INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-- A total of 7,509 development tasks came on stream in towns across the country by rural administrations.The jobs were inaugurated on
the event of the success anniversary of the Islamic Revolution (February 1-11), IRNA reported.Some 36 trillion rials (about $90 million)
were spent on the development projects.The largest number of jobs were related to the improvement of rural roads with 5786 projects,
equivalent to 77 percent of all projects.Creating parks and green spaces, developing firefighting stations, as well as sports and cultural
places were likewise amongst the significant projects.More than 37,300 rural administration workplaces are operating in the country, using
services to about 95 percent of the countrys rural population.The Majlis (the Iranian Parliament) has actually authorized an overall of 31
trillion rials (nearly $77 million) for rural advancement in the spending plan costs for the existing Iranian fiscal year (March 2022-March
2023), IRIB reported.By designating this quantity of budget plan, the whole credit of thorough development strategies will reach 42 trillion
rials, Akbar Nikzad, head of the Housing Foundation, said in June 2022
The thorough development strategies intend to develop backwoods in line with cultural, financial, and social conditions, in addition to real
estate arrangement for the rural citizens and improving environmental services
There are around 40,000 towns in the nation with more than 20 homes, for all of which thorough development plans have been approved every 10
years, and after this duration, the village thorough development plans need to be reviewed.The strategies have actually up until now been
evaluated and re-implemented for 4,000 towns with more than 20 households in the nation, he stated.Currently, 26 percent of the nations
population lives in villages, around 39,000 villages have more than 20 homes and 23,000 towns have less than 20 households.Thus, more than
97 percent of the nations rural population lives in towns with over 20,000 households.In Iran, where towns account for producing 20-23
percent of the value-added in the country, the development of backwoods has been constantly a top program of the federal governments
activities.Many efforts have been made over the past number of years by the federal government to support villagers and slow down the trend
of migration from rural areas to cities.Rural tourist, agritourism, religious tourism, and ecotourism are alternatives or complementary
financial activities that might even more stimulate rural advancement while reducing rural neighborhood dependence on one main economic
sector (agriculture, forestry, energy, or mining)
Mohammad Omid, the then vice president for rural advancement, said in November 2020 that for the very first time in the country, the
migration of individuals from rural areas to cities has actually reached zero.MG
