The Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority (SJDA) published its 92.96-acre Dabgram township — Oct 2026 notice (Auction No. 001/PLG/2026-27, dated 11 Sep 2026), offering 2 blocks across 1 landholding in Dabgram, Jalpaiguri. Unlike most e-auctions, the bidding itself is held in person at Conference Hall, Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority, Himanchal Vihar, near Passport Seva Laghu Kendra, Matigara 734010. The notice lists document submission at SJDA’s office, with the earnest money by bank transfer, and the SJDA auction notice 001/PLG/2026-27, clauses 12, 35, 36, 39 and 44.11 details the participation route. BiddingPulse summarizes the notice — its listed blocks, landholdings, schedule, sizes, reserve prices — and includes the full unit-level schedule.
The auction runs to a published public timetable. Only bidders who qualify under the notice’s eligibility rules — bidding is restricted, not open to the general public — record their interest and place the deposit by 8 Oct 2026, 11:00 AM IST, and bidding is held 8 Oct 2026, 2:00 – 4:00 PM IST. The notice lists document submission at SJDA’s office, with the earnest money by bank transfer. According to the SJDA auction notice 001/PLG/2026-27, clauses 12, 35, 36, 39 and 44.11, the bidder registers with SJDA by submitting the Annexure A and B forms with the entity documents clause 36 lists, and transfers the earnest money to SJDA’s Axis Bank account at Hill Cart Road, Siliguri, as clause 12 sets out. Bidding itself is held in person at Conference Hall, Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority, Himanchal Vihar, near Passport Seva Laghu Kendra, Matigara 734010. The authoritative notice is published on sjda.org. BiddingPulse lays out the auction's facts; it is never a party to it.
Two numbers decide what a block costs to chase. The first is the reserve price — the authority’s floor, below which no bid is accepted. The notice sets this bidding rule: bids must be above the ₹200 crore starting bid price for each block, in whole rupees, rising in steps of ₹5 lakh. Across these 2 blocks, the reserve is a uniform ₹200.00 Cr. Published areas span 46.48 acres per block — 92.96 acres across both. The reserve is the floor; the notice’s bidding rule above controls which bids are valid, and neither predicts the price it will settle at. The second number is the earnest-money deposit (EMD) — a refundable pre-bid deposit — here ₹20.00 crore for each block, transferred to SJDA’s Axis Bank account, with the receipt and registration documents submitted by 11:00 on 8 October 2026. Unsuccessful bidders are refunded when the Supreme Court confirms the bid, except the second-highest bidder for each block, whose deposit is released only after the highest bidder has paid the 20%. The successful bidder’s deposit is retained and counted towards that 20%. These two are not the whole cost: a bidder also budgets for bank transfer charges, either way, on the bidder’s account, a conversion fee to the District Land and Land Reforms Officer for change of land use under section 4C of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, which the lessee applies for and pays, all existing and future rates, taxes, assessments, duties, impositions and outgoings on the demised premises, which the lessee pays, an annual rent for the land payable to the Government of West Bengal through the B.L. & L.R.O., Rajganj — separate from the Re.1 payable to SJDA, and the deed states no amount, and salami and annual rent at whatever the State Government then fixes, if a fresh lease is taken after this one expires.
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 Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority (SJDA) notice before acting.