What the State Is Selling.
Spotlight
- 01 niche-instrument
Geophysical survey instruments: gravimeters, magnetometers, gamma-ray spectrometer
Geological Survey of India lot containing 24 specialized geophysical instruments: gravimeters, magnetometers, resistivity potentiometer, gamma-ray spectrometer, theodolites, and signal generators. Scarce category of equipment rarely available on open market.
- 02 niche-instrument
50 pieces of laboratory and analytical equipment from ICMR
Fifty named instruments including Zeiss microscope, Transasia EM200 biochemistry analyzer, real-time PCR system, UV spectrophotometer, and multiple centrifuges from ICMR's National Institute of Research in Whole Organism Health; opening at ₹1.
- 03 curio
Wreckage of Super King-B200 Aircraft VT-BSA
Wreckage of a civilian Super King-B200 aircraft (VT-BSA) held by BSF Air Wing at Safdarjung Airport; the provenance and identity carry inherent historical and investigative interest.
- 04 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.
- 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
M.V. Jayanti passenger ferry vessel, scrap recovery
Decommissioned passenger ferry vessel with Allied Industries diesel engines, laid up at Sankrail; the vessel itself—size, tonnage, marine heritage—is the story.
- 08 curio
134 parachutes, surplus Air Force stock
One hundred thirty-four parachutes from Air Force Station Manauri, Allahabad; military textiles with distinctive provenance, sold at nominal opening price.
- 09 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.
- 10 niche-instrument
400 KV current and voltage transformers, circuit breakers, testing kits
Named ABB, BHEL, Siemens, Alstom high-voltage current transformers, capacitive voltage transformers, and circuit breakers from a power transmission utility; specialized equipment rarely on open auction.
- … VPRO ASSEMBLY ₹1
- … SERVO BOARD ₹1
- … VIB TR BD ₹1
- … COMM I FACE MK ₹1
- … JESSOP MODEL GEARVER ENGINE ROAD ROLLER - J 11535 ₹1
- … JESSOP MODEL GEARVER ROAD ROLLER - J 10811 ₹1
- … Electronic Equipments as per Annexure ₹1
- … One Lot of 10 Nos DIESEL BUS located at regional workshop GORAKHPUR ₹1
- … VARIOUS U/S E WASTE TIEMS ₹1
- … Unserviceable Medical Equipments ₹1
- … E waste items ₹1
- … Car Ambassador(03 Nos) ₹1
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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.
- 04
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.