3 months ago
2
Highway Infrastructure Ltd which is into tollways postulation among others is present focusing connected the confederate states wherever is sees immense opportunities for growth.
“As a strategy for the institution we person decided to grow to the confederate states. Now, our absorption has shifted to confederate states. Earlier we were much focused connected the bluish portion of India and the northern, the occidental portion of India,” said Riddharth Jain, Director & CEO, Highway Infrastructure Ltd successful an interview.
“But with a fewer strategy changes aft the IPO, aft getting much susceptible radical into the team, we person changed the strategy to absorption connected the south. We are very, precise assured present for pan-India reach,” helium added.
”The confederate states and parts of Gujarat and Delhi NCR portion person shown promising returns for us,” helium said.
In January 2026, the institution commenced toll operations astatine Kaza Fee Plaza connected the Chilakaluripet–Vijayawada conception of NH-16 successful Andhra Pradesh.
The task covers 355.0 Km to 437.5 Km (aggregate magnitude of 82.5 km) connected NH‑16 a cardinal north–south nationalist road corridor connecting large economical hubs crossed confederate and eastbound India.
This is HIL’s first‑ever toll operations declaration of this scale, with a full declaration worth of ₹328.77 crore, awarded by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
”At this Plaza we person very, precise precocious volume. This is the largest plaza successful each 5 confederate states combined,” Mr Jain said.
“The confederate states person shown stellar maturation numbers implicit the past years and I consciousness this volition beryllium the continued trend. Even Gujarat has go a precise very important transit constituent for each the states successful that region,” helium added.
The institution registered a maturation of 404% since March 2025, rising from ₹114 crore to ₹575 crore till recently, highlighting accelerated scale‑up successful the toll operations vertical.
“We are much focused connected the profitability. We are trying to prime much profitable, much precocious maturation tenders arsenic opposed to conscionable picking tenders, helium said.
In presumption of the manufacture trends, helium said “In a increasing system similar India infrastructure has go the backbone of improvement and newer roads and caller tollways volition beryllium built which is simply a large accidental for us.”
”This inclination is expected to beryllium unchangeable similar this for the adjacent coming 10 years,” helium added.
Mr Jain said HIL is presumption itself arsenic a exertion focused institution and 1 twelvemonth contracts are the astir optimum contracts for toll due to the fact that truthful galore caller roads are being constructed continuously.
In India toll concern has seen accelerated maturation implicit the past 5 years, with annual collections much than doubling from astir ₹27,504 crore successful 2019-20 to implicit ₹64,800 crore successful 2023-24.
This surge is driven by accrued infrastructure development, wide adoption of FASTag, and rising commercialized conveyance movements.
In the archetypal 4th of FY26 (April–June 2025), toll collections surged by 19.6% year-on-year to a grounds ₹20,681.87 crore, driven by a 4-5% yearly complaint hike.
The authorities aims to summation yearly toll postulation to ₹1,40,000 crore ($17-18 billion) successful the adjacent 2 to 3 years by expanding the nationalist road web and adopting precocious technologies similar satellite-based tolling (multi-lane escaped flow) according to manufacture officials.
