A Study of the Place of Village Monitors as a Mediator Institution between the Government and the People with Reference to Najafabad City Villages

Village monitor is one of the new institutions in rural development process which has been established for running and management of village development programme. Once the development programmes implemented on the basis of people's need it will be in the right direction and this can be done at the village level through village monitors. Thus the village monitor as the representative of the government in the village is having an important role in solving the problems of the village. The question which this article raises is what is the role played by village monitors as a mediatory organ between the government and the villagers of the villages of Najafabad city? The methodology used in this research is quantitative research method. In this method the relation between the villagers and the village monitors are examined by the help of a questionnaire. For analysis of the relation between the villagers and the village monitors Pearson's correlation coefficient tests is being used. The finding of the study shows the villagers are having great satisfaction from village monitors but they are relatively unhappy and dissatisfied with the organizations that are responsible for the village development and at present are active in villages. Also on the basis of Pearson's "r" correlation coefficients the satisfaction of the villagers from the village monitors is having meaningful relation with their satisfaction from government. This relation can be applied to statistical society which shows that villager's satisfaction from village monitors will lead to the satisfaction of villagers from government. On the whole it can be concluded that the village monitors in the capacity of managers of the development organizations can act as a mediator between the government and the villagers.