World Records from India - III

Largest Ginger Producer
2.35 lakhs tonnes

Largest Mint Oil Producer
12,000 tonnes of mint oil and exported 8,000 tonnes

Largest Suger producer
80 lakh tonnes of sugar in 1999-2000

Largest Tea producer
8,16,060 tonnes in 1999-2000

Largest production of Jute & Allied Fibres
20.9 lakh tonnes India contributed 62.8% of global

Pedal-Operated Rice Mill
Suredranath Singh of Manipur Science & Technological Council, imphal developed a pedal-operated rice mill with an output capacity of 10 kg/hr in August.

Largest Cattle Plague
India shares 15.7% or 20.9 crore cattle head out of a 133.4-crore population world over

Largest Buffalo Population
India shares 9.2 crore or 55.1% of the total buffalo heads globally

Largest producer of milk Products
India is the largest producer of milk products with production of milk powder alone touching 1,75,000 tonnes per year

Highest Motorable Road
Khardung-la road in theLeh-Manali sectored was constructed by the Border Roads organisation at an altitude of 5,682 m (18,383 ft)

Highest Filling Station
The filling station at Kaza, Spiti Valley, is situated at 13,500 ft. The Indian Oil Corporation also operated a petrol pump at leh, Ladhak, at 12,000 ft.

Largest Bus Terminus
Imlibun bus terminus of APSRTC at Hyderabad was inaugrated on Augest 11,1994.

First 4-stroke scooter
Legend, a four-stroke 150 cc 9 hp scooter from Bajaj Auto Ltd, pune, was launched on July 25, 1998

Largest Employer
Indian Railway employs 15.78 lakh people, the largest by any single organisation.

Highest Passenger Earnings
The Mumbai suburban railway system carries 59 lakh passengers a day, the higest in the world when compared to track length. About 1,077 suburban trains run every day on a track length of just 288 km.

Longest Covered Platform
Two of the platform at Sealdah station, Calcutta-1,000 ft each in length and over 28 ft in width-have 550 ft long covering sheds over six lines of rail.

Longest Platform
The railway platform at Kharagpur in West Bengal is 833 m (2,733 ft) long