# 1981 in India

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Events in the year 1981 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents

* President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
* 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 – L. P. Singh (until 10 August), Prakash Mehrotra (starting 10 August)
* Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
* Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
* Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
* Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan (until 26 August), A. K. Banerjee (starting 26 August)
* Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha (until 22 February), B. K. Nehru (starting 22 February)
* Karnataka – Govind Narain
* Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
* Madhya Pradesh –
** until 25 May: B. D. Sharma
** 25 May-9 July: G. P. Singh
** starting 9 July: B. D. Sharma
* Maharashtra – O. P. Mehra
* Manipur – L.P. Singh (until 18 August), S. M. H. Burney (starting 18 August)
* Meghalaya – L.P. Singh (until 11 August), Prakash Mehrotra (starting 11 August)
* Nagaland – L.P. Singh (until 11 August), S. M. H. Burney (starting 11 August)
* Odisha – Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
* Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi (until 26 August), Aminuddin Ahmad Khan (starting 26 August)
* Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak (until 8 August), K. D. Sharma (starting 8 August)
* Sikkim – B. B. Lal (until 9 January), Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan (starting 10 January)
* Tamil Nadu – Sadiq Ali
* Tripura – L. P. Singh (until 18 August), S. M. H. Burney (starting 18 August)
* Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
* West Bengal – Tribhuvana Narayana Singh (until 12 September), Bhairab Dutt Pande (starting 12 August)

## Events

* National income - ₹1,727,755 million
* April 30 - Nearly 48 killed in Bihar Sharif due to communal riots between Yadavs and Muslims.
* July – About 308 people die in Bangalore after drinking illicit liquor (see: 1981 Karnataka liquor deaths).
* Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic is founded in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. It is a Government aided co-educational technical institute.
* National Aluminium Company incorporated as a public sector enterprise of the Government of India.
* 2 July – Infosys is founded in Pune.
* 4 December - Around 45 people got killed due to a stampede at Qutb Minar resulting in closure of Minaret for tourists.

## Births

* 3 January – Sanggai Chanu, field hockey player.
* 28 January – Karunakaran (actor), actor and comedian.
* 25 February – Anuj Sawhney, actor and model.
* Saroo Brierley, writer
* 9 June – Celina Jaitley, actress.
* 17 June – Amrita Rao, model and actress.
* 19 June – Gulzar Khan, philosopher and mathematician.
* 7 July – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, cricketer.
* 3 August – Manish Paul, Indian television host, anchor and actor
* 25 August – Shiva Keshavan, luge pilot
* 30 August – Shilpa Prabhakar Satish, IAS.
* 5 September – H. Vinoth, film director.
* 27 September – Lakshmipathy Balaji, cricketer.
* 7 October – Abhijeet Sawant, singer and winner of Indian Idol (season 1).
* 12 October – Sneha, actress.
* 14 October – Gautam Gambhir, cricketer and politician
* 7 November – Anushka Shetty, actress.
* 27 November – Vikram Pillay, field hockey player.
* 9 December – Dia Mirza, actress and model.
12 December -
* Ashok, actor.
* Yuvraj Singh, cricketer.

## Deaths

* 3 May – Nargis, actress (born 1929).
* 19 June – Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Physician created World's second IVF (born 1931)
* 24 September – Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, seventh head of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham and scholar (born 1905).
* 26 December – Savitri, actress (born 1936).
* 28 December – David Abraham Cheulkar, actor (born 1908).