Kerala PWD is a symbol of consistent growth since 1823. What are they up to now?

That is actually over 200 years of legacy that Kerala PWD has, ain’t it? Now the PWD or Public Works Department itself is one of the oldest departments of India. PWD Kerala itself is one of the very important departments of Kerala government. It is the statutory authority to undertake all the public works of the Kerala Government like roads, bridges, government buildings in terms of its design, planning, monitoring, construction and maintenance. All of this comes under the Kerala PWD, irrespective of the fact what’s the source of funds to get these things done. Kerala PWD comes under the minister of Public Work and secretary to government at the Secretariat. 

History of Kerala PWD

The history of Kerala Public Works Department goes back to 1823 in the State of Travancore (it formed the major part of Kerala State later on, following the re-organisation of states which happened in 1956). With the formation of the Maramath Department as a branch of the Huzur Cutchery (Government Secretariat) which had an executive branch that was called the Panivakai Maramath.  In the year 1854, Panivakai Maramath was made into the Public Works Department. In 1862 the budget system was started. So the expenditure of the department was brought under due control. Then in 1898 there was a new scheme that was drawn up for auditing of the department’s accounts. Then in 1901, the PWD Code was introduced. In the later years, a number of things started getting re-organized like the number of offices, officers and their salaries in the department. On 19th March 1934, a new Irrigation Division was formed which had 3 sub-divisions and 9 Sections. This was done to carry out the Irrigation works for the state, excluding the area that was commanded by the Kothayar Project. In 1935, the Water Works and Drainage branch got separated and they were organised into a separate new department. Later then on 29th March 1990, as per the G.O (P) No 27/90/PW & T, the Public Works Department was divided into two departments. They were the Public Works Department and Irrigation Department which came into effect from 1st April 1990. Over all these years the Public Works Department has grown multifolds. At present it has got eight wings out of which there are two project wings and six public sector undertakings.

Organisational structure of Kerala PWD

Based upon the nature of works, the current organisational structure of Kerala PWD is divided amongst various wings and then each of these wings are administratively controlled by a chief engineer. There are superintending engineers or circle offices under the chief engineer. In each circle, there are various divisions controlled by executive engineers. Divisions are further bifurcated into subdivisions which are under the control of assistant executive engineers. Subdivisions are further divided into a number of sections. These sections are under the charge of assistant engineers. Other than this, other Kerala state orgnisations like Kerala state construction corporation limited – KSCC, Kerala state transport project – KSTP, Kerala road fund board – KRFB, Road infrastructure company kerala limited – RICK and roads and bridges development corporation of kerala limited – RBDCK; all come under the department of Kerala PWD. 

This must give you a sense of the mammoth size of the organization that it has become today and how its multiple different departments are working towards the growth of the state, by releasing various Kerala PWD tenders regularly based on their requirements for new projects or maintenance projects. This also lets you know that as an SME/MSME how you must ensure that you are actually not missing out on any latest Kerala PWD tenders releasing online on Kerala Public Works Department etender website. Although you will get all of the Kerala PWD tenders details on their website, that’s not enough. Let’s understand why? 

Solution to your tender search maze

You need to manually sieve through multiple tenders to get to your relevant ones, which means appointing and designating your full time resources for this task only, which is time consuming and won’t be so effective as there will be manual misses on the important latest tenders or tender info that you might be looking for. So what is the solution for that? Just log on to BidAssist.com and begin your Kerala PWD tenders search. It’s very easy to find your relevant tenders on BidAssist.com, just like Google. You simply type in your relevant search term/keyword in the tenders or tender results section, and on the results page you get a list of tenders based on your search criteria. You may now filter these tenders based on your preferences with more advanced filters like location, authority, amount, last date etc. Now if you want to receive periodic notifications just save those filters and set your frequency in notification settings under Profile section.

If you are interested to get all the latest updates on development for a particular Kerala PWD tender, all you need to do is to “follow” i.e ❤️ that tender. Once you follow a tender, you will start getting notifications on all the updates about the tender; be it the change of dates, corrigendums, result declaration w.r.t technical qualifications or of course the final result declaration.

Why should you choose BidAssist though?

That’s a very important question that must be popping in your head, and it’s important to know why BidAssist should be your ultimate choice. For starters, BidAssist has more than 4 Crore+ tenders that are sourced from 50K+ sources globally. On an average, there are about 150,000 active tenders in India and roughly another 280,000 active tenders globally. Take for example Kerala PWD tenders. BidAssist has ~1000 active Kerala PWD tenders on its website and overall it has more than 72,000 tenders just for Kerala PWD. By value, if you see just in 2022, Kerala PWD released tenders worth 4300 Crores. And all of this information you can easily find with just a click on BidAssist.com. They are by far the largest source of tenders, segregated into 50+ categories. In addition to this, there are 76 Lacs or 7.6 Mn tenders results in India and 42 Lacs or 4.2 mn tender results globally. The content database for BidAssist is actually more than double of other leading players. Hope these are good enough reasons for you to make up your mind. Not only this, they also have a world class customer support team, who are always there to solve your queries, and help you make right decisions. It’s just a click away, so all you need to do is to share your questions with BidAssist support and they will be more than eager and fast to respond to help you out. 

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