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In defense of the “public-private partnership” bill
Mohsen Renani
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After the publication of the note “Last Coffee with Mr. Rouhani” in which I proposed some information about the potentially corrupting capacity of the “Public-Private Partnership Bill”, some points in defense of it, or criticism of my article were said and published. My good friend, Dr. Nematullah Akbari, a member of the academic staff of Isfahan University, who has been the head of the Management and Planning Organization of Isfahan Province for several years, and I firmly believe in his knowledge, experience and commitment, criticized my article in an online meeting. I asked him to explain his points in detail in an audio file so that I could inform the readers of my content. The audio file below is his explanation in defense of the bill.
Although in response to his explanations and the text that was published on the website of the country’s planning and budget organization written by one of the respected managers of that organization and has a non-expert tone with accusations, I wrote another detailed note; But in the last few days, when I saw that the necessary sensitivity has been created about this bill and some civil institutions have pursued the amendment and transparency of this bill, I decided not to publish the second text. Because my intention was not to create a linguistic conflict and expert fronting on the issue of the bill; It was a concern that should have reached the ears of those who are responsible, which fortunately did.
But I would like to remind you that the scandal of the fall of the stock market and the several hundred percent profit of some organizations and institutions affiliated to the government, which were withdrawn from it just before the fall of the stock market, as well as the recent scandal of manipulation of the figures of the budget law by the parliament officials, warn us that no longer No law in this country, not even very progressive laws, will help to fix things. No longer people, but mechanisms have become corrupt. Therefore, I think that from now on, only when we can be sure of the non-corruption of the “Public-Private Partnership” bill and any other law or resolution that is approved in this political structure, we will see in the text of the plan, bill, law, regulation executive and instructions, a mechanism for public supervision of people, or civil institutions or independent experts is embedded.
The effectiveness of the regulatory bodies in our country has been lost and they themselves have been caught in corrupt mechanisms. In this situation, there is no other choice but to take refuge in full transparency with the supervision of society and civil institutions and independent experts. Therefore, if a section is added to the “Public-Private Partnership” bill that will allow people and civil institutions and experts and independent associations to monitor all stages of assignments and partnerships and leave no way to hide the benefits that are traded in these contracts, Then it can be said that this bill has limited its capacity to create corruption. And of course, we should not postpone the implementation of such a transparency mechanism to its executive regulations. Let’s be sure that the regulation will be written behind closed doors and with the lobby of rent-seeking groups. From now on and in the text of the law, let’s embed transparency-creating mechanisms.
Mohsen Renani / May 10, 1400
Listen to Dr. Akbari’s explanation in the file below:
https://t.me/RenaniMohsen/17
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