Bollywood Actor Akshay Kumar to set up portable toilet on Juhu beach, Mumbai
Mumbai : After Twinkle Khanna’s post on twitter, husband Akshay Kumar has decided to set up portable toilet on Juhu beach in Mumbai, India. The actor is likely to spend Rs.10 lakh for setting up a mobile toilet.
Sources confirmed that Bollywood actor Actor Akshay Kumar has sponsored for a mobile toilet near the famous Juhu beach in Mumbai, months after his wife, Twinkle Khanna tweeted a picture of a man defecating in the sea shore of Mumbai.
In Last week, the actor sent an application to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) offering to set up the toilet by bearing all its expenses, assistant municipal commissioner of K-ward, Prashant Gaikwad, said.
“We 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,” he told PTI.
“The 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,” he said.
In August 2017, Twinkle Khanna had taken twitter to raise the issue of open defecation near the Versova beach in suburban Andheri. While lazing around in the beach, she saw a man defecating on the shoreline. She clicked a picture of the situation and shared in her micro-blogging site.
“Good morning and I guess here is the first scene of Toilet Ek Prem Katha part 2,” she had tweeted along with a picture of a man defecating on the Versova beach.
She had raised her voice against the annoyance after spotting a man defecating in the open while she was out on a morning walk on the beach.
Khanna’s post had come a month after the Mumbai city was declared open defecation free.
Particularly, during the same period, Akshay Kumar had produced the film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, starring himself and Bhumi Pednekar, which was inspired by the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign) initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
For now, the positioning of the mobile toilet near the Juhu beach is not going well with some city residents.
A local resident, Sameera, expressed her worries on the toilet’s location.
“...the 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. New toilets r needed towards the end stretch of both beaches,” she posted on Twitter.
