What the State Is Selling.
Spotlight
- 01 curio
Boeing 707 aircraft, single unit
A complete Boeing 707 airframe from the Aviation Research Centre, Odisha, opening at ₹1; the lot itself is the column.
- 02 curio
Boeing B737-900 aircraft, partial engine configuration, liquidation
Decommissioned B737-900 (MSN 33740, VT-JGD) with one serviceable engine, sold via IBBI insolvency liquidation; commercial aircraft rarely appear on government auctions.
- 03 niche-instrument
Telecom modems optical converters and fiber splicers
The annexure details specific telecom hardware including fiber fusion splicers, an OTDR, and Tejas multiplexers, representing specialized equipment rather than generic e-waste.
- 04 curio
T-72 and BMP military engine assemblies
The lot contains identifiable heavy military vehicle engine assemblies from an army ordnance depot, carrying significant curio value for hardware collectors.
- 05 curio
Guinea Spade coin, East India Company, 8.4 grams
A single historical Guinea Spade coin from the East India Company, recovered from unclaimed cargo at Kolkata airport after decades in storage, opening at ₹1.
- 06 curio
Agusta A109 helicopter temperature regulating valve spares
Two sealed original-equipment valve spares (Part No. 727986) from an Agusta A109 helicopter, ex-Chhattisgarh state aviation directorate, opening at ₹1.
- 07 curio
1036 kg of defaced military service medals, scrap nickel-copper
Over one tonne of United Nations service medals from an Army ordnance depot, mandatorily destroyed before sale; the lot's signature is the deliberate defacement of military honours.
- 08 curio
29.44 metric tons of empty fired brass cartridge cases
Twenty-nine metric tons of empty brass fire cases from a state police force, sold by weight as scrap with a mandatory disfigurement requirement that signals ordnance provenance.
- 09 curio
Seized Datsun Go car from narcotics investigation
Datsun Go seized in a 2019 narcotics case by NCB Patna, auctioned with full crime registration details and seizure provenance documented.
- 10
prestige-seller 2010 Tempro Traveler D1 BS III vehicle
2010 Mahindra Tempo Traveler from Indian Institute of Science with clean title, no accident history, and current insurance, certified by the Chief Medical Officer.
- … Misc (UNSV Medals), As Per Lot Description ₹1
- … Eng Assy, As Per Lot Description ₹1
- … DG Cat - 2 ₹74,553
- … DG Cat - 1 ₹73,000
- … DG Cat - 2 ₹74,553
- … SF6,CB,145KV,3150 A,40KA Etc As Per Lot Description Details ₹1
- … CT,145KV,400-200- 100/1A,3C Etc As Per Lot Description Details ₹1
- … CT,145KV,800-400- 200/1A,3C Etc As Per Lot Description Details ₹1
- … VCB 36KV 1250A etc As Per Lot Description Details ₹1
- … Two DG sets with control panel ₹1
- … Apparatus and Equipment Items, As Per Lot Annexure ₹1
- … D G SETS & POWER EQUIPMENT ₹10.06 L
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Methodology
- 01
Ingest
A nightly crawl of MSTC (twenty regional offices), BAANKNET (IBC liquidation auctions), and IREPS (Indian Railways disposal). Each auction is captured once with provenance: URL, snapshot, fetched-at timestamp.
- 02
Normalise
Lots are mapped to a single schema: selling agency, category, location, reserve price, EMD, start, close. Annexures, the per-lot detail PDFs MSTC publishes alongside the catalogue, are fetched and excerpted. Embedded photos are pulled out of the PDFs and shown on the lot cards.
- 03
Score
Every lot is scored 1–10 against four categories: arbitrage, niche-instrument, prestige-seller, curio. The publishing floor is per-category, not uniform. Arbitrage needs a clear margin; prestige and curio surface earlier. Anything from a prestige seller is included regardless of category fit.
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Surface
The register holds the curated cut. Search spans the whole active database. The spotlight rotates nightly. Subscribers get at most one email a day for new matches, and the feeds (RSS and JSON) republish the register for machines.
Primary sources
- MSTC Limited
- mstcindia.co.in: the Government of India’s e-auction platform for surplus, disposal, scrap, and confiscated goods. Twenty regional offices. Primary ingest target.
- BAANKNET
- baanknet.com: the IBBI-mandated auction platform for liquidation proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. Covers plant, machinery, and business assets from companies in resolution.
- IREPS
- Indian Railways e-Procurement System: disposal auctions for condemned railway material (sleepers, track fittings, rolling stock parts). Scraped as a supplementary source.
The register tracks what is publicly listed across these platforms. It does not predict outcomes, advise on bidding, or represent any seller or buyer. Like the rest of nl06, it records what a running system does.