History
This road used to called as Kali Babu's Road in early 17th century when the Bengali Jamindar Kali babu made this road from Khulna(Bangladesh) to Kolkata. Later on British government was made this metal road to connect British Air Force in Jessore(Now in Bangladesh) to Calcutta(Now Kolkata).
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