Unit rate for solar street lighting sits in the district's top percentile
Hybrid mast at chowk · Palakkad, Kerala · sanctioned 13 Mar 2025 · detected 03 Feb 2026 (30 days ago)
Why this was flagged
Robust z-score on peer cohort evaluated this work against 613 comparable sanctions in Kerala for the same category and financial year. Per-unit cost of an asset sits in the upper tail of comparable works in the same district and quarter after size normalisation. The residual for this record falls outside the learned tolerance, and the contribution breakdown below isolates which measured features carried the score.
- 01Peer-cohort robust z-score+26.8
- 02Unit rate vs district SoR+24.2
- 03Quantity declared per lakh+16.5
- 04Material index adjustment+12.8
- 05Quarter-on-quarter rate drift+4.7
Contributions are additive against the cohort baseline; they sum to the composite score and are recomputed whenever the underlying record changes.
Evidence
| District SoR benchmark | Rs 60.47 L |
| Peer cohort size | 192 works |
| Sanctioned | Rs 85.17 L |
| Released | Rs 70.43 L |
| Expenditure | Rs 29.58 L |
| Physical progress | 20% |
Record trail
- 13 Mar 2025Work sanctioned by the District Authority₹85.17 L · Palakkad Municipal Corporation
- 13 Mar 2025First instalment released to the implementing agency₹35.22 L
- 03 Feb 2026D-02 fired during the nightly scoring runRobust z-score on peer cohort · confidence 0.79
- 03 Feb 2026Alert routed to State Nodal AuthorityResponse window 7 days
The work
Detector
Unit rate above district schedule of rates
Per-unit cost of an asset sits in the upper tail of comparable works in the same district and quarter after size normalisation.