Actor Akshay Kumar has sponsored a mobile toilet near the famous Juhu beach, months after his wife tweeted a picture of a man defecating at another sea shore in Mumbai. Last week, the actor sent an application to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation offering to set up the toilet by bearing all its expenses, assistant municipal commissioner of K-ward, Prashant Gaikwad, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe welcomed his initiative and installed the toilet near the Juhu beach four days ago. The actor bore all the expenses, Rs 10 lakh, for setting up the portable toilet,\u201d he told PTI. \u201cThe mobile toilet can be used free of cost. If anyone comes forward to maintain it, then the facility can be provided on a pay-and-use basis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In August last year, Kumar\u2019s wife Twinkle Khanna had taken to twitter to raise the issue of open defecation near the Versova beach in suburban Andheri. \u201cGood morning and I guess here is the first scene of Toilet Ek Prem Katha part 2,\u201d she had tweeted along with a picture of a man defecating on the Versova beach.<\/p>\n
She had voiced her annoyance after spotting a man defecating in the open while she was out on a morning walk on the beach. Khanna\u2019s post had come a month after the city was declared open defecation free. Notably, during the same period, Kumar had produced the film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, starring himself and Bhumi Pednekar, which was inspired by the \u2018Swachh Bharat Abhiyan\u2019 (Clean India Campaign) initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the positioning of the mobile toilet near the Juhu beach did not go well with some city residents. A local resident, Sameera, expressed her reservations on the toilet\u2019s location. \u201c\u2026the toilet is wrongly placed. Slum dwellers defecated 1 km (towards the end) Versova \/Juhu beach 2 public toilets already exist within 500 metres from the new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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