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.
Padma Vibhushan (4)
SN Name Field State / Country
1 Ms. Prabha Atre Art Maharashtra
Shri Radheyshyam Khemka
2 Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
(Posthumous)
General Bipin Rawat
3 Civil Service Uttarakhand
(Posthumous)
Shri Kalyan Singh
4 Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
(Posthumous)
Padma Bhushan (17)
5 Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad Public Affairs Jammu and Kashmir
6 Shri Victor Banerjee Art West Bengal
Ms. Gurmeet Bawa
7 Art Punjab
(Posthumous)
8 Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Public Affairs West Bengal
, 9 Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran Trade and Industry Maharashtra
Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra
10 Trade and Industry Telangana
Ella* (Duo)
United States of
11 Ms. Madhur Jaffery Others-Culinary
America
12 Shri Devendra Jhajharia Sports Rajasthan
13 Shri Rashid Khan Art Uttar Pradesh
14 Shri Rajiv Mehrishi Civil Service Rajasthan
United States of
15 Shri Satya Narayana Nadella Trade and Industry
America
United States of
16 Shri Sundararajan Pichai Trade and Industry
America
17 Shri Cyrus Poonawalla Trade and Industry Maharashtra
Shri Sanjaya Rajaram
18 Science and Engineering Mexico
(Posthumous)
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
Ms. Kamalini Asthana and Ms.
26 Art Uttar Pradesh
Nalini Asthana* (Duo)
27 Shri Subbanna Ayyappan Science and Engineering Karnataka
28 Shri J K Bajaj Literature and Education Delhi
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