27-12-2017, 04:29 PM
Bengal
*Famous Farakka Barrage is in West Bengal
*Teen Bigha Corridor of India on the West Bengal - Bangladesh border has been leased to Bangladesh for
998 years.
*Garden Reach Ship builders and Engineers Ltd. is in Kolkata
*The famous Indian Museum is situated at Kolkata
*All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health is in Kolkata.
*Kolkata is the headquarters of the Botanical Survey of India.
*Alipore Zoological Garden is situated at Kolkata.
*Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics is at Kolkata.
*Salt Lake Stadium or Yuvabharati Stadium (Kolkata) is the biggest stadium in India.
*Writers Building is the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal.
*Siliguri Corridor is known as ‘Chicken’s Neck’.
*Daijeeling, Siliguri etc. are the famous hill stations of West Bengal.
*The daijeeling himalayan railway is the first hill passenger railway in India (1881).
*Himalayan mountaineering institute is located at darjeeling.
*Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park is located at darjeeling.
*Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden is the largest botanical garden of India which was founded by Col. Robert Kyd in 1787.
*Haldia oil refinery is in West Bengal.
*Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute is in Jadavpur.
First in India
*India’s first Underground Railway System was established in Kolkata.
*India’s first metro train service was established in Kolkata (1984).
*Damodar Valley Project (1948) is India’s first Multi purpose river valley project
*India’s first University, Medical College (1835), Homeopathic College, etc. were established in Kolkata.
*India’s first Telegraph Line (Kolkata to Diamond Harbour) Telephone line etc. were set up in Kolkata.
*The first finger print Bureau of India was established at Kolkata.
*The first post office in India was opened at Kolkata.
*Raniganj is the first coal mine in India.
*India’s first IIT was set up at Kharagpur,
*IIEST (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology) (WB)
