As a show of gratitude for donating $US5000 worth of water pumps, a remote Indian village changed their name to Snapdeal.com, mirroring that of their Groupon-esque benefactor. Wait, wait, wait. Huh?
From TechCrunch:
Snapdeal has adopted a remote village in India and enabled clean drinking water facilities for its people by installing manual pumps. To show their gratitude, the village’s residents have decided to rename their village to Snapdeal.com Nagar, actually taking the company by surprise.
Snapdeal.com CEO Kunal Bahl tells me the goal has always been to build a socially responsible organisation, and that the decision to provide clean drinking water for the village came from a conversation with one of its 500 employees in the hallways.
A righteous gesture indeed. And I know it’s not my place to tell a village what they should and shouldn’t do, but this decision doesn’t seem terribly well thought out. Especially when considering the longview. [TechCrunch via i4U]
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 11:31 AMHow bad was the village’s name before this to make them want to change?
Steve
Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 2:55 PMI hope this is sarcasm, because it had nothing to do with the village’s name and more the fact they were thrown a bone by their wealthy corporate overlords. Nothing palatable about this story at all.
Ash
Monday, June 20, 2011 at 11:08 AMStupid name. Seriously reconsider, no matter how much gratitude you have for their actions. Or go a few steps further and name your children snapdeal.com as well.
Penmonicus
Monday, June 20, 2011 at 12:22 PMSeems like they came up with the idea themselves and told the company, not that the company dictated it.
And christ: they just got drinking water. You’d be pretty damn stoked too.