“Paras Bhattarai was a Research Analyst at the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW). His research focused on better understanding the distribution end of the power sector in Uttar Pradesh through data and stakeholder engagement with distribution utilities. He worked on generating insights on metering and billing quality, providing inputs on technology adoption in distribution utilities, and conducting a pilot intervention to support DISCOM in reducing their Technical and Commercial losses. His experience also includes designing and conducting primary surveys, data analysis and econometric analysis. Paras holds a Master’s degree in Statistics from CH. Charan Singh University. He is also pursuing a work-integrated M. Tech in Data Science and Engineering from BITS Pilani. When not working, he likes to travel, read about geopolitics, and keep track of everything new in science and cinema.