Kovilpatti Municipality e-auction: 96 bus-stand and daily-market shops on MSTC

The Kovilpatti Municipality published its auction notice (MSTC/SRO/KOVILPATTI MUNICIPALITY 30335 & 30358; official source-file label dated 5 Sep 2026). From the linked official listing, BiddingPulse consolidates 96 shops across 3 locations in Kovilpatti, Thoothukudi. An e-auction simply means the bidding runs on the authority-designated online portal named in the notice rather than in a room. BiddingPulse summarizes this recorded subset from the linked official auction materials — its listed shops, locations, schedule, and published sizes and recurring start prices by billing cadence. It includes the full unit-level schedule. Confirm each selected shop’s current price cadence and terms in the detailed listing and any later official amendment before applying.

The auction runs to a published public timetable. EMD payment is due by 27 Oct 2026, and bidding is held 28 Oct 2026, 11:00 AM–3:00 PM IST (lots 1–50) and 12:00–4:00 PM IST (lots 51–100). Registration, the notice’s pre-bid payment process, and bidding happen on the MSTC e-commerce auction portal, the authority-designated portal named in the notice; any successful-bidder payments follow the authority’s separate terms, and the authoritative notice sits on mstcecommerce.com. BiddingPulse lays out the auction's facts; it is never a party to it.

The linked official auction materials publish start price of ₹5,000 to ₹12,500 per month for 96 shops (shops at the two bus stands and the daily market) and published sizes spanning 100 to 160 square feet. Those figures retain the source’s printed units without conversion. On bidding, the linked official auction materials say: bidding starts from each shop’s printed monthly Start Price and rises in steps of ₹10 per month, or multiples of ₹10, during both the scheduled and any extended period. The separate Pre-Bid EMD is a fixed ₹1,00,000 for each shop, paid to MSTC through the Pay Pre-Bid EMD link into the bidder’s MSTC e-wallet; the four non-shop lots carry ₹1,00,000, ₹50,000, ₹1,00,000 and ₹2,00,000, though lot 100’s own note asks for ₹3,00,000. The Municipality’s conditions say the highest bidder’s deposit is retained and every other bidder’s deposit is returned automatically to their MSTC e-wallet, from where an EMD refund request in the MSTC login moves it to a bank account; MSTC’s terms add that the pre-bid EMD carries no interest and is forfeited if the highest bidder does not abide by the leasing contract. The linked official auction materials also publish a security deposit of 12 months’ rent, paid at the Municipality office within 7 days of notice — the catalogue prints it at the Start Price as each shop’s Additional Deposit (₹60,000, ₹72,000 or ₹1,50,000) and as a post-bid EMD of 100% of the bid rate across the 12-month quantity, so the amount due is 12 months of the winning rent, a non-refundable e-auction service charge of 1.18% of those 12 months’ rent, paid with the security deposit, and 18% GST on each month’s lease amount, paid with the rent by the 5th of the month. Confirm each selected shop’s current price cadence and terms in the detailed listing and any later official amendment before applying.

This page is kept as a dated, source-cited record of the auction's facts, becoming the permanent record once bidding closes. Every figure here should be verified against the Kovilpatti Municipality linked official auction materials before acting.