Worlds Records Held by India

Worlds Records Held by India

India holds a prestigious place in the world with the world records:

• Trade and Industry

1. Largest exported of tea (over 23, 00,000 MT per year)
2. Largest manufacturer of cycles (Hero cycle)
3. Largest exporter of out diamonds (world’s 68%, cut diamonds come from India)
4. In 1989-90, India became the largest producer of sugar by achieving a production of 85 lakh tones
5. India tops the world in film production
6. Reliance Group of companies in India has more number of shareholders than any other company in the world
7. Brooke Bond Lipton India Ltd. is the world’s largest tea manufacturing company
8. State Bank of India has the maximum number of branches
9. India Railways is the world’s largest employer

• Agriculture/natural resources

1. Largest producer of millet in the world
2. Largest producer of tea
3. Leads in the world in irrigated area (56 million hectares)
4. Leads in the world in cattle population
5. Largest producer of Cardamom: Kerala produce 60% of the total world production
6. Largest exporter of spices
7. Largest turmeric production, 76%
8. Highest yield of potato 46 ,797 kg/ha
9. Largest grower of pulses, 23%
10. Largest ginger production 64%
11. Productivity of grapes 22 tonnes/ha
12. Highest rice yield 17,862 kg/ha

• Building/roads/bridges

1. Khardungla Road at Leh Manali sector is the world’s highest road (5,602 m above sea level)
2. All India Radio, Leh, is the world’s highest ratio station
3. QutabM inar is the world’s tallest minaret
4. Mahatma Gandhi Setu (over the Ganga at Patna) is the world’s longest river bridge
5. Kharagpur Railways Platform is the world’s longest railways platform (833 m)
6. Farakka River Barrage (Kolkata) is the world’s largest river barrage
7. Yuba Bharti Stadium. Kolkata, is the world’s largest covered stadium
8. First hospital on wheels in the world—Jeevan Rekha (Life Line) express

• Miscellaneous

1. The Ganges and Brahmaputra Delta (Sunderbans) form the world’s (7,500 sq km) largest Delta.
2. Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has emerged as the world’s largest Open University.
3. India has the largest deposits of mica in the world and contributes about two-thirds of world’s production.
4. South Point High School, Kolkata is the world’s largest school
5. India has the world’s largest reserves, (approximately one-fourth of the world’s known reserves) of iron.
6. World’s highest post office at Spiti Valley in HP (15000 ft height)

• Individual achievements

1. Mrs Shakuntala Devi holds the world’s record of fasted computing— faster than a computer.
2. Dr Rajinder Singh of Himachal Pradesh holds the world record of accurate and fasted typing (96.8 words per minute, 1988)
3. Shambhoo Anbhawane holds the world record for marathon typing (Non-stop typing) –123 hours in 1986.
4. Dr M C Modi holds the world’s record for performing maximum eye operation @ 40 operations per hour.
5. Mihir Sen of Kolkata holds the world record for long distance swimming.
6. Capt Durba Bannerjee is the world’s first woman air pilot holding the record of maximum flying hours.
7. Lata Mangeshkar holds the world record for maximum number of song recordings.
8. Di cky Dolma from Manali holds the world record as the youngest Mount Everest climber at the age of 19.
9. Ms Santosh Yadav holds the record to climb Mount Everest twice (among women).