MUMBAI: Tens of thousands of dancing girls across the western Maharashtra state will be jobless after a government decision to shut down the famous dance bars of Mumbai, India's entertainment capital, and other cities, trade representatives said yesterday.
The Congress party-led state government this month ordered the closure of such bars across Maharashtra state saying they were corrupting youth, but did not apply the order to the capital which used to be known as Bombay. Late Tuesday, however, the state Cabinet ordered a shutdown here as well.