Vehicle no. HR88B8888 goes for costliest bid of Rs 1.17 cr

Haryana’s Badhra subdivision in Charkhi Dadri district fetched the highest bid of Rs 1.17 crore in the country for the fancy vehicle registration number of HR88B8888 today.

According to sources, Sudhir Kumar, son of Om Prakash and a resident of Hisar, won the bid. The bid stood at Rs 1.03 crore at 4.20 pm. Afterwards, the bid rose and ended at Rs 1.17 crore.

The online bid which had 45 participants was finalised at 5 pm today. The auction is done by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on its web portal fancy.parivahan.gov.in.

The base price for the bid was fixed at Rs 50,000, Rs 10,000 is the security money and Rs 1,000 is the registration fee for the numbers. VIP or fancy numbers are auctioned every week and each bid is closed on Wednesday at 5 pm.

HR stands for Haryana while 88 is the Regional Transport Office (RTO) number representing Badhra subdivision. One of the bidders said that this number looks like a string of 88888888 though there is one B in between.

Atul Kumar, Haryana Transport Commissioner, said that this bidding process is automated and in online mode. If the number has fetched over Rs 1 crore, it is a big amount. “I cannot confirm or deny this right now because there is no staff available in the office for confirmation. But this is an online process and the web portal furnishing the information is deemed as correct,” he said.