This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution has been filed in a representative character by the Guwahati Municipal Karmi Sangha represen­ted by its Secretary against Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority, respondent No. 1, Additional Chief Secretary to the Govt. of Assam, respondent No. 2 and also Chief Executive Officer, Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority and Com nissioner, Gauhati Municipal Corporation, respondent No. 3 and4 respectively. The State of Assam has also been made respondent No.5.

2. The dispute is regarding whether the Guwahati Metropolitan Develop­ment Authority constituted under the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority Act, 1985 can be entrusted as the sole authority for granting permission for construction of building by an executive order issued by the Additional Chief Secretary to the Govt. of Assam on 21st November, 1992 vide Annexure D to the writ pettition, to the exclusion of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation which is a body constituted under the Gauhati Municipal Corporation Act, 1971. By the above order dated 21st November, 1992, the Commissioner of Gauhati Municipal Corporation was informed that in the first meeting of

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