NHAI receives its funding through:
- Government support in the form of capital base, cess fund, additional budgetary support, capital grant, maintenance grant, ploughing back of toll revenue and
- loan from multilateral agencies and
- market borrowings. Till the year 2014-15, a sum of 120,561.22 Cr has been received from the GoI as Cess and other Funds making up the capital of NHAI.
During the year 2014-15, a sum of 6885.89 Cr was received by NHAI from Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) through Union Budget (Cess Fund) for Capital Investment in National Highways from Central Road Fund. In addition 600.00 Cr was received from
the MoRTH for development of other special Projects. Ministry has also released 100.01 Cr to NHAI for maintenance of National Highways.
The user fee, shared revenue and negative grant/premium being collected by NHAI is deposited in the Consolidated Fund of India and additional budgetary support is being provided by Ministry to NHAI for expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of India (CFI)
in line with the amount deposited by NHAI in CFI.
During the year 2014-15, NHAI had deposited a total amount of 5927.13 Cr in CFI during 2014-15 towards user fee collection, Revenue Share, Negative Grant and Interest thereon. Against this, the Ministry has released 5448.00 Cr to NHAI as ‘Additional Budgetary
Support’ through Permanent Bridge Fee Fund (PBFF) as plough back of Toll Remittance made to CFI.
During the year 2014-15, NHAI has raised 3343.40 Cr by way of issue of Capital Gain Tax free Bonds under Section 54-EC of the Income Tax Act, 1961.