National Highways Infra Trust
("NHIT"), the Infrastructure Investment
Trust ("InvIT") of NHAI, successfully
concluded its fund-raising through 'InvIT Round-3' for
national highway stretches of aggregate length of 889 kms (eight
hundred and eighty-nine kilometers) at an enterprise value of over
INR 16,000 crore (Indian Rupees sixteen thousand crore). This
happens to be the largest tranche of monetisation by NHAI and one
of the largest transactions in the history of Indian road
sector
The units of NHIT saw subscription from both existing and new
investors, which included foreign pension funds viz. Canada Pension
Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board;
domestic pension/provident funds (IOCL Employee's Provident
Fund, L&T Staff Provident Fund, Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut
Karamchari Pension Fund, SBI Pension etc.), insurance companies
(Tata AIG, SBI Life, HDFC Life), other mutual funds and banks.