KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS PROGRAM TH E D OC UM E NT ED P ROBLE M 6,000–7,500 tonnes of waste/day; ~13,000 HKS Clean Kerala units; ₹177 cr SWM in one SBM-U phase SO URC E Invest Kerala; Suchitwa Mission Safe Roads 3,733 deaths, 56,922 injured, 49,889 accidents (2025); crashes cost India ~3–5% of GDP Kerala MVD/Police; World Bank Water Secure Heavy monsoon, recurrent summer scarcity; assets built but not maintained Ground Water Dept; Haritha Keralam Tourism Excellence ₹45,054 cr revenue (2024); 2.58 cr arrivals (2025); ₹13,500 cr wellness Kerala Tourism; TMV Volunteer Kerala Deep associational life; recurrent floods; no standing verified register State Disaster Mgmt; NSS/NCC Healthy Kerala ~23.6% adult diabetes; only ICMR-INDIAB; ~15% controlled; Kerala NCD opportunistic screening 30+ studies Frequent planting drives; Green Kerala poor survival; weak postplanting accountability Forest Dept; Haritha Keralam Exhibit 6 – The documented problem behind each program, with sources. Full citations in the References; figures recur, cited, in each program chapter. Why these figures can be trusted Three things give this evidence base its weight. First, the figures come from the bodies that own the 108