1960 in India

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← 1959 1958 1957 1960 in India → 1961 1962 1963
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1960 in the Republic of India.(post Independence period)

7 May 1960 Border Road Organization (BRO) was established.

Incumbents

• President of India – Rajendra Prasad
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice President of India - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar
• Saiyid Fazal Ali (until 12 November), Vishnu Sahay
  (starting 12 November)
• Zakir Hussain
• Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung (starting 1 May)
• Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
• Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao (until 1 July), V. V. Giri (starting 1 July)
• Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
• Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
• Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar
• Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
• Gurumukh Nihal Singh
• Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
  (starting 1 July)
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

• National income - ₹176,333 million
• 1 May – In India, 1 May is declared as 'Maharashtra Divas', i.e., Maharashtra Day (the same day is also celebrated as 'Kaamgaar Divas', i.e., Workers Day) or 'Gujarat Diwas'.
• 1 May – Yashwantrao Chavan took oath as the 1st Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• 20 June – Maharashtra State Electricity Board formed.
• The ninth amendments of the Constitution of India
• Air India enters United States with flights to New York.
• Bajaj Auto goes public.
• Goa, Diu and Daman were freed from Portuguese rule and became parts of the Indian federation.

Law

• 1 May –
  States Reorganisation Act
  .

Births

• 2 January – Raman Lamba, cricketer (died 1998)^[1]
• 5 February –
  Eluru
  .
• 1 May –
  Ongole
  .
• 21 May – Mohanlal, actor.
• 10 June – Nandamuri Balakrishna, actor and politician.
• 25 June – Suresh Gopi, actor.
• 11 July – Kumar Gaurav, actor.
• 27 July – Poornima Bhagyaraj, actress.
• 27 July – P. Sai Kumar, actor, dubbing artist and television presenter.
• 12 September – Vadivelu, actor and comedian.
• 13 September – Karthik, actor.

Deaths

• 30 January – J. C. Kumarappa, economist (born 1892).
• 2 February –
  Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja
  , Hindu teacher (born 1884).
• 20 April – Pannalal Ghosh, flute (bānsurī) player and composer (born 1911).
• 27 April –
  lexicographer
  (born 1880).
• 8 September - Feroze Gandhi, politician (age 48)

See also

• Bollywood films of 1960

References