1982 in India explained

Events in the year 1982 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

- - - - 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

National income - 1,932,546 million
March 5 - Gonda Encounter.^[1]
April – INSAT-1A launched; deactivated in September.
April 7 - Charan Singh announces retirement from active politics.^[2] ^[3]
April 25 - Doordarshan begins testing of Color television broadcast in India.^[4]
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.^[5] ^[6]
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

15 January – Neil Nitin Mukesh, actor.
15 February Meera Jasmine, actress.
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^[7]
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]
8 December Pa. Ranjith, film director.
10 December Shiva, actor, comedian, radio jockey, and dialogue writer.
14 December Aadhi Pinisetty, actor.

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).

Web site: The long story of one night - Indian Express . 2022-04-28 . archive.indianexpress.com.
Web site: 2022-04-07 . April 7, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Charan Singh Resigns . 2022-04-28 . The Indian Express . en.
Web site: October 19, 1982 . Chaitnya . Kalbag . 'Charan Singh symbolises the tragicomedy of the unity moves' . 2022-04-28 . India Today . en.
Web site: April 25, 2016 . Parmita . Uniyal . Doordarshan's first colour broadcast started on this day 34 years ago; five shows to remember . 2022-04-28 . India Today . en.
Web site: 11 December 2014 . Explained: Ananda Magra, a controversial road .
Web site: 2015-06-05 . Why corpses of a 1982 killing are stirring again . 2022-04-28 . The Indian Express . en.
Web site: Results . m2002.thecgf.com . 12 May 2020.
Web site: Mary Kom - Olympic Boxing India . International Olympic Committee . 24 April 2019 . en . 26 June 2016.