BENGALURU: Pub-goers in the city hoping for an extended night life following Mumbai Police 's approval for pubs to be open 24x7 are in for a disappointment. Bengaluru Commissioner of Police MN Reddi on Thursday ruled out extending the 11 pm deadline for pubs and restaurants in the city , citing inadequate manpower.“At this point, it is just not feasible for the city. We do not have the kind of police force required to handle pubs being open 24x7,“ Reddi told ET.Pub-goers in Bengaluru -known as `pub city' before it acquired its `IT capital' moniker -were hoping the city's police administration would follow Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria, who on Sunday said his department had cleared a proposal for pubs and restaurants in non-residential areas to be open all day.Aditya Thackeray , head of the youth wing of the Shiv Sena , the BJP government's ally in Maharashtra, on Wednesday declared on Twitter that the state government had accepted the proposal. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis , however, has said the state cabinet would issue an approval only after a detailed study.Bengalureans for long have been demanding that the city be allowed to keep bars open beyond the 11 pm deadline imposed a few years ago, given the large number of IT and BPO employees who work well beyond midnight. Last year, the city relaxed its rules and allowed pubs and restaurants to be open until 1 am on weekends.“I work in a shift that ends around 12.30-1 am, after which even if I want to unwind with a snack or a drink, there is nothing around, which is a bummer,“ said Goutham Dikshith, a 23year-old technical support employee at HSBC , but added that pub-goers should be responsible not to bother others.Vamsi Krishna, a 33-year-old multimedia developer, believes extending the deadline would also give the music culture a boost. “Pubs have been at the centre of Bengaluru's music revolution. Over the past five-six years, they have been hosting some phenomenal live music and concerts,“ he said.A number of residents, however, are wary of extending the deadline. Many prominent pubs are located close to residential areas, so attention has to be paid as to which ones are given permissions to operate all day , and to what extent, they said.Pritha Lakhumna is among them.The 56-year-old “shares a wall“ with a popular pub at Indira Nagar, whose loud and hammering music she says is a major nuisance. As are the visitors to the pub.“Since people cannot park at the main road, they park in front of our place and in the pavements; and even after the pub is shut at 1 am, they continue to loiter around till wee hours, playing loud music in their cars, shouting on top of their voice,“ said Lakhumna, who is considering moving to another location.“Care must be taken that pubs operating 24x7 are all located only in commercial areas like Brigade Road and Church Street,“ she said.