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KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS
AT A GLANCE
Pilot
structure
One proof corridor, twelve months, baselinethen-assess, independent published
evaluation, written stop protocol; specified in
full in Appendix H.
Risks
Behaviour may not transfer, rewards may
favour the advantaged, gaming, capture, fieldcost surprises; each is named, owned, and
tested cheaply before any scale-up.
Exhibit 3 – The operational shape on one screen; the numbered sections below
give the detail behind each line.
1. The administrative vehicle
The framework is housed not in a contract or a
single department’s programme but in a permanent,
publicly-owned, non-profit institution, constituted
through three non-transferable vehicles: a Society, a
Section 8 (non-profit) operating company, and a
civic Trust. Control rests with the state through a
board majority (illustratively, five of nine directors),
and the constitutive documents bar private equity,
acquisition, or conversion to a for-profit form
without state consent. The institution is positioned
to work alongside existing departments rather than
to absorb or replace any of them; the body that
supplies the relevant subject expertise for each civic
outcome remains the lead authority for that
outcome, with the institution providing the shared
verification-and-recognition capability beneath it.
Where the institution reports within the
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