1982 in India

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.
 * 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.
 * Priyanka Chopra promoting The Sky Is Pink.jpg 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,
 * Prithviraj in Thirakkatha (2008).jpg]]28 September – Ranbir Kapoor, actor
 * 16 October – Prithviraj Sukumaran actor,
 * Mary Kom - British High Commission, Delhi, 27 July 2011.jpg March – [[Mary Kom]], boxer
 * 21 November – Aarti Chhabria, actress and model,
 * 8 December – Pa. Ranjith, film director.
 * 10 December – Shiva, actor, comedian, radio jockey, and dialogue writer.
 * 14 December – Aadhi Pinisetty, actor.

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).