Kerala Rising: From Exporting People to Exporting Ideas · Page 25 of 353

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS
administrative structure, and which existing entity,
if any, it is attached to, is a matter for the
department to determine; the design assumes a
clear, single reporting line at the apex of
government rather than dispersed ownership.
2. The approval pathway
Because the institution is publicly owned and
publicly funded, the sequence of approvals would
follow the state’s normal route for creating a funded
autonomous body, and the order matters: the
governance is constituted before any money or data
flows, not after. In illustrative terms that means
administrative sanction for the concept; concurrence
from the finance authority on the capitalisation and
its milestone structure; constitution of the three
vehicles with the seven governance commitments
written into the founding documents at signing;
appointment of the state-majority board; and
acceptance, from the first day, of audit by the
Comptroller and Auditor General as a state-funded
entity. The principle the department should preserve
through whatever its actual process requires is that
the public-interest safeguards are legally binding at
founding rather than promised for later, because
they are far cheaper to establish before operations
begin than to retrofit afterward.
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