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Mumbai: Have you been wondering why that delivery boy is taking ages to get you your hot lunch in Mumbai? It's because he is probably the only one working at his hotel, loaded with several orders at the same time.

Hotel owners in Mumbai are facing an acute shortage of delivery boys, most of them north Indians who have gone back to their hometowns due to the wave of anti-north Indian sentiment sweeping the city.

“Before we used to have five delivery boys but now we have none,” a hotelier Vasant Shetty said.

But in the hotel industry's time of need, its main pillars – the waiters and helpers from Karnataka are also missing in action. And this times it’s no MNS pressure, but the lure of growing opportunities back home.

And this is a fact evidenced by night schools which have always been popular among workers in the hotel industry. Now, hit by a 50-70 per cent drop in admissions, many of them are on the verge of shutting down.

“The admissions have been so bad that many night schools might just close down,” Chairman of Kannada Bhavan Society School AB Shetty said.

North Indians fleeing north and south Indians staying south, hoteliers in Mumbai are finding themselves between a rock and a hard place.