{"id":86704,"date":"2017-12-09T09:43:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T09:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/dabs-blamed-for-estimated-electricity-billing\/"},"modified":"2017-12-09T09:43:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T09:43:57","slug":"dabs-blamed-for-estimated-electricity-billing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/dabs-blamed-for-estimated-electricity-billing\/","title":{"rendered":"DABS blamed for estimated electricity billing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"618\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/Desember\/9\/\u0628\u0631\u0634\u0646\u0627\u0627.jpg\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): The Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) has stated that in some instances, the power utility Da Afghanistan Breshna&nbsp;Sherkat ( DABS) has billed its customers against estimates, rather than proper meter readings.<\/p>\n<p>The MEC released a vulnerability to corruption assessment report regarding (DABS) in Kabul. This report covered the legal structure, corporate governance, anti-corruption policy, power distribution, financial management and customer&rsquo;s complaints handling mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>Jawed Noorani, member of the MEC, said on the occasion that the number of staff employed by the DABS means each meter reader shall note at least 400 meters a day, which sounds impossible. He said corruption exists in this regard, and customers are compelled to pay bribes to get three-phase power connections. He highlighted that the line-losses are also around 38 per cent while as in Pakistan and Iran they are around 17 and 14 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The latest study is based on interviews with 380 customers and 138 DABS employees in Kabul, Balkh, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Herat, Bamyan and Parwan provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;Waheedullah Tawhidi, spokesman for the DABS, has discarded these allegations. In conversation with Salam Watandar, he said there is, however, a possibility that some employees might be estimating rather than proper meter reading.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) has stated that in some instances, the power utility Da Afghanistan \u200cBreshna Sherkat ( DABS) has billed its customers against estimates, rather than proper meter r<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-86704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}