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. 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 30 June – Allari Naresh, actor. 3 July – Kanika Subramaniam, actress. 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, 28 September – Ranbir Kapoor, actor 12 October – Hanif Kureshi, artist and designer (d. 2024) 16 October – Prithviraj Sukumaran actor,
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. 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
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