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14. The respondents, on the other hand, would submit that the Primary Agricultural Credit Societies and Urban Co-operative Banks form a separate group. They are engaged in agricultural credit activities and banking respectively. They raise funds for the above activities. There are other societies, which work in specified and restricted fields. For example, milk societies are meant only for milk producers. Housing societies are meant only for those who intend to purchase a house or land for constructing a house. Similar is the case of Serifed, Matsyafed etc. There is a clear distinction between the societies engaged in agricultural credit and banking and other societies engaged in various other activities. There is a clear intelligible differentia between them. The respondents also submit that it is not proper to give membership to all sorts of societies in the DCB other than the above said societies engaged in raising W.P.C.No.3757/2012 & funds for agricultural credit and banking.