Any work done for the first time, or a title or achievement for the first time always remains in the memory and register its name in the history. Like the first step on the moon, or the first to hoist the flag on Everest, or the world's first astronaut etc.
1.) The first Prime Minister of India - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
2.) The first President of India - Rajendra Prasad .
3.) The first Home Minister of India - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel.
4.) The first vice-president of India - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
5.) The first Education Minister of India - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
6.) The first Finance Minister of India - R.K. Shanmukham Chetty.
7.) The first Law and Justice Minister of India - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar .
8.) The first Railway and Transport Minister of India - John Mathai.
9.) The first Labour Minister of India - Jagjivan Ram.
10.) The first Minister of Commerce of India - Cooverji Hormusji Bhabha.
11.) The first Minister of Communications of India - Rafi Ahmed Kidwai.
12.) The first Health Minister of India - Amrit kaur.
13.) The first Governor of Reserve Bank of India - Osborn Smith while, C.D. Deshmukh was first Indian Governor of RBI.
14.) The first Commander in Chief of Army of India - Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa.
15.) The first Chief of Army staff of India - K.S. Rajendrasinhji.
16.) The first Indian Commander in Chief of the Air Force of India - Subroto Mukerjee .
17.) The first Chief of Naval staff of India - William Edward Parry.
18.) The first Director of CBI of India - D.P. Kohli.
19.) The first Intelligence Bureau (IB) Chief of India - T.G. Sanjeevi Pillai.
20.) The first Indian to join the Civil services of India - Satyendranath Tagore.
21.) The first female IAS Officer - Anna Rajam Malhotra.
22.) The first visually challenged IAS Officer - Pranjal Patil.
23.) The first general election of India - the general election of 1951-52, held from 25 October 1951 to 21 February 1952.
24.) The first Chief Election Commissioner of India - Sukumar Sen.
25.) The first Indian Chief Justice of India - H.J. Kania.
26.) The first flight in India - On 18 February 1911, the first commercial civil aviation flight took place in India between Allahabad and Naini(a distance of 6 miles).
27.) The first passenger train of India - the first passenger train of India ran between Bombay(Bori bunder) and Thane on 16 April 1853.
28.) The first satellite built by India - Aryabhatta by ISRO,which was launched by Soviet Union in 1975.
29.) The first Indian satellite to be launched by Indian vehicle - Rohini, in 1980.
30.) The first publicly available internet service of India - in 1995, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited(VSNL) launched the first publicly available internet service of India on 14 August.
31.) The first tv channel of India - Doordarshan, launched on 15 September 1959.
32.) The first movie of India - Raja Harishchandra (1913).
33.) The first movie of India with sound - Alam Ara (1931).
34.) The first colour movie of India - Kisan Kanya (1937).
35.) The first tv serial of India - Hum Log(7 July 1984).
36.) The first Cinema hall of India - Chaplin Cinema also known as Elphinstone Picture Palace in Kolkata .
37.) The first five star hotel of India - The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
38.) The first Museum of India - Indian Museum in Kolkata.
39.) The first Airport of India - Juhu Aerodrome in Mumbai.
40.) The first University of India - the University of Calcutta or Calcutta University (CU) established in 1857.
41.) The first News Paper of India - The Bengal Gazette, first published on 29 January 1780.
42.) The first Hindi News Paper of India - Udant Martand, started on 30 May 1826.
43.) The first Magazine of India - Oriental Magazine or Calcutta Amusement (1785).
44.) The first Indian Magazine of India - The Week (1982).
45.) The first website of India - Rediff.com.
46.) The first use of telephone in India - the telephone service was made operational in India in the year 1881, on 28 January 1882,the first formal telephone service was established.
47.) The STD calling started in India - the first ever STD call in India was made between the cities of Kanpur and Lucknow in 1960 .
48.) The first mobile phone use of India - on July 31, 1995 when then West Bengal C.M. Jyoti Basu made the first call to Sukh Ram, the then Union communications Minister of India.
49.) The first Private TV channel of India - Zee TV (1992).
50.) The first Bank of India - Bank of Hindustan (1770).
51.) The first astronaut of India - Rakesh Sharma (in 1984).
52.) The first woman of Indian origin to go to space - Kalpana Chawla (in 1997) .
53.) The first nuclear test of India - India's first successful nuclear test took place on 18 May 1974 in Pokhran, Rajasthan, Smiling Buddha was the code name given to it .
54.) The first Field Marshal of India - Sam Manekshaw.
55.) The first wild life sanctuary of India - Jim Corbett National Park.
56.) The first bird sanctuary of India - Vedanthangal (Tamil Nadu).
57.) The first Insurance company of India - Bombay Mutual Life Assurance Society (1870).
58.) The first individual Olympic medal winner athlete of (independent) India - Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (1952).
59.) The first olympic win of India (pre independence) - Norman Pritchard (1900).
60.) The first individual olympic gold medal of India - Abhinav Bindra (2008).
61.) The first olympic gold medal in team game of India - won by Indian field hockey team (1928).
62.) The first Cricket World Cup win of India - in 1983 World Cup.
63.) The first Captain of Cricket team of India - C.K. Nayudu (1932).
64.) The first match won by India in Cricket - in 1951-52 by beating England in Madras.
65.) The first player of India to score a century in tests - Lala Amarnath in 1933, score of 118 against England in Bombay.
66.) The first player of India to score a century in ODI's - Kapil Dev in 1983 World Cup, score of 175 against Zimbabwe.
67.) The first pilot of India - J.R.D. Tata (1929).
68.) The first woman pilot of India - Sarla Thakral (1936).
69.) The first woman lawyer of India - Cornelia Sorabji.
70.) The first woman Judge of India - Anna Chandy, became Judge in 1937 .
71.) The first super computer of India - PARAM 8000 (1991).
72.) The first software company of India - Tata group in partnership with Burroughs (1967).
73.) The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - the first IIT was established in May 1950, in Kharagpur, West Bengal.
74.) The first All India Institute of Medical Science(AIIMS) - the first AIIMS was established in 1956 in New Delhi .
75.) The first submarine of India - INS Shalki (1987).
76.) The first airline of India - Tata Airlines(1932).
77.) The first population census of India - the first synchronous census in India was held in 1881.
78.) The first Union Budget of Independent India - the first Union Budget of India was presented by then Finance Minister R.K. Shanmukham Chetty on 26 November 1947.
79.) The first attorney general of India - Motilal C. Setalvad ( 1950-63).
80.) The first successful heart transplant surgery in India - on 3 August 1994, by the team of doctors led by Dr. Panangipalli Venugopal.
81.) The first successful liver transplant surgery in India - in November 1998, at Apollo hospital.
82.) The first Formula One driver of India - Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan.
83.) The first Nobel prize winner of India - Rabindranath Tagore, for literature (1913).
84.) The first book to be published in an Indian language - the Tamil book "Thambiran Vanakkam" in 1578, it was a translation of portuguese "Doctrina Christam".
85.) The first Booker prize winner of India - Arundhati Roy (1997).
86.) The first Academy Award winner of India - Bhanu Athaiya in 1983, for costume designing.
87.) The first Honorary Academy Award winner of India - Satyajit Ray (1992).
88.) The first successful Everest mission of India - on May 20, 1965, by Lt Col Avatar.S. Cheema.
89.) The first animated film of India - The Banyan Deer (1957).
90.) The first amusement park of India - Essel World (1999).
91.) The first Test tube baby of India - Kanupriya Agrawal (October 3, 1978).
92.) The first ever car made in India - the Hindustan 10 (1949).
93.) The first Indian developed jet aircraft - HAL HF-24 Marut (17 June, 1961).
94.) The first Biosphere reserve of India - Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (1986).
95.) The first mobile network of India - CDMA- MODI TELSTRA.
96.) The first Indian to cross English Channel - Mihir Sen.
97.) The first woman President of India - Pratibha Patil.
98.) The first woman Prime Minister of India - Indira Gandhi.
99.) The first genetically modified food product of India - Bt. Eggplant Hybrid.
100.) The first Hydroelectric plant of India - Sidrapong near Darjeeling.
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