The Government of India released the full list of the Padma Awardees along with the Bharat Ratna awards on Friday, on the eve of the Republic day. Considered as one of the highest civilian awards in the country, Padma awards are conferred in three different categories Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri.
Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service in various fields of activities. Padma Bhushan for distinguished service in high order and Padma Shri for distinguished service in any field.
The award ceremony of the Padma and Bharat Ratna awards will be held at Rashtrapati Bhawan during the months of March/April every year.
The list announced on Friday comprises 3 Bharat Ratna Awards, 4 Padma Vibhushan, 14 Padma Bhushan, and 94 Padma Shri Awards.
Bharat Ratna Awardees (3)
- Nanaji Deshmukh (awarded posthumously) (Maharashtra)
- Bhupen Hazarika (awarded posthumously) (Assam)
- Pranab Mukherjee (West Bengal)
Padma Vibhushan Awards (4)
- Teejan Bai (Chattisgarh)
- Shri Ismail Omar Guelleh (Djibouti)
- Shri Anilkumar Manibhai Naik (Maharashtra)
- Shri Balwant Moreshwar Purandare (Maharashtra)
Padma Bhushan (14)
- Shri John Chambers (USA)
- Shri Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (Punjab)
- Shri Pravin Gordhan (South Africa)
- Shri Mahashay Dharam Pal Gulati (Delhi)
- Shri Darshan Lal Jain (Haryana)
- Shri Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade (Maharashtra)
- Shri Kariya Munda (Jharkhand)
- Shri Budhaditya Mukherjee (West Bengal)
- Shri Mohanlal Viswanathan (Kerala)
- Shri S Nambi Narayan (Kerala)
- Shri Kuldip Nayar (Awarded Posthumously) (Delhi)
- Bachendri Pal (Uttarakhand)
- Shri V K Shunglu (Delhi)
- Shri Hukumdev Narayan Yadav (Bihar)
Padma Shri (94)
- Shri Rajeshwar Acharya (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri bangaru Adigalar (Tamil Nadu)
- Shri Illias Ali (Assam)
- Shri Manoj Bajpayee (Maharashtra)
- Shri Uddhab Kumar Bharali (Assam)
- Shri Omesh Kumar Bharti (Himachal Pradesh)
- Shri Pritam Bhartwan (Uttarakhand)
- Shri Jyoti Bhatt (Gujarat)
- Shri Dilip Chakravarty (Delhi)
- Shri Mammen Chandy (West Bengal)
- Shri Swapan Chaudhuri (West Bengal)
- Shri Kanwal Singh Chauhan (Haryana)
- Shri Sunil Chhetri (Telangana)
- Shri Dinyar Contractor (Maharashtra)
- Muktaben Pankajkumar Dagli (Gujarat)
- Shri Babulal Dahiya (Madhya Pradesh)
- Shri Thanga Darlong (Tripura)
- Shri Prabhu Deva (Karnataka)
- Rajkumari Devi (Bihar)
- Bhagirathi Devi (Bihar)
- Shri Baldev Singh Dhillon (Punjab)
- Harika Dronavalli (Andhra Pradesh)
- Shri Joravarsinh Jadav (Gujarat)
- Godawari Dutta (Bihar)
- Shri Gautam Gambhir (Delhi)
- Draupadi Ghimiray (Sikkim)
- Rohini Godbole (Karnataka)
- Shri Sandeep Guleria (Delhi)
- Shri Pratap Singh Hardia (Madhya Pradesh)
- Shri Bulu Imam (Jharkhand)
- Friederike Irina (Foreigner) (Germany)
- Shri Joravarsinh Jadav (Gujarat)
- Shri S Jaishankar (Delhi)
- Shri Narsingh Dev Jamwal (Jammu & Kashmir)
- Shri Fayaz Ahmad Jan (Jammu & Kashmir)
- Shri K G Jayan (Kerala)
- Shri Subhash Kak (USA)
- Shri Sharath Kamal (Tamil Nadu)
- Shri Rajani Kant (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri Sudam Kate (Maharashtra)
- Shri Waman Kendre (Maharashtra)
- Shri Kader Khan (Posthumous-Foreigner) (Canada)
- Shri Abdul Gafur Khatri (Gujarat)
- Shri Ravindra Kolhe (Duo)* (Maharashtra)
- Ms. Smita Kolhe (Duo)* (Maharashtra)
- Bombayla Devi Laishram (Manipur)
- Shri Kailash Madbaiya (Madhya Pradesh)
- Shri Ramesh Babaji Maharaj (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri Vallabhbhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya (Gujarat)
- Gita Mehta (Foreigner) (USA)
- Shri Shadab Mohammad (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri K K Muhammed (Kerala)
- Shri Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (Jharkhand)
- Shri Daitari Naik (Odisha)
- Shri Shankar Mahadevan Narayan (Maharashtra)
- Shri Shantanu Narayen (Foreigner) (USA)
- Nartaki Natraj (Tamil Nadu)
- Shri Tsering Norboo (Jammu & Kashmir)
- Shri Anup Ranjan Pandey (Chhattisgarh)
- Shri Jagdish Prasad Parikh (Rajasthan)
- Shri Ganpatbhai Patel (Foreigner) (USA)
- Shri Bimal Patel (Gujarat)
- Shri Hukumchand Patidar (Rajasthan)
- Madurai Chinna Pillai (Tamil Nadu)
- Tao Porchon-Lynch (Foreigner) (USA)
- Kamala Pujhari (Odisha)
- Shri Bajrang Punia (Haryana)
- Shri Jagat Ram (Chandigarh)
- Shri R V Ramani (Tamil Nadu)
- Shri Devarapalli Prakash Rao (Odisha)
- Shri Anup Sah (Uttarakhand)
- Milena Salvini (Foreigner) (France)
- Shri Nagindas Sanghavi (Maharashtra)
- Shri Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry (Telangana)
- Shri Shabbir Sayyad (Maharashtra)
- Shri Mahesh Sharma (Madhya Pradesh)
- Shri Mohammad Hanif Khan Shastri (Delhi)
- Shri Brijesh Kumar Shukla (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri Narendra Singh (Haryana)
- Prashanti Singh (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri Sultan Singh (Haryana)
- Shri Jyoti Kumar Sinha (Bihar)
- Shri Anandan Sivamani (Tamil Nadu)
- Sharada Srinivasan (Karnataka_
- Shri Devendra Swarup (Posthumous) (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri Ajay Thakur (Himachal Pradesh)
- Shri Rajeev Tharanath (Karnataka)
- Saalumarada Thimmakka (Karnataka)
- Jamuna Tudu (Jharkhand)
- Shri Bharat Bhushan Tyagi (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri Ramaswami Venkataswami (Tamil Nadu)
- Shri Ram Saran Verma (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri Swami Vishudhananda (Kerala)
- Shri Hiralal Yadav (Uttar Pradesh)
- Shri Venkateswara Rao Yadlapalli (Andhra Pradesh)
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