India’s InvIT market is expected to boom—Where are the retail investors?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. More than a decade ago, India’s market regulator introduced infrastructure investment trusts, or InvITs, to channel public capital into infrastructure, and further eased rules in the past two years. Still, valuation and liquidity concerns keep these instruments overwhelmingly private. Only six of India’s 29 registered InvITs are publicly listed, according to data from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
These include Capital Infra Trust, IRB InvIT Fund, PowerGrid Infrastructure Investment Trust, Bharat Highways Infrastructure Investment Trust, India Grid Trust and Anantam Highways Trust. Three such InvITs–one of which was publicly listed–have been launched in the ongoing fiscal 2025-26. Funds mobilised by such instruments surged to ₹1.38 trillion in fiscal 2025 from ₹110 billion in fiscal 2020, according to a November 2025 report by Crisil Intelligence.
Assets under management rose to about ₹6.28 trillion, growing at an 18% compound annual rate since fiscal 2021. Industry estimates peg InvIT AUM at ₹21 trillion by 2030, driven by asset monetisation, policy support and rising institutional allocations. Yet, this expansion has largely escaped the secondary market and retail investors.
Private listed InvITs continue to dominate, offering sponsors predictable capital from a small set of sophisticated investors. An InvIT pools funds by issuing units to investors and deploys those primarily in infrastructure assets, either directly or via a special purpose vehicle or holding company. Unitholders earn regular income from dividends and interest paid by the trust, which owns income-generating assets from toll roads to power projects.
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