INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
country.The Organization for Development, Renovation, and Equipment of Schools, the School-Building Donors Association, and the Renewable
Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization, known as SATBA, signed the agreement in Tehran on Saturday, ISNA reported.Some 50,000 schools are
ready to be provided with solar and wind energy, the report added.The head of SATBA has said his organization plans to establish at least
one solar park in each province in collaboration with Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO).Mahmoud Kamani said
the necessary permits have been issued by the government for some of these parks and the primary works have started on one of them in Qazvin
Province, IRIB reported.Last month, the SATBA head announced the construction of 110,000 solar power plants with a capacity of five
kilowatts (KW) for low-income groups in the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 21.Kamani also announced that the tender for
the construction of solar power plants with a capacity of 2,200 megawatts, left over from the plan for the construction of solar power
plants with 4,000 megawatts capacity in the past year, will be also held this year.Regarding the follow-up of the construction of renewable
power plants in the new year, the official said that a plan for the construction of renewable power plants was announced by the minister of
energy at the beginning of the 13th government, and in 1401 (past Iranian year), the necessary preparations for the implementation of this
plan have been followed up and some measures have been taken in this due.In early February, the official announced that the capacity of
Iran's renewable power plants reached 1,020 megawatts (MW) with the 10-MW Pasargad Solar Farm of Damghan coming into operation.Making the
plant has a special feature as it can generate electricity from the reflection of sunlight
percent share.In January, the first national event of future schools was held with the aim of promoting the use of knowledge-based
technologies in schools.The event highlighted the role of technology in modernizing schools as well as educational and sports spaces.The
Majlis (Iranian Parliament) has approved a special budget to support building schools nationwide.Accordingly, the Ministry of Education
should spend one percent of the revenues of state-run companies and the net profits of banks and private institutions to build schools in
deprived areas in line with the goal of promoting educational justice.Half of the schools across Iran are built with the participation of
benefactors, Mohammad Reza Jafari, CEO of the School-Building Donors Association, has said.About 40,000 donors are active and involved in
building schools across the country, he stated, adding, over 49 percent of schools, amounting to 150,000 classrooms, in the country are
built with the participation of school-building benefactors.Construction of sports spaces, libraries, and developing smart schools are among
the current needs in school construction, he further highlighted.School building benefactors have allotted a total of 34 trillion rials
(nearly $70 million) to construct educational spaces across the country over the [Iranian calendar] year 1400 (March 2021-March 2022), ISNA
reported.According to Nasser Ghofli, the director of the Association, 400 school-building charities have been registered in the country so
