Investigating the Effects of Implementing Rural Guide Plans on the Reduction of Land Expropriation and the Marginalization of CitiesCase Study: Saravan Suburban Villages (Dezak to Aspich)

Statement of the Problem: 

The implementation of the guide plan and the management of agricultural lands around the city of Saravan is one of the important priorities in the development of this city, because the lack of attention to these surrounding settlements has created problems for the cities such as Zahedan, Chabahar and Zabol.

The purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the implementation of the guide plan in the settlements around Saravan and to show the effects of this project in preventing marginalization and land use changes around Saravan.
Research

This study was descriptive-analytical in terms of the method. The statistical population included all 5131 heads of rural households of suburbs of Saravan city and 30 experts and officials of rural development. The sample size was based on the Cochran formula in the five rural settlements that were implementing the plan for 5 years. Thus, three hundred fifty individuals were estimated. The data collection was done using field and library methods; one-sample t-test, correlation tests, and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data in order to test the hypotheses.

The results showed that the implementation of the guide plan in controlling the marginalization has had a desirable effect and an acceptable performance in its developmental goals. The implementation of the guide plan has reduced the marginalization level around the city, and the assignment of the rural land by the Housing Foundation has played an important role in controlling and regulating the expropriation of lands around the city. The average effects of conducting the guide plan on physical, economic, social, and marginalization dimensions were 1.32, 1.98, 1.79 1.78, respectively, which indicated the positive effect of the guide plan on the structure of settlements and the reduction of land expropriation in the suburbs of Saravan city.

Innovation:

 For the first time, the implementation of the guide plan in the study area was analyzed with the satellite imagery.