The new vehicle registration series—CH01BA—will be launched for the city residents next month. The Registering and licensing Authority (RlA) will hold an open auction of vehicle registration numbers of new series ‘CH01BA’ on December 6 and 7.
A spokesperson of the RlA said that the open auction of numbers of new series ‘CH-01-BA’ from vehicle number “0001” to “0100” will be held on December 6 from 9.30 am onwards and auction of vehicle number “0101” onwards will be held on December 7 from 9.30am onwards.”
“The applicants who desire to obtain payment numbers are requested to attend the open auction at the RlA office in Sector 17 here alongwith prescribed amount for the desired numbers, a copy of sale letter (Form No. 21), residence proof of UT Chandigarh. The reserve price shall be accepted in form of cash only. The list prescribing the reserve price against special numbers or any other number is available in the office of RlA and websites http://chdtransport.gov.in, www.chdpr.gov.in,” said the spokesperson.
The vehicle registration series “CH01AZ” was lapped up in less than 100 days forcing the RlA to launch a new series in December.
In the previous auction held in September, “0001” number of CH-01-AZ series went for `8.5 lakh. It was the highest amount bid for the top number since “CH-01-AT 0001” that was fetched at `9.1 lakh in May 2013. The second highest winning bid was for “CH-01-AZ-0007” at `3.35 lakh and third highest bid was for “CH-01-AZ-0009” that went under the hammer for `3.2 lakh.
The UT RlA had earned more than `71 lakh in the two-day open auction of vehicle registration numbers for CH-01-AZ series. Earlier, an all-time high amount of `98.7 lakh was generated during auction of CH-01-AY series in June this year.