Kerala Rising: From Exporting People to Exporting Ideas · Page 352 of 353

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS
India’s first fully literate state, 18 April 1991;
Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad as people’snetwork backbone.
35. Kudumbashree Mission / Local Self
Government Department, Kerala, membership
(~43–45 lakh women), neighbourhood-group
count (~2.9 lakh), three-tier structure, founded
1998.
36. Safe Kerala project / Kerala Motor Vehicles
Department and Keltron, 726 AI enforcement
cameras operational 20 April 2023; project cost
~₹232.25 crore; ~200,000 violations detected
daily; press coverage 2023.
37. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs,
Swachh Survekshan; Indore Municipal
Corporation; Earth5R case study, Indore
cleanest-city ranking for eight consecutive years,
~90%+ household source segregation, ~95%
recovery on ~1,100 TPD, 100% door-to-door
collection.
38. Government of Kerala, Fisheries Department;
press and research coverage of the 2018 Kerala
floods, ~800,000 displaced, ~4,000 relief camps;
4,537 fishermen in 669 boats rescued ~65,000
people; ad-hoc digital coordination
(keralarescue.in).
352