The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has identified 53 highway projects worth Rs 2.1 trillion to be developed through Built Operate Transfer (BoT) model. This marks a big shift in the resource generation strategy, after long years of low private risk capital raised its debt burden to very high levels.
Around 5214 km road stretches with high traffic density will be developed through BoT. The maximum number of BOT projects (14) will be in Maharashtra. The length of these would be 522 km and cost Rs 39477 crore. Uttar Pradesh will have six highways of 1344 km at the cost of Rs 50,333 crore.
