Kalyani Expressway

Kalyani Expressway
Barrackpore-Kalyani Expressway
Route information
Maintained by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
Length	44.17 km (27.45 mi)
Major junctions
South end	Nimta, Kolkata
Major intersections	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 end	Bansberia, Hooghly district
Location
Country	India
States	West Bengal
Districts	Hooghly district, Nadia district, North 24 Parganas district
Highway system
Roads in India Expressways National State Asian

Kalyani Expressway :(also known as Barrackpore-Kalyani Expressway) is a 44.17-kilometre-long (27.45 mi), 4/6 laned, tolled expressway in the state of West Bengal, India. It connects Kolkata with its satellite city Kalyani.^[1] The road starts from Belghoria Expressway in Nimta and ends in Bansberia of Hooghly district. The road is developed by West Bengal Highway Development Corporation. As of 2024, it is being converted to 6 lane road till Muragacha and 4/6 lane from Muragacha to Kalyani by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.^[2] The road is also being linked to Belghoria Expressway by an 6-lane elevated corridor which is under construction as of 2024.^[3]

The road serves as a faster connection between Kolkata and it's northern suburbs in the Kolkata metropolitan region, including Sodepur, Barrackpore, Naihati and Kalyani. Which was developed alongside the Hooghly River. The road has significantly brought down the communication time between the cities from 2 hours to 40 minutes. The road has important connecting feeder roads to all the northern suburbs like Belgharia, Sodepur, Barasat, Madhyamgram, Barrackpore, Shyamnagar, Naihati 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 at different places. An extension of this expressway from 'Kampa More' connects it to National Highway 12 through a 6-kilometer-long,6-lane elevated corridor. Additionally, a 6-lane extradosed cable-stayed bridge named 'Second Ishwar Gupta Setu' is being built on the expressway between Kalyani and Bansberia over the Hooghly River, which will be the 5th bridge over the Hooghly River in the Kolkata metropolitan region.