One-stop Platform for RWAs, Market Welfare Associations & Other Groups
New Delhi; October, 2015: Talluk, a startup in the online space of social network for neighborhood has been launched with an aim to build harmony & cohesion amongst the neighbors. It is one stop platform that helps the Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), Market Welfare Associations (MWAs), communities and other groups to share & interact with each other thus encouraging community living. It helps residents communicate with one another and is a platform which will help residents in buying/selling properties/rent, raising local issues & others. The highlight of Talluk is that it is a free service that anyone can join by embracing an idea with the innovative hand of technology. The company has been founded by budding entrepreneurs Vishal Sharma & Sudhir Goyal who are IT professionals.
According to Vishal Sharma – Founder & Director of Talluk said, “Today Modern society is centered around the unsafe neighborhoods, apathy towards neighborhood concerns & an abused usage of virtual world of socializing and the rapid depletion of social cohesion in the communities” He further added, With the launch of Talluk, we aim to become like Facebook for the neighbourhood which will change the face of community living.”
Talluk platform is user friendly & the portal (www.talluk.com) is seamlessly integrated with an email solution. The members are provided with vendor management & facility management services such as dealing with local kirana/ vegetable shop/ medicine shop etc. The user can communicate with the vendors, can refer them in the neighbourhood and can also rate them for their services. In addition other services be it announcement, important notifications like property on sale/rent, Festive Melas, electricity/water bill etc will be circulated through the same portal, thereby decreasing the man-power and paper and printing cost to distribute the papers in physical form. Facility management services like booking tennis court, club house, party room etc is offered.
It also provides a ready tool for initiating discussion forums where residents can discuss any topical issue concerning their society/locality. Talluk’s other services include free search, online chat in the neighbourhood, buy/sell, yellow pages, user complaint registration, Online RWA elections (online voting), customer surveys, local news and Neighbourhood story.
The entire concept of Talluk benefits the RWAs, residents & small businesses. RWAs and member associations receive tangible benefit where with the usage of Talluk, they save a substantial cost saving of up to 50% of their annual expenses as all the communication happens through TALLUK free of cost, instantly reducing the man-power and printing cost. The intelligent software helps the associations, streamline and automate almost all the processes and operations for them. The residents enjoy privileged services like on demand services, raising complaints, buy/sell/rent in the neighborhood and create sub interest groups like Kitty, Tennis, Morning walk etc
With the implementation of Talluk, there is an increasing level of communication and responsiveness towards local problems/issues. This results in an enhanced social cohesiveness & hence positively impacts the Safety of the society/community.Talluk helps the association in managing the concerns of the residents as well as communicate regularly on latest developments.