Chandigarh’s fad for fancy numbers hits new high, ‘0001’ sold for Rs 36.43 lakh, ‘James Bond’ special ‘0007’ sold for Rs 16.50 lakh

With this, RLA, Chandigarh, also fetched an all-time record revenue of Rs 4.08 crore in its latest e-auction of vanity numbers. Officials confirmed this is the highest-ever revenue collected from a single auction of vehicle numbers in the city.

The auction of the CH01-DA series (0001 to 9999), held from August 19 to 22, saw 577 registration numbers being sold, including leftover fancy/special numbers from the previous series.

The bidding war for the most coveted number of the series, CH01DA0001, drove the number well beyond its reserve price of Rs 50,000, as multiple participants competed fiercely for ownership.

Breaking previous record

The previous record for the most expensive number in Chandigarh was set in May 2025, when CH01-CZ ‘0001’ was sold for Rs 31 lakh in an e-auction that generated Rs 2.94 crore overall. Then, too, the number ‘0001’ had witnessed aggressive bidding, eventually being sold at over 60 times its reserve price.
In the May auction, the second-most expensive number was ‘0007’ at Rs 13.60 lakh, followed by ‘9999’ at Rs 9.40 lakh, and ‘0009’ at Rs 9.17 lakh. However, the August auction not only broke the single-number record with Rs 36.43 lakh but also significantly boosted the overall collection by more than Rs 1.1 crore.

Top Bids

• CH01DA0001 – Rs 36.43 lakh
• CH01DA0003 – Rs 17.84 lakh
• CH01DA0009 – Rs 16.82 lakh
• CH01DA0005 – Rs 16.51 lakh
• CH01DA0007 – Rs 16.50 lakh
• CH01DA0002 – Rs 13.80 lakh
• CH01DA9999 – Rs 10.25 lakh