The foundation laying ceremony of a 3.8 MW solar powered electricity generation plant at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad would be held on Tuesday (today).
The ceremony will be organised at the university’s Postgraduate Agricultural Research Station. It will be presided over by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
A UAF spokesman said that the chief minster would also inaugurate the solar green houses that would enable the university get green energy. He said the university was setting up the plant in collaboration with Apollo Ampex Private Ltd to produce clean and pollution 3.8 MW free solar energy.
He is also scheduled to meet an Austrian delegation, which includes Austrian Ambassador Mag Axel Wech, former Austrian defence minister Herbert Scheibner, Austrian Parliament member Gerhard Huber, and Rainer Kertes, CEO of an Austrian company.
The spokesman said that the CM will also inaugurate UAF’s Community College on Jhang Road.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 27th, 2013.