What is the Karnataka State Service Log (KSSL)?

The proposed cryptographic floor beneath every state system. Every inter-system call is written to an append-only ledger that is never rewritten, every state action produces a signed receipt, and no citizen record can be accessed without an active consent token.

What is the Open Ledger?

A public record of every rupee received and spent, every contract and every milestone, published as it happens rather than audited years later. Each entry carries an amount, a date, a purpose and the name of whoever authorised it.

What is the Works Corps?

In-house state delivery capacity that replaces routine contractor dependency. Public works would be executed by the state's own teams by default, with contractors retained only for specialised or peak-load work.

What is the Oath Boundary?

The rule that a person is a party member until the oath of office and a public office-holder afterwards. From the oath onward they are bound to the Constitution, the law and their constituency — not to the party.

The citizen front door: one login reaching every state service, document, payment and grievance, with a visible clock on every request. Currently an interactive prototype.

Glossary

Every acronym, expanded.

Karnataka institutions, central frameworks, platform terms — what each one stands for, what it does in one line, and where it lives in the manifesto. A one-page reference so you can land on any chapter and follow what is being referred to without back-paging.

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A glowing glossary book on a wooden table, with ribbons of light carrying acronym chips (KSSL, UMRS, KFDA, KUHE, JANATA, OCDS, KPB, CSOC, GJA, KAI, DHEC, CCF) toward a softly-glowing silhouette of Karnataka

Core architecture & cryptographic floor

The operating spine, the digital substrate, and the cryptographic primitives the whole state runs on.

TPMThe People's Model

The Karnataka governance platform — manifesto, operating system, and 10-year delivery horizon. Also: ಜನ ಮಾದರಿ.

KSSLKarnataka State Service Log

The proposed single mediation and logging layer that anchors every state transaction on a publicly verifiable append-only structure.Vol I Ch 2

CSOCKarnataka Cyber Security Operations Centre

Proposed statutory body with 24/7 operations, compel-patching authority, and audit access independent of the executive.Vol II Ch 15

KDTKarnataka Digital Twin

State-wide geospatial digital twin covering road networks, habitations, utility crossings, and building footprints.Vol II Ch 9

KDTAKarnataka Digital Twin Authority

Proposed statutory body that operates and audits the KDT.

OCDSOpen Contracting Data Standard

International data standard for publishing procurement contracting; the Karnataka Open Ledger is OCDS-aligned.Vol I Ch 2 / Ch 4

HSMHardware Security Module

Proposed state-operated cryptographic hardware fleet supporting KSSL signing, post-quantum primitives, and threshold-cryptography quorum operations.Vol II Ch 15

PQCPost-Quantum Cryptography

Quantum-safe cryptography. The state's commitment: hybrid by default on all new builds from Day 1.Vol II Ch 15

SBOMSoftware Bill of Materials

Documentation of every dependency by version, source, and known vulnerability status for every commissioned system.Vol II Ch 15

DPIDigital Public Infrastructure

Shared digital substrate (identity, payments, signing, storage) used across departments. Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker, Account Aggregator.Vol II Ch 15

UPIUnified Payments Interface

National payments infrastructure used by state payment flows.

APIApplication Programming Interface

Machine-readable interface to data and services.

Citizen-facing surfaces & public bodies

The four front doors and the public institutions citizens actually interact with.

JANATAಜನತಾ — People's App

The citizen-facing front door. One of four front doors — with the Officer Console, Business Portal, and Civil Society Interface.Vol III Ch 22

CMSCase Management System

The officer-facing console — inbox, case file, escalation ladder L0–L4, KSSL audit trail. The second front door.

KPBKarnataka Public Broadcaster

Proposed statutorily independent public-service broadcaster on the BBC Trust / NHK Educational model. Civic, educational, cultural content; no commercial advertising, no ruling-party promotional content.Vol II Ch 7 / Ch 17

GBAGreater Bengaluru Authority

Bengaluru's apex urban body under the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act 2024. It replaced BBMP on 2 September 2025; the city is now administered through the GBA and five city corporations — Bengaluru North, South, East, West and Central.

BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

The single municipal corporation that governed Bengaluru from 2007 until September 2025, when it was replaced by the GBA and the five city corporations. Referred to here only for that earlier period.

BESCOMBangalore Electricity Supply Company

Bengaluru electricity distribution utility (the company retains its pre-2014 legal name).

BWSSBBangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board

Bengaluru water and sewerage utility.

BMTCBangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation

Bengaluru public bus operator.

BMRCLBangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited

Bengaluru metro rail operator (Namma Metro).

GJAGrievance Justice Authority

Proposed statutory body under the proposed Karnataka Grievance Justice Authority Act; the L4 backstop in the L0–L4 escalation ladder.Vol I Ch 6 / Vol II Ch 12

ULBUrban Local Body

Municipal corporation, municipality, or town panchayat. The urban tier of local self-government.

UDDUrban Development Department

Karnataka department coordinating urban planning and ULB oversight.

RDPRRural Development & Panchayati Raj

Karnataka department coordinating rural-tier governance and panchayat funding.

PWDPublic Works Department

Karnataka department for state roads, government buildings, and public works.

SWMSolid Waste Management

Municipal sanitation system — collection, segregation, transfer, processing.

Agriculture & rural institutions

Demand forecasting, parametric insurance, extension cadre, and rural employment.

KAIAKarnataka Agriculture Integration Architecture

Integrated demand-supply matching system for Karnataka agriculture.Vol II Ch 10 §10.8

KFDAKarnataka Food Demand Authority

Proposed statutory body publishing 3 / 6 / 12-month food-demand forecasts at district-and-crop granularity.Vol II Ch 10

KCIFKarnataka Crop Insurance Fund

Proposed state-operated parametric crop insurance for slot-booked farmers; no claim form, auto-trigger on weather or yield threshold.Vol II Ch 10

KAECKarnataka Agricultural Extension Cadre

Permanent district-and-block extension service delivering monthly farmer visits and field coaching.Vol II Ch 10

KSAMBKarnataka State Agricultural Marketing Board

Modernised state mandi system with electronic auctions, transparent price discovery, and the floor-price offtake mechanism.Vol II Ch 10

CHCCustom Hiring Centre

Block-level booking of tractors, harvesters, pump-sets at published per-hour rates.Vol II Ch 10 / Ch 13

FPOFarmer Producer Organisation

Farmer cooperative for aggregation, market linkage, and shared-input procurement.Vol II Ch 10

SHGSelf-Help Group

Women-led savings + livelihood group; one of the role-cards in JANATA.Vol II Ch 10 / Ch 18

RTCRecord of Rights, Tenancy & Crops (Pahani)

Karnataka land-records system; the source of land linkage in the Farmer role-card.

MSPMinimum Support Price

Central-government floor procurement price; complements the proposed Karnataka floor-price guarantee for slot-booked farmers.

MGNREGAMahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

Central rural employment guarantee scheme; wage payment lag is a chapter KPI.Vol II Ch 13

APMCAgricultural Produce Market Committee

State-regulated agricultural market yard; the predecessor system KSAMB modernises.

UASUniversity of Agricultural Sciences

Karnataka's agricultural research universities (Bengaluru, Dharwad, Raichur, Shivamogga, Bagalkot).

Health institutions

Universal entitlement, citizen-controlled records, and the public-health delivery architecture.

UMRSUniversal Medical Record System

Citizen-controlled health record on the operating spine.Vol II Ch 8

KUHEKarnataka Universal Health Entitlement

Karnataka's proposed universal health coverage.Vol II Ch 8

CCFCatastrophic Care Fund

Proposed state-operated fund covering unforeseen serious illness up to a published cap.Vol II Ch 8

KHPAKarnataka Health Procurement Authority

Proposed statutory body for pooled health procurement.Vol II Ch 8

KPHDAKarnataka Public Health Delivery Architecture

End-to-end public-health delivery architecture.Vol II Ch 8 §8.9

KHFAKarnataka Health Financing Authority

Proposed statutory body managing health-system finance flows.Vol II Ch 8

KHRAKarnataka Health Records Authority

Proposed statutory body governing UMRS records and the Consent Ledger's health surface.Vol II Ch 8

KPHAKarnataka Public Health Authority

Proposed statutory body running disease-surveillance and public-health programmes.Vol II Ch 8

KDCDNKarnataka Drug & Consumables Distribution Network

Proposed three-tier drug and consumables distribution network with a real-time stock dashboard.Vol II Ch 8

PHCPrimary Health Centre

Lowest-tier public health facility; entry point in KUHE.

ASHAAccredited Social Health Activist

Frontline community health worker.

ANMAuxiliary Nurse Midwife

Frontline maternal and child health worker.

FHTFamily Health Team

Multi-disciplinary primary care team.

DHODistrict Health Officer

District-tier head of health administration.

PMJAYPradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana

Central health insurance scheme; complements KUHE.

NHMNational Health Mission

Central umbrella mission for state-level health programming.

PPEPersonal Protective Equipment

Protective gear for sanitation workers, health workers, frontline staff.

Education & Learning State

Foundational literacy, district campuses, the apex institute, and the cadre running them.

KAIKarnataka Apex Institute

Apex residential-research institute; one of two senior pillars of the Learning State.Vol II Ch 7 §7.4.8

DHECDistrict Higher Education Campus

31 district-level higher-education campuses; second senior pillar of the Learning State.Vol II Ch 7 §7.4.7

FLNFoundational Literacy & Numeracy

Class 1–3 reading-and-arithmetic competency; a Vol II Ch 7 KPI.

RTERight to Education

Central Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.

BEOBlock Education Officer

Block-tier head of school education administration.

DDPIDeputy Director of Public Instruction

District-tier head of school education administration.

PENPermanent Education Number

Student-tracking identifier used across the Karnataka school system.

Justice, police, surveillance & custody

Custody-transfer rules, forensic capacity, and the criminal-case lifecycle.

FIRFirst Information Report

Police case-registration document; the starting point of the criminal-case lifecycle.Vol II Ch 12

CCTVClosed-Circuit Television

Public-space surveillance under the CCTV Code of Practice Act.Vol II Ch 9 §9.6.8

ANPRAutomatic Number Plate Recognition

Vehicle-plate-reading sensors on transit infrastructure; subject to the same custody-transfer rule as CCTV.

DNADeoxyribonucleic Acid (forensic typing)

District forensic capacity for DNA-based evidence.Vol II Ch 12

RFIDRadio-Frequency Identification

Identification tags used in transit, asset tracking, public toilets.

UDIDUnique Disability ID

Central disability registration; Karnataka outreach closes the registration gap.Vol II Ch 16

DCPDeputy Commissioner of Police

Senior police rank; a typical L3 escalation point in urban policing.

State capacity & cadres

In-house engineering and delivery cadres that replace the contractor-raj.

KSWCKarnataka State Works Corps

Public construction with in-house standards. Replaces outsourced public works with a permanent corps.Vol I Ch 5

PDCProject Delivery Cadre

Permanent state employees who ship software systems. The SRE cadre is part of PDC.Vol I Ch 5

SRESite Reliability Engineering

Discipline for operating large-scale software systems; the SRE cadre operates KSSL.Vol I Ch 5

Public administration & frameworks

The operating vocabulary: KPIs, SLAs, service charters, escalation ladders.

SLAService-Level Agreement

Published target time for a service step; binding under the Service Charter.Vol I Ch 3

SCACService Charters as Code

Service charters published as machine-readable specifications, not PDFs; the CMS enforces them in workflow.

KPIKey Performance Indicator

Headline measurable outcome metric; each chapter publishes six headline KPIs.

L0–L4Escalation ladder

Five rungs from frontline to State Backstop. L0 frontline · L1 supervisor · L2 nodal · L3 cell · L4 GJA / State Backstop.

RTIRight to Information

Central RTI Act; Karnataka's proactive-disclosure architecture aims to render most RTI requests redundant.Vol II Ch 17

SOPStandard Operating Procedure

Departmental delivery procedure; published under Vol III App B.

GSDPGross State Domestic Product

Karnataka's annual economic output.

MLAMember of the Legislative Assembly

Karnataka State Legislative Assembly representative.

MSMEMicro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Statutorily defined enterprise category; central in the rural-jobs and innovation pathways.

PSUPublic Sector Undertaking

Government-owned enterprise; an anchor apprenticeship provider in the Karnataka Apprenticeship Guarantee.Vol II Ch 14

SOCSecurity Operations Centre

Generic term; in Karnataka context refers to CSOC.

CAPEXCapital Expenditure

Construction, equipment, and asset-buildout outlay.

OPEXOperating Expenditure

Recurring operations and maintenance outlay.

PFMSPublic Financial Management System

Central treasury-payments system used for direct benefit transfers.

DBTDirect Benefit Transfer

Direct bank-credit of scheme entitlements to beneficiaries, replacing in-kind delivery.

GSTGoods & Services Tax

Central-state indirect tax framework.

PIIPersonally Identifiable Information

Citizen-identifying fields. Masked by default across CMS roles; reveal requires PIN + reason + audit log.

GISGeographic Information System

Geospatial data infrastructure used for District Climate Risk Plans and the Karnataka Digital Twin.

SMSShort Message Service

Mobile text-message channel used for service notifications.

LEDLight-Emitting Diode

Used in streetlight retrofit and energy-efficiency programmes.

Procurement & finance frameworks

How the state buys, how it partners, and how it publishes the result.

KTPPKarnataka Transparency in Public Procurements Act

Karnataka's statutory procurement transparency framework.Vol I Ch 4

KPPPKarnataka Public Procurement Portal

Karnataka's e-procurement portal under the KTPP Act.Vol I Ch 4

RFPRequest for Proposal

Procurement-process document inviting bids.

Electoral & identity

Voter roll, photo ID, and the bodies that maintain them.

ECIElection Commission of India

Constitutional authority for elections; party registration under Sec 29A of the Representation of the People Act sits here.

EROElectoral Registration Officer

Constituency-tier officer responsible for voter-roll integrity. A typical L2 escalation point for electoral grievances.

EPICElectors Photo Identity Card

Voter photo ID card issued by the ECI.

Social welfare categorisation

Constitutional and statutory categories used in scheme eligibility.

BPLBelow Poverty Line

Income-based eligibility category for subsidised entitlements.

APLAbove Poverty Line

Non-BPL income category.

AAYAntyodaya Anna Yojana

The poorest sub-category within BPL — additional food-grain entitlement.

SCScheduled Caste

Constitutional category for caste-based affirmative action.

STScheduled Tribe

Constitutional category for tribal-community affirmative action.

OBCOther Backward Classes

Constitutional category for backward-class affirmative action.

ESI / ESICEmployee State Insurance (Corporation)

Central social-security scheme for organised-sector workers.

External reference bodies

Reference institutions and standards bodies cited in the manifesto.

BBCBritish Broadcasting Corporation

The BBC Trust model is one of two reference points for the KPB structure.

NHKNippon Hōsō Kyōkai

Japan's public broadcaster; the NHK Educational model is the second KPB reference.

IITIndian Institute of Technology

Central technology research institutes; reference points for KAI and DHEC academic standards.

ISIIndian Statistical Institute

Reference for analytical research capacity and statistical-disclosure methodology.

BISBureau of Indian Standards

Central standards body; reference for materials and construction standards in the Structural Rebuild Programme.

GPUGraphics Processing Unit

Compute hardware used in AI research; relevant for the State AI Compute infrastructure under KAI.

PRSPRS Legislative Research

External research organisation referenced for legislative-tracking practice.

DTHDirect-to-Home satellite TV

Free-to-air distribution channel for KPB.

Canonical source: Vol 0 Glossary in the manifesto v1.0_c0626 corpus. Some CMS / JANATA terms (electoral, social-welfare categorisation, urban utilities) appear here but are not formally promoted into the manifesto glossary.