KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS seven programs. Why this survives a change of government The structures above are chosen specifically so that the institution outlasts the political cycle. A nonprofit with a state board majority, three nontransferable vehicles, CAG jurisdiction, state-owned IP, and a published unwind protocol is not a thing a successor government inherits as a liability or a favour to be undone; it is permanent civic infrastructure, like the institutions that gave India its payments rails. The institution is built to be boring to attack and expensive to dismantle, which is exactly what permanence requires. 247