Where was India’s first Export Processing Zone (EPZ) established in 1965 ?
Kandla
India set up its first Export Processing Zone at Kandla in the Kutch district of Gujarat in 1965. It was also the first such zone anywhere in Asia.
Kandla was chosen because it already had a major port built after Partition to replace Karachi, so exporters had ready sea access. The zone offered duty-free import of inputs and a single-window clearance so that units could manufacture purely for export.
Of the other places named, Mormugao and Cochin are ports and Cochin received an EPZ only later, in 1984, while Mundra developed as a private port and SEZ decades afterwards.
Hence, the answer is Kandla.
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