1958 in India

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Events in the year 1958 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Rajendra Prasad
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Chief Justice of India – Sudhi Ranjan Das

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar
• Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
• Bihar – Zakir Hussain
• Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
• Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
• Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
• Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
• Odisha – Bhim Sen Sachar
• Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (until 15 September), Narahar Vishnu Gadgil (starting 15 September)
• Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

• National income - ₹152,835 million
• 1 January - DRDO was established
• 18 February – Finance minister of India T. T. Krishnamachari resigns following M. C. Chagla Commission report on Haridas Mundhra LIC scandal. ^[1]
• 28 February – Jawaharlal Nehru presents Union budget of India as Finance Minister.
• 26 March - Mother India becomes the first ever Cinema of India to get nominated in the Academy Awards. ^[2]
• 29 April - Food poisoning caused by leakage of Folidol during transportation kills 74 in a Lok Sahayak Sena camp at Sasthamkotta, Kerala. ^[3]
• 18 to 20 May – The 16th Session of Indian Labour Congress was held at New Delhi.
• Vimochana Samaram against First Namboodiripad ministry in Kerala
• Unknown date – Reliance Industries was founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in Bombay (present day in Mumbai), as predecessor name was Reliance Commercial Corporation.^{[ citation needed ]}

Law

• 22 May – Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Ordinance came into force
• 11 September – The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 is passed by the Parliament.
• 1 October – The Standards of Weights and Measures Act took effect.

Sport

• Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.
• Milkha Singh (field athletics player) had won the gold medal

Births

• 5 March – Nassar, actor, producer, writer, director, lyricist and singer.
• 29 April – Saumen Guha, political activist, human rights campaigner and author.
• 30 May – K. S. Ravikumar, film director and actor.
• 15 August – Raj Kapoor (Tamil director), film director and actor.
• 16 August – R. R. Patil, politician (died 2015)
• 19 September – Lucky Ali, singer, composer and actor
• 2 December – Lal (actor), actor, director, screenwriter, producer and distributor.
• 17 December – Jayasudha, actress.

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1958

References

1. Subramanian, Samanth (9 May 2012). "Long View: India's Very First Corruption Scandal". India Ink. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
2. Reuben, Bunny. "'Mother India' at the Oscars: 'The audience laughed with the characters and cried with them'". Scroll.in. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
3. "STATEMENT RE DEATHS IN LOK SAHAYAK SENA CAMP AT SASTHAMKOTTA FROM SUSPECTED FOOD-POISONING". rsdebate.nic.in. 6 May 1958.