Karnataka State Police Housing : Web-based Project Mgmt System

The primary function of KSHPC is to cater to the requirements of constructing

residential premises for govt. personnel and providing office spaces for all its

depts. Ever since the establishment of the dept. in 1985, there have been a few

challenges daunting over the smooth functioning of the dept. Contractors and

project personnel had to be enabled to instantaneously update project status

from any remote site and every project which the dept undertook needed to be

divided into manageable tasks and each task assigned a scheduled start and end

date. Vital project related docs such as drawings, contracts, estimates,

licenses, had to be easily accessible to all the concerned project for

accounting operations. The aim of course was to ensure that real time updates of

project status had to be made available to all stakeholders.

When KSPHC decided to embark on the WBPMS, it did not have the requisite

resources to home in on the right kind of platform and understand the complex

process of software licensing. But once it overcame this hurdle, the WBPMS

ensured that there was online collaboration, an alert monitoring sys was in

place, and a special app was added which allowed the admins to 'upload tools'

that were relevant to the project. KSHPC is confident of recovering its

investment of Rs 38.5 million in a shorter time span than expected.