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.
Core architecture & cryptographic floor
The operating spine, the digital substrate, and the cryptographic primitives the whole state runs on.
TPM
The Karnataka governance platform — manifesto, operating system, and 10-year delivery horizon. Also: ಜನ ಮಾದರಿ.
KSSL
The single mediation and logging layer that anchors every state transaction on a publicly verifiable append-only structure.Vol I Ch 2
CSOC
Statutory body with 24/7 operations, compel-patching authority, and audit access independent of the executive.Vol II Ch 15
KDT
State-wide geospatial digital twin covering road networks, habitations, utility crossings, and building footprints.Vol II Ch 9
KDTA
Statutory body that operates and audits the KDT.
OCDS
International data standard for publishing procurement contracting; the Karnataka Open Ledger is OCDS-aligned.Vol I Ch 2 / Ch 4
HSM
State-operated cryptographic hardware fleet supporting KSSL signing, post-quantum primitives, and threshold-cryptography quorum operations.Vol II Ch 15
PQC
Quantum-safe cryptography. The state's commitment: hybrid by default on all new builds from Day 1.Vol II Ch 15
SBOM
Documentation of every dependency by version, source, and known vulnerability status for every commissioned system.Vol II Ch 15
DPI
Shared digital substrate (identity, payments, signing, storage) used across departments. Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker, Account Aggregator.Vol II Ch 15
UPI
National payments infrastructure used by state payment flows.
API
Machine-readable interface to data and services.
Citizen-facing surfaces & public bodies
The four front doors and the public institutions citizens actually interact with.
JANATA
The citizen-facing front door. One of four front doors — with the Officer Console, Business Portal, and Civil Society Interface.Vol III Ch 22
CMS
The officer-facing console — inbox, case file, escalation ladder L0–L4, KSSL audit trail. The second front door.
KPB
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
BBMP
Bengaluru's municipal corporation.
BESCOM
Bengaluru electricity distribution utility (the company retains its pre-2014 legal name).
BWSSB
Bengaluru water and sewerage utility.
BMTC
Bengaluru public bus operator.
BMRCL
Bengaluru metro rail operator (Namma Metro).
GJA
Statutory body under the Karnataka Grievance Justice Authority Act; the L4 backstop in the L0–L4 escalation ladder.Vol I Ch 6 / Vol II Ch 12
ULB
Municipal corporation, municipality, or town panchayat. The urban tier of local self-government.
UDD
Karnataka department coordinating urban planning and ULB oversight.
RDPR
Karnataka department coordinating rural-tier governance and panchayat funding.
PWD
Karnataka department for state roads, government buildings, and public works.
SWM
Municipal sanitation system — collection, segregation, transfer, processing.
Agriculture & rural institutions
Demand forecasting, parametric insurance, extension cadre, and rural employment.
KAIA
Integrated demand-supply matching system for Karnataka agriculture.Vol II Ch 10 §10.8
KFDA
Statutory body publishing 3 / 6 / 12-month food-demand forecasts at district-and-crop granularity.Vol II Ch 10
KCIF
State-operated parametric crop insurance for slot-booked farmers; no claim form, auto-trigger on weather or yield threshold.Vol II Ch 10
KAEC
Permanent district-and-block extension service delivering monthly farmer visits and field coaching.Vol II Ch 10
KSAMB
Modernised state mandi system with electronic auctions, transparent price discovery, and the floor-price offtake mechanism.Vol II Ch 10
CHC
Block-level booking of tractors, harvesters, pump-sets at published per-hour rates.Vol II Ch 10 / Ch 13
FPO
Farmer cooperative for aggregation, market linkage, and shared-input procurement.Vol II Ch 10
SHG
Women-led savings + livelihood group; one of the role-cards in JANATA.Vol II Ch 10 / Ch 18
RTC
Karnataka land-records system; the source of land linkage in the Farmer role-card.
MSP
Central-government floor procurement price; complements the Karnataka floor-price guarantee for slot-booked farmers.
MGNREGA
Central rural employment guarantee scheme; wage payment lag is a chapter KPI.Vol II Ch 13
APMC
State-regulated agricultural market yard; the predecessor system KSAMB modernises.
UAS
Karnataka's agricultural research universities (Bengaluru, Dharwad, Raichur, Shivamogga, Bagalkot).
Health institutions
Universal entitlement, citizen-controlled records, and the public-health delivery architecture.
UMRS
Citizen-controlled health record on the operating spine.Vol II Ch 8
KUHE
Karnataka's universal health coverage.Vol II Ch 8
CCF
State-operated fund covering unforeseen serious illness up to a published cap.Vol II Ch 8
KHPA
Statutory body coordinating Karnataka health-policy operations.Vol II Ch 8
KPHDA
End-to-end public-health delivery architecture.Vol II Ch 8 §8.9
KHFA
Statutory body managing health-system finance flows.Vol II Ch 8
KHRA
Statutory body governing UMRS records and the Consent Ledger's health surface.Vol II Ch 8
KPHA
Statutory body running disease-surveillance and public-health programmes.Vol II Ch 8
KDCDN
Real-time disease-surveillance and response network.Vol II Ch 8
PHC
Lowest-tier public health facility; entry point in KUHE.
ASHA
Frontline community health worker.
ANM
Frontline maternal and child health worker.
FHT
Multi-disciplinary primary care team.
DHO
District-tier head of health administration.
PMJAY
Central health insurance scheme; complements KUHE.
NHM
Central umbrella mission for state-level health programming.
PPE
Protective gear for sanitation workers, health workers, frontline staff.
Education & Learning State
Foundational literacy, district campuses, the apex institute, and the cadre running them.
KAI
Apex residential-research institute; one of two senior pillars of the Learning State.Vol II Ch 7 §7.4.8
DHEC
31 district-level higher-education campuses; second senior pillar of the Learning State.Vol II Ch 7 §7.4.7
FLN
Class 1–3 reading-and-arithmetic competency; a Vol II Ch 7 KPI.
RTE
Central Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
BEO
Block-tier head of school education administration.
DDPI
District-tier head of school education administration.
PEN
Student-tracking identifier used across the Karnataka school system.
Justice, police, surveillance & custody
Custody-transfer rules, forensic capacity, and the criminal-case lifecycle.
FIR
Police case-registration document; the starting point of the criminal-case lifecycle.Vol II Ch 12
CCTV
Public-space surveillance under the CCTV Code of Practice Act.Vol II Ch 9 §9.6.8
ANPR
Vehicle-plate-reading sensors on transit infrastructure; subject to the same custody-transfer rule as CCTV.
DNA
District forensic capacity for DNA-based evidence.Vol II Ch 12
RFID
Identification tags used in transit, asset tracking, public toilets.
UDID
Central disability registration; Karnataka outreach closes the registration gap.Vol II Ch 16
DCP
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.
KSWC
Public construction with in-house standards. Replaces outsourced public works with a permanent corps.Vol I Ch 5
PDC
Permanent state employees who ship software systems. The SRE cadre is part of PDC.Vol I Ch 5
SRE
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.
SLA
Published target time for a service step; binding under the Service Charter.Vol I Ch 3
SCAC
Service charters published as machine-readable specifications, not PDFs; the CMS enforces them in workflow.
KPI
Headline measurable outcome metric; each chapter publishes six headline KPIs.
L0–L4
Five rungs from frontline to State Backstop. L0 frontline · L1 supervisor · L2 nodal · L3 cell · L4 GJA / State Backstop.
RTI
Central RTI Act; Karnataka's proactive-disclosure architecture aims to render most RTI requests redundant.Vol II Ch 17
SOP
Departmental delivery procedure; published under Vol III App B.
GSDP
Karnataka's annual economic output.
MLA
Karnataka State Legislative Assembly representative.
MSME
Statutorily defined enterprise category; central in the rural-jobs and innovation pathways.
PSU
Government-owned enterprise; an anchor apprenticeship provider in the Karnataka Apprenticeship Guarantee.Vol II Ch 14
SOC
Generic term; in Karnataka context refers to CSOC.
CAPEX
Construction, equipment, and asset-buildout outlay.
OPEX
Recurring operations and maintenance outlay.
PFMS
Central treasury-payments system used for direct benefit transfers.
DBT
Direct bank-credit of scheme entitlements to beneficiaries, replacing in-kind delivery.
GST
Central-state indirect tax framework.
PII
Citizen-identifying fields. Masked by default across CMS roles; reveal requires PIN + reason + audit log.
GIS
Geospatial data infrastructure used for District Climate Risk Plans and the Karnataka Digital Twin.
SMS
Mobile text-message channel used for service notifications.
LED
Used in streetlight retrofit and energy-efficiency programmes.
Procurement & finance frameworks
How the state buys, how it partners, and how it publishes the result.
KTPP
Karnataka's statutory procurement transparency framework.Vol I Ch 4
KPPP
Statutory body governing PPP project structuring and oversight.Vol I Ch 4
RFP
Procurement-process document inviting bids.
Electoral & identity
Voter roll, photo ID, and the bodies that maintain them.
ECI
Constitutional authority for elections; party registration under Sec 29A of the Representation of the People Act sits here.
ERO
Constituency-tier officer responsible for voter-roll integrity. A typical L2 escalation point for electoral grievances.
EPIC
Voter photo ID card issued by the ECI.
Social welfare categorisation
Constitutional and statutory categories used in scheme eligibility.
BPL
Income-based eligibility category for subsidised entitlements.
APL
Non-BPL income category.
AAY
The poorest sub-category within BPL — additional food-grain entitlement.
SC
Constitutional category for caste-based affirmative action.
ST
Constitutional category for tribal-community affirmative action.
OBC
Constitutional category for backward-class affirmative action.
ESI / ESIC
Central social-security scheme for organised-sector workers.
External reference bodies
Reference institutions and standards bodies cited in the manifesto.
BBC
The BBC Trust model is one of two reference points for the KPB structure.
NHK
Japan's public broadcaster; the NHK Educational model is the second KPB reference.
IIT
Central technology research institutes; reference points for KAI and DHEC academic standards.
ISI
Reference for analytical research capacity and statistical-disclosure methodology.
BIS
Central standards body; reference for materials and construction standards in the Structural Rebuild Programme.
GPU
Compute hardware used in AI research; relevant for the State AI Compute infrastructure under KAI.
PRS
External research organisation referenced for legislative-tracking practice.
DTH
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.