1992 in India

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy datesTemplate:Year in India Events in the year 1992 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – R. Venkataraman until 25 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao
• Vice President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma until 27 October, K. R. Narayanan
• Chief Justice of India – Madhukar Hiralal Kania until 17 November, Lalit Mohan Sharma

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
• Arunachal Pradesh – Surendranath Dwivedy
• Assam – Loknath Mishra
• Bihar – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
• Goa – Bhanu Prakash Singh
• Gujarat – Sarup Singh
• Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal
• Himachal Pradesh – Virendra Verma
• Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena
• Karnataka – Bhanu Pratap Singh (until 6 January), Khurshed Alam Khan (starting 6 January)
• Kerala – B. Rachaiah
• Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan
• Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam
• Manipur – Chintamani Panigrahi
• Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe
• Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal
• Nagaland – M. M. Thomas (until 12 April), Loknath Mishra (starting 13 April)
• Odisha – Yagya Dutt Sharma
• Punjab – Surendra Nath
• Rajasthan – Sarup Singh (until 5 February), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 5 February)
• Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
• Tamil Nadu – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
• Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy
• West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events

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• 1 February – Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal Court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case, and orders the Indian government to press for an extradition from the United States.
• 1 April - Project Unigauge started under leadership of C. K. Jaffer Sharief.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 23 April – Scam of Harshad Mehta was exposed by journalist Sucheta Dalal, which consisted of SBI 500 Crore Scam and illegal usage of loophole in banking system.
• May – Over 200 people die in Cuttack in Odisha, after drinking illegally brewed liquor. About 600 people were hospitalised (see: 1992 Odisha liquor deaths).
• 14 August – Veerappan Gang Trapped and killed Mysore District SP, T.Harikrishna, SI Shakeel Ahmed and four constables named Benegonda, C.M.Kalappa, Sundara and M.P.Appachu, through a false informant near Meenyam in Karnataka
• 20 August – Konkani language, Nepali language and Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) included in the constitutional scheduled languages' list and made one of the official languages of the Indian Republic through 71st amendment of Constitution of India.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 2 October – Zee Television, a Hindi language satellite and cable television station, a first officially regular broadcasting service to start in Mumbai.<ref>Zee TV Retrieved 14 January 2017.</ref>
• 13 November - Floods in Tirunelveli district following Cloudburst causing more than 30 cms of rain in upper reaches of Thamirabarani River within 8 hours.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 6 December – Members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council) tear down a 16th-century mosque located in Ayodhya, in Northern India. The mosque is built over a shrine which exhorted the small piece of land as Ram Janmabhoomi – the birthplace of Lord Rama. This sparks off nationwide communal riots in which some 3,000 people die.
• Indian Rupee exchange rate collapsed. It was 20 Rs to 1 dollar in January 1992 and it became 30 Rs to 1 dollar in December 1992. A huge 50% depreciation in value.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Law

• Government of India establishes SEBI, stock exchange regulator.

Births

• 3 January Template:Ndash Nikki Galrani, actress.
• 5 January – Sanjay Balmuchu, footballer.
• 28 January – Munawar Faruqui, stand-up comedian
• 27 February – Abigail Jain, actress.
• 1 March – Alwyn George, footballer.

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  KL Rahul

  18 April – K. L. Rahul, cricketer.
• 9 May Template:Ndash Sai Pallavi, actress.
• 31 May Template:Ndash Sobhita Dhulipala, actress, model and Miss Earth India.
• 4 July – Yuki Bhambri, tennis player.
• 30 July – Vishal Kumar, football player.
• 13 June Template:Ndash Disha Patani, actress.
• 1 August Template:Ndash Mrunal Thakur, actress.
• 15 September – Shilton D'Silva, soccer player.

17 October Template:Ndash

• Keerthy Suresh, actress.
• Pranitha Subhash, actress.
• 5 October Arjun Das, actor.
• 21 October Template:Ndash Srinidhi Shetty, actress and model.
• 23 November - Navdeep Saini, cricketer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 24 December – Soram Anganba, footballer.
• 31 December – Manu Attri, badminton player.
• 7 August – Deepak Chahar, cricketer.
• 15 August – Baskaran Adhiban, chess Grandmaster.

Deaths

• 27 January – Bharat Bhushan, actor (born 1920).

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  Satyajit Ray

  23 April – Satyajit Ray, filmmaker (born 1921).
• 17 July – Kanan Devi, actress and singer (born 1916).
• 27 July – Amjad Khan, actor and director (born 1940).
• 3 November – Prem Nath, actor (born 1926).

Full date unknown

• V. K. Gokak, writer and scholar (born 1909).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1992