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Indian Navy Head Quaters
| S.No. | Command | Headquarter |
| 1 | Eastern command | Vishakhapatnam |
| 2 | Southern command | Kochi |
| 3 | Western command | Mumbai |
Indian Air Force Head Quaters
| S.No. | Command | Headquarter |
| 1 | Western command | New Delhi |
| 2 | Central command | Allahabad |
| 3 | Eastern command | Shillong |
| 4 | South western command | Jodhpur |
| 5 | Training command | Bangaluru |
| 6 | Maintenance command | Nagpur |
| 7 | Southern command | Thiruvananthapuram |
Indian Army Head Quaters
| S.No. | Command | Headquarter |
| 1 | Western command | Chandigarh |
| 2 | Eastern command | Kolkata |
| 3 | Northern command | 56 APO |
| 4 | Southern command | Pune |
| 5 | Central command | Lucknow |
| 6 | Army Training Command | Shimla |
| 7 | South Western Command | Jaipur |
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
About Indian Coast Guard
The Coast Guard is headed by a Director General. It headquarters is based in the Capital, New Delhi.
It has
It has
- 3 Regional headquarters at Mumbai, Chennai and Port Blair
- 1 District Headquarters in each of the nine coastal states and 2 in the Union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep Islands.
- 4 Coast Guard Stations, one each at Vadinar, Okha, Tuticorin and Mandapam.
- It also has aerodromes in Daman and Chennai
- Air Enclaves at Goa, Kolkata and Port Blair.
About Indian Defense
- The President of India is the supreme commander of the Indian defence system
- The whole administrative control of the Armed forces lies in the Ministry of Defence
- The Defence Minister (Raksha Mantri) is responsible to Parliament for all matters concerning defence of the country.
- Indian defence system has been divided into three services-
1. Army
2. Navy
3. Air Force
Organisation
The Principal task of the Ministry of Defence is to obtain policy directions of the Government on all defence and security related matters and communicate them for implementation to the Serivce Headquarters, Inter-Service Organisations, Production Establishments and Research an Development Organisations. It is also required to ensure effective implementation of the Government's policy directions and the execution of approved programmes within the allocated resources.
First in India (Female)
| The first lady to become Miss World | Rita Faria |
| The first woman judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| The first woman Ambassador | Miss C.B. Muthamma |
| The first woman Governor of a state in free India | Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
| The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Shanno Devi |
| The first woman Prime Minister | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| The first woman Minister in a Government | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| The first woman to climb Mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| The first woman President of Indian National Congress | Mrs Annie Besant |
| The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| The first woman Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
| The first woman Airline Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| The first woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy, 1886 |
| The first woman Olympic medal Winner | Karnam Malleswari, 2000 |
| The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner | Kamlijit Sandhu |
| The first woman Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly | Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
| The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Mrs Sucheta Kripalani |
| The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission | Roze Millian Bethew |
| The first woman Director General of Police | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
| The first woman Judge | Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937) |
| The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court | Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
| The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India | Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi |
| The first woman Lieutenant General | Puneeta Arora |
| The first woman Air Vice Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines | Sushma Chawla |
| The first woman IPS officer | Mrs. Kiran Bedi |
| The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India | Razia Sultan |
| The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra | Nirja Bhanot |
| The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashapurna Devi |
| The first woman to cross English Channel | Aarti Saha |
| The first woman to receive Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashpurna Devi |
First in India (Male)
Following are first in India happenings
Male
| The first President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| The first Prime Minister of free India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| The first Indian to win Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| The first President of Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjee |
| The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayyabji |
| The first Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| The first British Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) |
| The first British Governor General of Bengal | Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885) |
| The first British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| The first Governor General of free India | Lord Mountbatten |
| The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India | C. Rajgopalachari |
| The first man who introduced printing press in India | James Hicky |
| The first Indian to join the I.C.S | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| India�s first man in Space | Rakesh Sharma |
| The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term | Morarji Desai |
| The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| The first Chief of Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| The first Indian Member of the Viceroy�s executive council | S.P.Sinha |
| The first President of India who died while in office | Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
| The first Muslim President of Indian Republic | Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
| The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament | Charan Singh |
| The first Field Marshal of India | S.H.F. Manekshaw |
| The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V.Raman |
| The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| The first Indian to cross English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| The first Person to receive Jnanpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar |
| The first Vice-President of India | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| The first Education Minister | Abdul Kalam Azad |
| The first Home minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| The first Indian Air Chief Marshal | S. Mukherjee |
| The first Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
| The first Judge of International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| The first person to get Param Vir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| The first Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| The first person to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargovind Khurana |
| The first Chinese traveller to visit India | Fahein |
| The first person to receive Stalin Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlu |
| The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
| The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
| The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hirala J. Kania |
| The first Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata (1929) |
Constitution of India and Polity
The present constitution of India was framed by the Constitution Assembly of India setup under Cabinet Mission Plan of May 16, 1946.
Composition of Constituent Assembly:-
- The Constituent Assembly consisted of 385 members, of which 292 were elected by he elected members of the Provincial Legislative Assemblies while 93 members were nominated by the Princely States. To these were to be added a representative each from the four Chief Commissioners Provinces of Delhi, Ajmer-Marwar, Coorg and British Baluchistan.
- Each Province and each Indian State or group of States were allotted the total number of seas proportional to their respective population roughly in the ration of one to a million.
- B N Rao was appointed the Constitutional Advisor of the Assembly.
- The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly took place of Dec 9, 1946 with Dr. Sachidanand Sinha as its interim President. Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected as its President n Dec 11, 1947.
- The Assembly framing the Constitution.had 13 Committees.
- The all-important Drafting Committee, which bore the responsibility of drafting the Constitutional document during the recess of the Constitutent Assembly, from July 1947 to September 1948, was formed on August 29, 1947. Its members were:
- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
- N. Gopalaswami Ayyar
- K.M. Munshi
- Syyed Mohd. Saadulla
- N.Madhav Rao
- D.P.Khaitan (T Krishnamachari, after Kahitan�s Death in 1948)
- It was finally passed and accepted on Nov 26, 1949. The session of the Assembly was held on Jan 24, 1950, which unanimously elected Dr, Rajendra Prasad as the President of India. In all the 284 members of the Assembly signed the official copies of the Indian Constitution which came into effect on Jan 26, 1950, known and celebrated as the Republic Day of India.
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