Ali-asghar Seyedabadi
Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance & Director-General of Planning Office, Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance
Book reading clubs are a local plan and the appraisal must be locally, as well. Accordingly, we have villages which had been successful, without receiving any expenses. They had performed good works, even though sometimes they would be unsuccessful. However, the great achievement is that these clubs are formed and held with contribution of local people and they vary depending on capacities of each region.
Book-reading clubs are a contributionallocal activity. Tehran does not decide for these clubs and decisions are held locally. For this reason, method of operation varies from a city to another city and from a province to another province. It is powerful in some provinces and is weak in others. Hence, some provinces follow contribution models, while others follow official models, so we cannot judge about all provinces equally. Holding review sessions is one of specifications of book-reading clubs cup.
People who acted as facilitators in different cities and provinces usually propose their reviews about the effectiveness of issues proposed in the workshops and then they can reform their activities for the next year. Our colleagues in the central secretary collect all executive criticisms related to the official structure and then transfer them to directors and then directors will try to solve the previous problems.
Some specifications of these projects are as follows: discovering and running a sustainable relationship with the active and noble forces in any geographical region of the country in order to guide and encourage them to start an effective movement in the framework of cultural goals of Iran, discovering new pats and methods to fair distribution of financial resources given the cultural capacities and needs of each region and also paying attention to the imperatives of “Resistive Economy”.
