Chandigarh, Aug. 20 -- The Union ministry of education (MoE) has asked the Punjab government to install solar rooftop plants at all 3,798 secondary and higher secondary schools in the state under the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana to meet their electricity requirement through clean energy.

The state authorities have been asked to appoint a nodal officer, identify schools, assess their rooftop area, solar capacity and prepare an action plan with fixed timelines to ensure saturation of government secondary schools with rooftop solar installations.

"The initiative seeks to extend the solar power programme to government schools under the administrative control of states/UTs with the objective of maximising the utilisation of available roof...