Cluster of sanctions to one agency sits just under the delegation limit
Ambulance shed and ramp · Salem, Tamil Nadu · sanctioned 15 Jun 2025 · detected 19 Mar 2026 (18 days ago)
Why this was flagged
Threshold-proximity density scan evaluated this work against 924 comparable sanctions in Tamil Nadu for the same category and financial year. A cluster of sanctions to one agency lands just under a delegation limit within a short window - the classic threshold-avoidance signature. The residual for this record falls outside the learned tolerance, and the contribution breakdown below isolates which measured features carried the score.
- 01Distance below delegation limit+25.4
- 02Common vendor across the cluster+21.2
- 03Sanctions to agency in 30 days+11.8
- 04Identical scope wording+7.9
- 05Aggregate value of the cluster+3.7
Contributions are additive against the cohort baseline; they sum to the composite score and are recomputed whenever the underlying record changes.
Evidence
| Sanctions in cluster | 9 |
| Delegation limit | Rs 25.00 L |
| Cluster aggregate | Rs 251.96 L |
| Sanctioned | Rs 62.99 L |
| Released | Rs 47.62 L |
| Expenditure | Rs 34.29 L |
| Physical progress | 6% |
Record trail
- 15 Jun 2025Work sanctioned by the District Authority₹62.99 L · Salem Panchayat Samiti
- 15 Jun 2025First instalment released to the implementing agency₹23.81 L
- 19 Mar 2026D-04 fired during the nightly scoring runThreshold-proximity density scan · confidence 0.94
- 19 Mar 2026Alert routed to State Nodal AuthorityResponse window 15 days
The work
Detector
Sanction splitting below approval threshold
A cluster of sanctions to one agency lands just under a delegation limit within a short window - the classic threshold-avoidance signature.