He was presiding over a meeting to review steps relating to the off-grid solution. Similarly, water supply schemes, agricultural tube-wells and schools will also be gradually converted to solar energy.
He said that solar energy projects will be initially started in Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Koh-e-Suleman, Fort Munroe and Rajanpur. The off-grid solution is necessary to meet the growing energy needs and far-flung villages will be illuminated through it. It will also benefit the people and the government will save billions of rupees.
Similarly, waste-to-electricity projects are also being reviewed, he added. Provincial ministers Dr Akhtar Malik, Hashim Jawan Bakht, ACS (energy), secretaries of energy, finance, P&D departments and others attended the meeting.