1982 in India

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.
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

15 January – Neil Nitin Mukesh, actor.
15 February Meera Jasmine, actress.
13 March Darbuka Siva, percussionist and composer.
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.
thumb|125x125px|[[Priyanka Chopra]]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,
thumb|179x179px|[[Prithviraj Sukumaran]]28 September – Ranbir Kapoor, actor
12 October – Hanif Kureshi, artist and designer (d. 2024)
16 October – Prithviraj Sukumaran actor,
thumb|166x166px|[[Mary Kom]]
21 November – Aarti Chhabria, actress and model.
24 November – Mary Kom, boxer
8 December Pa. Ranjith, film director.
10 December Shiva, actor, comedian, radio jockey, and dialogue writer.
14 December Aadhi Pinisetty, actor.
15 December Shefali Jariwala, actress and model (d. 2025)

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).