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Revision 2026-08-27-claims-and-sources · effective 2026-08-27
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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 7 claims and 4 source dossiers.
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add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.
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Since taking over the distribution network of north and north-west Delhi in July 2002, Tata Power-DDL has rebuilt it around metering, SCADA, GIS consumer indexing and outage management to attack electricity theft and unbilled supply
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The utility reports aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses falling from 53% at handover to 5.9% by early 2025
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a World Bank case study, which puts the inherited loss level at 57%, credits the technology rollout together with a performance-management overhaul and a predictable regulator
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The licence area is one of Delhi's three distribution circles, covering roughly 9 million residents — not the whole city, and separate from the neighbouring BSES discoms
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AT&C losses in Tata Power-DDL's licence area fell from 53% in July 2002 to 5.9% by February 2025 (utility figures)
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its own chief executive, writing on a World Bank blog in 2015, said 53.1%
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internal processes to stop the utility's own staff facilitating theft, a state government that policed and punished theft
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src-09eeff712da62cdfIndependent World Bank case study, document date 1 July 2023. Puts the inherited position in detail: 'AT&C losses were 57 percent due to widespread electricity theft', a billing rate of 54 percent, a collection rate of 80 percent, SAIFI of 55, load shedding of 8 to 12 hours a day and an average of more than 53 days to fulfil a new connection. Attributes the turnaround to network upgrading plus a performance-management overhaul, internal processes to stop staff facilitating theft, state policing of theft, and an independent regulator with predictable rules. The landing page renders only as a JavaScript shell to an automated client; the text was read through the World Bank's own document text service.
src-35cc344b2ea9e8d9Operator source. Carries the sentence that AT&C losses stand at 5.9%, down from an initial 53% in July 2002, the ~9 million residents of north and north-west Delhi, and the SP Group Smart Grid Index 2024 placing.
src-287fc597632b75abIndependent trade press on the Delhi-wide outcome: losses from 55% in 2002 to 7%, against New York (9%) and London (8%). Covers all three Delhi distribution companies, not Tata Power-DDL alone — context only.
src-bbfc28cf5bea1008CAUTION: hosted by the World Bank but authored by Praveer Sinha, then Tata Power-DDL's own CEO and Managing Director — an operator voice on an independent platform, not an independent assessment. Published 10 November 2015. Gives a third baseline and a capital figure: 'Investments of about $620 million from 2002 until today have led to a reduction in aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses from 53.1% in 2002 to below 10% today', with the Average System Availability Index rising from 70 to 99.55.