Study on post-ban life of bargirls released

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Mumbai, Dec 2: The Forum Against Oppression of Women, an unaided Non Governmental Organisation in association with the Research Centre for Women's Studies, SNDT has released a follow-up study called 'Dance Bar', highlighting the appalling condition of bar girls after the ban on dance bars.

The latest 29-page booklet, a follow-up of a previous study on bar girls informs about the falling standards of health, increasing poverty and exploitation and the compulsion of getting dragged into the commercial sex industry. The ban on dance bars came into effect in August 2005.

Speaking on the occasion, Apoorva Kaiwar, Member of the forum yesterday said there was no exact data available on the number of women working in the bar industry. Figures presented by the Maharashtra government as well as the Bar Girls Association also have failed to present an exact figure before the High Court.

Defending the study, she said the first report was on the basis of information collected from 500 affected women immediately after the ban on dance bars. Whereas, the follow-up study is based on the information taken from 80 women. The report gives a picture on the appalling conditions in to which the bar girls have been pushed.

Kaiwar also said the forum plans to include the latest study as a respondent to the ongoing case in the Supreme Court, to strengthen the case that bar girls and their profession should not be held responsible for the ills of the society.

Adding further, Veena Poonacha, Director said the follow-up study is just a tip of the iceberg of what the majority of other bar girls may be going through.

The study, 'Dance Bar' is divided into various chapters informing the degrading position, they are pushed into after the ban. The study also gives a detailed account of the effect of ban on their lives, which included reduction in income, consumption of savings, the changing expenditure, housing and a host of other problems.

UNI

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