KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS The road-safety line deserves emphasis because the figure is so large and so well established. The World Bank estimates that road crashes cost India between three and five percent of GDP every year, with around 84 percent of fatalities falling among working-age people aged 18 to 60, and poor households bearing the heaviest share of the loss. Against an economic drain of that magnitude, a recognition program whose verification costs a few lakh rupees a year is not a meaningful expense at all; it is a rounding error attached to one of the largest avoidable losses the state carries. The same logic, small verification cost, vast budget or value at stake; holds for every row in the table above, which is the whole reason the framework is financially serious rather than aspirational. [9] Why the machine earns its keep Cheap verification explains why the AI is affordable. It does not, by itself, explain why the institution does not become a permanent line on the state budget. That is the job of the revenue lines, and they are by choice program-agnostic; they grow with every corridor and every program rather than being tied to any one of them: – Reward Partner subscriptions. Local businesses pay a modest recurring fee to participate as redemption points and to appear in discovery, across every program’s corridors. 92