You might have heard stories about rich people paying huge amounts to get a “fancy number” for their cars. But, a businessman from Chandigarh has paid around 8 lakhs for a VIP number and that too for a recently purchased Honda Activa two-wheeler. Yes, you heard it right – 8,00,000 rupees for a Two-Wheeler.
Kanwaljith Walia, a food-catering business owner at Chandigarh has this undying passion for acquiring the fanciest of VIP numbers. He has already paid around 2.6 lakh rupees for getting the “CH01BC 0011” for his son’s bike. Not stopping at this, he has participated in the bidding program for “CH01BC 0001” number and has managed to buy it by paying 8.1 lakhs. But the twist is that the newly acquired number was for his newly bought scooter Honda Activa that costed him just 60 thousand rupees.
The Registration and Licencing Authority of Chandigarh is happy with the rich people’s passion for fancy numbers and are in the process of making decent money out of it. In a single day of auctioning, the authority have garnered around 78 lakhs through fancy numbers. Not a small amount, right?