{"id":85280,"date":"2025-09-07T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=85280"},"modified":"2025-09-07T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:43:15","slug":"millions-worth-of-solar-panels-stolen-from-govt-schools-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/millions-worth-of-solar-panels-stolen-from-govt-schools-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions worth of solar panels stolen from govt schools in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: An audit report presented in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-mpa-slaps-pml-n-lawmaker-in-punjab-assembly-heres-why\/\">Punjab Assembly<\/a>\u2019s Public Accounts Committee-III has revealed that solar panels worth over Rs 6.5 million were stolen from 50 schools in Rajanpur district during 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>The committee expressed serious concern over the incidents and directed that police investigations be conducted across the province, warning that similar thefts could occur in other districts as well.<\/p>\n<p>Committee member Tanveer Aslam Malik stressed that strict instructions be issued to district police officers in the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>He further stressed that comprehensive records of the targeted schools and clarification should be made as to whether any stolen panels were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Education department officials confirmed that police cases have been registered in connection with the thefts.<\/p>\n<p>However, the audit department pointed out that local education authorities have failed to ensure the safety of solar panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: An audit report presented in the Punjab Assembly\u2019s Public Accounts Committee-III has revealed that solar panels worth over Rs 6.5 million were stolen from 50 schools in Rajanpur district during 2022-23. The committee expressed serious concern over the incidents and directed that police investigations be conducted across the province, warning that similar thefts could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[960,19042],"class_list":["post-85280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-punjab-assembly","tag-additional-duty-on-solar-panels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85281,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85280\/revisions\/85281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}