Thursday November 23, 2017
Kabul (BNA) Complaining on recent power outages in the capital Kabul, a number of citizens said Breshna Company didn’t really pay attention in the respect.
A number of Kabul residents told that however, the power is being imported from Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan with high price, but they don’t know why they face power outages.
Two Kabul residents Khalil and Marouf said, “Lack of power has faced the people with many problems.” They added we are the university students and have to study our lessons in darkness. They hoped Breshna Company to seriously pay heed and solve the problem.
It is merit to mention that power is free of charge in some countries of the world, but in Afghanistan, however, the people pay their power bills on time, but they cannot properly and comfortably use it.
They called the government relevant administrations responsible in this regard, adding however, the technology has reached its peak in other world countries, but we are still deprived of power
People believe that however, the government high-ranking officials are hugely using the power, but they have never faced its outage. Those who are poor and have innumerable financial problems have always been faced such challenges, an action which is not fair. The spokesperson to Breshna Co. Wahidullah Towhidi asked the people not to use more power, because, it will negatively affect transformers.
He said to heat their homes, the people have started using electronic heaters.
He assured the Kabul citizens that Breshna Co would normalize the power soon, and they would transfer 15mgw power to other areas.
Head of Breshna Co. Amanullah Ghalib said power outages would continue by the end of 2018. To solve the problem, the ministry of finance is expected to allocate $30mln to the company to increase the power capacity, he further said. Recently, Breshna Company has signed an agreement to extend 500kv power line from Sheberghan to Dasht-e-Alwan, Pul-e-Khumri
Work on the projects would be started next year with financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank grant worth $74mln.
Head of the company said, the projects would connect Central Asia with South Asia and would take 54 months to be completed.
Shukria Kohistani
