First In India -Part(5)

PART 5

First Women

• The first woman Air Vice Marshal :P. Bandopadhyaya
• Supreme Court judge: Kumari Fathima Beevi
• High Court Judge: Anna Chandy
• Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly :
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit,  1953
• Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee
• Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
• Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966
• Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
• Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–   1967
• Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949
• Women Governor of West Bengal: Padmaja Naidu, 1956–1967.
• Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of  local self-government and public health, 1937
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
• Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
• President: Pratibha Patil, 2007
• IPS Officer: Kiran Bedi
• Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
• The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal, 1984
• Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.
• To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
• To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
• Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova)  in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
• State Finance Minister: Dr. Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab: October 2010
• Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate(44): August 2011
• The first Indian woman pilot: Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994.
• To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar(33):2011
• First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha
• first woman IAS officer: Anna Rajan George(b1927)Kerela qualified in 1950 sub-divisional officer in Tamil Nadu 1951
• First and youngest Indian female Ultramarathoner (23yrs) to run a 100 Mile Race(Himalayas) Priya Darshini (October 2007) 

Transport

·  First (Metro) rail to become Zone of Indian Railways: Kolkata Metro

·  First Passenger Train: between Mumbai and Thane on 16 April 1853

·  First suburban railway line: Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857

·  First Motorcar: in 1897, Mr. Forster of Crompton Greaves

·  First Motorcar in regular use: Francis Spring, Chennai in 1901.

·  First woman to drive a car in India: Suzanne RD Tata 1905

·  First expressway: Mumbai - Pune Expressway in 2000

·  First airplane in India: Maharaja of Patiala, 1910