools to run on solar power<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minister Malik shared this information while presiding over a meeting held on Thursday (Sep 12). The meeting was also attended by officials from Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), who briefed the minister over the plan to convert government schools in the province to solar power.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/canadian-firm-to-work-on-solar-projects-in-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian firm to work on solar projects in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minister Malik revealed that approximately 5,000 schools across Punjab have already been shifted to solar power. The programme is set to benefit 1.8 million students. Under this project, 2,636 schools in Lahore, Rajunpur, Layyah and Dera Ghazi Khan will be energised through solar power. The PITB will monitor this solarisation of government schools in Punjab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Minister for Energy Akhtar Malik has announced that all schools in Punjab will be shifting to solar power by December this year, a news source reported. The shifting will take place in phases and in the first phase, the government will switch 10,862 schools to solar power. Read:\u00a0Over 10,000 South Punjab schools to run on solar power Minister Malik shared this information while presiding over a meeting held on Thursday (Sep 12). The meeting was also attended by officials from Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), who briefed the minister over the plan to convert government schools in the province to solar power. Read:\u00a0Canadian firm to work on solar projects in Punjab Minister Malik revealed that approximately 5,000 schools across Punjab have already been shifted to solar power. The programme is set to benefit 1.8 million students. Under this project, 2,636 schools in Lahore, Rajunpur, Layyah and Dera Ghazi Khan will be energised through solar power. The PITB will monitor this solarisation of government schools in Punjab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12999],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-55241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-schools-in-punjab-to-shift-to-solar-power-by-december"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Schools in Punjab to shift to solar power by December - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: Punjab Minister for Energy Akhtar Malik has announced that all schools in Punjab will be shifting to solar power by December this year, a news\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/schools-in-punjab-to-shift-to-solar-power-by-december.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Schools in Punjab to shift to solar power by December - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: Punjab Minister for Energy Akhtar Malik has announced that all schools in Punjab will be shifting to solar power by December this year, a news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/schools-in-punjab-to-shift-to-solar-power-by-december.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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