WORLD RECORDS HELD BY INDIA:
India holds a prestigious place in the world with the world records:
Trade and Industry:
1. Largest exporter of tea (over 2,300,000 MT per year).
2. Largest manufacturer of cycles (Hero cycle).
3. Largest exporter of cut 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 tonnes.
5. India tops the world in film production.
6. Reliance Group of companies in India has more number
of shareholders (around 40 lakh 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
(around 14,677 branches—2013).
9. Indian Railways is the world’s largest employer (over
1.3 million employees in 2013).
10. In 1989 to 1990 India became the largest producer of
sugar by producing 85 Lakh tonnes.
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 produces 60% of the total world production.
6. Largest exporter of spices.
7. Largest turmeric production, around 76%.
8. Highest yield of potato 46,797 kg/ha.
9. Largest ginger production around 64%.
10. Largest sugarcane production.
11. Largest grower of pulses, 23%.
12. Productivity of grapes 22 tonnes/ha.
13. Highest rice yield 17,862 kg/ha.
14. Largest producer of milk (132.4 million tonnes per year).
15. Largest producer of mangoes (16.33 million tonnes which is approximately 42% of world’s production).
Buildings,Roads and Bridges:
1. Khardungla Road at Leh Manali sector is the world’s motorable highest road (5602 m above sea level).
2. All India Radio, Leh, is the world’s highest radio station.
3. Qutab Minar is the world’s tallest minaret of earlier centuries.
4. Mahatma Gandhi Setu is the second longest river bridge in the world (over the Ganges connecting Patna in the south to Hajipur in the north of Bihar).
5. Gorakhpur railway station, Uttar Pradesh, India is 1,366.33 m (4,483 ft) longest in the world.
6. Yuba Bharati Stadium. Kolkata, is the largest stadium in India by seating capacity.
7. First hospital on wheels in the world–Jeevan Rekha (Life Line) express.
Miscellaneous:
1. The Ganges and Brahmaputra Delta (Sunderbans) is the world’s (7500 sq km) largest Delta.
2. Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has emerged as the world’s largest open university with over 3 million students in 2014.
3. India has the world’s largest reserves (approximately one-fourth of the world’s known reserves) of iron.
4. India has the largest deposits of mica in the world and contributes about two-third of world’s production.
5. As per Guinness Book of World Records, the City Montessori School in Lucknow, is the world’s largest school with over 39,437 pupils and 2,500 teachers.
6. World’s highest post office at Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh (15,000 ft height).
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