The centre is planning to monetise 28 national highway assets, spanning over 1,800 km in 2026-27, to raise about Rs 350 billion as the government pushes for infrastructure asset recycling to fund infrastructure creation. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has prepared a list of the highway stretches for monetisation with Haryana accounting for the highest number of assets followed by Uttar Pradesh.
Asset monetisation will be through a combination of public and private infrastructure investment trusts (InvIT) and toll-operate-transfer (TOT) route. This year’s monetisation will have two built-operate-transfer (BOT) projects, and seven engineering procurement and construction (EPC) projects. The move comes close on the heels of the government allowing sovereign wealth funds and pension funds to directly invest in greenfield toll-road projects.
Over the next three to five years, the plan is to introduce an additional 1,500 km of completed and operational national highways into public InvIT, to enable recycling of assets and generate additional revenue for national highways development in the country.
The overall monetisation receipts for the government from the road ministry stood at Rs 290 billion in 2025-26. The ministry’s maiden public InvIT fetched over Rs 90 billion through monetisation of five highway sections spanning over 260 km across four states earlier this year.