1992 in India

none September 20201992 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 National income - 7,611,959 million 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.Prabhu Nagesh 2018-11-25 Jaffer Sharief - the railway man of Karnataka https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/jaffer-sharief-the-railway-man-of-karnataka/article25592559.ece 2025-09-09 The Hindu en-IN 0971-751X 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). 19 May - V.S. Chandralekha an Indian Administrative Service officer faces Acid attack at Chennai.Sivaraman R. 2024-08-04 Acid attack on IAS officer in 1992 that sent shockwaves across India https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/acid-attack-on-ias-officer-that-sent-shockwaves-across-the-country/article68484102.ece 2026-04-06 The Hindu en-IN 0971-751X 20 June - Vachathi case 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.Bhardwaj R. C. https://books.google.com/books?id=XXj69CpMnF4C&q=manipuri%20language%20included%20in%20scheduled%20language%20august%2020&pg=PA189 Legislation by Members in the Indian Parliament 1994 Allied Publishers 978-81-7023-409-8 189 enKhullar D. R. https://books.google.com/books?id=gqE_DAAAQBAJ&q=manipuri%20language%20included%20in%20scheduled%20language%20august&pg=PA188 Geography Textbook New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd 978-93-5041-243-5 188 enBhattacharyya Rituparna https://books.google.com/books?id=DEZ1EAAAQBAJ&q=manipuri%20eighth%20schedule%20august%2020&pg=PT209 Northeast India Through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Prehistory, History, and Oral History 2022-07-29 Taylor & Francis 978-1-000-62390-1 209 enColeman Daniel https://books.google.com/books?id=eu8cTROu4LcC&dq=meitei+language+day&pg=PA131 Countering Displacements: The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples Glanville Erin Goheen Hasan Wafaa Kramer-Hamstra Agnes 2012-04-26 University of Alberta 978-0-88864-592-0 131 en 2 October – Zee Television, a Hindi language satellite and cable television station, a first officially regular broadcasting service to start in Mumbai.Zee TV Retrieved 14 January 2017. 13 November - Floods in Tirunelveli district following Cloudburst causing more than 30 cms of rain in upper reaches of Thamirabarani River within 8 hours.2015-12-09 2 lakh cusecs released into Thamirabharani en-IN The Hindu https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/thamirabarani-floods-in-1992/article7964074.ece 2023-12-17 0971-751X 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.http://ibnlive.in.com/news/interactive-graph-indian-rupee-vs-us-dollar-since-1990/211864-53.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120202193019/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/interactive-graph-indian-rupee-vs-us-dollar-since-1990/211864-53.html dead 2012-02-02 Interactive graph: Indian rupee vs US dollar since 1990 Ibnlive.in.com 2012-05-24 2013-07-31 Law Government of India establishes SEBI, stock exchange regulator. Births 3 January 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. thumb|217x217px|KL Rahul18 April – K. L. Rahul, cricketer. 9 May Sai Pallavi, actress. 31 May Sobhita Dhulipala, actress, model and Miss Earth India. 4 July – Yuki Bhambri, tennis player. 30 July – Vishal Kumar, football player. 13 June Disha Patani, actress. 1 August Mrunal Thakur, actress. 15 September – Shilton D'Silva, soccer player. 17 October Keerthy Suresh, actress. Pranitha Subhash, actress. 5 October Arjun Das, actor. 21 October Srinidhi Shetty, actress and model. 23 November - Navdeep Saini, cricketerNavdeep Saini https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/700167.html 2020-09-26 Cricinfo 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). thumb|180x180px|Satyajit Ray23 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 References 1992 India Category:Years of the 20th century in India