Chandigarh: Punjab is expected to ride on a technology breakthrough by the Chinese, whereby straw can be used as cent per cent raw material for running boilers.

An experiment to produce power from straw was made at Jalkheri in Fatehgarh Sahib district in 1992, but without any success.

An attempt to revive the project by handing it over to a private firm in 2001 also did not succeed due to la