The Ban on Dance Bars: A 24,000 crore Loss to Mumbai in 8 Yrs

Apart from excise from liquor sales, each dance bar had to pay an excise fee of Rs 3, 65,000 for a 12-month term and Rs 1, 80,000 per annum for a performance licence that permitted them to have women dancers and stay open till midnight. 

In 2012 another racket came into light and Vasant Dhoble's moral police rescued 1,300 women from spas and massage parlors. It was seen that most of them working in these places were former bar dancers.

Since most women were illiterate and struggled to find other jobs as they carried the disgrace of having been bar dancers, the situation seemed bleaker for them. The government did not rehabilitate them either. 

Dance bars that were a highlight of Mumbai's nightlife did not just take away the livelihoods of thousands of women but also "the livelihood of so many people was connected to dance bars," said Praveen Agarwal, general secretary, Bar Owners' Association. 

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