1982 in India

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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.