GK - List of firsts in India ( 7 )
Places
District to achieve 100% literacy rate : Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990City/town to achieve 100% literacy rate : Kottayam, Kerala, 1989
District to achieve 100% literacy rate and lowest population growth rate : Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
District to be polio-free : Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
District to achieve tobacco free: Kottayam district, Kerala, 27 September 2008
District to become India's 'total electrified district' : Palakkad, Kerala, 2011
City to have an e-court : Ahmedabad, 8 February 2009
Transport
First (Metro) rail to become Zone of Indian Railways : Kolkata Metro as the (17Th Zonal Headquarter) (30-12-2010)First and the only Indian (Metro) rail under Indian Railways : Kolkata Metro
First Passenger Train : between Mumbai and Thane on 16 April 1853
First suburban railway line : Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857
First rapid transit (Metro) rail : Kolkata Metro in 1984
First Motorcar : in 1897, Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves
First Motorcar in regular use : Francis Spring, Chennai in 1901.
First Indians to own a motor car : Jamshedji Tata and Rustom Cama, a Parsi Lawyer in 1901.
First competitive event : Delhi - Bombay trials in 1905 at the behest of Lord Curzon and Motor Union of Western India to test the suitability of the Automobile for Indian roads and to facilitate interaction between the fledging Automobile Industry and prospective Indian clients
Oldest surviving and running cars in India : De Dion Bouton 1904, Rover 1905
First woman to drive a car in India: Suzanne RD Tata 1905
First Motor Taxi : Mumbai, 1911
First largescale import of motor cars : Relatively large contingent of motorcars imported for the Delhi Darbar held in 1911 to mark the arrival of King George V
First registration scheme for motor vehicles in India : 1912
Arrival of mass production technology makes the Automobile a practical means of transport by the 1920s and most British officers had cars
First Assembly of motor cars : General Motors sets up the first assembly unit to assemble cars from imported parts in 1928. The National Series AB sedan is produced.
First manufacture of motor cars : Hindustan Motors begins production of cars in 1942. Premier automobiles and Standard Motors setup. Technology stagnates as a result of economic autarky as India is isolated from the rest of the world
First act leading to liberalization of the Auto sector : Maruti 800 launched in 1983 and the automotive industry is progressively liberalized
First fully indegenous passenger car developed in India : Tata Indica, launched in 1998
First expressway: Mumbai - Pune Expressway in 2000,
First major acquisition of a foreign company by an Indian company : Tata Motors acquires Jaguar and Land Rover in 2007. Mahindra Automotive emerges as the top bidder for SsangYong Motor Company in 2010.
First aeroplane in India : Maharaja of Patiala, 1910
Domestic commercial aviation is born in India in 1911 when on 18 February, Henri Piquet, flying a Humber biplane, carries mall from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles away.
1927 : India's first airline, Imperial Airways, extends its Empire Routes to India, connecting India with the outside world for the first time through an air network. A de Havilland Hercules flies the Cairo-Basra-Karachi-Jodhpur-Delhi route. It is also the first domestic passenger flight to be operated in India. Passengers could be for the first time fly from Karachi to Jodhpur and to Delhi on Imperial Airways.
On 10 February 1929, J. R. D. Tata is awarded India's first pilot licence, Pilot Licence No.1 by Federation Aeronotique International signed by Sir Victor Sasoon on behalf of the Aero Club of India and Burma.
1932 : Urmila K Parikh becomes the first woman to get a pilot licence when she is given an a licence by the Aero Club of India and Burma.
1932 : J. R. D. Tata launches India's first scheduled airline, Tata Airlines, by piloting the first flight himself from Karachi to Bombay via Ahmedabad on a single-engine Puss Moth with a load of airmail.
Others
The first Indian to cross English Channel: Mihir SenThe first Indian Air Chief Marshal: S. Mukherjee
First Post Office Opened in India :Kolkata(1727)
Wax statue of a living Indian: Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939.
Newspaper : Hicky's Bengal Gazette started in 1780.
Exclusive Internet magazine: Bharat Samachar
Miss India to participate in Miss Universe: Indrani Rahman in the Miss Universe 1952 Pageant at Long Beach, California
Graduate in Medicine: Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty
India’s First woman Merchant Navy Officer : Sonali Banerjee
First Lady Teacher : Savitribai Phule
First Lady Doctor : Anandibai Joshi
First lady tennis sports : Saniya mirza
The first record holder in the field of development of eco-innovation : Shripad Vaidya
