1982 in India

Events in the year 1982 in the Republic of India.

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Centuries:	18th
Decades:
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy until 25 July, Zail Singh
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh –
• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Haryana –
• Himachal Pradesh –
• Jammu and Kashmir –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Manipur –
• Meghalaya –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Sikkim –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Tripura –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

Events

• April – INSAT-1A launched; deactivated in September.
• July – NABARD establishment

Infamous Events

• Gonda Encounter
• Bijon Setu massacre April 30, 1982, 17 Anand Marg people were set ablaze at Bijon Setu in Dhakuria in south Kolkata. No one has been convicted of the murders.

Sport

• 19 November – 4 December – 9th Asian Games held in Delhi.

Births

• 15 January – Neil Nitin Mukesh, actor
• 28 April – Koyel Mullick, actress
• 24 May – Kanchi Kaul, actress
• 12 June – Shailaja Pujari, weightlifter
• 30 June – Allari Naresh, actor
• 3 July – Kanika Subramaniam, actress
• 

  Priyanka Chopra
  18 July – Priyanka Chopra, actress, Miss World 2000
• 28 August – Prasanna, actor
• 11 September – Shriya Saran, actress
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  Ranbir Kapoor
  28 September – Ranbir Kapoor, actor
• 16 October – Prithviraj Sukumaran actor
• 21 November – Aarti Chhabria, actress and model

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

• Bollywood films of 1982

References

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