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National Highway 717 (NH 717) is a national highway in
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 ...
. This highway runs entirely in the state of West Bengal. It is a
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route of
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. Prior to renumbering of national highways in 2010, the stretch between Chalsa and Mainaguri was part of old national highway 31. By a gazette notification on 27 December 2013, NH-717 route was extended from Mainaguri to land border crossing of India/Bangladesh border near
Changrabandha Changrabandha (also called Nagar Changrabandha) is a census town and a gram panchayat in Mekhliganj CD block in Mekhliganj subdivision of Cooch Behar district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a border checkpoint on the Bangladesh-India ...
. Mainaguri to Changrabandha stretch of this route is part of Asian Highway 48.


Route

NH717 connects Chalsa north of ,
Mainaguri Mainaguri is a town and a municipality in the Jalpaiguri Sadar subdivision of the Jalpaiguri district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is known as the "Gateway of the Dooars" and is a regionally significant tourist destination for "Jalpesh ...
, Changrabandha and terminates at Indo/Bangladesh Border.


Junctions

: Terminal near Chalsa. : near Mainaguri. : Bangladesh highway at Indo/Bangladesh Border


See also

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List of National Highways in India On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially published a new numbering system for the National Highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientatio ...
*
List of National Highways in India by state List of the new National Highway numbers (state-wise). Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Goa ...


References


External links


NH 717 on OpenStreetMap
National highways in India National Highways in West Bengal {{India-NH-stub