List of National Parks in India for Competitive Exams - PDF Download

Friends.. National parks in India are IUCN category II protected areas and is now a days a common question for all Online Bank and Insurance Exams be it conducted by SBI, IBPS etc. It has been a request from many of you to bring out a PDF on this so that you can easily refer anytime. Hence in this post, we bring you the state wise list of National Parks of India. You can download the PDF list from the below link. 

India's first national park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park, now known as Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand. By 1970, India only had five national parks. In 1972, India enacted the Wildlife Protection Act and Project Tiger to safeguard the habitats of conservation reliant species. At present, a  total of 166 national parks have been authorized. Here is the Complete State Wise List.

Meghalaya

1. Balphakram National Park

2. Nokrek National Park

Madhya Pradesh

1. Bandhavgarh National Park

2. Kanha National Park

3. Madhav National Park

4. Mandla Plant Fossils National Park

5. Panna National Park

6. Pench National Park

7. Sanjay National Park

8. Satpura National Park

9. Van Vihar National Park

Karnataka

1. Bandipur National Park

2. Bannerghatta National Park (Bannerghatta Biological Park)

3. Kudremukh National Park

4. Nagarhole National Park

Jharkhand

1. Betla National Park

2. Hazaribagh National Park

Odisha

1. Bhitarkanika National Park

2. Nandankanan Zoological Park

3. Simlipal National Park

Gujarat

1. Blackbuck National Park, Velavadar

2. Gir Forest National Park

3. Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch

4. Vansda National Park

West Bengal

1. Buxa Tiger Reserve

2. Gorumara National Park

3. Jaldapara National Park

4. Neora Valley National Park

5. Singalila National Park

6. Sundarbans National Park

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

1. Campbell Bay National Park

2. Galathea National Park

3. Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park

4. Middle Button Island National Park

5. Mount Harriet National Park

6. North Button Island National Park

7. Rani Jhansi Marine National Park

8. Saddle Peak National Park

9. South Button Island National Park

Maharashtra

1. Chandoli National Park

2. Gugamal National Park

3. Navegaon National Park

4. Sanjay Gandhi National Park

5. Tadoba National Park

Jammu and Kashmir

1. Dachigam National Park

2. Hemis National Park

3. Kishtwar National Park

4. Salim Ali National Park

Rajasthan

1. Darrah National Park

2. Desert National Park

3. Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary

4. Ranthambore National Park

5. Sariska Tiger Reserve

Assam

1. Dibru-Saikhowa National Park

2. Kaziranga National Park

3. Manas National Park

4. Orang National Park

Uttar Pradesh

1. Dudhwa National Park

Tamil Nadu

1. Guindy National Park

2. Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park

3. Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park

4. Mudumalai National Park

5. Mukurthi National Park

6. Palani Hills National Park

Kerala

1. Eravikulam National Park

2. Mathikettan Shola National Park

3. Periyar National Park

4. Silent Valley National Park

Uttarakhand

1. Gangotri National Park

2. Govind Pashu Vihar Wildlife Sanctuary

3. Jim Corbett National Park

4. Nanda Devi National Park

5. Rajaji National Park

6. Valley of Flowers National Park

Himachal Pradesh

1. Great Himalayan National Park

2. Pin Valley National Park

Punjab

1. Harike Wetland

Chhattisgarh

1. Indravati National Park

2. Kanger Ghati National Park

Haryana

1. Kalesar National Park

2. Sultanpur National Park

Telangana

1. Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park

2. Mahavir Harina Vanasthali National Park

3. Mrugavani National Park

Manipur

1. Keibul Lamjao National Park

2. Sirohi National Park

Rajasthan

1. Keoladeo National Park

Sikkim

1. Khangchendzonga National Park

Goa

1. Mollem National Park

Arunachal Pradesh

1. Mouling National Park

2. Namdapha National Park

3. Nameri National Park

Mizoram

1. Murlen National Park

2. Phawngpui Blue Mountain National Park

Nagaland

1. Ntangki National Park

Andhra Pradesh

1. Papikonda National Park

2. Sri Venkateswara National Park

Bihar

1. Valmiki National Park
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Mars Orbiter Mission: India becomes first country to enter Mars orbit in maiden attempt

>> Creating history, ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) on Wednesday successfully entered the orbit of the red planet. With this, India has become the first nation in the world to have entered the Mars orbit in the first attempt. ISRO's MOM is also the cheapest such mission till now.

>> Indian Space Research Organisation's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft started orbiting the red planet at 7.47am, but it was only 12 minutes later —because of a time delay in radio signals travelling the 680 million km -- that scientists at Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore, could erupt in joy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood a happy witness.

>> The scientists had waited for more than 300 days as MOM journeyed on through space, but the last 54 minutes were virtually unbearable. For, it was during this period that the orbiter first reoriented itself and then fired its engine and thrusters for about 24 minutes to get into the Mars orbit.

>> Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Isro scientists over the success. "MOM never disappoints," he told applauding scientists at the Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore. "India is the first country to get this right in the first attempt," he said.

>> With MOM successfully entering the red planet's orbit, ISRO on Wednesday also launched the MOM's official Twitter handle, @MarsOrbiter.

>> With the success of Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India has joined the United States, European Space Agency and the former Soviet Union in the elite club of Martian explorers.

>> Interestingly, India's MOM is also the world's cheapest inter-planetary mission costing around Rs 450 crores or 74 million USD, which is a tenth of NASA's Mars mission MAVEN that entered the Martian orbit on September 22.

>> It aims to study Mars' surface and mineral composition, and scan its atmosphere for methane with the help of scientific instruments.

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Kudankulam nuclear power plant first in the country to reach full capacity of 1000MW

>> The unit 1 of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (KNPP) has reached full capacity generation of 1000MW on Saturday.

>> The Russian-designed Voda Voda Energo Reactor (VVER) achieved the final milestone nearly eight months after power generated at the plant was connected to the grid.

>> This is the first nuclear power plant in the country to touch 1000MW of power generation.

>. "At exactly 1.20pm on Saturday, power generation in the unit 1 of the plant touched 1000MW. The unit will continue to generate 1000MW for nearly a day. Subsequently, we will scale down generation to 900MW as per the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) stipulations," site director R S Sundar said.

>> In the coming days, the unit 1 will generate less than 1000MW and after some dynamic tests are conducted, the plant will apply for permission from the AERB to maintain the power generation at 1000MW.

>>  "The formal commissioning will be decided by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) authorities after we maintain the generation at 1000MW continuously for a specified period," said Sundar.

>> The final milestone should have been reached a few days earlier but for the shutdown in unit 1 due to some technical problems. For nearly 10 days the unit was not generating power and it was re-started only on June 4.

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First in India Female Personalities | Women's Day Special

Today (08 March 2014) is Intrenational Women's Day. Know about First in India(Women)

>> The first woman president of India:            Smt. Pratibha Patil

>> 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(1925)

>> The first woman Prime Minister: Mrs. Indira Gandhi

>> The first woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachhendri Pal

>> The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice: Santosh Yadav

>> The first woman President of the Indian National Congress: Mrs. Annie Besant

>> The first woman chief justice of a High Court: Mrs. Leela Seth

>> The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force : Harita Kaur Dayal

>> The first woman President of the 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 (DGP): Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

>> The first woman Lieutenent General: Puneeta Arora

>> The first woman Air Vice Marshal: P. Bandopadhyaya

>> The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines: Sushma Chawla

>> The first woman I.P.S. Officer: Mrs. Kiran Bedi

>> The first and the last Muslim woman ruler of Delhi: Razia Sultan

>> The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra: Nirja Bhanot

>> 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 get Ashok Chakra: Nirja Mishra

>> The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award: Ashapurna Devi

>> First Indian woman to swim across the English Channel: Miss Arati Saha

>> First Indian woman to win WTA Title: Sania Mirza

>> First Indian woman Airline Pilot: Durga Banerjee

>> First Indian woman to win a Gold Medal in Asian Games: Kamaljeet Sandhu

>> First Indian woman to win the Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy

>> First Indian woman to go into space: Kalpana Chawla

>> First Indian Woman Minister of Indian Railways: Mamata Banerjee

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Country's first Post Office Savings Bank ATM opened in Chennai

>> The country's first Post Office Savings Bank ATM was inaugurated in Chennai on Thursday by Finance Minister P Chidambaram as part of the government's Rs 4,909 crore IT modernisation scheme for the Department of Posts.

>> After launching the ATM service at Thiyagaraya Nagar Head Post Office (HPO), Chidambaram said that Rs 4,909 crore had been allocated for the IT modernisation of Department of Posts in the interim budget for 2014-15. "The IT modernisation scheme is aimed at making Department of Posts a completely technology-oriented one and today's initiative is a step in that regard," he said.

>> The IT modernisation scheme would cover 1.55 lakh Post offices and would be implemented by next year, he added. Speaking about the newly launched ATM service at the HPO, Chidambaram said that while it will initially operate in a closed environment for about six months, it will later change to 'inter-operability,' on the lines of bank ATMs, allowing customers to withdraw money from any ATM.

>> About Department of Posts, Chidambaram said that while questions were being raised about its future, especially in the wake of dip in use of letters and postcards, it was adopting new strategies and was therefore on the growth path.

>>  Still a large number of people believe that Department of Posts is the best in courier and parcel delivery areas, he added. An official release said the T Nagar HPO ATM is the first in the country and "four more ATMs are ready for operations" in Delhi and Mumbai. "It is proposed to install 1,000 ATMs across the country in 2014.

>> Another 1,800 ATMs will be added in 2015," it said. It added that Rs 700 crore has been earmarked for implementing Core Banking Solution (CBS) for Post office Savings Bank.

>> As on date, 51 HPOs and 11 Sub-post offices have "migrated" covering 64 lakh accounts. By March 31, 2014, a total of 700 more post offices will be covered and all 26,840 post offices will be functional under CBS in another two years, it said.

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First in India - Download List as PDF

First in India....

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1) President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad

2) Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

3) Governor-General of Independent India—Lord Lewis Mountbatten

4) Indian Governor-General of Independent India—Chakravarti  Rajgopalachari

5) Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India —General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949

6) Field Marshall—General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw

7) Speaker of Loksabha—Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).

8) Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

9) Home Minister—Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

10) Finance Minister of India—R. K. Shanmukham Chetty

11) Auditor General of India—V. Narahari Rao

12) Director of CBI— DP Kohli

13) National Security Adviser— Brijesh Mishra

14) Governor of RBI— Sir Osborne Smith

15) Non-Congress Prime-Minister— Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.

16) British Governor-General of Bengal—Warren-Hastings

17) Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma

18) Civil Servant—Satendra Nath Tagore

19) Woman IAS Officer—Anna Ranjan George, 1950

20) Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming—Mihir Sen

21) Woman to swim across the English Channel—Arati Saha, 1959

22) Raman-Magsaysay awardee—Acharya Vinoba Bhave

23) Nobel prize winner—Rabindra Nath Tagore

24) Nobel Prize in Physics—C. V. Raman in 1930

25) President of National Congress—Wyomesh Chand Banerjee

26) Chairman of Lok Sabha—G. B. Mavlankar

27) First Woman Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani

28) Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009

29) Chief Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen

30) Indian Chairman in International Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh

31) Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna—Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

32) Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission—Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim

33) Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya

34) Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman

35) Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’— Indira Gandhi

36) Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters— Mrinal Sen

37) Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter—Sivaji Ganeshan

38) Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee—Lal Bahadur Shastri

39) Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)

40) Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—Ashapurna Devi, 1976

41) Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner—Amrita Pritam, 1956

42) Woman Honours Graduate—Kamini Roy

43) Woman Director General of Police—Kanchan C Bhattacharya

44) Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart—Dr. P. Venugopal

45) Woman to receive Nobel Prize— Mother Teresa

46) Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu

47) Licensed Pilot— J R D Tata

48) Woman Air Pilot—Durba Banerjee

49) Woman Teacher—Savitribai Phule

50) Successful heart transplanted person—Devi Ram (1994)

51) President of National Human Rights Commission—Justice Rangnath Mishra

52) Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar—Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)

53) Indian who won the World Billiard award—Wilson Jans

54) Indian who won the Grammy award—Pt. Ravi Shankar

55) Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.— Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)Dada Bhai Naoroji

56) Indian member in British House of Commons— Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)

56) First President of Indian Science Congress—Sir Asutosh Mukherjee

57) Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times—Sherpa-Augarita

58) Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’—Ramvilas Sharma

59) Indian Managing Director of World Bank—Gautam Kazi

60) Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu

61) Actress to win Padma Shri Award—Nargis Dutt, 1958

62) Indian players played Davis Cup—M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921)

63) Tennis Grandslam title winner—Mahesh Bhupati

64) Indian player who played the test cricket—K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)

65) Scientist elected for Lok Sabha—Dr. Meghnad Saha

66) Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award—Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)

67) Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar—C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)

68) Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain—V. K. Krishna-Menon

69) Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize—Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)

70) First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament—Lal Mohan Ghose

71) Woman Graduates—Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

72) Woman Chief Justice of High Court—Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991

73) An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period—Ram Prasad Ram

74) Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council—Sir. S. P. SinhaMorarji Desai

75) Leanin Peace Prize— Saifuddin Kitchlew

76) Chairman of Finance Commission—K. C. Niogi

77) Woman Doctorate of Science—Asima Chatterjee (1944)

78) Woman IPS—Kiran Bedi

79) Woman Supreme Court judge—Kumari Fathima Beevi

80) Indian member of American Congress—Deleep Singh

81) Editor of Time Magazine—Bobby Ghosh

82) Director of CBI becoming Governor—Ashwani Kumar

83) Person to reach the North Pole—Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar

84) Person to reach the South Pole—Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj

85) Nishan-e-Pakistan Award—Morarji Desai, 1990

86) Magsaysay Award—Vinoba Bhave, 1958 Sushmita Sen

87) Miss World—Reita Faria in 1966

88) Miss Asia Pacific—Zeenat Aman in 1970

89) Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen in 1994

90) Miss Earth—Nicole Faria in 2010

91) Place to get electricity—Darjeeling in 1897

92) Sound film—Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani

93) Colour film—Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani

94) Oscar winner—Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.

95) Dadasaheb Phalke Award—Devika Rani in 1969

96) Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters—Sivaji Ganesan

97) Test-tube baby—Durga Agarwal, born 1978

98) Newspaper—Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760Tenzing Norgay

99) First Lady Doctor—Anandibai Joshi

100) Satellite—Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975

101) Man to climb Mt Everest—Tenzing Norgay

102) Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen—Phu Dorjee, 1984

103) Woman to climb Mt everest—Bachendri Pal

104) District to achieve 100% literacy rate—Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990

105) Captain in Tests—C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England

106) ODI captain—Ajit Wadekar

107) Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket—Harbhajan Singh

108) Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket—Virendra Sehwag

109) First Marshal of Indian Air Force—Arjan Singh

110) Individual Medal in Olympic games—KD Jadhav

111) Grandmaster— Viswanathan Anad

112) Woman Grandmaster—Koneru Humpy

113) First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games—Abhinav Bindra

114) First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games—Vijendra Kumar

115) Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge—Srinivasa Ramanujan

116) Fellow of the Royal Society—Ardaseer Cursetjee

117) Post Office- Kolkata(1727)

118) University- Nalanda University

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