ISLAMABAD - Needy residents of Gwadar will be delivered and installed 3,000 solar sets from March 14 to help heel power inaccessibility and long-hour power outage, Gwadar Pro reported on Tuesday.
The first solar installment has commenced from the home of the person whose children were killed in a bomb blast which ripped through at Gwadar Expressway in August 2021.
In the first phase, a database of 1,000 people has been streamlined. The installations will be executed on a day-to-day basis. In the next phases, the rest sets of solar plates will be doled out accordingly.
The ceremony was held in the attendance of Gwadar Assistant Commissioner Athar Abbas, Commander 440 Brigade Brig Fahad Mansoor Kiyani, city notables and the general public.
It is a continuation of China’s humble act of gifting solar panels to marginalised people of Gwadar City , taking a hit by unavailability of electricity over the last many years.
In November 2019, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment donated more than 3,200 sets of solar photovoltaic systems and LED lights to local people who were either suffering from worst power load shedding or living without electricity.
China Overseas Port Holding Company’s official Majid said that the entire process of gifting solar system to residents of Gwadar has come into force in collaboration with China, CPEC authority and local administration.
The people-centric move was devised when PM Imran Khan along with Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong addressed a groundbreaking ceremony of several projects at Gwadar port on July 5, 2021.