• Dalmia’s investment follows after Nadir Godrej’s and Anand Mahindra’s investment
• Company to continue working with other Social Impact Investors
• Capital to be deployed to make LocalCircles available to more causes and citizens

LocalCircles, India’s leading Citizen Engagement platform today announced that Dalmia Group Managing Director Puneet Dalmia has become an investor in the company after its investments from Anand Mahindra and Nadir Godrej. LocalCircles, which enables citizens to connect with national and local governance, find emergency assistance, resolve civic issues, improve law & order, connect with causes/interest they care about  is now India’s leading Citizen Engagement Platform.

Puneet Dalmia, Managing Director, Dalmia Bharat Cement.

From citizens sharing their collective views on Making Parliament Function, Net Neutrality, Functioning of Odd-Even rule in Delhi or Improving Municipal Deliver and be heard, LocalCircles also enables community assistance for citizens like Finding Blood, Law & Order Issues, Cancer or Health Information all on fingertips.  “What LocalCircles has built is incredibly unique as it takes Social Media to a new level and enables the common citizen to become part of a community beyond immediate friends and family. A community that comes together to assist each other locally as well as engages with the administration on making things better locally and nationally”, said Puneet Dalmia, Managing Director, Dalmia Bharat Cement.

“What makes it highly relevant is that any public leader or corporate can easily connect with its constituents or customers using LocalCircles, understand issues better, resolve them and stay connected with the collective pulse in real time”, continued Dalmia.   “LocalCircles is happy that investors who care about improving urban daily life, good governance, the power of the community and digital media are coming forward to become a part of the LocalCircles journey”, said Sachin Taparia, Chairman and CEO, LocalCircles. “Puneet’s understanding of technology, how it can enable good governance while creating value for all stakeholders will be a great asset to us”, continued Taparia.      

LocalCircles is in the process of enabling communities for many more causes and making the existing communities available to many more citizens and the funds raised will be used towards that. LocalCircles’ represents Social Media 2.0 which is focused on solving real world problems by bringing people together.  LocalCircles senior management team comprises of Sachin Taparia, former Managing Director at Boeing International, Abhishek Gupta formerly of Oracle Inc, Mukesh Gupta Former executive of Juniper Networks and K Yatish Rajawat, Former Group Managing Editor of Dainik Bhaskar group. The advisory board of LocalCircles includes Nadir Godrej, Managing Director of Godrej Industries, RC Bhargava, Chairman Maruti Suzuki and Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group. 

About LocalCircles

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about Communities, Governance and Utility. It enables citizens to connect with communities for most aspects of urban daily life like Neighborhood, Constituency, City, Government, Causes, Interests and Needs, seek information/assistance when needed, come together for various initiatives and improve their urban daily life. LocalCircles is free for citizens and always will be!

Courtesy by www.businesswire.com