The Necessities and Reasons of Provincial Divisions in the Iran with Zonal Approach (Case Study: Fars Province)

Governments will need to manage their territory and run the country into smaller administrative units for playing their fulfillment role in different fields such as governance, service delivery and the creation of social capital. Although, the divisions to decentralization is undeniable necessity for most countries but the obligatory target logical divisions is more important than any other issues. Any political division of the country should be consistent to non-permanent and permanent changes of state that eventually lead to the country's national survival. National security depends on possibility convenient access of residents to services and facilities. Hence, the divisions should efficiently act with the minimum stress and maximum mutual in order to create coordination and cooperation within regions and among neighboring regions. The purpose of this paper is analyzing the reasons and necessity of dividing the province. This descriptive-analytical research is developed to collect the necessary information through documentary process. At first, this paper has been introduced the current status of political divisions in the province without mentioning the difficulties existed in different parts of the province nowadays. Secondly, the proposed model will be referred to the division of the province and its implementation process. Results of this research has been mentioned to necessity of Fars province division by considering Fars province problems such as horizontally expansion of province, inappropriately development of indicators in province, existence of many cities, and the poor condition of roads. Therefore, the selection of Jahroom, due to its condition as the second political- official center in the province, will be leaded the field of province division smoother.