1980 in India
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Events in the year 1980 in the Republic of India.
Governors
- President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy[1]
Charan Singh - Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
- Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
- Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham
- Assam – L. P. Singh
- Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
- Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
- Haryana – Surjit Singh Sandhawalia (until 27 February), Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (starting 27 February)
- Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
- Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
- Karnataka – Govind Narain
- Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
- Madhya Pradesh – C. M. Poonacha (until 30 April), B. D. Sharma (starting 30 April)
- Maharashtra – Sri Sadiq Ali (until 3 November), O. P. Mehra (starting 3 November)
- Manipur – L.P. Singh
- Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
- Nagaland – L.P. Singh
- Odisha –
- until 30 April: Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
- 30 April-30 September: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
- 1 October-3 November: S. K. Ray
- starting 3 November: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
- Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi
- Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak
- Sikkim – B. B. Lal
- Tamil Nadu –
- until 26 October: Prabhudas Patwari
- 26 October-3 November: M. M. Ismail
- starting 3 November: Sadiq Ali
- Tripura – L. P. Singh
- Uttar Pradesh – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (until 27 February), Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (starting 27 February)
- West Bengal – Tribhuvana Narayana Singh
Events
- National income - ₹1,470,629 million
- 1 January – India asks Soviet Union for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.[3]
- 14 January – Indira Gandhi returned to power.[4]
- 5 April - Bharatiya Janata Party was formed.[5]
- 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash near Safdarjung Airport.[6]
- 18 July - SLV-3 successfully launched from Sriharikota.[7]
- Rajiv Gandhi quits working as pilot for Indian Airlines.[8]
- The Bhagalpur Blindings were widely publicized by Indian media.[9]
- 31 December – B. P. Mandal, chairman of the Backward Classes Commission, submitted his report to the government.[10]
Law
- 25 October - Forest (Conservation) Act[citation needed]
Science
- 1983 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics[citation needed]
