Padma Awards 2020 Winners List: P V Sindhu Awarded Padma Bhushan| Check Out All The Recipients
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.
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday presented the Padma Awards 2020 to Kangana Ranaut, Adnan Sami, PV Sindhu along 138 others. The awards were conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
On the occasion of receiving the Padma Bhushan award by President Kovind, Olympian badminton player P V Sindhu said, "It is a proud moment. I am thankful to the Govt of India. These kinds of awards give us a lot of encouragement, support and motivation. I have some upcoming tournaments, I will give my best to them."
It is a proud moment. I am thankful to Govt of India. These kind of awards give us a lot of encouragement, support and motivation. I have some upcoming tournaments, I will give my best in them: Olympian badminton player PV Sindhu on receiving Padma Bhushan award pic.twitter.com/Mthr1NJuyD
— ANI (@ANI) November 8, 2021
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.
Actor Kangana Ranaut receives the Padma Shri Award 2020. pic.twitter.com/rIQ60ZNd9i
— ANI (@ANI) November 8, 2021
‘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.
#PadmaAwards2020 ceremony to begin shortly in Delhi. Visuals from Rashtrapati Bhavan. pic.twitter.com/w97q3Fjhyx
— ANI (@ANI) November 8, 2021
The President had approved the conferment of 141 Padma Awards which includes 7 Padma Vibhushan, 16 Padma Bhushan and 118 Padma Shri Awards.
Here's the complete list of recipients:
Padma Vibhushan:
- George Fernandes
- Arun Jaitley
- Anerood Jugnauth GCSK
- M. C. Mary Kom
- Chhannulal Mishra
- Sushma Swaraj
- Vishveshateertha Swamiji Sri Pejavara Adhokhaja Matha Udupi
Padma Bhushan:
- M. Mumtaz Ali (Sri M)
- Syed Muazzem Ali
- Muzaffar Hussain Baig
- Ajoy Chakravorty
- Manoj Das
- Balkrishna Doshi
- Krishnammal Jagannathan
- S. C. Jamir
- Anil Prakash Joshi
- Dr. Tsering Landol
- Anand Mahindra
- Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon
- Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar
- Jagdish Sheth
- P. V. Sindhu
- Venu Srinivasan
Padma Shri:
- Guru Shashadhar Acharya
- Dr. Yogi Aeron
- Jai Prakash Agarwal
- Jagdish Lal Ahuja
- Kazi Masum Akhtar
- Gloria Arieira
- Khan Zaheerkhan Bakhtiyarkhan
- Dr. Padmavathy Bandopadhyay
- Dr. Sushovan Banerjee
- Dr. Digambar Behera
- Dr. Damayanti Beshra
- Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji
- Himmata Ram Bhambhu
- Sanjeev Bikhchandani
- Gafurbhai M. Bilakhia
- Bob Blackman
- Indira P. P. Bora
- Madan Singh Chauhan
- Usha Chaumar
- Lil Bahadur Chettri
- Ms. Lalitha & Ms. Saroja Chidambaram
- Dr. Vajira Chitrasena
- Dr. Purushottam Dadheech
- Utsav Charan Das
- Prof. Indra Dassanayake
- M. Desai
- Manohar Devadoss
- Oinam Bembem Devi
- Lia Diskin
- P. Ganesh
- Dr. Bangalore Gangadhar
- Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar
- Barry Gardiner
- Chewang Motup Goba
- Bharat Goenka
- Yadla Gopalarao
- Mitrabhanu Gountia
- Tulasi Gowda
- Sujoy K. Guha
- Harekala Hajabba
- Enamul Haque
- Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh
- Abdul Jabbar
- Bimal Kumar Jain
- Meenakshi Jain
- Nemnath Jain
- Shanti Jain
- Sudhir Jain
- Benichandra Jamatia
- V. Sampath Kumar & Vidushi Jayalakshmi K.S
- Karan Johar
- Leela Joshi
- Sarita Joshi
- Kamlova
- Dr. Ravi Kannan R.
- Ekta Kapoor
- Yazdi Naoshirwan Karanjia
- Narayan J. Joshi Karayal
- Narindar Nath Khanna
- Naveen Khanna
- P. Kothari
- K. Munusamy Krishnapakthar
- K. Kunjol
- Manmohan Mahapatra
- Ustad Anwar Khan Mangniyar
- Kattungal Subramaniam Manilal
- Munna Master
- Prof. Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra
- Binapani Mohanty
- Dr. Arunoday Mondal
- Dr. Prithwindra Mukherjee
- Sathyanarayan Mundayoor
- Manilal Nag
- Chandrasekharan Nair
- Dr. Tetsu Nakamura
- Shiv Datt Nirmohi
- Pu Lalbiakthanga Pachuau
- Moozhikkal Pankajakshi
- Dr. Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik
- Jogendra Nath Phukan
- Rahibai Soma Popere
- Yogesh Praveen
- Jitu Rai
- Tarundeep Rai
- Ramakrishnan
- Rani Rampal
- Kangana Ranaut
- Dalavai Chalapathi Rao
- Shahbuddin Rathod
- Kalyan Singh Rawat
- Chintala Venkat Reddy
- Dr. Shanti Roy
- Radhammohan & Sabarmatee
- Batakrushna Sahoo
- Trinity Saioo
- Adnan Sami
- Vijay Sankeshwar
- Kushal Konwar Sarma
- Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri alias Sayedbhai
- Mohammed Sharif
- Shyam Sunder Sharma
- Dr. Gurdip Singh
- Ramjee Singh
- Vashishtha Narayan Singh
- Daya Prakash Sinha
- Dr. Sandra Desa Souza
- Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam
- Kalee Shabi Mahaboob & Sheik Mahaboob Subani
- Javed Ahmad Tak
- Pradeep Thalappil
- Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi
- Robert Thurman
- Agus Indra Udayana
- Harish Chandra Verma
- Sundaram Verma
- Dr. Romesh Tekchand Wadhwani
- Suresh Wadkar
- Prem Watsa