First in India-Questions &

Answers
1. First Prime Minister of
India?
Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru
2. First President of India?
Ans:Dr.Rajendra Prasad.
3. First Deputy Prime Minister
of India?
Ans:Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
4. First Vice President of
India ?
Ans: Dr.S.Radhakrishnan.
5. First speaker of Lok Sabha
?
Ans:G.V.Mavlankar
6. First Chief Justice of
India?
Ans:Harilal. J.Kania
7. First woman judge of
Supreme Court ?
Ans:Justice. Fatima Beevi

8. First Field Marshal of

India?
Ans:S.H.F.J. Maneskhaw
9. First Commander in Chief of
free India ?
Ans Gen.K.M.Kariappa
10. First woman Airline Pilot
?
Ans:Durba Banerjee
11. First Woman IPS Officer ?
Ans:Kiran Bedi
12. First Prime Minister to
resign from Office ?
Ans:Morarji Desai
13. First woman Chief Minister
of a state ?
Ans:Sucheta Kripalani
14. First woman Central
Minister of India?
Ans:Rajkumari Amrit Kaul
15. First Woman Governor of a

state ?
Ans:Sarojini Naidu
16. First Woman Speaker of a
state assembly ?
Ans:Mrs. Shano Devi
17. First Muslim Woamn to sit
on the throne of Delhi ?
Ans:Sultana Rasia
18. First Indian to become the
member of British Parliament ?
Ans:Dadabhai Naoroji
19. First Indian to become
member of Viceroys Executive
Council ?
Ans:Lord. S. P.Sinha
20. First President of Indian
National Congress ?
Ans:W.C.Banerjee
21. First Woman President of
Indian National Congress ?
Ans:Annie Besant
22. First Woman President of

United Nations General

Assembly ?
Ans:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
23. First Indian to become the
President of International
Court of Justice ?
Ans:Dr. Nagendra Singh
24. First Indian Cosmonaut ?
Ans:Sqn.Leader. Rakesh Sarma
25. First Nobel Prize winner
of India ?
Rabindra Nath Tagore(1913)
26. First Magsaysay Award
Winner of India ?
Ans:Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
27. First man in India to
climb Everest ?
Ans:Tenzing Norgay
28. First man in India to
climb Everest twice ?
Ans:Nawang Gombu
29. First Indian Woman to

climb Everest ?
Ans:Bachendripal
30. First Youngest Woman to
climb Everest ?
Ans:Dickey Dolma
31. First Indian to climb
Everest without Oxygen ?
Ans:Phu Dorjee
32. First to be crowned as
Miss. Universe ?
Ans:Susmitha Sen
33. First to be crowned as
Miss. India ?
Ans:Reeta Faria
34. First Indian woman to swim
across English Channel ?
Arati Saha(She is also known
as Arati Gupta)
35. First Indian man to swim
across English Channel ?
Ans:Mihir Sen
36. First Woman to win an

Asian Gold ?
Ans:Kamaljit Sandhu
37. First woman who secured
the Nehru Literacy Award ?
Ans:Mother Theresa
38. First University in India
was started at ?
Ans:Kolcutta
39. The first State in India
to introduce Panchayati Raj
System ?
Ans:Rajastan
40. First Indian Pilot ?
Ans:J.R.D.Tata
41. First Deputy Chairman of
Planning Commission ?
Ans:Gulsarilal Nanda
42. First Law Minister of
Independent India ?
Ans:Dr.B.R.Ambedkar
43. First Indian State to be
formed on linguistic basis

after the independence?

Ans:Andra Pradesh
44. First Indian to enter into
Civil Service?
Ans:Satyendranath Tagore
45. First Chief Election
commissioner of India ?
Ans:Sukumar Sen
46. First Opposition leader of
Indian Parliament ?
Ans:Dr.Ram Subhag Singh
47. First Comptroller and
Auditor General of India?
Ans:Narahari Rao
48. First Vice Chairman of
Rajya Sabha ?
Ans:S.V. Krishnan Moorthi Rao
49. First Acting President of
India ?
Ans:V.V.Giri
50. First Railway Minister of
India ?

Ans: Lal Bahadur

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