1980 in India

Events in the year 1980 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

 * President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
 * Charan Singh.jpg Minister of India – [[Charan Singh]] until 14 January, then Indira Gandhi again became the prime minister of India.
 * Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
 * Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

Governors

 * Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham
 * Assam – L. P. Singh
 * Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
 * Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
 * Haryana – Surjit Singh Sandhawalia (until 27 February), Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (starting 27 February)
 * Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
 * Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
 * Karnataka – Govind Narain
 * Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
 * Madhya Pradesh – C. M. Poonacha (until 30 April), B. D. Sharma (starting 30 April)
 * Maharashtra – Sri Sadiq Ali (until 3 November), O. P. Mehra (starting 3 November)
 * Manipur – L.P. Singh
 * Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
 * Nagaland – L.P. Singh
 * Odisha –
 * until 30 April: Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
 * 30 April-30 September: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
 * 1 October-3 November: S. K. Ray
 * starting 3 November: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
 * Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi
 * Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak
 * Sikkim – B. B. Lal
 * Tamil Nadu –
 * until 26 October: Prabhudas Patwari
 * 26 October-3 November: M. M. Ismail
 * starting 3 November: Sadiq Ali
 * Tripura – L. P. Singh
 * Uttar Pradesh – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (until 27 February), Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (starting 27 February)
 * West Bengal – Tribhuvana Narayana Singh

Events

 * National income - ₹1,470,629 million
 * 1 January – India asks Soviet Union for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
 * 14 January – Indira Gandhi returned to power.
 * 5 April - Bharatiya Janata Party was formed.
 * 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash near Safdarjung Airport.
 * 18 July - SLV-3 successfully launched from Sriharikota.
 * Rajiv Gandhi quits working as pilot for Indian Airlines.
 * The Bhagalpur Blindings were widely publicized by Indian media.
 * 31 December – B. P. Mandal, chairman of the Backward Classes Commission, submitted his report to the government.

Law

 * 25 October - Forest (Conservation) Act

Science

 * 1983 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics

Sport
The Indian Hockey team won the Gold in the Olympics.

Births

 * 21 January – Santhanam, actor and comedian.
 * 10 February – Mohd. Iqbal Khan, actor.
 * 13 March – Varun Gandhi, politician
 * 17 March – Nikitin Dheer, actor
 * 20 April – Sunaina Sunaina, weightlifter
 * 2 June – Dola Banerjee, archer
 * 4 June – Prashanth Neel, film director.
 * 20 June – Bobby Darling, actor.
 * 5 July – Zayed Khan, actor.
 * 7 July – Ramachandra Raju, actor.
 * 8 July – Chetan Anand, badminton player.
 * 12 August – Ghibran, music composer.
 * 14 August – Prabhjot Singh, field hockey player.
 * 16 August – Upen Patel, model and actor.
 * 18 August – Preeti Jhangiani, actress and model.
 * 30 August – Richa Pallod, model and actress.
 * 10 September – Jayam Ravi, actor.
 * 18 September – Akshay Kapoor, actor.
 * Kareena ad shoot in Mehboob Studio.jpg September – [[Kareena Kapoor]], actress.
 * 18 October – Reetinder Singh Sodhi, cricketer.
 * 24 October – Laila Mehdin, actress.
 * 12 November – Devesh Chauhan, field hockey player.
 * 13 November – Harman Baweja, actor.
 * 9 December – Gagan Ajit Singh, field hockey player.
 * 11 December – Arya, actor.
 * 17 December – Arjun Halappa, field hockey player.
 * 28 December – Deepak Thakur, field hockey player.

Deaths

 * 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi, politician (b. 1946).
 * 23 June – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, fourth president of India (b. 1894).
 * 18 July – Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (b. 1904).
 * 24 July – Uttam Kumar, actor (b. 1926).
 * 31 July – Mohammed Rafi, playback singer (b. 1924).
 * 2 August – Ramkinkar Baij, sculptor and painter (b. 1906)
 * 17 August – Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, writer (b. 1909).
 * 25 October – Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter (b. 1921).
 * 11 November – Chenganoor Raman Pillai, Kathakali artiste (b. 1886).
 * 16 November – Jayan, actor (b. 1938).