The Maharashtra Cabinet on 12 June approved of a bill that would empower it to ban dance bars in the state. The measure supported by the Home Minister RR Patil is believed to have been endorsed by the Cabinet unanimously. The bill, an improved version of the previous Act that was set aside by the Supreme Court, also seeks to ban liquor-cum-dance joints in five star hotels.
The government is likely to place the new Bill before the state legislature, now in new session, soon, so that it becomes an act before the state Assembly election later this year. backward classes (BCs) in Education and employment.