1992 in India

1992 in India
Events in the year 1992 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
President of India – R. Venkataraman until 25 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao
Vice President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma until 27 October, K. R. Narayanan
Chief Justice of India – Madhukar Hiralal Kania until 17 November, Lalit Mohan Sharma
Governors
Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
Arunachal Pradesh – Surendranath Dwivedy
Assam – Loknath Mishra
Bihar – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
Goa – Bhanu Prakash Singh
Gujarat – Sarup Singh
Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal
Himachal Pradesh – Virendra Verma
Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena
Karnataka – Bhanu Pratap Singh (until 6 January), Khurshed Alam Khan (starting 6 January)
Kerala – B. Rachaiah
Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan
Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam
Manipur – Chintamani Panigrahi
Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe
Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal
Nagaland – M. M. Thomas (until 12 April), Loknath Mishra (starting 13 April)
Odisha – Yagya Dutt Sharma
Punjab – Surendra Nath
Rajasthan – Sarup Singh (until 5 February), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 5 February)
Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
Tamil Nadu – Bhishma Narain Singh
Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy
West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan
Events
National income - 7,611,959 million
1 February – Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal Court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case, and orders the Indian government to press for an extradition from the United States.
23 April – Scam of Harshad Mehta was exposed by journalist Sucheta Dalal, which consisted of SBI 500 Crore Scam and illegal usage of loophole in banking system.
May – Over 200 people die in Cuttack in Odisha, after drinking illegally brewed liquor. About 600 people were hospitalised (see: 1992 Odisha liquor deaths).
14 August – Veerappan Gang Trapped and killed Mysore District SP, T.Harikrishna, SI Shakeel Ahmed and four constables named Benegonda, C.M.Kalappa, Sundara and M.P.Appachu, through a false informant near Meenyam in Karnataka
20 August – Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) was included in the constitutional scheduled languages' list and made one of the official languages of the Indian Republic.
2 October – Zee Television, a Hindi language satellite and cable television station, a first officially regular broadcasting service to start in Mumbai.
6 December – Members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council) tear down a 16th-century mosque located in Ayodhya, in Northern India. The mosque is built over a shrine which exhorted the small piece of land as Ram Janmabhoomi – the birthplace of Lord Rama. This sparks off nationwide communal riots in which some 3,000 people die.
Indian Rupee exchange rate collapsed. It was 20 Rs to 1 dollar in January 1992 and it became 30 Rs to 1 dollar in December 1992. A huge 50% depreciation in value.
Law
Government of India establishes SEBI, stock exchange regulator.
Births
3 January Nikki Galrani, actress.
5 January – Sanjay Balmuchu, footballer.
27 February – Abigail Jain, actress.
1 March – Alwyn George, footballer.
4 March – Gaurav Sharma, author.
18 April – K. L. Rahul, cricketer.
4 May Shiv Kumar Sharma, Assistant Professor.
9 May Sai Pallavi, actress.
31 May Sobhita Dhulipala, actress, model and Miss Earth India.
4 July – Yuki Bhambri, tennis player.
30 July – Vishal Kumar, football player.
13 June Disha Patani, actress.
1 August Mrunal Thakur, actress.
15 September – Shilton D'Silva, soccer player.
17 October
Keerthy Suresh, actress.
Pranitha Subhash, actress.
5 October Arjun Das, actor.
21 October Srinidhi Shetty, actress and model.
23 November - Navdeep Saini, cricketer
24 December – Soram Anganba, footballer.
31 December – Manu Attri, badminton player.
7 August – Deepak Chahar, cricketer.
15 August – Baskaran Adhiban, chess Grandmaster.
Deaths
27 January – Bharat Bhushan, actor (born 1920).
23 April – Satyajit Ray, filmmaker (born 1921).
17 July – Kanan Devi, actress and singer (born 1916).
27 July – Amjad Khan, actor and director (born 1940).
3 November – Prem Nath, actor (born 1926).
Full date unknown
V. K. Gokak, writer and scholar (born 1909).
See also
Bollywood films of 1992
References
India
Years of the 20th century in India