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TALLUK – Social Network for neighborhood has been Launched in Delhi
Published
9 years agoon
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
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.