Kalyani Expressway

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Kalyani Expressway
Kalyani Expressway - Wireless Crossing Area - Barrackpore - North 24 Parganas 2015-05-24 1221.JPG
Route information
Maintained by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
Length40 km (20 mi)
Major junctions
South endNimta, Kolkata
 Barasat Road in Sodepur
Nilgunj Road in Khardaha
State Highway 2 in Barrackpore
Kakinara - Rafipur Road in Kankinara
Naihati - Habra Road in Naihati
Halisahar - Malancha Road in Halisahar
Kanchrapara - Haringhata Road in Kanchrapara
State Highway 1 in Kalyani
North endKalyani, Nadia
Location
StatesWest Bengal
DistrictsNadia district, North 24 Parganas district
Highway system

Kalyani Expressway is a 40-kilometre-long (25 mi), two-laned, tolled road which connects Kolkata with its satellite town, Kalyani in Nadia district.[1] The road starts from Nimta in the North 24 Parganas district, in the North suburban fringes of Kolkata and ends in Kalyani. The road is maintained and controlled by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Currently it is being converted to 6 lane road till Muragacha and 4 lane from Muragacha to Kalyani by the KMDA.[2] The road is also being linked to Belghoria Expressway by an elevated corridor, land acquisition is complete and construction is going on in full swing despite COVID-19 scenario.[3]

Kalyani Express Highway

It makes access to AIIMS Kalyani easy

Importance[edit]

The road acts as a bypass avoiding the congested roads along the towns and cities, like Sodepur, Barrackpore, Naihati, which developed along the Hooghly River. The road has significantly brought down the communication time between the cities from two hours to one hour. The road has important connecting feeder roads with Sodepur, Barrackpore, Naihati, Barasat, Madhyamgram, Kankinara, Khardaha and Kanchrapara, apart from roads which connects other small towns and localities on the way. The road has intersection with State Highway 1 and State Highway 2 and connects with National Highway 12 at different places. An extension of Kalyani Expressway connects the State Highway 6 near Bansberia through Ishwar Gupta Setu over the Bhagirathi-Hooghly River (The Ganges).

Barrackpore-Barasat Road (part of SH 2) And Kalyani Expressway Crossing, Wireless More, North 24 Parganas

References[edit]

  1. "State High Way in West Bengal". Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  2. Mondal, Biswadeep (2018). "Tender floated for six-lane elevated connector in West Bengal". Times of India. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  3. Mondal, Biswadeep (2017). "Belgharia - Kalyani Expressway Link". Millennium Post.
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