The Union Home Ministry on the Republic Day eve announced the recipients for Padma awards- one of the highest civilian Awards of the country. The awards conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri are given by the President of India. ALSO READ | 72 Republic Day Eve Speech: President Kovind Hails Farm Laws, Calls It 'Long-Awaited Reforms'
The Awards are given in various disciplines such as- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.
‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field.
This year, the President has approved conferment of 119 Padma Awards which includes 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri Awards.
Check here the complete list of recipients:
Padma Vibhushan
- Shri Shinzo Abe
- Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous)
- Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine
- Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous)
- Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
- Shri B. B. Lal
- Shri Sudarshan Sahoo
Padma Bhushan
- Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra
- Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous)
- Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara
- Ms. Sumitra Mahajan
- Shri Nripendra Misra
- Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous)
- Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous)
- Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous)
- Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff
- Shri Tarlochan Singh
Padma Shri
- Shri Gulfam Ahmed
- Ms. P. Anitha
- Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu
- Shri Subbu Arumugam
- Shri Prakasarao Asavadi
- Ms. Bhuri Bai
- Shri Radhe Shyam Barle
- Shri Dharma Narayan Barma
- Ms. Lakhimi Baruah
- Shri Biren Kumar Basak
- Ms. Rajni Bector
- Shri Peter Brook
- Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak
- Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat
- Ms. Bijoya Chakravarty
- Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay
- Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous)
- Shri Tsultrim Chonjo
- Ms. Mouma Das
- Shri Srikant Datar
- Shri Narayan Debnath
- Ms. Chutni Devi
- Ms. Dulari Devi
- Ms. Radhe Devi
- Ms. Shanti Devi
- Shri Wayan Dibia
- Shri Dadudan Gadhavi
- Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane
- Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal
- Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder
- Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary
- Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa
- Ms. Purnamasi Jani
- Matha B. Manjamma Jogati
- Shri Damodaran Kaithapram
- Shri Namdeo C Kamble
- Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) (Posthumous)
- Shri Rajat Kumar Kar
- Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap
- Ms. Prakash Kaur
- Shri Nicholas Kazanas
- Shri K Kesavasamy Art
- Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan
- Shri Lakha Khan
- Ms. Sanjida Khatun
- Shri Vinayak Vishnu
- Ms. Niru Kumar
- Ms. Lajwanti
- Shri Rattan Lal
- Shri Ali Manikfan
- Shri Ramachandra Manjhi
- Shri Dulal Manki
- Shri Nanadro B Marak
- Shri Rewben Mashangva
- Shri Chandrakant Mehta
- Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal
- Shri Madhavan Nambiar
- Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal
- Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav
- Dr. J N Pande (Posthumous)
- Shri Solomon Pappaiah
- Ms. Pappammal
- Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi
- Ms. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat
- Shri Girish Prabhune
- Shri Nanda Prusty
- Shri K K Ramachandra
- Shri Balan Putheri
- Ms. Birubala Rabha
- Shri Kanaka Raju
- Ms. Bombay Jayashri
- Shri Satyaram Reang Art Tripura
- Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo
- Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu
- Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh
- Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal
- Shri Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous)
- Shri Roman Sarmah
- Shri Imran Shah
- Shri Prem Chand Sharma
- Shri Arjun Singh Shekhawat
- Shri Ram Yatna Shukla
- Shri Jitender Singh Shunty
- Shri Kartar Paras Ram Singh
- Shri Kartar Singh
- Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh
- Shri Chandra Shekhar Singh
- Ms. Sudha Hari Narayan Singh
- Shri Virender Singh
- Ms. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous)
- Shri K C Sivasankar (Posthumous)
- Guru Maa Kamali Soren
- Shri Marachi Subburaman
- Shri P Subramanian(Posthumous)
- Ms. Nidumolu Sumathi
- Shri Kapil Tiwari
- Father Vallés
- Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan
- Shri Sridhar Vembu
- Shri K Y Venkatesh
- Ms. Usha Yadav
- Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir