New Delhi: The government has estimated income in front of Rs 6 Crore per km from a completed national highway, which will be monetized to start this financial year.
To start, he has identified 104 major government-funded highways with a cumulative length of 6,800 km for monetization.
This includes the eastern edge toll road 135-km built for decongest Delhi, 145 km of Panipat-Jalandhar’s stretch, the longest road tunnel connecting Chenani with Nashri in Jammu and Kashmir, 59 km from Bhubaneswar-Puri NH Stretch and 326-km Hyderabad-Bengaluru corridor.
According to the National Monetization Pipeline (NMP) launched on Monday, the government has set a target to monetize railing assets including 400 train stations, 90 passenger trains, 1,400 km of railroad tracks, 265 good warehouses owned by National Transporter, 637 km corridor Special shipping (DFC) and allied infrastructure.
It also plans to monetize 15 train stadiums and some housing colonies on the railway.
While it is estimated that National Highway Authority (NHAI) will monetize 26,700 km from the NHS completed in 2025 to produce RS 1.6 lakh crore income for the government, the train will produce around Rs 1.52 lakh crore in the next four years by monitoring assets.
On a road map for Monetary NHS, the report said in March 2020, the length of the toll road in publicly funded mode and the annuity was around 16,387 km.
“Based on past trends at the speed of award and construction, it is estimated that NHAI every year gradually adds to a minimum of 2,000-3,000 km of monetization toll road to the asset base,” the report said.
For NMP, only NH networks from the four lane configuration and above, where the toll rights reserve has been considered.
NHAI has monetized its assets since 2017 when bidding the first bundle stretch completed under the operating and transfer mode (TOT).
NHAI will monetize the NH stretch that has been completed in the TOT mode and infrastructure investment funds (inviting).
As far as regarding the monetization of railing assets, the report said the train would monetize 40 stations for 2021-22 and 120 each in the next three years to produce Rs 76,250 Crore in 2025.
Similarly, it is estimated that the income generated from monetization of 90 trains Passengers will be around RS 21,642 Crore.
The third highest income from RS 20,178 Crore is estimated to come from DFC monetization.