Achievement |
Person/Place/Object |
First (Metro) rail to become Zone of Indian Railways |
Kolkata Metro as the (17Th Zonal Headquarter) (30-12-2010) |
First airplane in India |
Maharaja of Patiala, 1910 |
First and the only Indian (Metro) rail under Indian Railways |
Kolkata Metro |
First City to have an e-court |
Ahmedabad, 8 February 2009 |
First City/town to achieve 100% literacy rate |
Kottayam, Kerala, 1989 |
First District to achieve 100% literacy rate |
Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990 |
First District to achieve 100% literacy rate and lowest population growth rate |
Pathanamthitta district, Kerala |
First District to achieve tobacco free |
Kottayam district, Kerala, 27 September 2008 |
First District to be polio-free |
Pathanamthitta district, Kerala |
First District to become India's 'total electrified district' |
Palakkad, Kerala, 2011 |
First expressway |
Mumbai - Pune Expressway in 2000, |
First fully indigenous passenger car developed in India |
Tata Indica, launched in 1998 |
First Indians to own a motor car |
Jamshedji Tata and Rustom Cama. |
First India's first Wi-Fi city |
Kolkata |
First large-scale 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 major acquisition of a foreign company by an Indian company |
Tata Motors acquires Jaguar and Land Rover in 2007. |
First manufacture of motor cars |
Hindustan Motors begins production of cars in 1942. |
First Motor Taxi |
Mumbai, 1911 |
First Motorcar in regular use |
Francis Spring, Chennai in 1901. |
First Motorcar: in 1897 |
Mr. Forster of Crompton Greaves |
First partition of Indian state |
Bengal |
First Passenger Train |
between Mumbai and Thane on 16 April 1853 |
First rapid transit (Metro) rail |
Kolkata Metro in 1984 |
First registration scheme for motor vehicles in India |
1912 |
First road which is a connected to a Wi-Fi Zone |
Rajarhat (connecting Rajarhat Main Arterial Road to the airport to Sector V in the city of Kolkata with 10.5 km) |
First suburban railway line |
Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857 |
First woman to drive a car in India |
RD Tata 1905 |
First woman to drive a railway train in India |
Surekha Yadav |
Oldest surviving and running cars in India |
De Dion Bouton 1904, Rover 1905 |
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