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Bipin Rawat & Kalyan Singh get Padma Vibhushan

By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, JAN 25, 2022: 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.

2. 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 has approved conferment of 128 Padma Awards including 2 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. 34 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.

 

SN
Name
Field
State / Country
Padma Vibhushan (4)
1
Ms. Prabha Atre
Art
Maharashtra
2
Shri Radheyshyam Khemka
(Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Uttar Pradesh
3
General Bipin Rawat
(Posthumous)
Civil Service
Uttarakhand
4
Shri Kalyan Singh
(Posthumous)
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
Padma Bhushan (17)
5
Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad
Public Affairs
Jammu and Kashmir
6
Shri Victor Banerjee
Art
West Bengal
7
Ms. Gurmeet Bawa
(Posthumous)
Art
Punjab
8
Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Public Affairs
West Bengal
9
Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
10
Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo)
Trade and Industry
Telangana
11
Ms. Madhur Jaffery
Others-Culinary
United States of America
12
Shri Devendra Jhajharia
Sports
Rajasthan
13
Shri Rashid Khan
Art
Uttar Pradesh
14
Shri Rajiv Mehrishi
Civil Service
Rajasthan
15
Shri Satya Narayana Nadella
Trade and Industry
United States of America
16
Shri Sundararajan Pichai
Trade and Industry
United States of America
17
Shri Cyrus Poonawalla
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
18
Shri Sanjaya Rajaram
(Posthumous)
Science and Engineering
Mexico
19
Ms. Pratibha Ray
Literature and Education
Odisha
20
Swami Sachidanand
Literature and Education
Gujarat
21
Shri Vashishth Tripathi
Literature and Education
Uttar Pradesh
Padma Shri (107)
22
Shri Prahlad Rai Agarwala
Trade and Industry
West Bengal
23
Prof. Najma Akhtar
Literature and Education
Delhi
24
Shri Sumit Antil
Sports
Haryana
25
Shri T Senka Ao
Literature and Education
Nagaland
26
Ms. Kamalini Asthana and Ms. Nalini Asthana* (Duo)
Art
Uttar Pradesh
27
Shri Subbanna Ayyappan
Science and Engineering
Karnataka
28
Shri J K Bajaj
Literature and Education
Delhi
29
Shri Sirpi Balasubramaniam
Literature and Education
Tamil Nadu
30
Srimad Baba Balia
Social Work
Odisha
31
Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Science and Engineering
West Bengal
32
Ms. Madhuri Barthwal
Art
Uttarakhand
33
Shri Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat
Literature and Education
Ladakh
34
Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar
Medicine
Maharashtra
35
Shri Harmohinder Singh Bedi
Literature and Education
Punjab
36
Shri Pramod Bhagat
Sports
Odisha
37
Shri S Ballesh Bhajantri
Art
Tamil Nadu
38
Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia
Art
Sikkim
39
Shri Maria Christopher Byrski
Literature and Education
Poland
40
Acharya Chandanaji
Social Work
Bihar
41
Ms. Sulochana Chavan
Art
Maharashtra
42
Shri Neeraj Chopra
Sports
Haryana
43
Ms. Shakuntala Choudhary
Social Work
Assam
44
Shri Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil
Sports
Kerala
45
Shri S Damodaran
Social Work
Tamil Nadu
46
Shri Faisal Ali Dar
Sports
Jammu and Kashmir
47
Shri Jagjit Singh Dardi
Trade and Industry
Chandigarh
48
Dr. Prokar Dasgupta
Medicine
United Kingdom
49
Shri Aditya Prasad Dash
Science and Engineering
Odisha
50
50
Dr. Lata Desai
Medicine
Gujarat
51
Shri Malji bhai Desai
Public Affairs
Gujarat
52
Ms. Basanti Devi
Social Work
Uttarakhand
53
Ms. Lourembam Bino Devi
Art
Manipur
54
Ms. Muktamani Devi
Trade and Industry
Manipur
55
Ms. Shyamamani Devi
Art
Odisha
56
Shri Khalil Dhantejvi
(Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Gujarat
57
Shri Savaji Bhai Dholakia
Social Work
Gujarat
58
Shri Arjun Singh Dhurve
Art
Madhya Pradesh
59
Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre
Medicine
Maharashtra
60
Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi
Art
Rajasthan
61
Shri Dhaneswar Engti
Literature and Education
Assam
62
Shri Om Prakash Gandhi
Social Work
Haryana
63
Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati
Literature and Education
Andhra Pradesh
64
Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju
(Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Jharkhand
65
Shri Shaibal Gupta
(Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Bihar
66
Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru
Literature and Education
Odisha
67
Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan
(Posthumous)
Art
Andhra Pradesh
68
Shri Ryuko Hira
Trade and Industry
Japan
69
Ms. Sosamma Iype
Others - Animal Husbandry
Kerala
70
Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia
Literature and Education
Madhya Pradesh
71
Ms. Sowcar Janaki
Art
Tamil Nadu
72
Ms. Tara Jauhar
Literature and Education
Delhi
73
Ms. Vandana Kataria
Sports
Uttarakhand
74
Shri H R Keshavamurthy
Art
Karnataka
75
Shri Rutger Kortenhorst
Literature and Education
Ireland
76
Shri P Narayana Kurup
Literature and Education
Kerala
77
Ms. Avani Lekhara
Sports
Rajasthan
78
Shri Moti Lal Madan
Science and Engineering
Haryana
79
Shri Shivnath Mishra
Art
Uttar Pradesh
80
Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra
(Posthumous)
Medicine
Madhya Pradesh
81
Shri Darshanam Mogilaiah
Art
Telangana
82
Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra
(Posthumous)
Civil Service
Delhi
83
Shri Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan
Art
Puducherry
84
Ms. R Muthukannammal
Art
Tamil Nadu
85
Shri Abdul Khader Nadakattin
Others - Grassroots Innovation
Karnataka
86
Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik
Others - Agriculture
Karnataka
87
Shri Tsering Namgyal
Art
Ladakh
88
Shri A K C Natarajan
Art
Tamil Nadu
89
Shri V L Nghaka
Literature and Education
Mizoram
90
Shri Sonu Nigam
Art
Maharashtra
91
Shri Ram Sahay Panday
Art
Madhya Pradesh
92
Shri Chirapat Prapandavidya
Literature and Education
Thailand
93
Ms. K V Rabiya
Social Work
Kerala
94
Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi
Science and Engineering
Maharashtra
95
Shri Sheesh Ram
Art
Uttar Pradesh
96
Shri Ramachandraiah
Art
Telangana
97
Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao
Medicine
Andhra Pradesh
98
Ms. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai
Social Work
Gujarat
99
Ms. Padmaja Reddy
Art
Telangana
100
Guru Tulku Rinpoche
Others - Spiritualism
Arunachal Pradesh
101
Shri Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
Sports
Goa
102
Shri Vidyanand Sarek
Literature and Education
Himachal Pradesh
103
Shri Kali Pada Saren
Literature and Education
West Bengal
104
Dr. Veeraswamy Seshiah
Medicine
Tamil Nadu
105
Ms. Prabhaben Shah
Social Work
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
106
Shri Dilip Shahani
Literature and Education
Delhi
107
Shri Ram Dayal Sharma
Art
Rajasthan
108
Shri Vishwamurti Shastri
Literature and Education
Jammu and Kashmir
109
Ms. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan
Literature and Education
Russia
110
Shri Siddhalingaiah
(Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Karnataka
111
Shri Kaajee Singh
Art
West Bengal
112
Shri Konsam Ibomcha Singh
Art
Manipur
113
Shri Prem Singh
Social Work
Punjab
114
Shri Seth Pal Singh
Others - Agriculture
Uttar Pradesh
115
Ms. Vidya Vindu Singh
Literature and Education
Uttar Pradesh
116
Baba Iqbal Singh Ji
Social Work
Punjab
117
Dr. Bhimsen Singhal
Medicine
Maharashtra
118
Shri Sivananda
Others - Yoga
Uttar Pradesh
119
Shri Ajay Kumar Sonkar
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
120
Ms. Ajita Srivastava
Art
Uttar Pradesh
121
Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami
Others - Spiritualism
Goa
122
Dr. Balaji Tambe
(Posthumous)
Medicine
Maharashtra
123
Shri Raghuvendra Tanwar
Literature and Education
Haryana
124
Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi
Medicine
Uttar Pradesh
125
Ms. Lalita Vakil
Art
Himachal Pradesh
126
Ms. Durga Bai Vyam
Art
Madhya Pradesh
127
Shri Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas
Science and Engineering
Gujarat
128
Ms. Badaplin War
Literature and Education
Meghalaya

Note: * In Duo case, the Award is counted as one.


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