In Brief
The Municipal Council, Raghogarh sought to recover external development charges from National Fertilizers Limited and Gas Authority of India Limited (public sector undertakings developing residential areas for employees). The Supreme Court upheld the lower courts' finding that external development charges, under Madhya Pradesh government notifications, apply only to commercial housing projects and colonizers, not to government entities constructing employee housing within secured compounds. The Court dismissed the municipality's appeal, holding that public sector undertakings developing residential areas for their own employees using Central Government funds fall outside the scope of the external development fee notification."
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