SCHEDULES IN CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

FOLLOWINGS ARE THE SCHEDULES IN CONSTITUTION OF INDIA ARE:

First Schedule	Ø List of States & Union Territories
Second Schedule	Ø Salary of President, Governors, Chief Judges, Judges of High Court and Supreme court, Comptroller and Auditor General
Third Schedule	Ø Forms of Oaths and affirmations
Fourth Schedule	Ø Allocate seats for each state of India in Rajya Sabha
Fifth Schedule	Ø Administration and control of scheduled areas and tribes
Sixth Schedule	Ø Provisions for administration of Tribal Area in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram & Arunachal Pradesh
Seventh Schedule	Ø Gives allocation of powers and functions between Union & States. It contains 3 lists Ø Union List (For central Govt) Ø States List (Powers of State Govt) Ø Concurrent List (Both Union & States)
Eighth Schedule	Ø List of 22 languages of India recognized by Constitution Ø 1. Assamese  Ø  2. Bengali      Ø 3. Gujarati Ø 4. Hindi  Ø 5. Kannada   Ø 6. Kashmiri Ø 7. Manipuri  Ø 8. Malayalam   Ø 9. Konkani Ø 10. Marathi  Ø 11. Nepali  Ø 12. Oriya Ø 13. Punjabi  Ø 14. Sanskrit  Ø 15. Sindhi Ø 16. Tamil  Ø 17. Telugu Ø 18. Urdu Ø 19. Santhali  Ø 20. Bodo Ø 21. Maithili Ø 22. Dogri Ø Sindhi was added in 1967 by 21 Amendment Ø Konkani, Manipuri ad Nepali were added in 1992 by 71 amendment Santhali, Maithili, Bodo and Dogri were added in 2003 by 92 amendment
Ninth Schedule	Ø Added by Ist amendment in 1951. Contains acts & orders related to land tenure, land tax, railways, and industries.
Tenth Schedule	Ø Added by 52nd amendment in 1985. Contains provisions of disqualification of grounds of defection
Eleventh Schedule	Ø By 73rd amendment in 1992. Contains provisions of Panchayati Raj.
Twelfth Schedule	Ø By 74th amendment in 1992. Contains provisions of Municipal Corporation.

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LIST OF FIRST IN INDIA

1.      First Atomic Submarine of India - I.N.S Chakra

2.      First British to visit India - Hawkins

3.      First election commissioner of India - Sukumar Sen.

4.      India's First nuclear centre - Tarapur

5.      First foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

6.      First Post Office opened in India - Kolkata in 1727

7.      First deputy Prime Minister of India - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

8.      First Space Tourist of India - Santosh George

9.      First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship - I.N.S. Vikrant

10.  First Indian who reached South Pole - Col. I K Bajaj

11.  First Indian who won Billiards Trophy - Wilson Jones

12.  First Indian Prime Minister who resigned from Office - Moraji Desai

13.  First Indian recipient of Oscar Award - Bhanu Athaiya

14.  First Indian Missile - Prithvi

15.  First Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore

16.  First Scientist of India to get Nobel Prize in Economics - Dr. Amartya Sen

17.  Name of the first person to get Paramvir Chakra - Major Somnath Sharma

18.  First Indian to go into space - Rakesh Sharma

19.  First speaker of Lok Sabha - G.V. Mavlankar from 1952-1957

20.  First president of Indian National Congress - W.C. Banerjee

21.  India's first woman president - Smt. Pratibha Patil

22.  First woman governor of India - Sarojini Naidu

23.  First Indian woman ruler - Razia Sultan on Delhi's throne

24.  First Indian woman to get noble prize - Mother Teresa in 1979

25.  First woman judge of Supreme Court of India - Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi

26.  India's first woman IPS officer - Kiran Bedi

27.  India’s first Governor-General of Independent in India – Lord Lewis Mountbatten

28.  India’s first Governor of RBI – Sir Osborne Smith

29.  India’s first sportsperson to receive Bharat Ratna – Sachin Tendulkar

30.  India’s first swimmer who crossed over the English Channel by swimming – Mihir Sen

31.  India’s first Woman Air Pilot – Durba Banerjee

32.  India’s first person who delivered the lecture in Hindi in UNO – Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)

33.  Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 Times – Sherpa-Augarita

34.  Indian player who played the test cricket – K.S.Ranjeet Singh

35.  Actress to win Padma Shri Award – Nargis Dutt, 1958

36.  India’s first Newspaper – Hickey’s Bengal Gazette started in 1760

37.  First Indian who individually won the Gold Medal in Olympic Games – Abhinav Bindra

38.  First Indian who won the bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic Games – Vijendra Kumar

39.  Internet came to India in – August 15, 1955 (provided by BSNL)

40.  India’s first newsprint factory was set up at – Nepanagar (MP)

41.  Broadcasting started in India - 1927

42.  All India Radio established – 1936

43.  Railways started – April 16, 1853

44.  First Satellite Launched – 19 April, 1975

45.  First Indian Woman to reach in Olympic Games - Sini Abrahim

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