This year, the Padma Awards were announced on the eve of Republic Day (26 January). Now, the Padma Awards distribution ceremony will be organized on 28 April at 6 pm in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Under this, the names of the personalities to be honored with Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri were announced. This year, President Draupadi Murmu has approved 139 Padma Awards. Which includes 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan. Apart from this, 113 Padma Shri awards have also been announced. President Draupadi Murmu will honor the Padma award winners.
In this, 13 persons will get the Padma Award posthumously. Which also includes the names of Bhojpuri singer Sharda Sinha (posthumously), Justice (Retired) Jagdish Singh Khehar and Suzuki Company’s Osamu Suzuki (posthumously), Bibek Debroy, Sushil Modi and Manohar Joshi (posthumously). This time, there are 23 women among the awardees. The list includes 10 foreigners, NRIs, PIOs, OCIs.
Padma Vibhushan (7)
Duvvur Nageswara Reddy
Former Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar
Kumudini Rajinikanth Lakhia
Lakshminarayan Subramaniam
M.T. Vasudevan Nair (posthumous)
Osamu Suzuki (posthumous)
Sharda Sinha (posthumous)
Padma Bhushan (19)
A Surya Prakash
Ananta Nag
Bibek Debroy (posthumous)
Jatin Goswami
Jose Chacko Periyappuram
Kailash Nath Dixit
Manohar Joshi (posthumous)
Nalli Kuppuswami Chetty
Nandamuri Balakrishna
P.R. Sreejesh
Pankaj Patel
Pankaj Udhas (posthumous)
Ram Bahadur Rai
Sadhvi Ritambhara
S Ajit Kumar
Shekhar Kapoor
Shobhana Chandrakumar
Sushil Kumar Modi (posthumous)
Vinod Dham
Padma Shri (113)
Adwaita Charan Gadnayak
Ram Chandra Palav
Ajay V Bhatt
Anil Kumar Boro
Arijit Singh
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Arunoday Saha
Arvind Sharma
Ashok Kumar Mohapatra
Ashok Laxman Saraf
Ashutosh Sharma
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande
Baijnath Maharaj
Barry Godfrey John
Begum Batul
Bharat Gupta
Bheru Singh Chauhan
Bhim Singh Bhavesh
Bhimavva Doddabalappa Sillekyathara
Budhendra Kumar Jain
C.S. Vaidyanathan
Chaitram Devchand Pawar
Chandrakant Sheth (posthumous)
Chandrakant Sompura
Chetan E Chitnis
David R Simlieh
Durga Charan Ranbir
Farooq Ahmad Mir
Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid
Geeta Upadhyaya
Gokul Chandra Das
Guruvayur Dorai
Harchandan Singh Bhatti
Hariman Sharma
Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale
Harvinder Singh
Hasan Raghu
Hemant Kumar
Hriday Narayan Dixit
Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (posthumous)(Double)
Inivalappil Mani Vijayan
Jagadish Joshila
Jaspinder Narula
Jonas Masetti
Joynacharan Bathery
Jumde Yomgam Gamlin
K. Damodaran
K.L. Krishna
K.Omankutty Amma
Kishore Kunal (posthumous)
L. Hungthing
Lakshmipathi Ramasubbaiyar
Lalit Kumar Mangotra
Lama Lobzang (posthumous)
Libya Lobo Sardesai
M.D. Srinivas
Madugula Nagphani Sarma
Mahavir Nayak
Mamata Shankar
Manda Krishna Madiga
Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampally
Miriala Apparao (posthumous)
Nagendra Nath Roy
Narayan (Bhulaibhai) (posthumous)
Naren Gurung
Neerja Bhatla
Nirmala Devi
Nitin Nohria
Omkar Singh Pahwa
P. Datchanamurthy
Pandi Ram Mandavi
Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai
Pawan Goenka
Prashant Prakash
Pratibha Satpathy
Purisai Kannappa Sambandhan
R. Ashwin
R.G. Chandramogan
Radha Bahin Bhatt
Radhakrishnan Devasenapati
Ramdarsh Mishra
Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar
Ratan Kumar Parimu
Reba Kanta Mahanta
Renthlei Lalrana
Ricky Gyan Kej
Sajjan Bhajanka
Sally Holkar
Sant Ram Deswal
Satyapal Singh
Seeni Viswanathan
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Sheikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Saba
Shein Kaf Nizam (Shiva Kishan Bissa)
Shyam Bihari Agrawal
Sonia Nityananda
Stephen Knapp
Subhash Khetulal Sharma
Suresh Harilal Soni
Surinder Kumar Vasal
Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj)
Syed Ainul Hasan
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar
Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi
Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla
Vadiraj Raghavendracharya Panchmukhi
Vasudev Kamath
Velu Asan
Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar
Vijay Nityananda Surishwarji Maharaj
Vijayalakshmi Deshmane
Vilas Dangre
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