# 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.
* April – INSAT-1A launched; deactivated in September.
* April 7 - Charan Singh announces retirement from active politics.
* April 25 - Doordarshan begins testing of Color television broadcast in India.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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
* 30 June – Allari Naresh, actor.
* 3 July – Kanika Subramaniam, actress.
* Priyanka Chopra18 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 Sukumaran28 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 December – Pa. Ranjith, film director.
* 10 December – Shiva, actor, comedian, radio jockey, and dialogue writer.
* 14 December – Aadhi Pinisetty, actor.

## 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).