Government announced Padma Awards 2022 on the occasion of Republic Day on Tuesday.
Government has decided to honor CDS General Bipin Rawat & 3 other with Padma Vibhushan. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Alphate & Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Sirum Institute of India’s MD Cyrus Poonawalla, Shri Krishna Ella & Smt. Suchitra Ella of Bharat Biotech and 13 others will be conferred with Padma Bhushan.
Meanwhile, 2020 Tokyo Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, Singer Sonu Nigam and 105 others have been chosen for Padmashri.
Padma Awards is the 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. ‘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 128 Padma Awards. The list of Awards comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. Out of this 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.
Here is the list of Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan's awardees announced by the Government on the Occasion of Republic Day.
Padma Vibhushan (4)
SN Name Field State / Country
1 Ms. Prabha Atre Art Maharashtra
2 Shri Radheyshyam Khemka Literatureand Education Uttar Pradesh
3 General Bipin Rawat Civil Service Uttarakhand
4 Shri Kalyan Singh Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
Padma Bhushan (17)
5 Shri Ghulam NabiAzad Public Affairs Jammu and Kashmir
6 Shri Victor Banerjee Art West Bengal
7 Ms. Gurmeet Bawa Art Punjab
8 Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Public Affairs West Bengal
9 Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran Trade and Industry Maharashtra
10 Shri Krishna Ella & Smt.Suchitra Ella Trade and Industry Telangana
11 Ms. Madhur Jaffery Others-Culinary United States of America
12 Shri Devendra Jhajharia Sports Rajasthan
13 Shri Rashid Khan Art Uttar Pradesh
14 Shri Rajiv Mehrishi Civil Service Rajasthan
15 Shri Satya Narayana Nadella Trade and Industry United States of America
16 Shri Sundararajan Pichai Trade and Industry United States of America
17 Shri Cyrus Poonawalla Trade and Industry Maharashtra
18 Shri SanjayaRajaram Science and Engineering Mexico
19 Ms. Pratibha Ray Literature and Education Odisha
20 Swami Sachidanand Literature and Education Gujarat
21 Shri Vashishth Tripathi Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
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