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List of First in India

First in India Place/City

National Rail and Transport University
India's First Railway University
(NRTU) Vadodara, Gujarat
India's First National Sports University Manipur
World University of Design, Sonipat,
India's First Design University
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

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
India's First Insect Museum
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
Kerala
education
First District to achieve a 100% literacy
Ernakulam district, Kerala
rate
First Indian state to achieve 100 percent
Kerala
primary education
India's First Digital District Nagpur, Maharashtra

India's First Digital Village Akodara, Sabarkantha district of Gujarat

India's First cashless island Karang (lake island) Manipur

India’s first cashless village
India's First e-assembly constituency of the
country
First in India to call attention and
adjournment motions and proposals online
First-ever Indian Institute of Skills
Dhasai village in Thane district,
Maharashtra
Palampur Assembly Constituency of
Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh
Rajasthan
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

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India’s First Union Territory to run 100% on

Diu
solar power
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
Maharashtra
police station in each district
First state to implement Right to
Tamil Nadu
Information Act in India
First state to be declared free of open
Sikkim
defecation
India's first cyber-crime police station Bengaluru

First state to pass the GST bill Assam

First state to implement Real Estate
Maharashtra
Regulatory Authority (RERA)
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
Jharkhand
Transfer in Kerosene
India's first underwater restaurant Ahmedabad, Gujarat

First newspaper published in India Bengal Gazette

First Hindi language newspaper published in
Udant Martand
India
First City to get India's first underwater
Kolkata Metro at Kolkata
Metro

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First passenger train in India ran between
India's first Wi-Fi city
First nuclear reactor in India
India's first satellite
First Silent film to be made in India
First Sound Film
First colour film in India
First dam in India
First Stepwell still existing
First temple constructed from a single rock
First true dome
First mosque in India
India's first private railway station
India’s first solar-powered airport
India’s first cricket stadium to be powered
by solar energy
India's First All-Women Political Party
India's first engine-less semi-high-speed
train
India's first nuclear center
India's first missile
First Post Office opened in India
India's first banking robot
First bank of India
First bank to introduce the ATM in India
First public bank to introduce Credit card
First disabled friendly bank ATM
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Bombay (Bori Bunder) and Thane
Kolkata, West Bengal
Apsara, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Aryabhata
Raja Harishchandra, by Dadasaheb
Phalke
Alam Ara directed by Ardeshir Irani
Kisan Kanya directed by Moti B. Gidwani
Kallanai Dam on Kaveri river in
Thiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu
Mata Bhavani's Stepwell, Gujarat
Kailasa temple, Ellora, Maharashtra
Alai Darwaza, Qutb complex, Delhi
Cheraman Juma Mosque in Methala,
Kodungallur Taluk, Thrissur District of
Kerala
Habibganj railway station, Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh
Cochin International Airport, Kerala
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru,
Karnataka
National Women's Party (NWP)
Train 18
Tarapur Atomic Power Station,
Maharashtra
Prithvi
Kolkata in 1727
‘Lakshmi’ launched by City Union Bank
Bank of Hindustan
HSBC in 1987, Mumbai
Central Bank of India
Union Bank of India
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First Goods and Services Tax (GST)

CASIO
calculator in India launched by
‘Indicash’ launched by Tata
Communications Payment Solutions Ltd
First white label ATM in India
in Chandrapada 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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