Vip Numbers 4.14

The latest status symbol might well be -- owning a VIP cell phone number...
If reports are to be believed, 26-year-old Amit Malhotra from Ludhiana, son of a city garment manufacturer and property dealer, spent a whopping Rs 15.50 lakhs for the big-ticket mobile number 9780000000.

Car Number

***** Jalandhar, Aug 12 (IANS) If you buy a car as expensive as a Bentley costing anything between Rs.15-20 million, you may want to get a fancy registration number for it as well. A Delhi-based businessman has done just that, buying a ‘0001′ series number for his luxury car for a whopping Rs.725,000 here. The businessman, Pravin Chaudhary, bought the ‘VIP registration number’ for his Bentley car at an open auction of numbers held here Monday.

District transport officer Babita Kler confirmed that the number was sold for Rs.725,000.

This is the highest auction amount for any VIP number in Punjab.

Punjab started auctioning VIP numbers last year after seeing the success of a similar practice in the union territory of Chandigarh where preferred registration numbers are auctioned by authorities.

In Chandigarh, ‘0001′ series numbers have fetched around Rs 500,000 in the past.

***** In Chandigarh, people also have a craze for VIP and fancy car registration numbers. One such number went for Rs.505,000 last year. This year, for a newly launched series, the number - CH 04 0001 - went for Rs.480,000.

CELL NUMBER

****** 1st ever 80xx series in Punjab.Bid closed for 8054000000 was 2.15 lack and again number goes to Ludhiana.

***** Now recently on 10.09.2009 Mr Mand from Jalandhar spent whooping Rs 2.30 lakhs for the big-ticket mobile number 8054000001.This time we proud tht number comes in Jalandhar from the bidding.