Vikrant Shekhawat : Jan 26, 2021, 08:28 AM
New Delhi: 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 has approved conferment of 119 Padma Awards including 1 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri Awards. 29 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, 16 Posthumous awardees and 1 transgender awardee.Padma Vibhushan (7)Shri Shinzo Abe - Public Affairs - JapanShri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous) - Art - Tamil NaduDr. Belle Monappa Hegde - Medicine - KarnatakaShri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) - Science and Engineering - United States of AmericaMaulana Wahiduddin Khan - Others - Spiritualism - DelhiShri B. B. Lal Others - Archaeology - DelhiShri Sudarshan Sahoo - Art - OdishaPadma Bhushan (10)Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra - Art - KeralaShri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) - Public Affairs - AssamShri Chandrashekhar Kambara - Literature and Education - KarnatakaMs. Sumitra Mahajan - Public Affairs - Madhya PradeshShri Nripendra Misra - Civil Service - Uttar PradeshShri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) - Public Affairs BiharShri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) Public Affairs GujaratShri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) Others-Spiritualism Uttar PradeshShri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff Trade and Industry MaharashtraShri Tarlochan Singh Public Affairs HaryanaPadma Shri (102)Shri Gulfam Ahmed Art Uttar PradeshMs. P. Anitha Sports Tamil NaduShri Rama Swamy Annavarapu Art Andhra PradeshShri Subbu Arumugam Art Tamil NaduShri Prakasarao Asavadi Literature and Education Andhra PradeshMs. Bhuri Bai Art Madhya PradeshShri Radhe Shyam Barle Art ChhattisgarhShri Dharma Narayan Barma Literature and Education West BengalMs. Lakhimi Baruah Social Work AssamShri Biren Kumar Basak Art West BengalMs. Rajni Bector Trade and Industry PunjabShri Peter Brook Art United KingdomMs. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak Social Work MizoramShri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat Art AssamBijoya Chakravarty Public Affairs AssamShri Sujit Chattopadhyay Literature and Education West BengalShri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous) Social Work Uttar PradeshShri Tsultrim Chonjor Social Work LadakhMs. Mouma Das Sports West BengalShri Srikant Datar Literature and Education United States of AmericaShri Narayan Debnath Art West BengalChutni Devi Social Work JharkhandMs. Dulari Devi Art BiharMs. Radhe Devi Art ManipurMs. Shanti Devi Social Work OdishaShri Wayan Dibia Art IndonesiaShri Dadudan Gadhavi Literature & Education GujaratShri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane Art MaharashtraShri Jai Bhagwan Goyal Literature and Education HaryanaShri Jagadish Chandra Halder Literature and Education West BengalShri Mangal Singh Hazowary Literature and Education AssamMs. Anshu Jamsenpa Sports Arunachal PradeshMs. Purnamasi Jani Art OdishaMatha B. Manjamma Jogati Art KarnatakaShri Damodaran Kaithapram Art KeralaShri Namdeo C Kamble Literature and Education MaharashtraShri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) * (Posthumous) Art GujaratShri Rajat Kumar Kar Literature and Education OdishaShri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap Literature and Education KarnatakaMs. Prakash Kaur Social Work PunjabShri Nicholas Kazanas Literature and Education GreeceShri K Kesavasamy Art PuducherryShri Ghulam Rasool Khan Art Jammu and KashmirShri Lakha Khan Art RajasthaMs. Sanjida Khatun Art BangladeshShri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar Art GoaMs. Niru Kumar Social Work DelhiMs. Lajwanti Art PunjabShri Rattan Lal Science and Engineering United States of AmericaShri Ali Manikfan Others-Grassroots Innovation LakshadweepShri Ramachandra Manjhi Art BiharShri Dulal Manki Art AssamShri Nanadro B Marak Others- Agriculture MeghalayaShri Rewben Mashangva Art ManipurShri Chandrakant Mehta Literature and Education GujaratDr. Rattan Lal Mittal Medicine PunjabShri Madhavan Nambiar Sports KeralaShri Shyam Sundar Paliwal Social Work RajasthanDr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav Medicine DelhiDr. J N Pande (Posthumous) Medicine DelhiShri Solomon Pappaiah Literature and Education- Journalism Tamil NaduMs. Pappammal Others- Agriculture Tamil NaduDr. Krishna Mohan Pathi Medicine OdishaMs. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat Trade and Industry MaharashtraShri Girish Prabhune Social Work MaharashtraShri Nanda Prusty Literature and Education OdishaShri K K Ramachandra Pulavar Art KeralaShri Balan Putheri Literature and Education KeralaMs. Birubala Rabha Social Work AssamShri Kanaka Raju Art TelanganaMs. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath Art Tamil NaduShri Satyaram Reang Art TripuraDr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo Medicine KeralaShri Ashok Kumar Sahu Medicine Uttar PradeshDr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay Medicine UttarakhandMs. Sindhutai Sapkal Social Work MaharashtraShri Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous) Literature and Education Jammu and KashmirShri Roman Sarmah Literature and Education- Journalism AssamShri Imran Shah Literature and Education AssamShri Prem Chand Sharma Others- Agriculture UttarakhandShri Arjun Singh Shekhawat Literature and Education RajasthanShri Ram Yatna Shukla Literature and Education Uttar PradeshShri Jitender Singh Shunty Social Work DelhiShri Kartar Paras Ram Singh Art Himachal PradeshShri Kartar Singh Art PunjabDr. Dilip Kumar Singh Medicine BiharShri Chandra Shekhar Singh Others-Agriculture Uttar PradeshMs. Sudha Hari Narayan Singh Sports Uttar PradeshShri Virender Singh Sports HaryanaMs. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous) Literature and Education BiharShri K C Sivasankar (Posthumous) Art Tamil NaduGuru Maa Kamali Soren Social Work West BengalShri Marachi Subburaman Social Work Tamil NaduShri P Subramanian (Posthumous) Trade and Industry Tamil NaduMs. Nidumolu Sumathi Art Andhra PradeshShri Kapil Tiwari Literature and Education Madhya PradeshFather Vallés (Posthumous) Literature and Education SpainDr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous) Medicine Tamil NaduShri Sridhar Vembu Trade and Industry Tamil NaduShri K Y Venkatesh Sports KarnatakaMs. Usha Yadav Literature and Education Uttar PradeshCol Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir Public Affairs Bangladesh