KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS GATE WH A T MUS T B E TRUE TO P A SS WH A T I T RE LE AS ES G0, Constitution Three vehicles formed; Authority to build the seven commitments stack written in; board seated G1, Thin slice One corridor live endFunding to extend to to-end; loop closes with a full ULB real citizens G2, Scale-up Loop holds across a municipal area; equity metrics acceptable Commissioning the independent assessment G3; Assessment Independent cleanliness assessment published; outcome positive Authority to activate the second program G4, Portfolio Two-plus programs self- Reinvestment of sustaining on shared surplus into faster revenue rollout Exhibit 22 – The phase gates. Each is a go/no-go on evidence; a failed gate triggers the unwind protocol, not a quiet continuation. The gate structure is the operational expression of the book’s central financial promise. The state never faces an open-ended commitment; it faces a sequence of bounded, evidence-gated decisions, each of which it can decline. The most expensive thing it risks is the first build, and even that is milestone-released and protected by a published unwind protocol. After the assessment gate, every further program is cheaper than the first and activates on infrastructure already proven, so the risk profile improves monotonically as the rollout 328