What the State Is Selling.
Spotlight
- 01 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.
- 02
niche-instrument Quantum-Systems Trinity F90+ mapping drones with accessories
The annexure details complete Quantum-Systems Trinity F90+ mapping drone kits with cameras, base stations, and serial numbers from the Survey of India.
- 03 curio
Eurocopter EC145C2 twin-engine helicopter with spares
Government auction of a complete Eurocopter EC145C2 helicopter with detailed airframe, engine, and component logs.
- 04 niche-instrument
Seiko thermal analyzer and laboratory furnaces
The lot includes specific scientific instruments like a Seiko simultaneous TG/DTA analyzer and a Mozley hydrocyclone test rig from a research council.
- 05 curio
BMP and T-55 military engine assemblies
The lot contains three BMP infantry fighting vehicle engines and five T-55 tank engines from a military ordnance depot.
- 06 curio
Russian Rotary Rig Machine on MAZ Truck
A vintage Russian direct rotary drilling rig mounted on a MAZ 500 truck without registration documents offers a compelling mechanical curio.
- 07 curio
Self-propelled aircraft starting trolleys with generators
The lot features two self-propelled aircraft starting trolleys equipped with nickel-cadmium batteries and Honda generators from a specialized aviation research facility, offered at a nominal starting price.
- 08 curio
Five military and survey boats
The lot includes five named military and survey boats with a combined weight of over 83 tonnes offered at a nominal starting price.
- 09 curio
Uncut Panna diamond from NMDC
Government auction of a raw gemstone directly from the national mining corporation is an unusual and distinct offering.
- 10 niche-instrument
Ideaforge Q6i professional mapping drone
An identified professional drone model from a government survey agency with a nominal start price.
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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.
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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. Embedded photos are pulled out of the PDFs and shown on the lot cards.
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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.