KULOB, June 10, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- As of June 1, 2011, electricity debts of the city and the district of Kulob amounted to 18.883 million somoni, the head of the Kulob municipal power supply network, Jumakhon Sharipov, said.

According to him, residential customers alone now owe nearly 15 million somoni to the municipal power supply network.

“Over the first five months of this year, we have supplied 6,397,370 somoni worth of electricity to residential customers in the city and the district of Kulob and they have paid only 3,716,192 somoni so far,” Sharipov noted.

He added that up to 6,000 electricity meters would be replaced in the city and the district of Kulob until the end of the year.