After garnering success at the box-office and creating awareness regarding menstrual hygiene through PadMan, Bollywood’s Khiladi actor Akshay Kumar installed one of its first-kind of sanitary pad vending machine at Mumbai Central-ST Bus Depot on February 15, 2018, in the presence of Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray.
“One has to deposit four coins of ₹5 or else two coins of ₹10 and then press the red button for the packet of sanitary napkins which will have three napkins in it,” Maharashtra ST Karmachari Congress Shrirang Barge.
Mumbai Central-ST bus depot in total has 12 women employees and this move will help them during emergency situations, expressed Kumar. The machine has been installed by Khushi NGO.