At least 13,000 billion tomans of financial resources are needed to meet the basic needs of industrial estates / 950 this year

According to Shata, quoting the public relations of the Small Industries and Industrial Towns Organization of Iran, Ali Rasoulian stated this at a meeting of the Council of Heads of Chambers of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture across the country, adding: “One megawatt of electricity costs us 1.5 billion tomans.” The Ministry of Energy is obliged to transfer electricity in towns and even industrial units, but we can not wait for the Ministry of Energy to provide the necessary credit, so we have to build a substation and a 63.20 substation costs at least 80 billion tomans. This is while our budget did not reach 200 billion tomans last year, but this year we plan to provide 950 megawatts of electricity, which is twice as much as last year.

Emphasizing that there are still concerns about power outages in the coming months, he added: “With the Ministry of Energy for development CHPNegotiations and solar energy have been negotiated but we have not yet reached an agreement, in which case we can supply electricity to small industries in the short term. We also provide free land to investors to develop renewables in industrial estates.

Chairman and CEO of the Small Industries and Industrial Towns Organization of Iran continued: In 832 towns and active industrial areas of the country, water and electricity have been provided and in a limited number there is a problem of gas supply that is being pursued and supplied with the cooperation of the Provincial Gas Company. We are in those areas.

Rasoulian also pointed to the problems of water supply required by industries and said: for each liter of water allocation, we spend one billion and 170 million tomans, which is separate from drilling and transferring water from dams. For example, for a town, the cost of transferring water alone is 100 billion tomans from internal sources, or in many areas, wells are drilled and water is provided, but after a while, a 20-liter well has reached 4 liters.

“To solve some of the water supply problems in industrial estates, we have resorted to wastewater treatment by purchasing municipal effluents and recycling industrial effluents in 233 active treatment plants across the country, but unfortunately, in addition to costing us dearly, we have to,” he said. Buy effluents at auction.

The Deputy Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade went on to explain how land is priced in industrial estates and added: “As an organization, we are an income-expenditure organization and do not receive rials from the government budget. We will spread 313 thousand tomans per square meter on the ground, and the price of usufruct received from the applicants will again be spent on settlement operations and creating the necessary infrastructure for the establishment of industrial units.

Rasoulian added: “This year, to meet the needs and welcome of investors, we have planned to provide 10,000 hectares of new land, which is 5 times more than last year in demand-driven industrial towns and needy provinces. If local officials cooperate, land transfer Establishment of industries, prices of exploitation rights and development are done in accordance with land management.

He also referred to the national plan to establish small workshops in industrial towns and continued: “Before, we had only 3,500 units of workshops in operation in the country, which this year to help establish knowledge-based companies and production guilds as soon as possible.” In industrial towns, we plan to build 1,900 workshops.

The Chairman and CEO of the Small Industries and Industrial Towns Organization of Iran also invited chambers of commerce from all over the country to attend technology and business service centers of industrial towns in order to continue cooperation with knowledge-based companies and science and technology parks.

Referring to the fact that small and medium enterprises in the world are run by an organization with full authority, Rasoulian said: “In our country, there is a dispersion of authority and we only provide physical infrastructure and support services.”

He noted that 40 to 50 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises in the country have working capital problems, because banks generally lend to large enterprises for higher profits and easier control; Therefore, we are trying to solve this problem at least by forming a bank or fund to support small and medium industries.

The Deputy Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade also announced: Due to limited financial resources, the Organization of Small Industries and Industrial Towns of Iran, 200 billion tomans of its internal resources in agreement with one of the banks in the form of facilities at a rate of 10 to 15 percent for stagnant enterprises Or companies with 50% physical progress.

Rasoulian went on to say that 85 support services will be provided to small and medium-sized industries in 25 categories: “This year, to support SMEWe have increased the number of support topics, including business clusters, subcontracting system, market development, participation in domestic and foreign exhibitions, helping companies to establish knowledge, etc., and also for Support for real economic actors For the first time, 30% incentives will be given to applicants who receive land in industrial estates and put their industrial unit into operation on time.

Emphasizing that industrial estates should be managed by the private sector, he added: “The law stipulates that the administration of a town in which 70% of the units located have been put into operation should be handed over to the private sector in the form of service companies.” It has not been successful, because the craftsman introduces a representative and this representative is not seriously dependent, so after a while the infrastructure is in trouble, the company of industrial estates is no longer allowed to spend in these areas and the private sector is not responsible.

The Chairman and CEO of the Small Industries and Industrial Towns Organization of Iran stated: We believe that by making free land use change, equality in conditions and facilities, the management of towns and industrial areas should be completely transferred to the private sector and non-governmental towns in the country Be developed.

In another part of his speech, Rasoulian, in response to the remarks of one of the economic activists present at the meeting regarding the need to assess the qualifications of land applicants in industrial estates, called this action a rent in the country’s economy and added: The applicants have been assigned that they have not been built and exploited, in this regard, we are determining the task of stagnant lands before 1396, and since the beginning of this year, we have taken back 506 hectares of land.

He also pointed out that the number of contracts in the towns and industrial areas in the vacant land phase had decreased by 12 percent and those in the machinery installation phase had increased by 31 percent, and expressed hope that the construction phase would be completed as soon as possible. Instrument, machine installation and operation.

Deputy Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade, stating that some provinces have little financial resources to provide infrastructure and develop industrial towns, continued: To create balance and industrial justice between the provinces, last year received 305 billion tomans from large provinces and deprived provinces We have paid and this program is being seriously pursued this year as well, for example, this year, 100 billion tomans of credit has been allocated to provide the infrastructure of Abadan towns and industrial areas.

Rasoulian pointed out: “Based on the monitoring and diagnosis made by business clinics and chambers of commerce across the country, the number of stagnant industrial units has decreased by 10% this year. We hope that with support mechanisms and preventive measures, more inactive units will enter the production cycle.” To return.

The development of private industrial estates is an appropriate and effective measure

The head of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture also pointed to the key role of small and medium units in the country’s economic development and said: “Perceptions of these units in Iran are different from other countries and this difference of opinion should be corrected.”

Gholam Hossein Shafei added: “In general, pluralism in small and medium units should not be considered a sign of development; Because in many industrial fields, the number of units is very large and this makes none of them able to work at full capacity even in the best economic conditions.

Emphasizing that reforming this trend should be on the agenda, he added: “This approach not only does not solve the problem of production and industry, but also causes a waste of the country’s resources.”

The head of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture described the focus on the development of private industrial estates, which is one of the new programs of the Small Industries and Industrial Estates Organization of Iran, as an appropriate and effective step and called for its implementation.

At the same time, Shafi’i criticized the pressures from some institutions to establish settlements and industrial areas or different units, and expressed the hope that with the adoption of new approaches, we will see a reduction in such measures.

He considered the main problem of the industry to be focusing on assembly and the high level of valuation of a major part of the industries and continued: “In Iran, we are still poor in terms of knowledge-based industries and we hope that serious attention will be paid to this sector.”

Following the meeting, a number of heads of chambers of commerce, industry, mines and agriculture across the country expressed their views and suggestions, and at the end, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between the Small Industries and Industrial Towns Organization and the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture. And was exchanged.