KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS Loop. The streak is invalidated by the verified violation in the window; conservative scoring applies to occluded views. Result. Selective submission earns nothing where it matters, so the incentive to game it collapses. 49. The pit that failed honestly A dry panchayat · Water / failure Situation. A really-built recharge pit silts up and fails its dry-season re-check despite good intentions. Action. The persistence check records the failure; provisional points lapse; the household is prompted to restore it. Loop. The panchayat’s index counts only functioning assets, so the failure shows and can be addressed. Result. Honest failure is visible and fixable, which is the entire reason to reward persistence over construction. 50. The corridor that gamed redemptions A market street · Clean / collusion Situation. A shop and a few residents collude to farm points without real deposits. Action. Redemption-velocity caps, point-to-redemption anomaly flags, and partner reconciliation surface the pattern. Loop. The colluding partner is suspended; the affected points are clawed back; a human audit confirms. Result. Collusion is detectable because the corpus is public and the ratios are inspectable. 51. The department that feared replacement A line department · Whole machine / political economy Situation. A department head suspects the program is a move to make his office redundant. 224