4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri awards announced

Bureau,Odishabarta

New Delhi: The Government on Tuesday announced 128 Padma awards, including four Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri awards, on the eve of the country’s 73rd Republic Day. Out of the 128 Padma awardees, 13 are posthumous, 34 are women, while 10 persons are from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and OCIs.

The four Padma Vibhushan recipients are — CDS General Bipin Rawat (Civil Service, Posthumous), Prabha Atre (Art), Kalyan Singh (Public Affairs, Posthumous) and Radheyashyam Khemka (Literature & Education, Posthumous).

Following is the list of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardees.

Padma Vibhushan:

Prabha Atre (Art)-Maharashtra. 2) Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous) (Literature & Education)-Uttar Pradesh. 3) General Bipin Rawat (Civil Service)-Uttarakhand (Posthumous). 4) Kalyan Singh (Public Affairs)-Uttar Pradesh (Posthumous).

Padma Bhushan:

5) Ghulam Nabi Azad (Public Affairs) -Jammu and Kashmir. 6) Victor Banerjee (Art)-West Bengal. 7) Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) (Art)-Punjab. 8) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Public Affairs)-West Bengal. 9) Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Trade and Industry)-Maharashtra. 10) Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella (Duo) (Trade and Industry)-Telangana. 11) Madhur Jaffery (Others-Culinary). 12) Devendra Jhajharia (Sports)-Rajasthan. 13) Rashid Khan (Art)-Uttar Pradesh. 14) Rajiv Mehrishi (Civil Service)-Rajasthan. 15) Satya Narayana Nadella (Trade and Industry)-US. 16) Sundararajan Pichai (Trade and Industry)-US. 17) Cyrus Poonawalla (Trade and Industry) -Maharashtra. 18) Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous) (Science and Engineering) – Mexico. Pratibha Ray (Literature and Education) – Odisha. 20) Swami Sachidanand (Literature and Education)-Gujarat. 21) Vashishth Tripathi (Literature and Education)-Uttar Pradesh.

Padma Shri

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

The Padma awards, the highest civilian awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
The Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service, while the Padma Bhushan is for distinguished service of high order and Padma Shri for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the eve of Republic Day every year.

The awards are conferred by the President at a ceremonial function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March-April.

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