First in India in 2022
- First State to launch mobile app for night navigation on rivers- Assam
- First State to implement dynamic maps to track land ownership- Bihar
- First State in the country to offer direct financial assistance to landless agricultural labourers in rural areas- Chhattisgarh
- First State to restore old pension scheme – Chhattisgarh
- First State to recognize the Community Forest Resources rights in a national park – Odisha
- First State to create a separate corporation to expedite the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-powered governance application- Haryana
- First ‘Smoke-Free State’ in India- Himachal Pradesh
- First 100% LPG enabled state – Himachal Pradesh
- First State to give approval to drone policy- Himachal Pradesh
- First State to introduce carbon-neutral farming methods- Kerala
- First State to launch Balika Panchayat- Gujarat
- First State to use drones in healthcare- Uttarakhand
- First State to approve the plans of AMRUT 2.0 scheme- Jharkhand
- First State Assembly to become completely paperless by implementing the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) programme- Nagaland
- First state to develop an app for tracking and providing ICDS facilities to workers during their seasonal migration- Maharashtra
- First State to install L-Route server for high speed internet connectivity at the state level- Rajasthan
- First carbon neutral panchayat in- Jammu and Kashmir (Palli village- fully powered by solar energy)
- First sanitary napkin-free village of India- Kumbalangi in Ernakulum district of Kerala
- India’s first model tourism village- Kumbalangi village
- First Village of Honey- Manghar in Maharashtra
- First State to be formed on linguistic basis – Andhra Pradesh
- First UT to have a district level Good Governance Index- Jammu and Kashmir
- First UT to be integrated with National Single Window System- Jammu and Kashmir
- First District to cover 100% households under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (ABPMJAY)- SEHAT scheme- Samba District of Jammu and Kashmir
- First District to have community libraries in all gram panchayats- Jamtara District of Jharkhand
- First city to get a road made of steel waste- Surat (Gujarat)
- First Open Rock Museum- Hyderabad
- First Flow Chemistry Technology Hub opened in - Hyderabad
- First Indian to compete NASA’s International Air and Space Program (IASP)- Jahnavi Dangeti (Andhra Pradesh)
- First woman to lead all-male Army Ordnance Corps contingent during 26 Jan 2022 Parade- Lt. Manisha Vohra
- First Smart managed EV Charging Station- Mayurvihar, Delhi- Commissioned by BSES Yamuna Power Limited
- First fully equipped mobile ambulance for on-site treatment of animals- Chennai- Launched by Blue Cross of India
- First 100% women-owned ‘Industrial Park’ – Hyderabad- Conceptualized in 2013
- First Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK) – Bengaluru
- First Digital Water Bank – AQVERIUM - Bengaluru
- First World Peace Centre –To be established by Ahimsa Vishwa Bharti- Gurugram
- First Air Operated Bullet Proof Rubber Dam (65 metres length, 2 m height)- HURL-Gorakhpur
- First Bus Service with “Tap in, Tap Out” or fully digital ticketing facility – Maharashtra
- First Skill India International Centre- Skill Development Institute, Bhubaneswar
- First steel slag road – built in Surat by Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel India with CSIR and Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) and NITI Aayog
- First Airline to use indigenous navigation system GAGAN (GPS Aided geo-Augmented Navigation)- IndiGo (ATR-72 Aircraft)
- First AI powered Wargame R&D Centre- To be established- New Delhi (Project WARDEC)
- First AI-powered digital Lok Adalat launched in - Rajasthan
- First graphene innovation centre will be established in- Kerala (Industrial partner- Tata Steel Ltd)
- First mobile biosafety lab inaugurated in- Nashik (ICMR designed it in partnership with Klenzaids)
- First Lavender Festival- Bhaderwah, Jammu and Kashmir (Lavender or Purple Revolution- increasing lavender cultivation)
- First State owned over-the-top (OTT) platform will be launched by- Kerala (on 1 Nov 2022)- CSpace platform
- First Geological Park of India to be built in- Lamheta Village (Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh)
- First public sector corporation for film development in India- Kerala State Film Development Corporation
- First Plastic waste neutral company in India - Dabur
- First of its kind Plastic waste recycling factory established in- Raigad district of Maharashtra
- First organic waste-powered EV charging station - Mumbai
- First vacuum-based sewer system established in- Agra, Uttar Pradesh
- First Green Booth was set up at- AP Sen PG College, Lucknow
- First AICTE Idea Lab inaugurated in – Raipur, Chhattisgarh
- First e-waste eco-park will be built in - New Delhi
- First airport to run entirely on hydro and solar energy- Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi (from 1 June 2022)
- First airport to run entirely on solar power- Cochin International Airport
- First and only air-conditioned railway station- M Visheshwarayya Terminal, Bengaluru
- First grassroots innovation-based standards formulated by- Bureau of Indian Standards
- First Tribal Health observatory to be opened in- Odisha
- First Olympic Values Education Programme (OVEP) was launched in – Odisha
- First Para-badminton academy has been opened in – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
- First service of theme based Bharat Gaurav Train- Coimbatore North to Sainagar Shirdi operated by private service provider “South Star Rail”
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