Actor
Akshay
Kumar
has
sponsored
a
mobile
toilet
near
the
famous
Juhu
beach
here,
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
(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
last
year,
Kumar's
wife
Twinkle
Khanna
had
taken
to
twitter
to
raise
the
issue
of
open
defecation
near
the
Versova
beach
in
suburban
Andheri.
"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
voiced
her
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
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
'Swachh
Bharat
Abhiyan'
(Clean
India
Campaign)
initiated
by
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi.
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'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.
Credits
-
PTI