KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS CLAIM F I GU RE / F A C T USE D SO URC E & RO LE is now AI ministry, May 2026 timing argument A data law governs this DPDP Act 2023; Rules notified 13 Nov 2025 MeitY; the legal floor for ethics An AI-camera precedent exists 726 cameras, ~₹232 cr, ~200k/day Safe Kerala/Keltron; the road-safety ‘other half’ Exhibit 26 – The precedents and design anchors, sourced. Read together, the three tables are the book’s argument in evidentiary form: a small, sourced cost (F.1), set against a large, sourced value (F.2), made credible and timely by sourced precedents and a sourced legal framework (F.3). A reviewer who checks these rows has checked the load-bearing structure of the entire book. Where any figure has dated or been superseded, the conclusion should be re-derived from the current number rather than assumed; the argument is built to survive that substitution, because the gap between cost and value is wide enough to absorb considerable revision in either figure. 338