Near-identical sanction already exists in Palakkad
Hybrid mast at chowk · Palakkad, Kerala · sanctioned 13 Mar 2025 · detected 16 Jan 2026 (71 days ago)
Why this was flagged
Sentence embeddings + geo clustering evaluated this work against 892 comparable sanctions in Kerala for the same category and financial year. Two or more sanctions describe the same asset at the same location, across MPs, years or implementing agencies. The residual for this record falls outside the learned tolerance, and the contribution breakdown below isolates which measured features carried the score.
- 01Description embedding similarity+40.3
- 02Geo-tag distance to twin work+14.8
- 03Same agency, adjacent sanction dates+12.3
- 04Asset-type collision in ward+9.8
- 05Beneficiary count overlap+7.9
Contributions are additive against the cohort baseline; they sum to the composite score and are recomputed whenever the underlying record changes.
Evidence
| Twin sanction | MPLADS/KL/2302 |
| Description similarity | 0.918 |
| Geo separation | 12 m |
| 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
- 16 Jan 2026D-03 fired during the nightly scoring runSentence embeddings + geo clustering · confidence 0.79
- 16 Jan 2026Alert routed to Internal audit unitResponse window 7 days
The work
Detector
Near-duplicate work recommendation
Two or more sanctions describe the same asset at the same location, across MPs, years or implementing agencies.