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Its PDF text layer inserts spaces inside numbers, so the locator may need to be matched loosely. The paper attributes the billing data to DESCO, whose published service area does not include Ramna or Khilgaon.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-7a7b188f689e7558", "field": "impact", "text": "The rollout itself trebled in Dhaka over that period: DPDC held 4,35,552 meters and DESCO 2,93,838 in October 2019", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-bd68b1fad8dec707", "src-87a86fdd5d47118f" ], "supportNote": "The 2019 figures are stated verbatim and attributed in the article to the Director General of Power Cell: 'distribution companies installed 28,86,548 smart pre-payment meters across the country in October 2019, of which ... DPDC 4,35,552, DESCO 2,93,838'. The June 2026 counterparts (10,79,184 and 9,16,910) are in the BSS report and in this entry's snippet, so the trebling is visible from the two pairs rather than asserted from a computed total.", "caveat": "'Trebled' is a characterisation of the two sourced pairs, not a figure any source states.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-2c500c725d00da39", "field": "lesson", "text": "Tk 1,244 crore was outstanding in October 2025, and Tk 822 crore of it was owed by government agencies", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-32f2ca5f54e93c97" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'According to DPDC sources, Tk 1,244 crore remains due from different customers, including both government and private sectors. Of the amount, DPDC will get Tk 822 crore from government agencies and Tk 422 crore from private sector consumers.' Dated 30 October 2025.", "caveat": "The figure is DPDC's own account of arrears. No source states that government connections are exempt from prepayment; the entry states the arrears and does not claim an exemption.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-24cb9a0bb9b2f6a8", "field": "lesson", "text": "A DPDC customer in Kalabagan was told his automatic meter was not transmitting daily consumption readings, which instead arrived sometimes daily, sometimes after ten days, sometimes a fortnight at once", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-900171c67ef0a2d7" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'There he discovered that while the meter was automatic, it was not transmitting daily consumption readings. Instead, the readings piled up - sometimes daily, sometimes after ten days, sometimes a fortnight's worth of data arriving at once.' The customer is named in the report as Mansur Alam, a residential prepaid meter user in Kalabagan.", "caveat": "One reported customer case, not a measurement of how the fleet behaves. No published figure for how many Dhaka meters report remotely was found.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-ba37dfe432195531", "field": "lesson", "text": "a DESCO customer in Mirpur could not check his remaining balance because his meter does not connect to DESCO's app", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-900171c67ef0a2d7" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'The meter does not connect to DESCO's app, so he cannot check his remaining balance.' The customer is named as Tapan Kumar, in Mirpur's Khejurtola. The locator is trimmed before the apostrophe because the page uses a typographic apostrophe (DESCO’s); the trimmed string is still unique on the page.", "caveat": "One reported customer case. DESCO does publish a prepaid customer portal, but desco.org.bd was unreachable from this environment, so its behaviour could not be checked directly.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } } ], "sources": [ { "id": "src-87a86fdd5d47118f", "title": "BSS, 87.50 lakh prepaid electricity metres installed till June (state news agency, BPDB/utility figures)", "url": "https://www.bssnews.net/special-stories/405552", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "bssnews.net", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-9f8fd99e42181f10", "clm-bc39b800bc4361c9", "clm-7a7b188f689e7558" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2026-07-14", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "State news agency report on the national prepaid metering programme, quoting BPDB. Carries the per-utility installation counts to June 2026 ('Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC) 10,79,184, Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (DESCO) 9,16,910'), the consumer bases ('The DPDC has been serving around 19.9 lakh consumers under Dhaka City Corporation and surrounding areas', 'The DESCO has been serving around 10.2 lakh'), DESCO's service area (northern Dhaka, Tongi in Gazipur, Purbachal Model Town), the 2 per cent prepaid discount, emergency credit, and the statement that 5-7 per cent of loss is non-technical at customer level. The counts are utility/BPDB figures relayed by the state agency, so they are operator reporting, not an audit.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-32f2ca5f54e93c97", "title": "BSS, DPDC installs 10.66 lakh smart prepaid meters to boost revenue collection (state news agency, DPDC figures)", "url": "https://www.bssnews.net/news/326648", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "bssnews.net", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-9f8fd99e42181f10", "clm-827b446e909c18b5", "clm-2c500c725d00da39" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2025-10-30", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "State news agency report quoting DPDC's Deputy General Manager (HR). Carries DPDC's October 2025 count of 10,66,005 meters against 19,09,004 consumers, the arrears ('Tk 1,244 crore remains due from different customers' of which 'DPDC will get Tk 822 crore from government agencies and Tk 422 crore from private sector consumers'), the 2018 introduction of smart metering and vending machines, the 2022 project for 8.5 lakh meters, the fact that prepaid installation runs under 28 of DPDC's 36 network offices, and BUET's authorship of the meter design.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-3cc142221e63d51a", "title": "Rabbani, Ali & Zaber, IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) 2020 (peer-reviewed)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1109/tensymp50017.2020.9230814", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "doi.org", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-9a18be8c32db5887", "clm-80e5c77f90fe82bc" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Peer-reviewed conference paper, 'Does Electric Prepaid Meters Decrease Payment Delinquency? Evidence from Data Centric Analysis of Electricity Consumption in Dhaka, Bangladesh', 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), pages 1636-1639; the symposium itself was held in Dhaka from 5 June 2020. Record and pagination resolved through Crossref against the DOI. IEEE Xplore answers automated readers with HTTP 202 and no body, so the abstract was read through the Semantic Scholar API; the four percentages used here are all stated in the paper's own abstract. The paper does not name the distributor whose data it used.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-01126f593350ff10", "title": "Das, Does prepaid metering make a difference in electricity consumption? Evidence from Bangladesh (ANU working paper)", "url": "http://ergonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/5.DAS_BDElectricity_2019_11_7-1.pdf", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "ergonline.org", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "pdf", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-d29860ec6f9bfeff" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Working paper by Debasish Kumar Das, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; not a refereed journal article, and labelled as a working paper in the entry for that reason. Difference-in-differences on a 12-month panel of customer-level billing data supplied under a non-disclosure agreement, with Ramna as control and Khilgaon as treatment after prepaid metering arrived there in January 2018; 5,310 control and 2,644 treatment customers. Finding quoted verbatim: 'customers reduce their monthly electricity consumption by 47 kWh or 24 percent when they switched from post-paid electricity metering system to pre-paid metering'. The paper attributes the data to DESCO; see the trap note, because DESCO's published service area is northern Dhaka. The document itself states no publication date - the November 2019 signal is a PDF production timestamp and a CMS upload path, neither of which counts.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-900171c67ef0a2d7", "title": "Bonik Barta, Higher electricity bills deepen customer frustration, prompting complaints (media)", "url": "https://en.bonikbarta.com/bangladesh/z4ep0iBDDr6D1v2i", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "en.bonikbarta.com", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-24cb9a0bb9b2f6a8", "clm-ba37dfe432195531" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2026-07-07", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Business daily report on the June 2026 billing complaints, carrying the two named Dhaka cases used in the lesson: a DPDC prepaid customer in Kalabagan who found that 'while the meter was automatic, it was not transmitting daily consumption readings' and that they 'piled up - sometimes daily, sometimes after ten days, sometimes a fortnight's worth of data arriving at once'; and a DESCO customer in Mirpur's Khejurtola for whom 'The meter does not connect to DESCO's app, so he cannot check his remaining balance'. Also carries the hundred-digit recharge tokens and the Power Division's position that most complaints were misunderstandings.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-a88198ddb1bfb963", "title": "The Business Standard, Shocking bills, strained budgets: Consumers battle unexpected power charges (media)", "url": "https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/energy/shocking-bills-strained-budgets-consumers-battle-unexpected-power-charges-886866", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "tbsnews.net", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "background", "claimRefs": [], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2024-06-29", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Context source, not cited for any figure in the entry. Records that on 11 June 2024 the High Court issued a rule asking why there should not be an independent investigation into complaints about prepaid meters, and that on 12 June 2024 a bench ordered an independent committee to investigate and report within a month. That proceeding covers the country's distribution utilities generally, not Dhaka alone, and is described here as national for that reason. Also carries two named Dhaka consumer complaints about prepaid deductions.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-99d899d0e55d03b3", "title": "The Daily Star, Desco to expand prepaid meter system to new areas (media)", "url": "https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-51618", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "thedailystar.net", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-2e9bdebf2adbd1c0", "clm-827b446e909c18b5", "clm-914e1ec05e560ab2" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2008-08-23", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "The origin source. Verbatim: 'In August 2005, this government-owned electricity distributing company, which was established in1994, installed the pre-paid meter system at Uttara in Dhaka'; 'So far, Desco brought 7500 customers under the pre-paid metre system in Uttara'; 'a group of students of Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (Buet) designed the pre-paid meter system'. Also records that DPDC at that date only had plans to introduce prepaid metering, and quotes an Uttara resident saying the bill 'seems larger under the new payment system as we are paying before consumption' even with the 2 per cent rebate.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-bd68b1fad8dec707", "title": "The Business Standard / BSS, Installation of more 88 lakh prepayment meters on the card (media, Power Cell figures)", "url": "https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/installation-more-88-lakh-prepayment-meters-card-55462", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "tbsnews.net", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-7a7b188f689e7558" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2020-03-12", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "The October 2019 baseline, attributed in the article to the Director General of Power Cell: 'distribution companies installed 28,86,548 smart pre-payment meters across the country in October 2019, of which BPDB installed 11,32,083 smart prepayment meters, BREB 8,10,590, DPDC 4,35,552, DESCO 2,93,838, WZPDCL 1,95,591 and NESCO 18,894'. 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