2,900 villages get electricity

The Balochistan government has provided electricity to as many as 2,900 villages in various districts of the province during the last financial year. The government has spent Rs12 billion on the scheme during the said period to provide the electricity facility to maximum number of residents, an official of Balochistan government told APP here Thursday.

He said the provincial government has also provided small-scale solar energy systems to 5,000 households at a cost of Rs900 million and converted tube wells and street lights on solar energy.

He said that multiple power supply projects would be formulated at a specific location in offgrid areas which would benefit the people of the far-flung area. The official told that the Balochistan government was working to provide solar geysers in mosques.