Saturday, July 8, 2017

Finnish Conference of Onomastics in November 2017

ICOS Website

The Finnish Conference of Onomastics (Nimistöntutkimuksen päivät) will be held at the University of Helsinki on 2-3 November 2017. For full details (in Finnish), follow this link.


Photo taken at the Conference of 2016)))

Problems of Onomastics, Vol. 14 (2017), Issue 2


Dear colleagues,

The editorial board of the journal Voprosy onomastiki (Problems of Onomastics) is pleased to inform you of the publication of Vol. 14 (2017), Issue 2. The issue is available on the journal’s website: http://onomastics.ru/en/content/2017-volume-14-issue-2



Articles

Nikolaev, S. L.
Etymology and Comparative Phonology of North Germanic Personal Names in the Primary Chronicle

Toporova, T. V.
Proper Name as a Marker of a Cosmogonic Song

Krivoshchapova, J. A.
Russian River Names: The Potential of Semantic Development (With Reference to Dialectal Vocabulary)

Brodsky, I. V.
Anthroponyms in Finno-Permic Compound Plant Names

Feoktistova, L. A.
Anthroponyms in Russian Appellative Names for Alcoholic Drinks (yerofeicherokhaivashkoivanushko, etc.)

Madieva, G. B., Suprun, V. I.
The System of Modern Russian Urbanonymic Terminology

Gridina, Т. А., Konovalova, N. I.
Pen Name as a Form of a Journalist’s Self-Presentation in the Late 19th — Early 20th Centuries Russian Regional Press

Forum

Coates, R.
Popular Books on English Place-Names — a Serious Issue in Onomastics

Lozić Knezović, K., Marasović-Alujević, M.
Transonymization as Revitalization: Old Toponyms of Split

Book Reviews

Suprun, V. I.
Astrakhan’s Anthroponymy over Time. Review of the book: Kopylova, E. V. (2016). Imia i vremia: dva veka istorii imen astrakhantsev (1800–2000 gg.) [Name and Time: Two Centuries in the History of Astrakhan Citizens’ Names (1800–2000)]. Moscow: KnoRus; Astrakhan: Astrakhan University Press

Morgunova, О. V.
Folk Calendar of Czechs and Slovaks through the Lens of Language. Review of the book: Valentsova, M. M. (2016). Narodnyi kalendar chekhov i slovakov. Etnolingvisticheskii aspekt [The Folk Calendar of Czechs and Slovaks. An Ethnolinguistic Aspect]. Moscow: Indrik

Since 2017 the journal will be published three times per year. You can find more information about the journal at www.onomastics.ru/en

Sincerely,
Editorial board

Creative Name Developer is sought in Miami

Brand Institute

Creative Name Developer- French Speaker 

Location:Miami, FL - Headquarters
Position type:Full-Time, Employee
Date Posted:Friday, July 7, 2017
Department:Creative



For the Creative Name Developer (French Fluency) position:

Have you ever dreamed of creating names for a living? Naming drugs, consumer products, medical devices,
or companies? Now's your chance to become the brain behind the name.

Brand Institute, Inc., the global leader in name development, seeks a an individual who is fluent in French
(written/spoken) for an entry level position on our in-house creative team.

Our clients are mostly pharmaceutical companies, but we also have a significant presence in the consumer/B2B
space. Potential candidates should also have a strong knowledge of the English language (knowledge of
etymology and linguistics preferred) and must be able to work in the downtown Miami area.

Since this position includes the creation of pharmaceutical brand names, a degree, background or propensity for
science, biology or chemistry is potentially beneficial, but not a position requirement.



Creative Name Developer Responsibilities:

- Create compelling names for products, services, companies, etc. on deadline.
- Act as leader for an assigned region, managing regional project work and functioning as liaison between regional
directors and the creative team
- Develop creative briefs, prepare naming deliverable's, and handle any other branding requests as assigned.

Requirements for Creative Name Developer:

- Fluent in French (written and spoken)
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree in one of the following fields: Creative Writing, English, Advertising, Marketing,
 Journalism, Linguistics, Copy writing, or Communication
- A working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Creativity

Helpful, but Not Required:

- An understanding of creative strategy, brand positioning and/or a fundamental knowledge of the Pharmaceutical
/ Medical Industry

Brand Institute offers excellent benefits and a 401(k) package.

If you feel you meet the above qualifications and would make a great addition to the Brand Institute Creative Team,
please e-mail your resume and cover letter to careers@brandinstitute.com

Visit our website at: www.brandinstitute.com

Call for papers "Place Names as a Mirror of Political Developments in Modern European Society 1848–2018"

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The 2nd Ostrava Onomastic Meeting EVENT on Place Names as a Mirror of Political Developments in Modern European Society 1848–2018


The Department of Czech Language at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava,

the conference committee, and the local organizing committee have the honor of inviting you to take part in the 2nd Ostrava Onomastic Meeting Event (2. ostravské onomastické setkání; OOME), which will be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, from April 23 to April 25, 2018. The first OOME conference was held in October 2015, and the book Toponyma – kulturní dědictví a paměť míst (Toponymy – Cultural Heritage and Place Memory, ed. Jaroslav David; abstracts available here was published in September 2016. The first OOME conference in Ostrava focused on place names as a part of cultural heritage and local history, and the success of this event inspired us to organize the second OOME conference, which will be held in 2018.
The conference will take place in Ostrava, a city situated at the crossroads of three countries – Czechia, Slovakia and Poland. It will focus on place names against the background of political developments in modern European (predominantly Central European) society in the period 1848–2018.

Conference topics

  1. Place names and the concepts of the political/linguistic/religious (etc.) landscape
  2. Toponymy on state/national/language borders
  3. Politics as a background of the development of place names
  4. Place names in the discourse of the period – their reflection in fiction and art, their thematization, the influence of ideology, interpretation, new methods and approaches to place name research
  5. Commemorative motives in place names – theoretical problems and discussion

Conference committee

  • Jaroslav David, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava (Chair)
  • Michaela Boháčová, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
  • Jaromír Krško, Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
  • Michal Semian, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague
  • Pavel Štěpán, Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Local organizing committee

  • Lenka Krahulcová, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava (Chair)
  • Kristýna Bílková, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava
  • Tereza Klemensová, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava
  • Jana Rausová, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava

E-mail contact:

To send your registration form or if you need further information, please contact lenka.krahulcova@osu.cz (Lenka Krahulcová). Please include your surname and the abbreviation OOME in the subject line of your e-mail.

Guidelines for presentations and registration

The conference language is English. The authors are responsible for the content and language of their papers. Presentations of papers should not exceed 15 minutes; PowerPoint presentations are required.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is November 30, 2017. You will be notified about the acceptance of your paper no later than January 5, 2018. All participants whose presentations are accepted must pay the early-bird fee (payment must be received no later than February 28, 2018) in order to be included in the conference program.
We plan to publish a book containing papers that are accepted for the conference. The deadline for submitting the final versions of your texts is May 30, 2018.

Important dates and deadlines

Submission of abstracts                                              November 30, 2017
Acceptance of papers                                                     January 5, 2018
Early-bird payment                                                      February 28, 2018
Regular fee payment                                                       April 10, 2018
Conference dates                                                              April 23-25, 2018
Submission of final versions of texts for the book       May 30, 2018

Friday, July 7, 2017

Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences




The publication Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014 (5 vols, edited by Carole Hough and Daria Izdebska. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2016) is available online on the ICOS 2014 website (link). The proceedings can be downloaded either by volume or by individual paper (organized by thematic section on the website).

Nimistöntutkimuksen päivät 2017

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Details
Nimistöntutkimuksen päivät järjestetään 2.–3.11. Helsingin yliopistossa.Luvassa on jälleen huimia esitelmiä onomastiikan eri aloilta, kutsupuhujan esitelmä, konferenssi-illallinen ja niin edelleen. Kyseessä on juhlavuosi, koska tapahtuma järjestetään jo 20. kerran.

Jos haluat esitelmöidä Nimistöntutkimuksen päivillä, lähetä esitelmäabstraktisi 30.9 mennessä sähköpostitse osoitteeseen:

nimistopaivat@gmail.com

(Tämä on nimenomaan abstrakteille, ilmoittautuminen lähempänä.)
Ilmoitamme abstraktin hyväksymisestä 9.10. mennessä.

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Call for papers for the 2nd Ostrava Onomastic Meeting in 2018

Ostravska Univerzita

The 2nd Ostrava Onomastic Meeting EVENT on Place Names as a Mirror of Political Developments in Modern European Society 1848–2018

The Department of Czech Language at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava,
the Historical Geography Research Centre, Prague,

the conference committee, and the local organizing committee have the honor of inviting you to take part in the 2nd Ostrava Onomastic Meeting Event (2. ostravské onomastické setkání; OOME), which will be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, from April 23 to April 25, 2018. The first OOME conference was held in October 2015, and the book Toponyma – kulturní dědictví a paměť míst (Toponymy – Cultural Heritage and Place Memory, ed. Jaroslav David; abstracts available here was published in September 2016. The first OOME conference in Ostrava focused on place names as a part of cultural heritage and local history, and the success of this event inspired us to organize the second OOME conference, which will be held in 2018.



The conference will take place in Ostrava, a city situated at the crossroads of three countries – Czechia, Slovakia and Poland. It will focus on place names against the background of political developments in modern European (predominantly Central European) society in the period 1848–2018.

Conference topics

  1. Place names and the concepts of the political/linguistic/religious (etc.) landscape
  2. Toponymy on state/national/language borders
  3. Politics as a background of the development of place names
  4. Place names in the discourse of the period – their reflection in fiction and art, their thematization, the influence of ideology, interpretation, new methods and approaches to place name research
  5. Commemorative motives in place names – theoretical problems and discussion

Conference committee

  • Jaroslav David, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava (Chair)
  • Michaela Boháčová, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
  • Jaromír Krško, Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
  • Michal Semian, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague
  • Pavel Štěpán, Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Local organizing committee

  • Lenka Krahulcová, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava (Chair)
  • Kristýna Bílková, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava
  • Tereza Klemensová, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava
  • Jana Rausová, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava

E-mail contact:

To send your registration form or if you need further information, please contact lenka.krahulcova@osu.cz (Lenka Krahulcová). Please include your surname and the abbreviation OOME in the subject line of your e-mail.

Guidelines for presentations and registration

The conference language is English. The authors are responsible for the content and language of their papers. Presentations of papers should not exceed 15 minutes; PowerPoint presentations are required.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is November 30, 2017. You will be notified about the acceptance of your paper no later than January 5, 2018. All participants whose presentations are accepted must pay the early-bird fee (payment must be received no later than February 28, 2018) in order to be included in the conference program.
We plan to publish a book containing papers that are accepted for the conference. The deadline for submitting the final versions of your texts is May 30, 2018.

Fees

Early-bird fee                      (before March 1, 2018) 1700 CZK (approx. 60 EUR)
Student early-bird fee         (before March 1, 2018) 1200 CZK (approx. 45 EUR)
Regular fee            (March 1, 2018 - April 10, 2018) 2500 CZK (approx. 90 EUR)

Important dates and deadlines

Submission of abstracts                                         November 30, 2017
Acceptance of papers                                         January 5, 2018
Early-bird payment                                                  February 28, 2018
Regular fee payment                                         April 10, 2018
Conference dates                                                 April 23-25, 2018
Submission of final versions of texts for the book May 30, 2018

Monday, July 3, 2017

Oikonymic Transformations in Romania in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Taylor Francis Online

by Oliviu Felecan published in "Names A Journal of Onomastics"  (vol. 65, pp. 78-87)

The end of World War II caused numerous changes in the urban toponymy of Central and Eastern Europe. For instance, Brașov, one of the most important Romanian cities, bore the name Orașul Stalin (“Stalin city”) for 10 years. It was an homage paid to the Soviet leader, whose name could be identified in another 13 oikonyms in the Eastern bloc, behind the Iron Curtain: Stalingrad — Volgograd (USSR), Stalin — Varna (Bulgaria), Stalinstadt — Eisenhüttenstadt (German Democratic Republic), Stalinograd — Katowice (Poland), Stalino — Donețk (Ukraine), and Sztálinváros — Dunaújváros (Hungary), among others. Some of the city names abusively altered during communism were readopted after the Revolution of 1989, which brought about the demise of the totalitarian regime in Romania. However, this was not the case with several hundred villages and communes whose names had been changed in 1964 because central authorities believed they displayed negative or inappropriate connotations.

Toponymie littorale aux îles Marquises, Fenua ‘Enata/Henua ‘Enana, Polynésie orientale

Revue d'ethnoécologie

Coastal toponymy in the Marquesas Islands, Fenua, ‘Enata/Henua ‘Enana, Eastern Polynesia (French Polynesia)
Pierre Ottino-Garanger et Marie-Noëlle Ottino-Garanger

Résumés
Richesse du patrimoine culturel, les toponymes traduisent des connaissances, transmises de générations en générations, et concernent la totalité du territoire. Chaque nom de pointe, récif, pan de falaise, baie, crique ou haut-fond… témoigne de la parfaite identification du lieu, de son usage, de divers savoirs et activités qui s’y rattachent. Ils renseignent sur des traits naturels, des caractères et événements marquants, parfois ils évoquent une histoire, font référence à des temps mythiques, des divinités et héros locaux, souvent pan-polynésiens. Ils témoignent surtout de l’importance du littoral et de la mer dans la culture marquisienne, où la pêche et les pêcheurs tiennent une place prépondérante, aujourd’hui toujours et plus encore aux temps anciens. La toponymie y est très riche, assez bien conservée, mais forcément géo-localisée comme le sont encore, d’une certaine façon, bien des habitants, vivant dans des îles et des vallées encore séparées, malgré l’évolution des communications. D’où l’importance d’aller sur place, dans chaque lieu habité des 6 îles, soit une trentaine de vallées, plus ou moins facilement accessibles, pour recueillir le maximum de toponymes, auprès des seuls connaisseurs du lieu. Le nécessaire partage des savoirs, la collaboration entre acteurs, stimulent la mémoire, mobilisent des souvenirs, permettent ainsi de retrouver noms, localisations et usages, dont la mise en commun aboutit à une restitution étonnamment riche. Le support des cartes favorise l’implication des populations dans les procédures d’acquisition, d’échange, de validation et de restitution des connaissances. La participation spontanée des personnes permit de recueillir plusieurs centaines de toponymes. Beaucoup reste à faire pour traduire le substrat culturel sous-jacent à ces noms de lieux.
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В Алматы переименуют 457 улиц

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В стране все еще действует мораторий на переименование. Но в Алматы все же планируют сменить название 457 улиц, передает «Казинформ».

Дело в том, что в мегаполисе, к которому присоединили немало новых территорий, теперь многие названия улиц дублируются. Что значительно осложняет работу таксистов, бригад скорой помощи, пожарных и полиции.
К примеру, в Алматы 13 улиц имени Жамбыла и 8 Карасай батыра.
«Только в исключительных случаях, осложняющих жизнь горожан, ономастической комиссией рассматривается вопрос о переименовании улицы», — пояснил глава отдела ономастики управления по развитию языков Алматы Отепберген Калабай.  
По его информации,в Алматы сейчас 12 улиц Абая, 3 улицы Ауэзова, 13 улиц Жамбыла, 6 — Курмангазы, 5 — Толе би, 3 — Казыбек би, 3 — Айтеке би, 3 — Кабанбай батыра, 8 — Раимбека, 4 — Наурызбай батыра, 8 — Карасай батыра, 4 — Байтурсынова, 5 — Сейфуллина, 6 — Алии Молдагуловой, 6 — Маметовой, 5 — Кунаева.
По этим названиям работа будет проведена в первую очередь. Всего же в Алматы в 2017 году переименуют 457 улиц.

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Colloque "Neonoma : néologismes et noms propres"

FABULA

Du 9 novembre 2017 au 10 novembre 2017
Université de Strasbourg
ARGUMENTAIRE
Prénoms originaux (Charlolivier, Alkapone), noms commerciaux évocateurs (BlaBlaCar, Fautif Hair, Oasis), toponymes à enjeux identitaires (Hauts-de-France, Nouvelle-Austrasie), acronymes militants ou scientifiques (LGBTPETA ; IDEX), désignations péjoratives de personnes (la marie-chantal, la conchita, le kévin), formation de noms communs ou d’adjectifs (macronite, trumperies ; vallsiste), appellations politiques (Grexit, Ayraultport), pseudonymes ludiques dans les réseaux sociaux (@outofpaprika, @aeris22), noms propres fictionnels (Assurancetourix, Lara Croft, Jason Bourne), etc. Force est aujourd’hui de constater que nom propre et innovation langagière entretiennent des rapports privilégiés dont la portée socio-culturelle, économique, voire politique (« personal branding » du nom Trump), apparaît tout aussi indéniable. De fait, la stratégie des créateurs de noms propres est claire : outre les raisons d’ordre juridique1, il s’agit in fine de forger un nom propre qui véhicule une mise en scène valorisante de soi, d’une œuvre, d’un produit ou d’une entreprise, tout en favorisant la mémorisation auprès d’un public vivant à une époque marquée par l’individualisme et l’ultra-communication.
Or, en linguistique, cette relation entre le nom propre (anthroponymes, toponymes, chrononymes, ergonymes, etc.) et la création néologique a jusqu’ici été peu étudiée en tant que telle. En effet, du côté des études de néologie, le néologisme est explicitement défini comme une unité de nature lexicale, c’est-à-dire comme un principe de vitalité des langues2, vis-à-vis duquel le nom propre n’est pas pertinent, n’étant pas lui de nature lexicale. Par ailleurs, si les études de lexicologie se préoccupent bien de procédés de formation portant sur le nom propre (essentiellement le phénomène de l’antonomase), elles relient rarement les moyens morpho- sémantiques de l’innovation lexicale au contexte socio-historique de cette dernière, laissant ainsi de côté les conditions textuelles et pragmatiques (cruciales en traduction), la situation événementielle (ex. la déonomastique des patronymes politiques est contemporaine de leur médiatisation) et, au-delà, le parcours historique de diffusion des créations lexicales (mots à la mode ou intégration durable des antonomases à la langue commune).
Dans le but d’approfondir la relation entre le nom propre et la création néologique, ce colloque réunit des spécialistes internationalement reconnus du nom propre et de la néologie, mais aussi des informaticiens-linguistes, des spécialistes de la traduction, de la rhétorique et un professionnel du nom d’entreprise. Diversité des approches et des langues, originalité scientifique et portée socio-culturelle du sujet constituent ainsi les points forts de ce colloque de dimension européenne.

PROGRAMME

Jeudi 9 novembre
8h45-9h15
Ouverture-présentation du colloque
Axe 1 — Nomination néologique et noms propres
9h15-10h00
Jean-François Sablayrolles (Paris 13)
Diversité des relations entre néologie et noms propres
10h00-10h45
Jean-Louis Vaxelaire (Namur, Belgique)
La distinction nom commun / nom propre à l’aune de la néologie
10h45-11h
Pause café
11h-11h45
Teresa Cabré et Amor Montané (Barcelone)
Néologismes construits sur des noms propres : instabilité et permanence
11h45-12h30
Mathilde Huguin (Nancy)
Morphologie et noms propres : les créations lexicales à partir des noms de personnalités politiques françaises
Pause déjeuner
Axe 2 — Noms propres en discours et en traduction
14h00-14h45
Hilke Elsen (Augsbourg, Allemagne) The sound symbolic value of new names
14h45-15h30
Denis Jamet (Lyon 3)
Le rôle des euphémismes et dysphémismes dans la création des noms propres
15h30-15h45
Pause café
15h45-16h30
Thierry Grass (Strasbourg)
Nom propre fictif et traduction – une approche trilingue français-allemand-anglais
16h30-17h15
Dominique Defert (Strasbourg, traducteur professionnel) De la traduction des noms et des inventions lexicales
Vendredi 10 novembre
Axe 3 — Traitement automatique des langues et noms propres
9h15-10h
Damien Nouvel (Paris, INALCO)
Remédier à l’incomplétude lexicale à l’aide de bases lexicales en ligne
10h-10h45
Emmanuel Cartier (LIPN-CNRS, Allemagne)
Néologismes issus de noms propres : relevé, analyse et repérage automatique dans la plateforme Néoveille
10h45-11h
Pause café
11h-11h45
Christophe Gérard (Strasbourg)
Nom propre, diachronie et veille néologique (plateforme Logoscope) :
la dénomination mouvementée des nouvelles régions de France (2014-2017)
11h45-12h30
Francesco Crifò (Sarrebruck, Allemagne)
« Parler d’autre Martin ». Essai de phraséologie hagionymique
Pause déjeuner
Axe 4 — Noms propres et entreprises (« naming »)
14h-14h45
Jana Altmanova (Naples, Italie)
Repérage semi-automatique et analyse du degré de lexicalisation de l’onomastique commerciale à partir des plateformes Neoveille et Logoscope
14h45-15h30
Sophia Huynh-Quan-Chiêu (La Marque Pensée, Strasbourg)
Création de noms et marketing : quelles contraintes pour les professionnels ?
15h30-15h45
Pause café
15h45-16h45
Table ronde : bilan du colloque et perspectives

Friday, June 30, 2017

Руслан Бальбек презентовал в Саках справочник по крымской топонимике

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29 июня в Саках состоялась презентация справочника депутата Госдумы РФ Руслана Бальбека под названием «Исторические названия населенных пунктов Крыма», сообщает пресс-служба администрации города Саки. 

В своем вступительном слове Бальбек поблагодарил организаторов и гостей к крымской топонимике. 

«Спасибо всем за проявленный интерес. Хочу, чтоб мы все были союзниками, единомышленниками — и постарались увидеть в каждом населенном пункте ту глубокую историю, которая неразрывно связывает всех нас. Все, кто живет на полуострове, — это одна большая дружная семья. Ни этническое, ни конфессиональное разнообразие не должно вызывать никаких противоречий. Мы уберем попытки политизации любых самых спорных, запутанных вопросов истории — и сумеем понять, что то, как мы живем, зависит только от нас. Если мы будем понимать, что мы все живем в одном доме, или, уже применительно к Крыму, на одном корабле, от нас всех зависит микроклимат в Крыму, то все попытки извне поссорить нас — потерпят крах. Мы – одна семья, а в любой семье микроклимат задают все ее члены», — заявил Бальбек. 


Руслан Бальбек сообщил, что планирует продолжить работу в разных направлениях ономастики, при этом и далее опираясь исключительно на науку. 

По окончанию мероприятия Руслан Бальбек подписал всем желающим экземпляр справочника «Исторические названия населенных пунктов Крыма». 

СПРАВКА. Ономастика — раздел языкознания, изучающий любые собственные имена, историю их возникновения и трансформации в результате длительного употребления в языке-источнике или в связи с заимствованием из других языков. В более узком значении ономастика — это собственные имена различных типов, совокупность ономастических слов, — ономастическая (онимическая) лексика. 

Топонимика — аздел ономастики, изучающий географические названия (топонимы), их происхождение, смысловое значение, развитие, современное состояние, написание и произношение.

Источник: https://kianews24.ru/news/ruslan-balbek-prezentoval-v-sakakh-sp/

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Renaming Haryana village after Trump is a "fraud event"

SURYAA

Gurugram, June 27 (SURYAA) Banners with the photograph of Donald Trump have been brought down in a Haryana village days after it was "renamed" after the US President, with a senior official declaring the renaming as a "fraud event" and illegal.



Marora village, some 46 km from here, was on Friday dedicated to Trump, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US trip. 

The renaming was carried out by NGO Sulabh, which said the village will be known as "Trump Sulabh Village".

Authorities removed the signage boards and banners with Trump photographs installed in Marora village.

On June 23, NGO Sulabh founder Bindeshwar Pathak had also launched various projects for all-round development of Marora panchayat in Haryana's Mewat region.

"It was all fictitious and a fraud event by the organisers aimed at collecting money across the country and abroad," M.R. Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Mewat, told IANS.

"Organisers neither took any permission from local authorities, or the Haryana and union government, nor have they applied for changing the name of the village. It was all illegal," Sharma said.

"Village Marora has been already declared open defection free (ODF) by the state government. We have ordered for removal of all signage boards and banners claiming 'Trump Sulabh Village' and are taking appropriate action," Sharma added.

Monika Jain, vice president of Sulabh international told IANS that they have removed all signages.

"We were called by the district administration, after the meeting with DC M.R. Sharma. We have removed all signage boards and banners of Trump village," Jain told IANS.

"We will continue to build toilets," she said. 

Sulabh founder Bindeshwar Pathak told IANS, "We have not raised funds from the public. A few big companies are supporting us to build public conveniences. Marora was not declared ODF at the time of selecting it for ODF."

Marora village is home to nearly 1,800 people, mostly Meos (Muslims). Sulabh claimed that it has 160 houses, while only 20 have toilets.

Pathak, during a programme in Washington a few days ago, had announced that he will name an Indian village after Trump, as part of his efforts to strengthen bilateral relations.