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

The EMD is a fixed ₹1.00 L per shop, uniform across all 96 shops regardless of size or reserve. The catalogue says each lot’s pre-bid EMD must be paid one day before the auction date, and MSTC credits it only when the money has actually reached its account, so pay well before 28 September. 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.

Pre-bid EMD payment closes on 28 Sep 2026, and live bidding is scheduled for 29 Sep 2026, 11:00 AM–3:00 PM (lots 1–50) and 12:00–4:00 PM IST (lots 51–100). All dates are on the MSTC portal / the official notice.

BiddingPulse covers 96 shops across 3 locations from a larger official listing, under MSTC/SRO/KOVILPATTI MUNICIPALITY 30335 & 30358; official source-file label dated 5 Sep 2026.

This page reproduces every lot from both MSTC catalogues — shop number, floor, printed size, monthly Start Price, Additional Deposit and pre-bid EMD — and turns the Municipality’s 17 Tamil conditions into the money a winning bidder must pay and can lose. It counts the 96 shops, lists the four non-shop lots separately with their own figures, names the inspection contacts, and flags the five shop rows whose printed size contradicts their own dimensions. Verify the shop, its Start Price and the current conditions on the MSTC portal before bidding.

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. The 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. Confirm each selected shop’s current price cadence and terms in the detailed listing and any later official amendment before applying.

Registration and bidding happen on the MSTC e-commerce auction portal at https://www.mstcecommerce.com. The notice gives separate instructions for the pre-bid payment process. The authoritative notice is published on mstcecommerce.com. BiddingPulse is not a party to the auction — register, pay, and bid only on the official source.

Beyond the headline figures, the source-backed terms are: the bid is a monthly rent: MSTC quotes every lot as 12 per month with a per-month Start Price, and its rate clause makes the bid the basic price per unit of measurement, exclusive of levies; only bidders who have paid the pre-bid EMD may bid, and a bidder must be registered with MSTC before the auction starts; eligibility requires no arrears of property tax, profession tax, water charges, rent, lease amounts or other dues to the Municipality, and no court case against the Municipality, pending cases included; the highest bid is subject to confirmation by the Commissioner of Kovilpatti Municipality, who may accept or reject it without giving a reason, even if MSTC’s system has emailed the bidder that the bid was accepted; the winning bidder pays 12 months’ rent as a security deposit plus a 1.18% non-refundable e-auction service charge within 7 days of notice; failing that, the security deposit is forfeited and the item re-auctioned; the security deposit is never treated as rent and cannot be adjusted against it, and each month’s rent plus 18% GST is due by the 5th of the month; the lease amount rises 5% once a year under the government order in force, with shop leases extendable up to 12 years and one-year lease items up to 3 years; the winning bidder submits self-attested copies of Aadhaar, address proof, PAN, GST registration and a recent passport photograph at the Municipality office; the lease is on an as-is-where-is, no-complaint basis; bidders inspect during the 7–28 September window and MSTC’s caveat-emptor clause treats participation as proof of inspection; the awarded lease may not be transferred or sub-contracted; a breach cancels the offer, forfeits the deposit and can bring a penalty, and the Municipality may accept, reject, postpone or cancel any auction; a bid in a lot’s final 8 minutes extends that lot by 8 minutes from the last bid, repeating until 8 minutes pass without a bid, and bids stay valid for acceptance for 60 days after the close; the result must be checked online under Auction Lot Status, shown for 7 days after the close, and MSTC emails the successful bidder a system-generated sale intimation letter. BiddingPulse’s verification notes are: MSTC’s catalogue web pages print every lot’s name, floor, size, additional deposit and pre-bid EMD but not its Start Price; the detailed catalogue PDFs print the Start Price, the ₹10 increment and the 100% post-bid EMD. BiddingPulse extracted all 100 lots from both and they agree on every shared field; the conditions attached to event 30335 and to event 30358 are the same two-page Tamil scan, byte for byte. BiddingPulse read it visually and translated it; where this page paraphrases a condition, the original Tamil controls; the scan’s handwritten signature date reads 25/8 with a year BiddingPulse could not read reliably, so this record is dated from MSTC’s printed catalogue view date of 5 Sep 2026 and no signature year is claimed; the five daily-market shops whose printed total contradicts their own dimensions are shown beside the area those dimensions give, rather than silently corrected or dropped; the 100–160 sq ft band comes from the printed totals of the 96 shops; the four non-shop lots — two bus-entry-fee collection rights, the two-wheeler-parking fee licence and the pay-and-use toilet — are listed on this page with their printed figures but not counted among the 96 shops. MSTC itself files all 100 lots as immovable commercial property; the shop rows spell the market “Muthuramalinga Devar Daily Market” and the toilet row “Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar Daily Market”; BiddingPulse treats them as one place, the Municipality’s rebuilt daily market on Market Road, and uses the fuller spelling. Check the underlying source facts against the linked official documents before acting.