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NHAI's compensation to developers for toll revenue not sufficient: ICRA

12 Dec 2016 Evaluate

Domestic rating agency, ICRA in its latest report has said that NHAI’s plan to provide relief to road developers by covering 90 per cent of interest cost and O&M expenses for the period during which government had suspended user fee collection on National Highways with effect from November 9 and which went on till December 2 (midnight), is insufficient as it does not cover debt repayment obligation. It also mentioned that this compensation may possibly lead to clashes with developers given the huge revenue loss for them.

According to the report, in most of the toll projects, the revenue loss is greater than Rs 1 crore and even in terms of the net realisable fee, it’s around 6.6 per cent (24/365*100), some of the developers are seeking for Clause 41 to be implemented in this case. Under this, NHAI has obligation to place the concessionaire in the same financial position as it would have enjoyed had there been no such change in law. In which case, the clause also provides for cash compensation for revenue loss in order to protect the net present value of the cash flows to the developers.

Earlier NHAI came up with a plan to provide compensation to the extent of 90 per cent of interest cost for the 24-day period, only to the extent of the interest accrued on principal amount of debt provided by senior lenders for financing the total project cost. National Highway Authority of India (NHA) has suffered an income loss of around Rs 1,238 crore (at an average toll collection per day of Rs 51.59 crore) due to suspension of toll collection on highways till December 2 post demonetisation.

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