1982 in India

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Events in the year 1982 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy until 25 July, Zail Singh
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham
• Assam – Prakash Mehrotra
• Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
• Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
• Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
• Himachal Pradesh – A. K. Banerjee
• Jammu and Kashmir – B. K. Nehru
• Karnataka – Govind Narain (until 15 April), Ashoknath Banerji (starting 15 April)
• Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam (until 27 October), P. Ramachandran (starting 27 October)
• Madhya Pradesh – B. D. Sharma
• Maharashtra – O. P. Mehra (until 5 March), Idris Hasan Latif (starting 5 March)
• Manipur – S. M. H. Burney
• Meghalaya – Prakash Mehrotra
• Nagaland – S. M. H. Burney
• Odisha –
  • until 24 June: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
  • 25 June-31 August: Ranganath Misra
  • starting 1 September: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
• Punjab – Aminuddin Ahmad Khan (until 21 April), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 21 April)
• Rajasthan – K. D. Sharma (until 6 March), Om Prakash Mehra (starting 6 March)
• Sikkim – Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan
• Tamil Nadu – Sadiq Ali (until 6 September), Sundar Lal Khurana (starting 6 September)
• Tripura – S. M. H. Burney
• Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
• West Bengal – Bhairab Dutt Pande

Events

• National income - ₹1,932,546 million
• March 5 - Gonda Encounter. ^[1]
• April – INSAT-1A launched; deactivated in September.
• April 7 - Charan Singh announces retirement from active politics. ^{[2] [3]}
• April 25 - Doordarshan begins testing of Color television broadcast in India. ^[4]
• April 30 - Bijon Setu massacre seventeen Ananda Margis were set ablaze at Bijon Setu in Dhakuria in south Kolkata. No one has been convicted of the murders. ^{[5] [6]}
• May 29 - Government of India announced setting up of a permanent and integrated Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala (hill, Kannur).
• July 12 – NABARD established through act of Parliament following B. Sivaraman Committee recommendation.
• September 1 - Vypeen alcohol poisonings.
• September 16 - Future Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh becomes Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Sport

• 19 November – 4 December – 9th Asian Games held in Delhi.

Births

• 15 January – Neil Nitin Mukesh, actor.
• 15 February – Meera Jasmine, actress.
• 13 March – Darbuka Siva, percussionist and composer.
• 28 March – Sonia Agarwal, actress.
• 8 April – Allu Arjun, actor.
• 28 April – Koyel Mullick, actress.
• 19 May – R. K. Suresh, actor and producer.
• 24 May – Kanchi Kaul, actress.
• 12 June – Shailaja Pujari, weightlifter ^[7]
• 30 June – Allari Naresh, actor.
• 3 July – Kanika Subramaniam, actress.

• 

  Priyanka Chopra

  18 July – Priyanka Chopra, actress, Miss World 2000.
• 8 August – Fahadh Faasil, actor.
• 28 August – Prasanna, actor.
• 4 September – Gaurav Gogoi, politician.
• 11 September – Shriya Saran, actress,

• 

  Prithviraj Sukumaran

  28 September – Ranbir Kapoor, actor
• 12 October – Hanif Kureshi, artist and designer (d. 2024)
• 16 October – Prithviraj Sukumaran actor,

• 

  Mary Kom

• 21 November – Aarti Chhabria, actress and model.
• 24 November – Mary Kom, boxer ^[8]
• 8 December – Pa. Ranjith, film director.
• 10 December – Shiva, actor, comedian, radio jockey, and dialogue writer.
• 14 December – Aadhi Pinisetty, actor.
• 15 December – Shefali Jariwala, actress and model (d. 2025)

Deaths

• 11 January – Manya Surve, Indian urban dacoit and gangster in the Mumbai underworld (born 1944).
• 3 August – Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (born 1904).
• 2 October – C.D. Deshmukh, Minister of Finance and first Governor of the Reserve bank of India (b.1896)
• 15 November – Vinoba Bhave, freedom fighter and teacher (born 1895).

Full date unknown

• Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet (born 1896).

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1982

References

1. "The long story of one night - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
2. "April 7, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Charan Singh Resigns". The Indian Express. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
3. Kalbag, Chaitnya (19 October 1982). "'Charan Singh symbolises the tragicomedy of the unity moves'". India Today. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
4. Uniyal, Parmita (25 April 2016). "Doordarshan's first colour broadcast started on this day 34 years ago; five shows to remember". India Today. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
5. "Explained: Ananda Magra, a controversial road". 11 December 2014.
6. "Why corpses of a 1982 killing are stirring again". The Indian Express. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
7. "Results". m2002.thecgf.com. Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
8. "Mary Kom - Olympic Boxing | India". International Olympic Committee. 26 June 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2019.