KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS 15. Ownership, governance, and public audit The institution is permanent. The use cases scale over time. Governance is therefore designed for the institution, not for any single program, and it is built to outlast any single government. Because the same machine carries every program in Part Two, its governance must be settled once and apply to all of them equally. This chapter states the seven structural commitments in full, explains why the institution sits at apex level, and states the one political-economy rule that protects every program from the most common cause of failure: a threatened official. Seven commitments, written in at founding These are not policies the institution adopts; they are constraints written into the constitutive documents and the funding agreement at signing, so that the public-interest character of the institution is a matter of structure rather than of the goodwill of whoever runs it at any given time. 12. Non-profit by structure. Section 8 status with a state board majority and five of nine directors. Equity, acquisition, and conversion to 241