This website is intended to serve as a guide to the citizenry regarding the services available from the many government offices/departments in the Thiruvananthapuram district, and also to provide a portal for accessing the same online.

The need for such a comprehensive portal site has been long felt, but it took the initiative and resourcefulness of the District Collector Sri. Sanjay Kaul, IAS, to bring such a project to fruition. The creative and content management team (comprising of Revenue and NIC staff) under the able stewardship of the District Collector achieved the task in a matter of a couple of months, and that too, without incurring any expenditure in connection with the design and implementation of the website.  Right from the start the creative team oriented itself towards an implementation centred on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), which made possible for the project to be realized without putting any additional burden on the tax payer. The design and deployment of the site was done in Linux, utilizing state-of-the-art tools like Joomla, GIMP and Open Office. The successful implementation of the project is a testament to the dedication and innovative spirit of the Government staff under the right kind of leadership.

The Content  Management Team acknowledges with thanks the help rendered by Prof. Unnikrishnan Panickar  (Department of  English, TKM College  of Arts & Science, Kollam) in collating and summarizing the District and Taluk information. Many of his suggestions from a user’s point of view served as corrective feedback for the visual design of the site.

The site provides comprehensive guidance in accessing the various Acts/Rules and other relevant information that is usually sought by the citizen. Getting various certificates, accessing building and other tax details, revenue information, village/ taluk/Collectorate/RDO services, welfare pension details, alerting police and fire services, tourist and general enquiries etc. are some of the services accessible through the portal.

The design and implementation of such a comprehensive website covering a plethora of government offices/departments/sections is in itself a complex task. This is more so when authoritative summations of all the governments Laws/Acts/Rules as also related information is not fully available. Even in the face of such difficulties the creative team has succeeded in implementing most of the links to the essential services. In spite of the creative team’s best efforts, some lacunae remain. However efforts are on to scan and include all GO’s, Rules and Acts and other relevant material at the earliest. Periodic updating of information so as to keep the site up-to-date is surely a priority area.

The creative team invites the users to submit opinions/suggestions/improvements, which will hopefully hammer out the minor imperfections and make the site useful and usable.
The site is hosted on the servers of Kerala State Data Centre under the IT Mission. Thanks are due to the Mission in this regard, as also for the many occasions of help and prompt response from its staff.