Firsts |
Organization/object |
First central PSU to be privatized |
Modern Food Industries in January 2000 |
First Cloned Animal |
Bhass, Sampura |
First country to enter Mars’ orbit successfully on their first attempt |
Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) |
First Genetically Modified Food Product in India |
Bt. Eggplant Hybrid (Bt. -- Bacillus thuringiensis) |
First Hydroelectric plant |
Sidrapong near Darjeeling, commissioned in 1897 |
First mobile telephone service started on non-commercial basis |
15 August 1995 in Delhi. |
First Nuclear Reactor |
Apsara, Mumbai, Maharashtra |
First Place to get electricity |
Darjeeling in 1897 |
First power in India with Soviet Collaboration |
Neyveli Lignite Corporation in 1962. |
First Prospective space tourist |
Santhosh George Kulangara, proposed in 2009 aboard Virgin Galactic |
First Satellite |
Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975 |
First Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services |
EDUSAT |
First satellite earth station for domestic communications |
Established in 1980 at Secunderabad, A.P. |
First Scientific Expedition to Antarctica |
1981 |
First subscriber trunk dialing route |
Commissioned in 1960 between Lucknow and Kanpur. |
First Successful indigenous launch vehicle |
SLV-3 |
First technology park in India |
Techno park, Trivandrum 1990 |
First telephone exchange |
On 28 January 1882 |
First Underground Metro Railways System |
Calcutta in 1984 . |
First wireless telegraph station |
Established in 1902 between Sagar Islands and Sandheads. |