In Kerala, Irrigation department is a part of Public Works Department. Prior to independence, the impending role of irrigation in agricultural development was not well recognized in Kerala. Thus, Kerala does not have a very long history of evolution of organized irrigation systems. Post-independence period observed incredible changes in respect of policies towards irrigation development in the State. This website is developed for the use of internal and external data management, Tender, RTI and Training data sharing.
Smashing Infolabs helped Kerala Government with the redesigning of their 2 websites Sites that were built on Drupal 9.
Why Drupal was chosen
Functionally, the editorial team from Kerala irrigation Department needed to easily manage all content, allowing its classification into different taxonomies, a dashboard for the editors and easy to use content moderation. The core of the project architecture is an implementation of Drupal 9 as content manager. The robust permission and content authoring experience made Drupal as the CMS of the choice for the stakeholders and the editors.
The were many motivations behind choosing Drupal 9 as it came bundled with following benefits-
- Open source
- Role-based access
- User relationships
- Content authoring experience
- Workflow
- User-friendly
- Optimization
- Scalability
Technical Specifications
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