5 thousand billion Rials facilities will be granted to tourism projects
According to the Heritage Aria reporter, the signing ceremony of this memorandum was signed today, Wednesday, December 13, 1400, by Saeed Ouhadi, Deputy Minister of Management Development of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Handicrafts, Ali Asghar Shalbafian, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Morteza Khami, CEO of Tourism Bank and Hossein Rahmati, Deputy CEO. .
“It is a great success that this memorandum was signed in cooperation with the Tourism Bank today,” Saeed Ouhadi, deputy director of management development at the Ministry of Heritage, Culture, Tourism and Handicrafts, told the meeting.
He added: “Fortunately, the government has provided a good opportunity to use the facilities of Note 18 of the Budget Law. “All agreements have been concluded by this ministry with the operating banks related to this note.”
Allocation of 15 thousand billion Rials from Note 18 of the Budget Law
Ouhadi added: “In the budget law of 1400, the government has included a very good capacity for the prosperity of production in the form of paragraph A of Note 18, which was fortunately fairly distributed among the agencies and from these sources about 15 thousand billion rials to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. “Tourism and handicrafts were allocated, and it was decided that as much as these funds are deposited in the banks at a rate of one percent, the banks would allocate one and a half times those resources and pay at the preferential rate in the form of facilities approved by their bank.”
He added: “In this regard, a memorandum of understanding was signed today with the Tourism Bank, which will allocate 2,000 billion rials from this ministry, and one and a half times this amount will be allocated by the Tourism Bank and in the form of facilities to applicants soon.” It will be paid.”
Ouhadi continued: “Of the 15,000 billion rials of credit allocated for this ministry, 40% is allocated to the field of handicrafts and 60% to the field of tourism, which is considered with the approach of completing projects. From these facilities, projects over 70% “Progress will be completed to help boost employment in the country.”
“Our forecast is that 40,000 new jobs will be created from these resources,” continued the Deputy Minister of Management Development of the Ministry of Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts.
“In order to better monitor this memorandum, a joint committee consisting of experts will be formed, whose task is to closely monitor and monitor activities at the headquarters and provincial levels,” he continued.
The effect of using the resources of Note 18 on job creation
Ali Asghar Shalbafian, Deputy Minister of Tourism of the Ministry of Heritage, Culture, Tourism and Handicrafts, also spoke at the meeting. “Completion of half-finished projects has an impact on employment.”
He added: “I thank the officials of the Ministry of Heritage, Culture, Tourism and Handicrafts for their efforts in the last three months to create a new movement to use the resources of Note 18. “We hope that, following the Ministry’s follow-up, we will receive the consent of the relevant authorities regarding the use of Note 18 resources for the reconstruction of tourism projects, and that we will also be able to increase the figure allocated to the field of tourism.”
Preparation of Tourism Bank for financing projects
“I am very happy that the Ministry of Heritage, Culture, Tourism and Handicrafts has trusted this bank,” said Morteza Khami, CEO of the Tourism Bank. “I promise that the managers of this bank will do their best to implement this memorandum as well as possible.”
“Given its mission in the past to promote tourism and support the tourism sector, the bank has provided good credit from domestic sources, along with memoranda of understanding with the National Development Fund, and has managed more than 100 major tourism centers,” he said. “To finance.”
“With the memorandum signed today, we intend to use the bank’s capacity to finance tourism projects for completion and development across the country,” he added.
“The Tourism Bank has the expertise and ability to support the tourism sector in the travel sector, as well as its hardware sector, namely hotels and resorts,” said the CEO of the Tourism Bank.
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