AMN / NEW DELHI
President of India today approved conferment of 85 Padma Awards including two duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one). Awards comprises 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri Awards. 14 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 16 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 3 Posthumous awardees.
A total of 85 eminent personalities were selected for the prestigious Padma awards with Music Maestro Illaiyaraja and RSS ideologue Parameswaran getting Padma Vibhushan, former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Painter Laxman Pai among the 9 chosen for Padma Bhushan and 73 chosen for Padma Shri.
Padma Awards – one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
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 Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.
These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has approved conferment of 85 Padma Awards including two duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri Awards. 14 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 16 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 3 Posthumous awardees.
Padma Vibhushan
| Sl. No | Name | Field | State |
| 1. | Shri Illaiyaraja | Art-Music | Tamil Nadu |
| 2. | Shri Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Art-Music | Maharashtra |
| 3. | Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran | Literature and Education | Kerala |
Padma Bhushan
| Sl. No | Name | Field | State |
| 4. | Shri Pankaj Advani | Sports- Billiards/Snooker | Karnataka |
| 5. | Shri Philipose Mar Chrysostom | Others-Spiritualism | Kerala |
| 6. | Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Sports-Cricket | Jharkhand |
| 7. | Shri Alexander Kadakin
(Foreigner/Posthumous) |
Public Affairs | Russia |
| 8. | Shri Ramachandran Nagaswamy | Others-Archaeology | Tamil Nadu |
| 9. | Shri Ved Prakash Nanda
(OCI) |
Literature and Education | USA |
| 10. | Shri Laxman Pai | Art-Painting | Goa |
| 11. | Shri Arvind Parikh | Art-Music | Maharashtra |
| 12. | Ms. Sharda Sinha | Art-Music | Bihar |
Padma Shri
| Sl. No | Name | Field | State | |||||||
| 13. | Shri Abhay Bang (Duo) | Medicine | Maharashtra | |||||||
| Ms. Rani Bang (Duo) | Medicine | Maharashtra | ||||||||
| 14. | Shri Damodar Ganesh Bapat | Social Work | Chhattisgarh | |||||||
| 15. | Shri Prafulla Govinda Baruah | Literature and Education-Journalism | Assam | |||||||
| 16. | Shri Mohan Swaroop Bhatia | Art-Folk Music | Uttar Pradesh | |||||||
| 17. | Shri Sudhanshu Biswas | Social Work | West Bengal | |||||||
| 18. | Ms. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu | Sports-Weightlifting | Manipur | |||||||
| 19. | Shri Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi | Literature and Education-Journalism | Chhattisgarh | |||||||
| 20. | Shri Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner) | Trade & Industry | Philippines | |||||||
| 21. | Ms. Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi | Art-Weaving | Manipur | |||||||
| 22. | Shri Somdev Devvarman | Sports-Tennis | Tripura | |||||||
| 23. | Shri Yeshi Dhoden | Medicine | Himachal Pradesh | |||||||
| 24. | Shri Arup Kumar Dutta | Literature and Education | Assam | |||||||
| 25. | Shri Doddarange Gowda | Art-Lyrics | Karnataka | |||||||
| 26. | Shri Arvind Gupta | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | |||||||
| 27. | Shri Digamber Hansda | Literature and Education | Jharkhand | |||||||
| 28. | Shri Ramli Bin Ibrahim
(Foreigner) |
Art-Dance | Malaysia | |||||||
| 29. | Shri Anwar Jalalpuri
(Posthumous) |
Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |||||||
| 30. | Shri Piyong Temjen Jamir | Literature and Education | Nagaland | |||||||
| 31. | Ms. Sitavva Joddati | Social Work | Karnataka | |||||||
| 32. | Ms. Malti Joshi | Literature and | Madhya Pradesh | |||||||
| Education | ||||||||||
| 33. | Shri Manoj Joshi | Art-Acting | Maharashtra | |||||||
| 34. | Shri Rameshwarlal Kabra | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra | |||||||
| 35. | Shri Pran Kishore Kaul | Art | Jammu and | |||||||
| Kashmir | ||||||||||
| 36. | Shri Bounlap Keokangna | Others-Architecture | Laos | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | ||||||||||
| 37. | Shri Vijay Kichlu | Art-Music | West Bengal | |||||||
| 38. | Shri Tommy Koh | Public Affairs | Singapore | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | ||||||||||
| 39. | Ms. Lakshmikutty | Medicine-Traditional | Kerala | |||||||
| 40. | Ms. Joyshree Goswami | Literature and | Assam | |||||||
| Mahanta | Education | |||||||||
| 41. | Shri Narayan Das Maharaj | Others-Spiritualism | Rajasthan | |||||||
| 42. | Shri Pravakara Maharana | Art-Sculpture | Odisha | |||||||
| 43. | Shri Hun Many | Public Affairs | Cambodia | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | ||||||||||
| 44. | Ms. Nouf Marwaai | Others- Yoga | Saudi Arabia | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | ||||||||||
| 45. | Shri Zaverilal Mehta | Literature and | Gujarat | |||||||
| Education-Journalism | ||||||||||
| 46. | Shri Krishna Bihari Mishra | Literature and | West Bengal | |||||||
| Education | ||||||||||
| 47. | Shri Sisir Purushottam | Art-Cinema | Maharashtra | |||||||
| Mishra | ||||||||||
| 48. | Ms. Subhasini Mistry | Social Work | West Bengal | |||||||
| 49. | Shri Tomio Mizokami | Literature and | Japan | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | Education | |||||||||
| 50. | Shri Somdet Phra Maha | Others-Spiritualism | Thailand | |||||||
| Muniwong | ||||||||||
| (Foreigner) | ||||||||||
| 51. | Shri Keshav Rao | Literature and | Madhya Pradesh | |||||||
| Musalgaonkar | Education | |||||||||
| 52. | Dr Thant Myint – U | Public Affairs | Myanmar | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | ||||||||||
| 53. | Ms. V Nanammal | Others-Yoga | Tamil Nadu | |||||||
| 54. | Ms. Sulagitti Narasamma | Social Work | Karnataka | |||||||
| 55. | Ms. Vijayalakshmi | Art-Folk Music | Tamil Nadu | |||||||
| Navaneethakrishnan | ||||||||||
| 56. | Shri I Nyoman Nuarta | Art- Sculpture | Indonesia | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | ||||||||||
| 57. | Shri Malai Haji Abdullah | Social Work | Brunei | |||||||
| Bin Malai Haji Othman | Darussalam | |||||||||
| (Foreigner) | ||||||||||
| 58. | Shri Gobaradhan Panika | Art-Weaving | Odisha | |||||||
| 59. | Shri Bhabani Charan | Public Affairs | Odisha | |||||||
| Pattanaik | ||||||||||
| 60. | Shri Murlikant Petkar | Sports-Swimming | Maharashtra | |||||||
| 61. | Shri Habibullo Rajabov | Literature and | Tajikistan | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | Education | |||||||||
| 62. | Shri M R Rajagopal | Medicine-Palliative | Kerala | |||||||
| Care | ||||||||||
| 63. | Shri Sampat Ramteke | Social Work | Maharashtra | |||||||
| (Posthumous) | ||||||||||
| 64. | Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath | Literature and | Odisha | |||||||
| Education | ||||||||||
| 65. | Shri S S Rathore | Civil Service | Gujarat | |||||||
| 66. | Shri Amitava Roy | Science and | West Bengal | |||||||
| Engineering | ||||||||||
| 67. | Shri Sanduk Ruit | Medicine- | Nepal | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | Ophthalmology | |||||||||
| 68. | Shri R Sathyanarayana | Art-Music | Karnataka | |||||||
| 69. | Shri Pankaj M Shah | Medicine-Oncology | Gujarat | |||||||
| 70. | Shri Bhajju Shyam | Art-Painting | Madhya Pradesh | |||||||
| 71. | Shri Maharao Raghuveer | Literature and | Rajasthan | |||||||
| Singh | Education | |||||||||
| 72. | Shri Kidambi Srikanth | Sports-Badminton | Andhra Pradesh | |||||||
| 73. | Shri Ibrahim Sutar | Art-Music | Karnataka | |||||||
| 74. | Shri Siddeshwara Swamiji | Others-Spiritualism | Karnataka | |||||||
| 75. | Ms. Lentina Ao Thakkar | Social Work | Nagaland | |||||||
| 76. | Shri Vikram Chandra | Science and | Uttarakhand | |||||||
| Thakur | Engineering | |||||||||
| 77. | Shri Rudrapatnam | Art-Music | Karnataka | |||||||
| Narayanaswamy | ||||||||||
| Tharanathan (Duo) | ||||||||||
| Shri Rudrapatnam | Art-Music | Karnataka | ||||||||
| Narayanaswamy | ||||||||||
| Thyagarajan (Duo) | ||||||||||
| 78. | Shri Nguyen Tien Thien | Others-Spiritualism | Vietnam | |||||||
| (Foreigner) | ||||||||||
| 79. | Shri Bhagirath Prasad | Literature and | Uttar Pradesh | |||||||
| Tripathi | Education | |||||||||
| 80. | Shri Rajagopalan Vasudevan | Science and | Tamil Nadu | |||||||
| Engineering | ||||||||||
| 81. | Shri Manas Bihari Verma | Science and | Bihar | |||||||
| Engineering | ||||||||||
| 82. | Shri Panatawane Gangadhar | Literature and | Maharashtra | |||||||
| Vithobaji | Education | |||||||||
| 83. | Shri Romulus Whitaker | Others-Wildlife | Tamil Nadu | |||||||
| Conservation | ||||||||||
| 84. | Shri Baba Yogendra | Art | Madhya Pradesh | |||||||
| 85. | Shri A Zakia | Literature and | Mizoram | |||||||
| Education | ||||||||||
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