List of Bird Sanctuaries in India
List of Bird Sanctuaries in India
List of Bird Sanctuaries in India
UPSC Civil Services Examination is a prestigious and challenging examination in India. The
General studies paper I for prelims examination includes subjects such as Polity, Geography,
Environment, Economics, History, General Science, and Ecology, among other current affairs.
Geography is the study of human beings, their environment, and the interface between the two.
Bird sanctuaries in India are a segment in Indian Geography/environment and ecology.
There are almost 1200 species of birds that can be found in the bird sanctuaries listed below.
It is very important to know about major bird sanctuaries in India for the IAS Exam. In this article,
you can get a list of bird sanctuaries in India state wise which will be useful for the UPSC IAS
Exam.
Bird Sanctuaries is an important static GK topic. For information on other static GK topics check the
article linked here.
List of Bird Sanctuaries in India:-Download PDF Here
The list of state-wise bird sanctuaries in India is given below:
Thol Lake
Haryana Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary
Pathiramanal
Okhla Sanctuary
Saman Sanctuary
Samaspur Sanctuary
First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director-general of programmes (DDP) of Dr. Soumya
the World Health Organization (WHO) Swaminathan
Defence
The below Table gives the list of People who held Important Positions in the Indian Defense Sector
First Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft without co-pilot IAF Officer Avani Chaturvedi
First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ Divya Ajith Kumar
prize
Sports
The Below Table gives the list of important achievements in the field of sports, predominantly at the
Olympics
First Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian gold medal Navjot Kaur
First female to represent India at the Summer Olympics Nora Polley, 1924 Summer Olympics
First Individual Gold Medal won by Abhinav Bindra, 2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
First Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling Sakshi Malik Bronze in the 2016 Summer
Olympics
Architecture
The below table gives information on Indian Architecture
First Indian temple with many interconnected structures Brihadeeswarar Temple, Tamil Nadu
India’s First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record P.V.Narasimha Rao
maximum number of votes
The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India Razia Sultan
The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free C. Rajgopalachari
India
The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Services Satyendra Nath Tagore
The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first man who introduced printing press in India James Hicky
The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Hargovind Khurana
Medicine
The first person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma
The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen Sherpa Anga Dorjee
The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The first President of India who died while in office Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first President of Indian National Congress W.C. Banerjee
The first Prime Minister of free India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Charan Singh
Parliament
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without Morarji Desai
completing the full term
The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner Kamlijit Sandhu
The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Roze Millian Bethew
Commission
The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High
Court)
The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
The first woman Governor of a state in free India Mrs Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Graduates Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi
Basu, 1883
The first woman Judge Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district
court in 1937)
The first woman judge in Supreme Court Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal
The first woman President of Indian National Congress Mrs Annie Besant
The first woman President of United Nations General Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
Assembly
BRICS Economic Growth for an Innovative Future’. 11th BRICS Summit 2019-
Brasilia
G-7 “fighting income and gender inequality and 45th G7 Summit 2019 – Biarritz,
protecting biodiversity” France
Indian Science “Future India: Science and Technology” 106th Indian Science Congress –
Congress Lovely Professional University,
Phagwara, Punjab.
Asia Pacific “Connecting People, Building the Future” APEC Summit 2019 – Santiago,
Economic Chile
Cooperation
Nuclear Security “Towards New National Cyber Security 12th NSS 2019 – New Delhi
Summit Strategy”
Earth Hour “Reduce, Reuse, Change the Way We Live” Global earth hour 2019- Australia
NAM Summit 2019 “Upholding the Bandung Principles to ensure 18th NAM summit 2019 was held
concerted and adequate response to the in Caracas, Venezuela.
challenges of the contemporary world”.
Indo-Africa Summit “India and Africa: Deepening the Security 4th Indo-Africa Forum Summit
Engagement” 2018 – New Delhi. This Summit is
held in every 3 years
HEMCE- High “Exploring the innate inclusive potentials of 12th High Energy
Energy Materials high energy materials” Materials Conference 2019 – IIT
Society of India Madras, Chennai, India.