Our target is to reach out to investors in every segment, be it a large investor, or small, an NHAI official said
The monetisation will be subject to approval of the competent authority in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways or NHAI on a case-to-case basis
The National investment and Infrastructure Fund quoted Rs 4,230 crore while Mumbai-based IRB quoted Rs 3,510 crore
The government on Wednesday approved amendments proposed to the Toll Operate Transfer (TOT) model for national highways. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has given its approval to the amendments proposed in the TOT model by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. Public-funded national highway (NH) projects that are operational and have toll revenue generation history of one year after the commercial operations date (COD) will be monetised through the TOT model, she said after the CCEA meeting. The monetisation will be subject to approval of the competent authority in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways/NHAI on a case to case basis, she added. The corpus generated from proceeds of such project monetisation will be used by the government to meet its fund requirements regarding future development and O&M (operations and maintenance) of highways in the country. The model would facilitate efficient toll ...
New mechanism will postpone upfront payment
NHAI's debt has risen eight times from fiscal 2014 to Rs 1.8 trillion fiscal 2019, primarily because of spiralling costs of land acquisition in the roads sector
Nomenclature leads to reduction in toll revenues for the existing highways
The NHAI has the approval to raise Rs 75,000 crore in borrowings during the current year, while the government support is Rs 36,691 crore
Senior IAS officer Sukhbir Singh Sandhu on Monday took over as the chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Sandhu succeeds Nagendra Nath Sinha who has been appointed as the Secretary, Department of Border Management. "Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu has taken over as Chairman, NHAI, today. He is an IAS Officer of 1988 batch Uttarakhand cadre, who has held important positions in the central government and the Government of Uttarakhand, Government of Uttar Pradesh and Government of Punjab," NHAI said. Sandhu was Additional Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development. He has done his MBBS from Government Medical College, Amritsar and Master's Degree in History from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and he is also a law graduate. "He has vast experience in field of state roads, infrastructure development, PPP projects, finance, urban development, environment, health & family welfare, tourism, revenue administration, rural development, .
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the NHAI Deputy Manager posts on or before October 31, 2019 on the official website - nhai.gov.in
While traffic and toll collection will take a hit in FY20, toll rates may not rise much in FY21 owing to a lower wholesale price index (WPI)
In sync with norms on hybrid-annuity and EPC contracts, NHAI has identified stretches of approximately 935 km across India, which will be constructed on built operate transfer (BOT) toll mode
It is learnt that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) would prefer brown-field projects over greenfield contracts for InvIT
The minister met bankers, foreign investors and road developers as part of a road show for the NHAI's monetisation of a third bundle of roads under the TOT model
IRB InvIT offered six completed road assets, covering 3,000 km across five states
Only SBI has agreed in-principle for the securitisation model
Its debt-fuelled expansion is a reason for worry
NHAI's debt has increased seven-fold in the past five years
The PMO also suggested that the NHAI monetise its road assets base through toll-operate-transfer (TOT) auctions
The revision or tweaking of documents for BOT becomes essential in the current scenario as the government moves the focus away from the HAM model