The proposed dharna, which is at the call of the All-India Co-operative Bank Employees’ Federation, seeks to draw the Government’s attention to the deterioration in the health of the cooperative banks across the country. Seeking Government intervention to resolve this crisis, the federation has urged the implementation of Prof A. Vaidyanathan’s task force recommendations — constitution of an expert committee for revamping the Urban Cooperative Banks, repealing Section 80 P of the Income-Tax Act and allow the cooperative banks to continue to get exemption from paying income-tax enhancing the refinance extended by Nabard from the current 40 per cent to 80 per cent to enable these banks extend crop loans at 5 per cent and so on.