The product
Construction Management System
Maintains data and generates reports and queries for planning, design, construction and monitoring of irrigation projects

The clients

	Irrigation & Command Area Development (I & CAD) Department Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP)
	Neeravari Nigam Limited Water Resources Department, Government of Karnataka

The construction management system facilitates maintenance of necessary data as well as generation of reports and queries for the I&CAD department of the Andhra Pradesh government, to aid in planning, design, construction and monitoring for its projects.

It provides accurate and relevant information to make effective decisions at different levels. It improves management of high-volume data and minimises information delays at different management levels, apart from enabling effective sharing of data and information among various management levels and concerned field offices.

Scope
Design, development and installation of a construction management system for effective monitoring and control of ongoing construction activities of the Srirama Sagar project (SRSP) and the Srisailam right bank canal (SRBC), both irrigation projects.

System
The construction management system comprises the following modules:

	Configuration
	Land acquisition
	Rehabilitation and resettlement
	Schedule of rates
	Procurement
	Construction monitoring
	Project management
	Resource requirement planning
	Accounts
	Stores
	Assets
	Contract management
	CADA (OFD): On-farm development works
	Environment management plan
	Quality control
	Water users' association
	System administration and data transfer

IT-based construction management
The system is based on a client-server configuration. Servers and clients of the required configuration are installed at key offices of both the projects - four division offices, one circle office and one chief engineer's office in each of the two projects, and also at headquarters, Hyderabad.

A similar construction management system has also been designed, developed and installed for Neeravari Nigam Limited, a project of the Water Resources Department, Government of Karnataka.