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. 25