1. This order shall dispose of aforementioned bunch of two sets of Regular Second Appeals i.e. some filed by the defendants against the judgment and decree whereby the claim of interest on the amount of fee payable under the Punjab Rural Development Fund Act, 1987 was set aside (hereinafter referred to as the 'defendant - Market Committee') and some arising out of the judgment and decree, whereby the suits filed by the plaintiffs disputing the claim of interest on the amount of fee payable under the Rural Development Fund Act, 1987 were dismissed (hereinafter referred to as 'the plaintiff-dealers'). Since the issue in both the sets of appeals is common i.e. jurisdiction to claim interest on the amount of fee payable under the Punjab Rural Development Act, 1987, therefore, the same are taken up for hearing together. However, for the facility of reference, the facts are taken from RSA No. 2074 of 1999. Punjab Rural Development Act, 1987 (for short 'the Act') contemplates levy of fee with a view to accelerate rural development, augment agricultural production, to improve facilities to the dealers and purchasers of agricultural produce and to provide for relief for loss