Two thirds of the unrelated National Development Fund facilities have been spent

According to the economic reporter of Fars news agency, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mirtajuddini, a member of parliament, said on the sidelines of the conference on the new governance of the National Development Fund: In the past years, the governments withdrew 5 billion dollars from the resources of the National Development Fund to control border waters, and withdrawals were also made for Corona and other cases. Is. In total, two-thirds of the payment facilities of the National Development Fund have been spent for purposes other than those set.

He said: The National Development Fund has become a second treasury for the government, while the resources of the fund should be spent on investments and the profit and capital gains of those economic projects should be exploited.

A member of the Parliament’s Program and Budget Commission stated: The resources of the National Development Fund should be stable and long-term, which is considered as intergenerational wealth for the future, and should be allocated for investing in projects with high added value as well as knowledge-based projects with high efficiency.

Mirtaj al-Dini also said: “Investment by the resources of the National Development Fund should move towards the value chain and completion of economic plans, as well as in matters such as petrochemicals and high-tech production. Currently, the majority of petrochemical production is semi-crude products, for example, methanol. And the urea fertilizer we export is converted into dozens of value-added products abroad.

He suggested: In my opinion, a protection fund should be formed for the National Development Fund, in fact, this second fund should be used to manage the crises of the country, and direct income from oil, for example, 5% of the oil income, should be included in this fund, or the return of facilities that are in the account The foreign exchange reserve has been paid to enter this second fund so that the tampering with the National Development Fund is reduced to a minimum.

A member of the Parliament’s Program and Budget Commission stated: Out of the 150 billion dollars of facilities paid by the National Development Fund, the share of the private sector is only 10 billion dollars, which has also caused losses to the private sector due to the instability of the exchange rate. There should be currency stability. Someone who takes, for example, 100 million dollars in foreign exchange facilities, loses about 70% of its value within a year because there is currency fluctuation.

Mirtajuddini added: Rial facilities of the National Development Fund benefit the private sector, but at the same time, it has caused the resources of the National Development Fund to become water.

In another part, he said about oil revenues: Oil revenues are always confidential, but a copy of them is presented by the National Oil Company to the Speaker of the Parliament, the Energy Commission, and the Planning and Budget Commission, but the accounts of the National Oil Company must be transparent.

According to Mirtajuddin, two-thirds of the country’s budget is related to the budget of state-owned companies, but the parliament must supervise it. Also, oil revenues are divided into three parts, which is 42% of the National Development Fund’s share and 5.14% of the oil company’s share, which is used for investment and current expenses, and the confidential parts of oil income that are provided to the relevant institutions.

The member of the parliament’s program and budget commission added: In the seventh development plan, the revenues should be clear and transparent. When we make it a law that all institutions make their revenues transparent, like the system that public companies publish employee salaries, oil revenues should also be made transparent.

Regarding the social security organization as an organization whose beneficiaries are workers and retirees, he said: if retirees and workers can form an assembly and elect a board of directors, they can play a role in determining the CEO of the social security organization, but at the same time, the government On the one hand, he protects the interests of the people and on the other hand, he is a shareholder of the social security organization, because the workers’ insurance premium includes three parts: the worker, the employer, and the government’s share, so he chooses the CEO of the social security, but if they can, the workers also interfere in the selection of the CEO of the social security. It is in the interest of the country.

Mirtajuddini also said: Last year, the government paid 90 thousand billion tomans of its debt to social security, and this year it is going to pay 70 thousand billion tomans of its debt to social security. It also pays 360 thousand billion tomans for the national pension fund and the steel pension fund to compensate for the deficit of the funds’ resources. This is also the case with the social security fund.

A member of the Parliament’s Program and Budget Commission stated: “The pension law in our country is such that people retire at a young age and the income of the funds decreases, so we must find a solution so that the beneficiaries can play a role in determining the management of social security.”

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