List of First in India
List of First in India with place/City
| First in India | Place/City |
| India’s First Railway University | National Rail and Transport
University (NRTU) Vadodara, Gujarat |
| India’s First National Sports
University | Manipur |
| India’s First Design University | World University of Design, Sonipat,
Haryana |
| India’s First Textile University | Surat, Gujarat |
| India’s First National Park of India | Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand. |
| India’s First Defense Industrial Park | Ottappalam in Palakkad district of
Kerala |
| India’s First Dog Park | Hyderabad, Telangana |
| India’s First Insect Museum | Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
campus in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu |
| India’s First Civil Aviation Park | Ahmedabad, Gujarat |
| India’s First Space Park | Bengaluru, Karnataka |
| India’s first Gender Park | Kozhikode, Kerala |
| India’s first technology park | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala |
| India’s First Digital State | Kerala |
| India’s First to achieve total digital
education | Kerala |
| First District to achieve a 100%
literacy rate | Ernakulam district, Kerala |
| First Indian state to achieve 100
percent primary education | Kerala |
| India’s First Digital District | Nagpur, Maharashtra |
List of First in India
| India’s First Digital Village | Akodara, Sabarkantha district of
Gujarat |
| India’s First cashless island | Karang (lake island) Manipur |
| India’s first cashless village | Dhasai village in Thane district,
Maharashtra |
| India’s First e-assembly constituency
of the country | Palampur Assembly Constituency of
Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh |
| First in India to call attention and
adjournment motions and proposals online | Rajasthan |
| First-ever Indian Institute of Skills | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh |
| India’s First Union Territory to run
100% on solar power | Diu |
| India’s First Cinema Museum | Mumbai |
| India’s first music museum | Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu |
| India’s first fully organic state | Sikkim |
| First Happiness Junction of India | Sonepur, Bihar |
| India’s first online interactive
heritage portal | Sahapedia |
| India’s first underground museum | Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi |
| First state in the country to have a
cyber police station in each district | Maharashtra |
| First state to implement Right to
Information Act in India | Tamil Nadu |
| First state to be declared free of
open defecation | Sikkim |
| India’s first cyber-crime police
station | Bengaluru |
| First state to pass the GST bill | Assam |
List of First in India
| First state to implement Real Estate
Regulatory Authority (RERA) | Maharashtra |
| India’s first Microprocessor | Shakti designed by IIT Madras |
| India’s first multi-skills park | Global Skills Park, Bhopal, MP |
| First Tribal language to be on
Wikipedia | Santhali |
| India’s first Heli-taxi service | Bengaluru, Karnataka |
| First State to implement biofuel
policy | Rajasthan |
| First island become a district in India | Majuli, Assam |
| India’s first Tiger cell | Dehradun, Uttarakhand |
| First state to implement Direct
Benefit Transfer in Kerosene | Jharkhand |
| India’s first underwater restaurant | Ahmedabad, Gujarat |
| First newspaper published in India | Bengal Gazette |
| First Hindi language newspaper
published in India | Udant Martand |
| First City to get India’s first
underwater Metro | Kolkata Metro at Kolkata |
| First passenger train in India ran between | Bombay (Bori Bunder) and Thane |
| India’s first Wi-Fi city | Kolkata, West Bengal |
| First nuclear reactor in India | Apsara, Mumbai, Maharashtra |
| India’s first satellite | Aryabhata |
| First Silent film to be made in India | Raja Harishchandra, by Dadasaheb
Phalke |
| First Sound Film | Alam Ara directed by Ardeshir Irani |
| First colour film in India | Kisan Kanya directed by Moti B.
Gidwani |
List of First in India
| First dam in India | Kallanai Dam on Kaveri river in
Thiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu |
| First Stepwell still existing | Mata Bhavani’s Stepwell, Gujarat |
| First temple constructed from a
single rock | Kailasa temple, Ellora, Maharashtra |
| First true dome | Alai Darwaza, Qutb complex, Delhi |
| First mosque in India | Cheraman Juma Mosque in Methala,
Kodungallur Taluk, Thrissur District of Kerala |
| India’s first private railway station | Habibganj railway station, Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh |
| India’s first solar-powered airport | Cochin International Airport, Kerala |
| India’s first cricket stadium to be
powered by solar energy | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium,
Bengaluru, Karnataka |
| India’s First All-Women Political
Party | National Women’s Party (NWP) |
| India’s first engine-less semi-high-
speed train | Train 18 |
| India’s first nuclear center | Tarapur Atomic Power Station, Maharashtra |
| India’s first missile | Prithvi |
| First Post Office opened in India | Kolkata in 1727 |
| India’s first banking robot | ‘Lakshmi’ launched by City Union
Bank |
| First bank of India | Bank of Hindustan |
| First bank to introduce the ATM in
India | HSBC in 1987, Mumbai |
| First public bank to introduce Credit
card | Central Bank of India |
| First disabled friendly bank ATM | Union Bank of India |
| First Goods and Services Tax (GST)
calculator in India launched by | CASIO |
| First white label ATM in India | ‘Indi cash’ launched by Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd in Chandrakala village in Thane, Maharashtra |
| First Payment Bank in India | Airtel Payments Bank |
| First Small Finance Bank | Capital Local Area Bank |
| India’s First Dolphin Research Centre | Patna, Bihar |
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