KABUL (SW) – Officials at the power utility, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, has begun cutting electricity supplies to the defaulters.
Heshmatullah Maiwandi, a spokesman for the DABS, said that industrial and commercial companies, residential towns, industrial parks, religious sites and public and private institutions owed the company some 23 billion afghanis.
According to a spokesman for the DABS, the Mili Steel Company owes 40 million afghanis, the ice cream company Peyman owes more than 11 million afghanis in five periods and the plastic pipe factory owes about 5 million afghanis to the DABS.
Abdul Rahman Rahmani, head for DABS, warned that the company will collapse if debtors do not pay their debts.
On the other hand, Mohammad Nasim, the executive director of one of the manufacturing companies in Kabul, blamed the delay in the payment of electricity for the recent developments and the problem of the banks, and demands more time from the Islamic Emirate.
The spokesman for DABS further said that it has been 12 days since the companies were given time to pay their debts, but they did not take action.
The debt problem of industrial and commercial companies, industrial parks, religious places and public and private firms has been lingering for a while now. According to the DABS officials, the problem has prevented them from paying for imported electricity to the source companies in the neighborhood.
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