Stone Association: The Deputy Minister of Mining of the Ministry of Industry is not right!
In a letter addressed to the Presidium of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, the Iranian Stone Association called the response of the Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Industries to the remark of the representative of the people of Isfahan in the Assembly irrational and only to solve the task.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, Abbas Moqtadaei, a representative of the people of Isfahan in the parliament, read his written warning to the country's executive officials on September 10, entitled "The need to make a comprehensive long-term plan for the development of the country's stone industry."
Muqtada'i explained the remark: "Considering the obstacles and problems of the stone industry, such as the high price of equipment required in the process of stone extraction and processing, the low quality of some stone processing machines, domestically produced, fuel supply, transportation, machine wear and tear And the lack of necessary support to optimize them and equip mines and stone processing plants, unnecessary bureaucracy and focus on raw material sales, it is necessary to remove obstacles and develop the stone industry, the necessary arrangements for a long-term plan for the development of the stone industry in the Ministry of Industry "Mining and trade should be provided."
Following this remark, the Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Industries of the Ministry of Industry wrote in a letter dated 12 November of this year sent by the Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Affairs to the Presidium of the Parliament: "Considering the sanctions and the current state of the industry, during the meetings Carried out in the Consultative Working Group of the Iranian Stone Industry and followed by coordination with the Organization for Development and Renovation of Mines and Mining Industries of Iran and the Iranian Stone Association, diagnostic project and development of operational plans of the Iranian stone industry in order to achieve long-term goals "The end of 1404 is underway, and the use of the results will play a significant role in the policy-making and industry development process."
Letters for homework only
After this letter, the Iranian Stone Association did not allow silence and in a letter to the Presidium of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, called the provisions of the letter of the Deputy Minister of Mines of the Ministry of Industry irrational and stated that Dariush Ismaili wrote this letter only to solve the task.
The secretary of the Iranian Stone Association said about the letter of the Stone Association: What is mentioned in the letter of the Ministry of Industry to the parliament as an advisory working group is in fact the policy council of the decorative stone industry as the highest policy and decision-making authority in this important, employment-generating and valuable industry. It was stopped by the then Deputy Minister of Mining on December 7, 2017, and during the time of the new Deputy Minister of Mining, it held a meeting only once on the 8th of July this year under the title of Advisory Working Group, but so far none of the working group members' suggestions Not located.
Ahmad Sharifi, referring to another issue mentioned in the Ismaili letter in response to Muqtada al-Muqtada's warning as a project to diagnose and develop operational plans for the country's stone industry, explained: The Deputy Minister of Mines is using this project as a tool to respond to Remind the parliament while this project is being carried out with another title and purpose and with the efforts and pursuit of the Stone Association and has nothing to do with the irrational claim of its deputy.
Sharifi added about this project: Due to the lack of real information about mining units and processing of the country's decorative stone industry, the project of counting mineral units was approved in the June 28, 2016 meeting of the Decorative Stone Industry Policy Council and followed by the Stone Association. 5 August of this year started with the support of Imidro and by the Minerals Production Company.
The secretary of the Stone Association noted: The implementation of the census project will determine the exact information and statistics of mining and processing units, and it is clear that the comprehensive long-term development plan of the country's decorative stone industry is not on the agenda of the Ministry of Industry. have given.
Sharifi, referring to the provisions of the Stone Association to the Presidium of the Majles, stated: "A very important plan to rehabilitate small mines that could rehabilitate and operate a large number of inactive mines in the country has been neglected and not supported by the Ministry of Mines." Coordination of the rehabilitation of small mines has failed due to lack of coordination between the relevant departments and the rehabilitation program of at least 200 decorative stone mines has not been implemented.
The secretary of the Iranian Stone Association reminded: The country's stone industry with 2,000 mining licenses with a capacity of 30 million tons per year and 6,500 processing units with a capacity of 200 million square meters of processed stone, has been neglected and not supported by the Ministry of Industry in recent years. At present, in the mining and processing sector, this industry works with 30% capacity and about one thousand mining units and more than 2,000 processing units have been closed and the exports of this industry have decreased by about 50% compared to 1397.
* Tasnim
