Is Rostam Ghasemi leaving the ministry? – Tejarat News

After more than a year of the 13th government’s life, the “National Housing Movement Plan” has suffered a severe failure, and the Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Rostam Ghasemi, is struggling with many issues that may end in his resignation or impeachment. Seyyed Karim Hosseini, a member of the social commission of the parliament, also emphasized that the road minister should be accountable for his performance and told ILNA: “Considering that he also has boredom, and this boredom is clear, it has made him unable to perform many duties. It would be much better if they resign. But in the end, if there is no other option, the parliament will definitely move towards impeachment.”

Zainab Mokhtari | According to Tejarat News, it was clear from the beginning that Rostam Ghasemi has no plans for housing. Even until he attended the vote of confidence meeting and stood in front of the members of the parliament, he still thought he was nominated for the post of “oil” minister of the 13th government! However, in spite of many criticisms, Ebrahim Raisi left the fate of his most important election promise, which is to house the people, in his hands.

Retreating from the national housing goals

Ghasemi works in Ministry of Roads and City Planning started with a maneuver on the plan of the National Housing Movement. At the very beginning of his ministry post, he announced 10 decrees, including the Land Bank, facilitating architecture and urban development, and the National Housing Movement, which have not reached any specific results. But the national housing movement was his most important promise in the Ministry of Roads. The plan, which was initially said, is supposed to add one million new units to the housing market every year and provide them to the real applicants of the market.

However, it didn’t take long for Ghasemi to withdraw from the plan’s promises and announced that the government is not going to deliver one million housing units annually. He said that we all know that it takes a year and a half to build housing. This phrase meant that the government and the road minister were aware of the plan’s failure from the very beginning, but the election atmosphere and efforts to win more votes had hidden the economic realities.

Halving government obligations

Ghasemi last year, shortly after assuming the post of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, reduced the promise of building 4 million residential units to 2 million units. He said: “In the first place, we have to start with about 2 million residential units, and now its implementation is about to start.” In this way, Ghasemi made a new promise based on the reduction of the government’s obligations and claimed that there is land to realize the construction of two million residential units. A claim that remained only on paper.

Now, about a year and a half has passed since Ghasemi’s ministry in the field of road and urban development, but still not even a national housing unit has been unveiled and his schedule for building and delivering housing has failed. Alireza Jafari, Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development, has recently said that 100,000 units of the first phase of the National Housing Movement plan have reached more than 60% progress in terms of land preparation, and more than 10% physical progress has been recorded in the field of housing construction.

Also, contrary to the claim of Ghasemi and the managers of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development regarding the abundance of land for construction, it gradually became clear that the lands that were originally intended for the implementation of the national housing plan either existed only on paper or were transferred to The project has been faced.

Inability to provide liquidity

Another problem that Ghasemi could not solve is related to financing. At first, the government had defined the target community of the plan as homeless people who have the ability to cover the cost of facilities, and on this basis, only 3.6 million of them were eligible out of the 5.5 million initial applicants. But in the depositing phase, it was found that only 9% of the franchise owners of National Housing had the ability to deposit.

That is, out of the 3.6 million people who were known as effective and serious applicants, only 333 thousand people were able to pay their 40 million tomans. These statistics show that the plan of the National Housing Movement is a crude plan and only a slogan, and no serious expert work has been done to identify its target community. The plan, which was the only plan of Rostam Ghasemi’s ministry, has been stopped at the first turn.

Loss of housing applicants to inflation

The management crisis in the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development has intensified while housing inflation over the last year has cut off the real and effective applicants of the real estate market. Each square meter of a residential unit in the city of Tehran at the beginning of the 13th government (August 1400) was 30 million and 970 thousand tomans, which according to the statistics of the central bank reached 43 million and 70 thousand tomans in October this year and registered a growth of 39%. Is.

Observers of the housing market consider the lack of production as the main reason for the continued growth of inflation in this market and they believe that the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, with the many management twists and turns that it has created especially during the past year, has made the housing market worse than ever before. It has become more critical.

Border after border

Recently, photos of Ghasemi have been published online, showing him next to a woman with a different outfit from the country’s official space. The pictures that are said to have been taken during the period of Ghasemi’s oil ministry in Malaysia. These images have created a lot of buzz in recent days and have increased the pressure on the Minister of Roads. Some whispers indicated Ghasemi’s early impeachment, and now the issue of resignation has also been raised. Especially since this is not the first bold side of the road minister.

Not long ago, the arrest of Qasim Makarem Shirazi, advisor and special inspector of the Minister of Roads and Urban Development, was at the top of the news. In response to this incident, Ghasemi first distanced himself from the media, but then in an announcement, implicitly accepting the accusations made against the mentioned person, he announced the legal follow-up of the violations. Although we cannot ignore the important margins that have been created around Ghasemi, but maybe his unsuccessful record in the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development is enough to say goodbye to him!

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