Chakkakkoottam is a WhatsApp group with over 500 members in each district of Kerala. Here's how this group launched its own brand value-added jackfruit products.
“I had almost eleven different varieties of brinjals last year,” she tells me. There’s also lady’s finger, corn, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, snake gourd, beans, different kinds of greens, tomato, five varieties of sweet potato, radish, and turmeric.
"Whether it was loud music, serious stalking, domestic violence or a society management issue, we realised that many crimes were going unreported. So we decided to do this."
After the Cantonment administration didn't respond to their plea, over 70 men, women and kids from Sainikpuri and surrounding areas joined hands to fill the potholes.
Who says WhatsApp is only useful for being in touch with friends and family! In Delhi, the social networking app is being used by police officers to find missing children and hand them back, safe and secure, to their families. This is how they operate.