1981 in India

1981 in India
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.
Law
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).
See also
List of Bollywood films of 1981
References
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Years of the 20th century in India
1980s in India
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