According to WPB, bitumen must be considered as the vital artery of transportation and pavement. technical data show that nearly 70 percent of the damage that is imported from the roads is rooted in the way of supply and quality of bitumen. when the annual allocation ceiling of this vital material is about 2 million tons, we are actually facing a serious deficit, as this volume is completely inadequate to cover the entire requirements of the country's transportation infrastructure and cannot stop the network erosion.
The consequence of such a distance between the need and reality is nothing but the persistence of incidents and the slowness of the road reconstruction process; a situation rooted in the lack of resources rather than just the nature of the offset mechanism.
What is ignored in the hasty reviews is the close relationship between the infrastructure and the concept of social justice. a noticeable part of recent unrest in deprived areas is affected by the sense of discrimination and inequality; one of its objective referents is the lack of sufficient attention to the development of these areas. deteriorated roads, hard access, abandoned projects and in improvement are beyond a technical problem and areregarded as a symbol of ignoring and injustice. in fact, the weakening of tools such as offset bitumen can lead to intensification of this sense of discrimination and deepening trust gap.
The bitumen policy should not be considered as a cross-sectional or handmade decision; it is an established phenomenon in economic and civil literature of the country which has been approved and extended for over a decade in different periods of the parliament, despite various political spectrum. the roots of this national consensus are clear: the Asphalting and the renovation of rural roads and derived areas is one of the most tangible and most direct forms of government presence in the lives of cities and outlying regions.
Social and economic impacts of these actions are far beyond a simple construction project. improvement of rural roads is directly involved in reducing road accidents statistics and casualties resulting from it, while facilitating the inhabitantsaccess to medical and educational centers and link with the lifelines of local economy. this is the main obstacle against the irregular migrations from the village to the cities and by creating suitable infrastructures for agricultural and productive activities,brings prosperity to the deprived areas.
In the structural and legal perspective, the continuity of this mechanism is not merely an institution; but also, in annual budget bills as well as in permanent decrees of development programs, the provision of resources required for tar and construction projects has been predicted. even the expediency discernment council of the system as a macro and decision - making organ has endorsed the continuation of this method by examining the angles of work. this set of coordinated and continuous decisions has a clear message: tar is no longer a temporary or unsupported solution; it has become part of the " macro logic " of the country's management to deal with the limits of construction budget and equitable distribution of wealth and facilities.
Experts in the field of road and transportation engineering have repeatedly warned of the economic consequences of ignoring the planned repairs of roads. technical data and field studies illustrate the alarming image: if the network failures are not met at the right time, the costs of maintenance and reconstruction will grow exponentially and increase up to 4 times. deep analysis of experts in this field indicates that the continuation of maintenance budget deficit will expose the country to the phenomenon of " exhaustion crisis " in transportation infrastructure. in such a scenario, having roads with desirable quality standards from an ordinary matter becomes an exception.therefore, in these conditions, the removal or attenuation of bitumen is not only a solution for correction, but it actually acts as a factor for deepening this crisis.
In contrast, some critics attempt to throw all the defects and problems in the paths to the nature of the law, while technical and engineering realities show something else. when the roof of the binder is faced with severe constraints and its volume is not in accordance with the vast needs of transportation network, it is natural to see such deficits. thus, the main problem lies in the shortage of resources and the constraint of supply of raw materials, not in the legal mechanism of its distribution.
The fact is by no means an indication of the nature of the law. if the ultimate goal is to promote the state of the country's road infrastructure, the most logical solution is to strengthen the financial resources and increase the allocation quota of bitumen,not the destruction of a mechanism that actually prevented the full stop of construction projects.
Regarding the accusations that " bitumen trafficking " should be judged carefully and based on legal facts. smuggling is a crime and as long as judicial and disciplinary authorities are not approved by the competent court, the plan of such claims is nothing but arousing suspicion and disruption in the service process. up to now, no official reporting has been issued by the judicial institutions based on the occurrence of trafficking in the bitumen field of Iran. such claim eventually brings the main blow to construction projects and the people of disadvantaged areas.
The tar system is indeed an innovation and creativity in public governance which in the years under budget pressure did not allow the wheels of the road to be stopped, especially in the lessareas. the main challenge today is shortage of allocative resources. if policy makers aim at reducing social grievances,filling regional development gaps and restoring public trust, the right way is to increase resources of maintaining and strengthen the allocation of bitumen; not a legal weakening measure that is one of the most critical tools to meet the demands of justice and realization of balanced development.
By WPB
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