RAWALPINDI: Punjab chief minister (CM) distributed solar lamps among students under the provincial government’s Ujala Programme, so their studies would not be interrupted by loadshedding.
Some 17,000 houses will benefit from solar lamps, said the CM while gifting lamps to students of educational institutions in Rawalpindi division at Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University.
The solar lamps which cost Rs250 million were given to students who excelled in examinations.
Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif promised that students who score 60 per cent marks in examination would also be awarded laptops in the coming days.
He said a care-taker set up would be installed in the country in the next six to eight weeks which would help in steering the country out of the crises it was presently facing.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2013.
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