This is interesting but weird. An Indian village, has renamed itself as Snapdeal.com. Snapdeal, is an Indian Coupon company, that provides various deals for products. They recently raised over $12 million and has become the largest company in par with Groupon, in India.
With respect to their success, they adapted a remote village in India to provide cleaner drinking water and some basic amenities to help people live better. As a gratitude, the village has renamed itself as “Snapdeal.com Nagar“. And the excited CEO of Snapdeals, Kunal Bahl, says:
We honestly did something very simple – didn’t even cost that much – and installed 15 hand pumps, which now enable clean water within a distance of 50 meters for all the residents of the village.
We must have spent a total of $5000 on getting this and the really cool part about this is that these 15 hand pumps will give clean water to the villagers for the next 15-20 years!
Kunal also added,
[Via TechCrunch]There are 640,000 companies incorporated in India, many many of them much much larger than ours. Assuming even 10% have the resources to do anything (and $5000 isn’t really a lot), we can solve water problems for 64,000 villages and millions of people in India. Something to think about.