{"id":268000,"date":"2019-04-04T06:31:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268000"},"modified":"2019-04-04T06:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T06:41:59","slug":"niif-roadis-partner-to-create-platform-to-invest-up-to-usd-2-bn-in-highways-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/niif-roadis-partner-to-create-platform-to-invest-up-to-usd-2-bn-in-highways-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"NIIF, Roadis partner to create platform to invest up to USD 2 bn in highways projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Private infrastructureNSE 0.00 % investor ROADIS and the national investment and infrastructure fund (NIIF) have come together to create a platform for investing up to $2 billion in road projects in India, the companies announced on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The platform will target Toll-Operator-Transfer (TOT) model, acquisition of existing road concessions and potential investment opportunities in the country&#8217;s roads sector. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian government introduced the TOT model in 2016 for monetisation of publicly-funded highways. Under the model, investors make a one-time lump sum payment in return for long-term toll collection rights backed by a sound tolling system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Private infrastructureNSE 0.00 % investor ROADIS and the national investment and infrastructure fund (NIIF) have come together to create a platform for investing up to $2 billion in road projects in India, the companies announced on Wednesday. The platform will target Toll-Operator-Transfer (TOT) model, acquisition of existing road concessions and potential investment opportunities in the country&#8217;s roads sector. The Indian government introduced the TOT model in 2016 for monetisation of publicly-funded highways. Under the model, investors make a one-time lump sum payment in return for long-term toll collection rights backed by a sound tolling system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}