Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar, veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi, cricketer Virat Kohli, Olympic winner Sakshi Malik, paralympic gold medallist Mariyappan Thangavelu and acclaimed gymnast Dipa Karmakar are among the 2017 Padma awardees that were announced on Wednesday. This year, there were seven Padma Vibhushan awardees, as many Padma Bhushan recipients and 75 Padma Shri winners.
Pawar and Joshi are among the Padma Vibhushan recipients this year, along with spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev, scientist UR Rao, singer KJ Yesudas, late Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma and late Madhya Pradesh chief minister Sunder Lal Patwah. Among the Padma Bhushan winners were maestro Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, yogi Niranjana Nanda Saraswati and political analyst-cum-journalist late Cho Ramaswamy. The list of Padma Shri awardees featured 75 names, including Kohli, Malik, Karmakar, hockey player PR Sreejesh and discus thrower Vikas Gowda.
Non-resident Indians, including AIDS researcher late Suniti Solomon, surbahar artist Imrat Khan and Nepal-based social worker Anuradha Koirala are among the Padma Shri recipients. Film critic Bhawana Somaaya, kalaripayattu exponent Meenakshi Amma and singers Kailash Kher and Anuradha Paudwal will also be given this honour.
There will be no Bharat Ratna recipient this year. Tamil Nadu’s All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam had earlier asked the Centre to give the award to former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who died on December 5. The Madras High Court had dismissed the plea, saying that such decisions were made by the committee relegated with the job.
PADMA VIBHUSHAN
Sharad Pawar
Murli Manohar Joshi
PA Sangma (posthumous)
Sunder Lal Patwah
KJ Yesdudas
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Udipi Ramachandra Rao
PADMA BHUSHAN
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Devi Prasad Dwivedi
Tehemton Udwadia
Ratna Sundar Maharaj
Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (foreigner)
Late Shri Cho Ramaswamy (posthumous)
PADMA SHRI
Basanti Bisht
Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair
Aruna Mohanty
Bharathi Vishnuvardhan
Sadhu Meher
T K Murthy
Laishram Birendrakumar Singh
Krishna Ram Chaudhary
Baoa Devi
Tilak Gitai
Aekka Yadagiri Rao
Jitendra Haripal
Kailash Kher
Parassala B Ponnammal
Sukri Bommagowda
Mukund Nayak
Purushottam Upadhyay
Anuradha Paudwal
Wareppa Naba Nil
Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary
T.K. Viswanathan
Kanwal Sibal
Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla
Eli Ahmed
Narendra Kohli
G. Venkatasubbiah
Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri
Kashi Nath Pandita
Chamu Krishna Shastry
Harihar Kripalu Tripathi
Michel Danino
Punam Suri
VG Patel
V Koteswaramma
Balbir Dutt
Bhawana Somaaya
Vishnu Pandya
Subroto Das
Bhakti Yadav
Mohammed Abdul Waheed
Madan Madhav Godbole
Devendra Dayabhai Patel
Harkishan Singh
Mukut Minz
Arun Kumar Sharma
Sanjeev Kapoor
Meenakshi Amma
Genabhai Dargabhai Patel
Chandrakant Pithawa
Ajoy Kumar Ray
Chintakindi Mallesham
Jitendra Nath Goswami
Daripalli Ramaiah
Girish Bhardwaj
Karimul Hak
Bipin Ganatra
Nivedita Raghunath Bhide
Appasaheb Dharmadhikari
Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal
Virat Kohli
Shekar Naik
Vikasa Gowda
Deepa Malik
Mariyappan Thangavelu
Dipa Karmakar
P. R. Shreejesh
Sakshi Malik
Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu
Imrat Khan
Anant Agarwal
H.R. Shah
Suniti Solomon
Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya
Dr. Mapuskar
Anuradha Koirala
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