The need to increase people’s participation in order to develop cooperation in society – Mehr News Agency Iran and world’s news
According to the Mehr correspondent, Mustafa Kaviani, in a conversation with reporters on Sunday afternoon, referring to this year’s slogan, which was named by the Supreme Leader of the Revolution as “production, dismantling, support”, said: The whole and the experts of the province were identified as the most important solutions to remove the obstacles and problems of the cooperative sector.
The Director General of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare of the province stated that the establishment of a special branch to deal with legal and criminal problems of cooperatives in the judicial authorities of the Fourth Branch of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office, the introduction of experts in the field of cooperation by the General Directorate Regarding the judicial cases of the cooperative sector, he considered some of the actions of this department and added: holding continuous meetings with the relevant and supervisory bodies of the province and determining the tasks of problematic cooperatives and concluding them such as Mehr Taha Housing Cooperative, women heads of households Assignment of some members of Mehr Housing projects in installments to help the Housing Bank to return the funds paid to the Treasury, active participation in the meetings of the Provincial Housing Council in order to plan, review and solve the problems of housing cooperatives identified solutions.
He emphasized that investigating and solving the problems of problematic cooperatives in the working group to facilitate and eliminate barriers to production in the province, determining the task of most Mehr housing cooperatives and dissolving them due to completion and delivery of most Mehr housing projects, determining the task of inactive and stagnant cooperatives in housing sectors Consumption, credit, and agriculture are other solutions, he continued: not including the incentives mentioned in Article 9 of Chapter 3 of the Policy Implementation Law, Article 44 of the Constitution, as well as all tax exemptions mentioned in the Law on Direct Taxes, Note 6, Article 105, Articles 133, 138 and 142 In order to support enterprises operating in the cooperative sector, do not implement the provisions of Article 24 of the Cooperative Sector Law, including notes 1 and 2, which provide low-interest or interest-free bank facilities in order to achieve a 25% share of the cooperative sector. Mention of the country’s economy.
Kaviani said that the lack of support and cooperation of the banking system from cooperatives is the parallel work of some executive bodies such as the Rural Cooperative Organization in forming cooperatives, weakness in the culture of teamwork and participation and lack of collective work spirit in society. Decision Giri Individual instead of decision Giri A group in economic activities, the long process of registering and forming cooperatives will not determine the share of the cooperative sector in a transparent manner from the employment facilities allocated to the provinces in government policies, as well as obliging the relevant specialized and executive bodies to comply with this share.
He stated that other obstacles that were identified were inclusive and rural employment credits, lack of sufficient trust in the cooperative sector among some officials and insufficient support for this sector, not prioritizing the cooperative sector in government transfers and economic activities despite emphasis and The stipulation in the Cooperative Law and the general policies of Article 44 of the Constitution and the lack of executive power and leverage of the necessary supervision of the provincial cooperative departments that the officials and experts of this sector even when مر They enforce the law, he added, adding that they will not be spared from the complaints and slanders of the offenders, which cause them many problems.
Mostafa Kaviani The total number of unions and cooperatives formed in the province from the beginning to August 21 of this year is equal to 1,979 cooperatives with 813,704 members, continued: 1,107 cooperatives consisting of 781 There are 1,942 active members, which is equivalent to 56% of the total cooperatives, 872 cooperatives with 31762 active members, which is equivalent to 44% of the total cooperatives.
The Director General of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare of the province stated that a major part of the members of the cooperatives of the province related to the three justice companies with 695,201 members is equal to 85% of the total members of cooperatives and said: increasing social justice, fair distribution of wealth Through public ownership and participation in economic activities, a fundamental fight against poverty and discrimination; By providing favorable working conditions and economic opportunities for the population of the lower deciles, especially the first three deciles, in order to create new employment and maintain and improve existing employment and meet welfare needs is one of the basic roles of cooperation in society.
Emphasizing that our most important goals in trying to develop cooperation in society is to increase people’s participation, especially vulnerable groups in economic activities and increase the spirit and culture of collective and group work, he added: free and voluntary membership And cooperative facilities to meet common needs and goals, members’ economic participation, cooperative self-government and independence, and efforts to rely on and not be influenced by other centers of power, training, internships and information in cooperatives and continuous empowerment, as well as cooperatives It is another feature of the cooperative sector.
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