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Case study · e-governance

Pune Municipal Corporation

85+mobile speed score, up from 35

A municipal portal rebuilt — mobile score 35 → 85+

A complete ground-up rebuild — headless Drupal 10, a Next.js SSR frontend and a RAG citizen chatbot — turning a failing legacy portal into the e-governance standard for Maharashtra, with results inside 30 days.

A municipal portal rebuilt — mobile score 35 → 85+ — Stark Digital
The challenge

PMC's legacy site was slow, cluttered, invisible in search and near-unusable on mobile — failing millions of citizens trying to reach essential civic services online.

What we built

The approach.

01Headless CMS migration to Drupal 10 for flexible, decoupled content
02Next.js SSR frontend for performance and search crawlability
03RAG AI chatbot for accurate, autonomous citizen query resolution
04Technical SEO foundation — sitemaps, structured metadata, GA4 and Search Console
05Index management — 5,000+ pages indexed, 100% of sensitive URLs removed
Results

The outcome, in numbers.

50%

increase in SEO impressions within 30 days

3100+

new clicks from Google search

5000+

content pages properly indexed

36%

improvement in user engagement

Built with

Technology & integrations

Drupal 10Next.js (SSR)RAG chatbotGA4Search Console

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