State Highway 17 (SH-17) is a
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
connecting the cities of
Bangalore
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...
and
Mysore
Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...
in the south
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
n state of Karnataka. The highway has a total length of . It was built and maintained by the Karnataka Road Development Corporation Limited and inaugurated in 2003. The highway passes through the towns of
Ramanagara
Ramanagara is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is also the headquarters of Ramanagara district. It is approximately 50 kilometres from Bangalore. There are buses and trains as public transportations which approximately takes 90 minute ...
,
Channapatna
Channapatana is a city and taluk headquarters in Ramanagara District, Karnataka, India.
Channapatna is approximately 60kms from Bangalore and 80kms from Mysore.
Geography
Channapatna has an average elevation of 739 metres (2424 ft). ...
,
Maddur,
Mandya
Mandya is a city in the state of Karnataka. It is the headquarter of Mandya district and is located from Mysore and from Bangalore.
Sugar factories contribute to the major economic output. It is also called Sugar city (which in Kannada mean ...
and
Srirangapatna
Srirangapatna is a town and headquarters of one of the seven Tehsil, Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian States and territories of India, State of Karnataka. It gets its name from the Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangapatna, Ranganthaswamy ...
(Seringapattinam), before entering Mysore. The road is
dual carriageway
A dual carriageway ( BE) or divided highway ( AE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE). Roads with two or more carriageways which are ...
and passes over the
Kaveri
The Kaveri (also known as Cauvery, the anglicized name) is one of the major Indian rivers flowing through the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The Kaveri river rises at Talakaveri in the Brahmagiri range in the Western Ghats, Kodagu dis ...
river.
The 15 km stretch from Bangalore Central to Kengeri NICE Road Junction is known as Mysore Road.
The Bangalore-
Maddur section was upgraded under
build-operate-transfer (
Annuity
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) basis by a consortium of NCC Infra and
Maytas
Maytas (" Satyam" read backwards) was a group of companies founded by B. Ramalinga Raju. It included Maytas Properties and Maytas Infra Limited.
Subsidiaries
Maytas Properties
Maytas Properties is a property development company founded in 2 ...
Infra.
The
Maddur-Mysore stretch was upgraded by Soma under an
EPC contract.
Bengaluru-Mysore highway is being upgraded to 6 lane and given status of "
NH-275" .
See also
*
List of State Highways in Karnataka
The state highways are arterial routes of a state, linking district headquarters and important towns within the state and connecting them with national highways or highways of the neighboring states.
Introduction
Karnataka has a good road networ ...
*
NICE Road
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*
Outer Ring Road, Bangalore
The Outer Ring Road (ORR), officially renamed as Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar Vartula Raste, is a ring road that runs around most of the perimeter of the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. This road was developed by the Bangalore Development Autho ...
*
Mysore Ring Road
References
External links
{{Karnataka State Highways Network
State Highways in Karnataka
Roads in Ramanagara district
Roads in Mandya district
Roads in Bangalore Rural district
Roads in Mysore district