Government announces Padma awards: Kader Khan, Gautam Gambhir, BJP’s Hukumdev Narayan Yadav, Prabhu Deva among 112 awardees

This year, the government selected 112 recipients for the prestigious awards. This includes 4 Padma Vibhushan, 14 Padma Bhushan and 94 Padma Shri awards.

NEW DELHI: On the eve of the 70th Republic Day, the Ministry Of Home Affairs on Friday announced that Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. This year, the government selected 112 recipients for the prestigious awards. This includes 4 Padma Vibhushan, 14 Padma Bhushan and 94 Padma Shri awards. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- 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 Awards, which were instituted in the year 1954, is announced every year on the occasion of Republic Day except for brief interruption(s) during the years 1978 and 1979 and 1993 to 1997.   These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. PADMA VIBHUSHAN AWARDEES Ms. Teejan Bai Art-Vocals-Folk Chhattisgarh Ismail Omar Guelleh (Foreigner) Public Affairs Djibouti Anilkumar Manibhai Naik Trade & Industry-Infrastructure Maharashtra Balwant Moreshwar Purandare Art-Acting-Theatre Maharashtra PADMA BHUSHAN AWARDEES Shri John Chambers (Foreigner) Trade & Industry-Technology USA Shri Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa Public Affairs Punjab Shri Pravin Gordhan(Foreigner) Public Affairs South Africa Shri Mahashay Dharam Pal Gulati Trade & Industry-Food Processing Delhi Shri Darshan Lal Jain Social Work Haryana Shri Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade Medicine-Affordable Healthcare Maharashtra Shri Kariya Munda Public Affairs Jharkhand Shri Budhaditya Mukherjee Art-Music-Sitar West Bengal Shri Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair Art-Acting-Film Kerala Shri S Nambi Narayan Science & Engineering-Space Kerala Shri Kuldip Nayar (Posthumous) Literature & Education (Journalism) Delhi Ms. Bachendri Pal Sports-Mountaineering Uttarakhand Shri V K Shunglu Civil Service Delhi Shri Hukumdev Narayan Yadav Public Affairs Bihar PADAMA SHREE AWARDEES:  Rajeshwar Acharya, Art-Vocal-Hindustani, Uttar Pradesh Bangaru Adigalar, Spiritualism, Tamil Nadu Illias Ali, Medicine-Surgery, Assam Manoj Bajpayee, Art-Acting-Films, Maharashtra Uddhab Kumar Bharali, Grassroots Innovation, Assam Omesh Kumar Bharti, Medicine-Rabies, Himachal Pradesh Pritam Bhartwan, Art-Vocals-Folk, Uttarakhand Jyoti Bhatt, Art-Painting, Gujarat Dilip Chakravarty, Archaeology, Delhi Mammen Chandy, Medicine-Hematology, West Bengal Swapan Chaudhuri, Art-Music-Tabla, West Bengal Kanwal Singh Chauhan, Agriculture, Haryana Sunil Chhetri, Sports-Football, Telangana Dinyar Contractor, Art-Acting-Theatre, Maharashtra Muktaben Pankajkumar Dagli, Social Work-Divyang, Gujarat Babulal Dahiya, Agriculture, Madhya Pradesh Thanga Darlong, Art-Music-Flute, Tripura Prabhu Deva, Art-Dance, Karnataka Rajkumari Devi, Agriculture, Bihar Bhagirathi Devi, Public Affairs, Bihar Baldev Singh Dhillon, Science and Engineering, Punjab Harika ,Dronavalli Sports-Chess, Andhra Pradesh Godawari Dutta, Art-Painting, Bihar Gautam Gambhir, Sports-Cricket, Delhi Draupadi Ghimiray, Social Work-Divyang, Sikkim Rohini Godbole, Nuclear-Science, Karnataka Sandeep Guleria, Medicine-Surgery, Delhi Pratap Singh Hardia, Medicine-Ophthmology, Madhya Pradesh Bulu Imam Social, Work-Culture, Jharkhand Friederike Irina (Foreigner), Social Work-Animal, Germany 49) Joravarsinh Jadav, Art-Dance Folk, Gujarat S Jaishankar, Civil Service, Delhi Narsingh Dev Jamwal, Literature, Jammu and Kashmir Fayaz Ahmad Jan, Art-Craft, Jammu and Kashmir K G Jayan, Art-Music-Bhakti, Kerala Subhash Kak (Foreigner), Science, USA Sharath Kamal, Sports-Table Tennis, Tamil Nadu Rajani Kant, Social Work, Uttar Pradesh Sudam Kate, Medicine-Sickle Cell, Maharashtra Waman Kendre, Art-Acting-Theatre, Maharashtra Kader Khan (Posthumous-Foreigner), Art, Canada Abdul Gafur Khatri, Art-Painting, Gujarat Ravindra Kolhe and Smita Kolhe, Medicine, Maharashtra Bombayla Devi Laishram, Sports-Archery, Manipur Kailash Madbaiya, Literature,, Madhya Pradesh Ramesh Babaji Maharaj, Social Work-Animal Welfare, Uttar Pradesh Vallabhbhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya, Agriculture, Gujarat Gita Mehta (Foreigner), Literature, USA Shadab Mohammad, Medicine-Dentistry, Uttar Pradesh K K Muhammed, Archaeology, Kerala Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Medicine, Jharkhand Daitari Naik, Social Work, Odisha Shankar Mahadevan Narayan, Art-Vocals-Films, Maharashtra Shantanu Narayen (Foreigner), Industry, USA Nartaki Natraj, Art-Dance, Tamil Nadu Tsering Norboo, Medicine-Surgery, Jammu and Kashmir Shri Anup Ranjan Pandey Art-Music Chhattisgarh Jagdish Prasad Parikh, Agriculture, Rajasthan Ganpatbhai Patel (Foreigner), Literature, USA Bimal Patel, Architecture, Gujarat Hukumchand Patidar, Agriculture, Rajasthan Harvinder Singh Phoolka, Public Affairs, Punjab Madurai Chinna Pillai, Social Work, Tamil Nadu Tao Porchon-Lynch (Foreigner), Yoga, USA Kamala Pujhari, Agriculture, Odisha Bajrang Punia, Sports-Wrestling, Haryana Jagat Ram Medicine, Ophthalmology, Chandigarh R V Ramani, Medicine-Ophthalmology, Tamil Nadu Devarapalli Prakash Rao Social Work-Affordable Education, Odisha Anup Sah, Art-Photography, Uttarakhand Milena Salvini (Foreigner), Art-Dance-Kathakali, France Nagindas Sanghavi, Journalism, Maharashtra Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry, Art-Lyrics, Telangana Shabbir Sayyad, Social Work-Animal Welfare, Maharashtra Mahesh Sharma, Social Work-Tribal Welfare, Madhya Pradesh Mohammad Hanif Khan Shastri, Literature, Delhi Brijesh Kumar Shukla, Literature, Uttar Pradesh Narendra Singh, Animal Husbandry, Haryana Prashanti Singh, Sports-Basketball, Uttar Pradesh Sultan Singh, Animal Husbandry, Haryana Jyoti Kumar Sinha, Social Work-Affordable, Education, Bihar Anandan Sivamani, Art-Music, Tamil Nadu Sharada Srinivasan, Archaeology, Karnataka Devendra Swarup (Posthumous), Literature, Uttar Pradesh Ajay Thakur Sports-Kabaddi Himachal Pradesh Rajeev Tharanath, Art-Music-Sarod, Karnataka Saalumarada Thimmakka, Social Work-Environment, Karnataka Jamuna Tudu, Social Work-Environment, Jharkhand Bharat Bhushan Tyagi, Agriculture, Uttar Pradesh Ramaswami Venkataswami, Medicine-Surgery, Tamil Nadu Ram Saran Verma, Agriculture, Uttar Pradesh Swami Vishudhananda, Spiritualism, Kerala Hiralal Yadav, Art-Vocals-Folk, Uttar Pradesh Venkateswara Rao Yadlapalli, Agriculture, Andhra Pradesh