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To be honest the Indian board needs merit regulation to keep the board active.
What regulations do you mean?
You and anyone else can distribute merit on local boards, especially on posts that you think are quality and constructive. There are no special regulations about this, except that you cannot send merit to your own alt. The rest is only limited, namely 50 merit for the same user in 30 days.
Let's talk some reality, hypothetically if someone post only in their local board and their local board has no merit sources who are the only one who potentially generate merits every 30 days and all others has to earn 2 merits to provide 1.
In case no active merit source is there and the remaining sMerits from the active members keep decline and at one point it will reach close to zero and in that scenario no matter how good their posts are there is no chance to recieve merits so there's no rank up and whatsoever. That's what happening in Indian local board and we can look at how other boards emerged when they started to have good merit circulation hope that might replicate on Indian board as well.