This is Surat sir, Rs.4.52 lakh, not for car, but for its number!

Rs. 4,51,999 is not the price of car, but price of car’s number. If you don’t believe it, please continue to read this.

Surat’s Survesh Patel paid Surat RTO more than Rs. four and half lakh for allotment of ‘999’ number for his car.

In Surat RTO’s bidding process for GJ-5-CQ series, one Goman Ahir paid Rs. 2,34,000 for ‘1’ number. Balu Ahir paid Rs. 1,53,999 for securing ‘9999’ number. Nilesh Desai paid Rs. 1,22,222 for ‘111’ number. Jignesh Patel paid Rs. 1,15,100 for ‘1111’ number. Harjitsinh Chavda paid Rs. 99,000 for ’99’ number. Balu Ahir paid Rs. 85,000 for ‘7777’ number. Viththal Mayani paid Rs. 81,000 for ‘7’ number. Dhaval Gandhi paid Rs. 65,555 for ‘555’ number and Keyur Khaini paid Rs. 41,000 for ‘5’ number.

Surat RTO had received 1149 application for allotment of desired number of vehicles. In 358 case, more than one application was received for single number. Such applications were cleared after bidding process.

According to RTO official J.N.Vaghela, the department earned Rs. 78,23,156 on Friday at the end of allotment of desired numbers. This is the highest sum achieved so far. Last year around Diwali, the department had earned Rs. 67 lakh through similar bidding and allotment process.