Appendix H — Program Atlas · The People's Model — Manifesto v2026

Appendix H — Program Atlas

Each sheet to the 8-section template + 4-point QA bar (defined inline in Vol III App H Education, the format-reference sector).

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The People’s Model

Manifesto v2026

Volume III — Implementation Handbook

Appendix H — Program Atlas

Media & Info Integrity sector — sheets H.181–H.198 (v1.0)

Each sheet to the 8-section template + 4-point QA bar (defined inline in Vol III App H Education, the format-reference sector).

Problem

Karnataka’s proactive disclosure under RTI Sec. 4 is uneven. What the state publishes by default is unclear and frequently lags.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Karnataka State Information Commission + Dept of Personnel & Administrative Reforms

Backup: Department of IT, BT & Science

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹30-60 cr / year

Source: State Budget; RTI implementation share.

Payment trigger: Per-dataset publication audit + RTI-volume trend.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka government advertising spend is uneven in disclosure; the propaganda boundary is unclear. Public trust suffers.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Information & Public Relations

Backup: Karnataka State Information Commission (transparency oversight)

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹20-50 cr / year (compliance + audit)

Source: State Budget; advertising-spend within ceiling.

Payment trigger: Monthly disclosure + audit completion.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka government open data is partial and uneven in quality. Civic-tech reuse potential is constrained.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of IT, BT & Science

Backup: Karnataka State Information Commission

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹60-100 cr / year

Source: State Budget; convergence with NDSAP.

Payment trigger: Per-dataset publication + API-consumption data.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka misinformation events (election, crisis, communal-tension) get slow / inconsistent response. Correction often arrives too late.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Information & Public Relations + Karnataka State SOC

Backup: Karnataka State Election Commission (election windows)

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹30-60 cr / year

Source: State Budget; central convergence.

Payment trigger: Per-incident response time + correction-reach evidence.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka faces rising deepfake threats — political, financial-fraud, identity-abuse. Response capability is thin.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Karnataka State SOC + KSP Cybercrime

Backup: Karnataka State Police Cyber Forensics Lab

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹40-80 cr / year

Source: State Budget; CERT-In convergence.

Payment trigger: Per-incident detection + response evidence.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka crisis communication (disaster, outbreak, security incident) is improvised. Information vacuum gets filled by speculation.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Information & Public Relations + Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority

Backup: Karnataka State SOC (for cyber incidents)

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹30-60 cr / year

Source: State Budget; convergence with NDMF.

Payment trigger: Per-event communication evidence + post-event review.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka school curriculum addresses media literacy unevenly. Students enter adult life without tools to critically engage information.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of School Education & Literacy + DSERT

Backup: Karnataka State Civic Network (sheet H.142)

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹50-90 cr / year

Source: State Budget; NEP convergence.

Payment trigger: Per-school curriculum delivery + assessment evidence.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka adults — particularly seniors, low-literacy, and digitally-new users — face information manipulation risks. Reach beyond schools is limited.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Public Libraries + Department of Rural Development

Backup: Karnataka State Civic Network

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹60-100 cr / year

Source: State Budget; partnership funding.

Payment trigger: Per-session delivery + participation data.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka local journalism is under fiscal stress; district / vernacular reporting capacity has thinned. The watchdog function suffers.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Information & Public Relations (with statutory independence frame)

Backup: Independent governance board

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹60-100 cr / year

Source: State Budget; statutory fund.

Payment trigger: Per-grant disbursement + output evidence.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka has no organised, state-supported fact-checker ecosystem to handle misinformation at scale.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Information & Public Relations (with independence frame)

Backup: Independent governance board

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹30-60 cr / year

Source: State Budget; statutory fund.

Payment trigger: Per-fact-check completion + correction-reach evidence.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka journalists, particularly those reporting on power and corruption, face safety risks. Response is uneven.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Karnataka State Police + Department of Information & Public Relations

Backup: Karnataka State Human Rights Commission

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹30-60 cr / year

Source: State Budget; central convergence.

Payment trigger: Per-incident response + post-incident evidence.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka’s public-broadcaster relationship with the state can be opaque. Independence requires structural design, not just promises.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Information & Public Relations + statutory broadcaster

Backup: Independent governance board

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹80-130 cr / year

Source: State Budget; broadcaster revenue.

Payment trigger: Annual editorial-independence audit + governance evidence.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka State Information Commission is under-resourced relative to RTI caseload. Delays in disposal compound the rights gap.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Karnataka State Information Commission

Backup: Department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹40-70 cr / year

Source: State Budget; statutory body funding.

Payment trigger: Per-RTI disposition + penalty action.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka election + crisis windows produce predictable misinformation patterns. Pre-bunking — inoculation before exposure — is more effective than debunking after.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Karnataka State Election Commission (election windows) + Department of Information & Public Relations

Backup: Independent academic board

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹30-50 cr / year

Source: State Budget; partnership funding.

Payment trigger: Per-event campaign delivery + reach data.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka residents often don’t know what schemes they’re entitled to, how to apply, or where to follow up. Awareness gap creates inclusion error.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms

Backup: Department of Information & Public Relations

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹30-60 cr / year

Source: State Budget; convergence with DBT infrastructure.

Payment trigger: Per-tool usage + application-uplift data.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka government content (forms, dashboards, communications, learning material) skews to Kannada + English; minority-language content lags.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Kannada & Culture + Department of Minorities Welfare

Backup: Department of Information & Public Relations

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹50-90 cr / year

Source: State Budget; central minorities-content convergence.

Payment trigger: Per-language content production + reach data.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka press freedom faces pressures from state and non-state actors. State-side commitments to non-interference need to be visible.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Department of Home + Department of Information & Public Relations

Backup: Karnataka State Human Rights Commission

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹20-40 cr / year

Source: State Budget.

Payment trigger: Per-incident handling + protocol-compliance evidence.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Problem

Karnataka information ecosystem health — proactive disclosure, advertising discipline, journalism support, fact-checking, misinformation incidents — is rarely consolidated for public accountability.

Program design

Owning agency

Lead: Karnataka State Information Commission

Backup: Independent academic board

Funding model

Annual cost band: ₹20-40 cr / year

Source: State Budget; statutory body funding.

Payment trigger: Annual publication + recommendation closure.

KPIs

Standard risk controls

Dependencies

Architecture cross-reference

Architecture cross-reference — sector sheets to architectural sheets

Each program sheet in this sector references the operating architecture defined in Vol I Ch 2 and App H CyberDPI sheets H.230–H.233. Specifically: financial flows from this sector’s programs are published through the Open Ledger (sector-specific data fields per App D) anchored to KSSL (sheet H.230). Time-series outcome data and sector dashboards are published on the Karnataka Open Data Portal (sheet H.233). Personal data flows (where applicable) are governed by the Citizen Consent Ledger (sheet H.232). Security audit and incident response across this sector’s systems falls under the statutory CSOC (sheet H.231).

H.181 — MEDIA — Public Information Charter (binding)

H.182 — MEDIA — Government Advertising Rules & Disclosure

H.183 — MEDIA — Open Data Portal (Citizen Tech alignment)

H.184 — MEDIA — Misinformation Response Protocol

H.185 — MEDIA — Deepfake & Synthetic Media Response

H.186 — MEDIA — Crisis Communication Standards

H.187 — MEDIA — Media Literacy in Schools

H.188 — MEDIA — Community Media Literacy at Panchayat Level

H.189 — MEDIA — Local Journalism Support Fund (Arm’s-length)

H.190 — MEDIA — Fact-checker Network (Independent Governance)

H.191 — MEDIA — Journalist Safety & Reporting Protocol

H.192 — MEDIA — Public Service Broadcasting Governance

H.193 — MEDIA — Karnataka State Information Commission Strengthening

H.194 — MEDIA — Pre-Bunking Campaigns (Election & Crisis)

H.195 — MEDIA — Civic Information for Welfare & Entitlements

H.196 — MEDIA — Multilingual Content Production (Kannada + minority lang)

H.197 — MEDIA — Press Freedom Protection (within state remit)

H.198 — MEDIA — Information Integrity Annual Report


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