Mumbai: Superstar Salman Khan has become part of The Clean India mission and has joined forces with Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and ‘I love Mumbai’ foundation to make Mumbai open defecation-free.
On Friday, Salman, along with BMC chief Ajoy Mehta, and powered by Rahul Kanal’s ‘I love Mumbai’ foundation, Sahib Realty and Sach Ishaan, handed over public utility toilets at Madras Pada, Aarey Milk Colony, to the residents of the area to combat its open defecation problem.
“It feels good, but it’s just a beginning. I think there are 3,000-plus houses where each house has six to eight people. So as many existing toilets were there, we just rebuilt them and gave them water connection. “In 3,000-plus houses, there were only 36 toilets.
So there is a lot of scope. We will get permission to make toilets in their houses, given that they have space in their houses,” said Salman.
Mehta expressed his gratitude to Salman, who also paid for the utility toilets from his own pocket. Last year, Salman was named ambassador for the BMC’s anti-open defecation campaign in tune with the Centre’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ Mission.
Meanwhile, Salman Khan is busy promoting his upcoming film Tubelight. “As an actor, I’m doing my job. The persona you are seeing on screen is a contribution of more than 100 people from the different departments like camera, make-up and lights.
How can I take that madness that you guys (media and common people) call stardom so seriously? I don’t,” Salman earlier told IANS. Tubelight will hit the theatres on June 25.
IANS