Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: Rating agency ICRA said state-owned National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)’s targeted asset monetisation of road assets could fetch the government up to Rs 60,000 crore in the current fiscal year.
In April 2024, the NHAI had released an indicative list of 33 road assets it plans to monetise in FY2025, through a mix of toll-operate-transfer (TOT) and sale to the NHAI’s Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT).
These assets are spread across 12 states, cumulatively spanning nearly 2,750 km and with an annual toll collection of Rs 4,931 crore.
“ICRA estimates a monetisation potential of Rs 53,000 crore to Rs 60,000 crore from the sale of 33 road assets through TOT/ InvIT mode,” it said.
NHAI intends to club the 33 identified assets into large (more than Rs 6,000 crore), medium (about Rs 3,000 crore – Rs 4,000 crore) and smaller bundles (Rs 1,000-3,000 crore), for different types of investors.
Under the Government’s National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP), road sector monetisation was expected to account for Rs 1.6 lakh crore, viz. 27 per cent of total monetisation during FY2022-FY2025.
