Saturday February 27, 2016
Kabul (BNA) Afghanistan’s main electric utility or Da Afghanistan Brishna Shirkat (DABS) said that the Kabul city’s power problem, resulted from the militant’s devastation of several power pylons in the turbulent northern Baghlan province had been tackled, after several pylons were re-fixed. Qudratullah Delawari, DABS’s CEO told media that, the power problem had been tackled, helping the Kabul citizens continue accessing a ceaseless power use, after completion of the work on repairing the two towers destroyed by the armed oppositions in Dand-e-Shahabuddin conflicted region of Baghlan province, where the officials conditioned the normal power flow to the Taliban refrain from re-destruction of the towers. He also reported from the work continuation on the two other pylons near the neighboring Kunduz and three others in Faryab province. According to him, the DABS lost up to $18 million in the recent four months, during which, the Dollar price soared up against the Afghni currency. “The loss would be retrieved from the costumers in the new solar year (1395),” said Delawari who added the company also suffered a loss of up to $2.5 million during the month-long outrage forcing it rely on thermo power plants diesel generators that would be replenished by a raise in the power bill on the costumers.
Kabul city deepened in darkness after, the Taliban militants, during the fiercest clash with the government forces destroyed two Turkmenistan imported power pylons costing heavy losses on the electric industrial factories and power-relied education institutes. Frustrated with the repeatedly power outages, the Kabul citizens asked the government for deploying more troops for using tougher action against the militants, along the volatile areas, where the power transmission lines secure capital’s electricity. Nawid, a Kabul citizen of Khoshhal Khan told that the government should pay serious attention to the capital’s power issue and help the people regularly use the imported electricity for their needs. “Power matters more in the people’s life and anything is linked to a sure electricity current.” Another Kabul citizen, Maryam thanked the Da Afghanistan Brishna Shirkat (DABS) for sending its provincial team to the conflicted Dand-e-Shahabuddin area, after the security forces swept mines around the collapsed power’s pylons. He hoped the problem was permanently tackled so that the capital’s residents could resume their power linked affairs.
Shukria Kohistani
