Rural Local Management and its Role in the Physical Development of Rural Settlements (Case Study: Rural Settlements of Chenaran)

Rural management has been implemented through Dehyari and the Islamic Council institutions for more than two decades. These institutions played a role at the village level in rural development in term of their activities. Checking the amount of interference and actions of the rural managers in rural development issues requires analysis. This article focused on the role and function of rural management in physical development in rural settlements. This research is descriptive-analytical and uses the survey method. The scope of this research includes ten villages in Chenaran County each of which has a population of more than 50 families and the guiding plan was performed in them. The statistical population in the first group is rural managers consisting of two members (One Dehyar and One member of the Council), and the second group includes 330 heads of households living in these villages. The validity of the questionnaire has been approved by academic staff and experts in rural development. Moreover, the reliability of the study's measurement, through Alpha Cronbach, was obtained 0.87 for local residents and 0.91 for the rural managers. The results of research have confirmed the effective role of local management in physical development. Based on the research findings, all the criteria, except for the economic situation, display a significant difference between the perspectives of the two groups.