Auctionhouse. What the state is selling.
Each working day the Government of India lists thousands of lots through MSTC Limited — the public-sector e-auction platform that handles surplus, disposal, and confiscated-goods sales for the ministries, the Railways, defence-PSU yards, port trusts, and customs warehouses. This page tracks those listings and surfaces the ones worth a closer look.
Scored nightly on four axes: arbitrage (priced below likely resale value), niche-instrument (a tool that rarely comes up), prestige-seller (notable selling agency), and curio (unusual object). The publishing floor differs by axis — arbitrage needs a clear margin (7+/10); prestige and curio surface earlier (4+). Anything from a prestige seller (DRDO, ISRO, CSIR, HAL, academic) also surfaces at 4+ regardless of category fit.
The register
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Old, Used, Waste, Scrap Helicopter Scrapped Parts/Items as Per Lot Annexure
Helicopter scrapped parts from Pawan Hans, including tail rotor heads, flight data acquisition units, gyros, and avionics components, with serial numbers and part documentation.
- Selling agency
- PAWAN HANS LIMITED other
- Location
- ROHINI HELIPORT,SECTOR- 36, ROHINI NEW DELHI -110085 State :Delhi
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-02 10:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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Scrap Parts of Helicopter
Eleven scrap helicopter airframes plus tail booms and fuel tanks from HAL Barrackpore, sold as bulk structural scrap with military-aerospace provenance.
- Selling agency
- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited HAL
- Location
- Barrackpore State :West Bengal
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-02 11:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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650 HP Diesel Hydraulic BB,BG Locomotives and spares
Two working 650 HP Diesel Hydraulic locomotives (SAN-5, SAN-6) with Cummins engines and spares from Haldia Dock Complex; industrial railway equipment with documented port provenance.
- Selling agency
- Haldia Dock Complex, Kolkata Port Trust other
- Location
- AS PER ANNEXURE State :West Bengal
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-01 11:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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One lot of CVT
Ten used Capacity Voltage Transformers (400 kV, 245 kV, 145 kV ratings) from a POWERGRID substation, opening at ₹1; transformers of this rating class have substantial scrap and refurbishment value.
- Selling agency
- POWERGRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD. other
- Location
- POWERGRID Purnea Substation State :Bihar
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-05-30 10:30:00 UTC
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U/S Tape para Aramid 21 MM 900 KG
Nine hundred kilograms of para-aramid tape from Ordnance Parachute Factory Kanpur; military-specification synthetic fiber with distinctive procurement signature.
- Selling agency
- GLIDERS INDIA LIMITED other
- Location
- GLIDERS INDIA LIMITED, ORDNANCE PARACHUTE FACTORY KANPUR State :Uttar Pradesh
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-01 12:00:00 UTC
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surplus pipes
Bulk lot of LSAW coated steel pipe—20″ and 24″ diameter, various wall thicknesses—totalling roughly 680 metric tonnes, opening at ₹1 per lot.
- Selling agency
- PETRONET MHB LIMITED other
- Location
- Petronet MHB Limited Hassan Pumping Delivery Station KIADB Industrial Growth Centre Hassan State :Karnataka
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-04 10:00:00 UTC
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Furniture and Equipment
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology disposing mixed furniture and lab equipment; the seller's space-research mission carries the column interest.
- Selling agency
- Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology other
- Location
- Valiamala, Trivandrum State :Kerala
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-05 10:00:00 UTC
- Annexures
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Unserviceable/Obsole te/Damaged Scientific/Office Equipment/ Air Conditioners etc
Perkin Elmer FTIR spectrometer, Agilent HPLC with autosampler, Sigma refrigerated centrifuge, and thermal analyzer from Institute of Life Sciences; mix of named analytical instruments marked unserviceable.
- Selling agency
- INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES other
- Location
- S 5 Building basement, INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES Nalco Square, Bhubaneswar State :Odisha
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-09 11:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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Miscellaneous items
Regional Reference Standards Laboratory Bangalore disposing calibration and materials-testing equipment including Rockwell hardness tester, Charpy impact tester, electronic balances, and humidity chamber.
- Selling agency
- REGIONAL REFERENCE STANDARDS LABORATORY,BANGALORE other
- Location
- RRSL State :Karnataka
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-25 11:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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U/S Tape tub. Ny. 22 MM 700 KG UD
700 kg of nylon tape tubing from Ordnance Parachute Factory Kanpur; military-adjacent textile material in bulk quantity with distinctive provenance.
- Selling agency
- GLIDERS INDIA LIMITED other
- Location
- GLIDERS INDIA LIMITED, ORDNANCE PARACHUTE FACTORY KANPUR State :Uttar Pradesh
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-01 12:00:00 UTC
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Carbon Steel
636.7 metric tonnes of carbon steel at ₹1 opening price from an industrial facility; bulk commodity metal at effectively zero reserve suggests significant arbitrage potential.
- Selling agency
- GSPC LNG LIMITED other
- Location
- GSPC LNG Limited South Port, Navinal Island, Mundra - 370421, Kutchh State :Gujarat
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-05 08:30:00 UTC
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U/S Fab. Ny. 48 GM U/D T/W 92 GM
+ 56 more curio lots from this seller, collapsed
Unused nylon fabric from Ordnance Parachute Factory Kanpur, 48 grams unstitched, 92 grams total weight; military-production textile with clear provenance.
- Selling agency
- GLIDERS INDIA LIMITED other
- Location
- GLIDERS INDIA LIMITED, ORDNANCE PARACHUTE FACTORY KANPUR State :Uttar Pradesh
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-01 12:00:00 UTC
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ELV Old,Used, Waste & Scrap Vehicle AIRCRAFT REFUELLER 9 KL, As Per Desc.
Military-surplus 9 KL aircraft refueller vehicle from 2002, ex-IAF Station Hindan; the equipment type itself carries military signature even as scrap.
- Selling agency
- AF Station Hindan other
- Location
- 28 Wing, Airforce Station Hindan, Ghaziabad, UP201004 State :Uttar Pradesh
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-17 08:30:00 UTC
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M V MATSYA-GANDHA (W B -1340)
A condemned RO-RO vessel, M.V. Matsya-Gandha, with two Greaves diesel engines and full recovery fitment listed; opening at ₹1 suggests distressed disposal of an unusual maritime asset.
- Selling agency
- WEST BENGAL SURFACE TRANSPORT CORPPORATION LTD other
- Location
- Lot-8 State :West Bengal
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-02 11:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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M.V. JAYANTI (12m X 5.5m)
Condemned 12-metre passenger ferry vessel with Ruston & Hornsby diesel engines, currently at Sankrail; opening at ₹1 suggests scrap or salvage value rather than operational recovery.
- Selling agency
- WEST BENGAL SURFACE TRANSPORT CORPPORATION LTD other
- Location
- Sankrail Allied Industries State :West Bengal
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-02 11:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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21 Nos. of ELVs Old, Used, Waste & Scrap Vehicle, As Per Lot Annexure.
Twenty-one end-of-life Royal Enfield motorcycles and 110cc bikes from an Indian Air Force station, sold as scrap with detailed chassis records.
- Selling agency
- AF Station Hindan other
- Location
- 28 Wing, Airforce Station Hindan, Ghaziabad, UP201004 State :Uttar Pradesh
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-17 08:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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Aremenian Jetty Gangway
A 6-tonne condemned jetty gangway from Khamergachi dock in Kolkata, sold at ₹1 opening; the salvage-weight and waterfront provenance carry modest curiosity.
- Selling agency
- WEST BENGAL SURFACE TRANSPORT CORPPORATION LTD other
- Location
- Khamergachi, Jana and Brothers dock State :West Bengal
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-02 11:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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04 Nos. of ELV Old, Used, Waste & Scrap Vehicle Lorry 3 Ton, As Per Desc.
+ 2 more curio lots from this seller, collapsed
Four end-of-life 3-ton lorries from an IAF station, spanning 2006–2011 models, with a ₹1 opening price suggesting salvage-weight disposal.
- Selling agency
- AF Station Hindan other
- Location
- 28 Wing, Airforce Station Hindan, Ghaziabad, UP201004 State :Uttar Pradesh
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-17 08:30:00 UTC
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E- waste items etc
DSLAM network equipment (UTSTARCOM and ZTE models) with detailed card inventory from BSNL telecom infrastructure disposal; condition and working status not stated.
- Selling agency
- BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LIMITED other
- Location
- AS PER LOT DETAILS State :Haryana
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-02 09:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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Machinery and Equipment
HAL Barrackpore bulk lot with named testing equipment—tensile machine, eddy current tester, ultrasonic gauge—mixed with office furniture and canteen items; condition and working order undeclared.
- Selling agency
- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited HAL
- Location
- Barrackpore State :West Bengal
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-02 11:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
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SCRAPPED OBSOLETE EVM and Parts etc
Scrapped EVM and VVPAT components from Bharat Electronics Limited; electoral machinery has historical interest but no annexure detail limits confidence.
- Selling agency
- BHARAT ELECTRONICS LIMITED other
- Location
- Inside the factory and estate area in BGCx Bangalore State :Karnataka
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-04 10:00:00 UTC
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Unserviceable equipment: Assorted Items
IICB (a CSIR institute) disposing unserviceable scientific instruments including chiller and balance, but no annexure detail to identify models or condition.
- Selling agency
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY other
- Location
- CSIR- IICB JADAVPUR CAMPUS AND CSIR- SALT LAKE CAMPUS State :West Bengal
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-18 10:30:00 UTC
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Vehicles
One TATA SUMO ambulance and one Mahindra tractor, both end-of-life from HAL Barrackpore, opening at ₹1; vehicles may have residual scrap or parts value but condition is not stated.
- Selling agency
- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited HAL
- Location
- Barrackpore State :West Bengal
- Reserve
- ₹1
- Closes
- 2026-06-02 11:30:00 UTC
- Annexures
Methodology
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Ingest
A nightly crawl of MSTC’s catalogue pages across all twenty regional offices. Each auction is captured once with provenance — URL, snapshot, fetched-at timestamp.
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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.
- 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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Annotate
A small subset of lots gets a written note — what’s being sold, why it’s notable, and what the close attracted. Hand-written and infrequent.
Primary sources
- MSTC Limited
- mstcindia.co.in — the Government of India’s e-auction platform for surplus, disposal, scrap, and confiscated goods. The primary ingest target.
- DGS&D / GeM
- The Government e-Marketplace handles procurement, not auctions, so it is out of scope here. Cross-referenced when an MSTC lot is the upstream consequence of a GeM procurement decision.
- Selling-agency catalogues
- Railway divisions, defence PSUs, port trusts, central PSU mills and refineries each publish their own catalogues alongside the MSTC listing. Used to verify lot composition and condition.
The register tracks what is publicly listed on MSTC. 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.