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Bar girls will now take up prostitution
April 14, 2005
Following the Maharashtra cabinet's decision last evening to shut down all dance bars in Mumbai in an extension of its ban on bars outside the city, Varsha Kale, president of the Bharatiya Bar Girls Union, said, "A large number of the city's 75,000 bar girls will now have to resort to prostitution as this is the only alternate source of income for them." Kale had approached the National Commission for Women and the National Human Rights Commission for help only yesterday. "I have just returned from Delhi and will decide on my next course of action today," she said of the bombshell that unexpectedly dropped in her lap last evening.
A government resolution (GR) announcing the ban on the 700 dance bars in Mumbai has not yet been issued. The government had earlier ordered the closing down of dance bars in the rest of Maharashtra on March 30, excluding Mumbai. This was done after MLAs from rural areas had complained that these dance bars were corrupting the youth. Mumbai has now been included under the rule as the government felt that there should be no discrimination on the implementation of the law.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Law & Order) Ahmad Javed said, "The order has not yet come. As soon it does, we will implement it and take action." Home Minister R. R. Patil, who is responsible for announcing the ban, was unavailable for comment, but Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh maintained, "It was a cabinet decision taken unanimously. It will take some time before the order is issued and the GR passed to that effect." When reminded about the number of people who will be unemployed due to the government decision, Deshmukh replied, "We had discussions with the bar owners' union and also the bar girls' union. The discussions will continue and something will surely come out of it."
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