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 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. July 12 – NABARD established through act of Parliament following B. Sivaraman Committee recommendation. September 1 - Vypeen alcohol poisonings. Law 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 24 May – Kanchi Kaul, actress 12 June – Shailaja Pujari, weightlifter 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 11 September – Shriya