India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, who died in a helicopter crash last month, and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, late Kalyan Singh are among the four people who will receive the Padma Vibhushan, the Centre announced on Tuesday. The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award in India after the Bharat Ratna.
Rawat will get the award for his work in the field of civil service while Singh will receive it for his contribution to public affairs. The other two awardees are vocalist Prabha Atre for Art and Radheyshyam Khemka, the editor of Gita Press Trust’s monthly magazine, for literature.
Besides these, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards were announced.
Founders of Bharat Biotech Krishna Ella and his wife Suchitra Ella, Managing Director of the Serum Institute of India Cyrus S Poonawalla, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and actor Victor Banerjee are among those who were awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in the country.
Executive chairperson of Microsoft Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Google’s parent company Alphabet Sundar Pichai and food and travel writer Madhur Jaffery will also get the Padma Bhushan.
Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, owner of HMI Hotel Group Ryuko Hira, Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, singer Sonu Nigam, footballer Brahmanand Sankhwalkar, yoga guru Sivananda, among others will be the recipient of the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award.
The awards are given each year to civilians for their services in the fields.
President Ram Nath Kovind confers the awards at ceremonial functions held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March or April. This year 34 of the awardees are women.
The list also includes 10 persons who are either foreigners, Non-resident Indian, person of Indian origin or Overseas Citizen Of India and and 13 posthumous awardees.
Full list of recipients
Padma Vibhushan
- Prabha Atre
- Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous)
- General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous)
- Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous)
Padma Bhushan
- Ghulam Nabi Azad
- Victor Banerjee
- Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous)
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
- Natarajan Chandrasekaran
- Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella
- Madhur Jaffery
- Devendra Jhajharia
- Rashid Khan
- Rajiv Mehrishi
- Satya Narayana Nadella
- Sundararajan Pichai
- Cyrus Poonawalla
- Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous)
- Pratibha Ray
- Swami Sachidanand
- Vashishth Tripathi
Padma Shri
- Prahlad Rai Agarwala
- Najma Akhtar
- Sumit Antil
- T Senka Ao
- Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana
- Subbanna Ayyappan
- JK Bajaj
- Sirpi Balasubramaniam
- Srimad Baba Balia
- Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
- Madhuri Barthwal
- Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat
- Himmatrao Bawaskar
- Harmohinder Singh Bedi
- Pramod Bhagat
- S Ballesh Bhajantri
- Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia
- Maria Christopher Byrski
- Acharya Chandanaji
- Sulochana Chavan
- Neeraj Chopra
- Shakuntala Choudhary
- Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil
- S Damodaran
- Faisal Ali Dar
- Jagjit Singh Dardi
- Prokar Dasgupta
- Aditya Prasad Dash
- Lata Desai
- Malji bhai Desai
- Basanti Devi
- Lourembam Bino Devi
- Muktamani Devi
- Shyamamani Devi
- Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous)
- Savaji Bhai Dholakia
- Arjun Singh Dhurve
- Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre
- Chandraprakash Dwivedi
- Dhaneswar Engti
- Om Prakash Gandhi
- Narasimha Rao Garikapati
- Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous)
- Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous)
- Narasingha Prasad Guru
- Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous)
- Ryuko Hira
- Sosamma Iype
- Avadh Kishore Jadia
- Sowcar Janaki
- Tara Jauhar
- Vandana Kataria
- HR Keshavamurthy
- Rutger Kortenhorst
- P Narayana Kurup
- Avani Lekhara
- Moti Lal Madan
- Shivnath Mishra
- Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous)
- Darshanam Mogilaiah
- Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous)
- Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan
- R Muthukannammal
- Abdul Khader Nadakattin
- Amai Mahalinga Naik
- Tsering Namgyal
- AKC Natarajan
- VL Nghaka
- Sonu Nigam
- Ram Sahay Panday
- Chirapat Prapandavidya
- KV Rabiya
- Anil Kumar Rajvanshi
- Sheesh Ram
- Ramachandraiah
- Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao
- Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai
- Padmaja Reddy
- Guru Tulku Rinpoche
- Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
- Vidyanand Sarek
- Kali Pada Saren
- Veeraswamy Seshiah
- Prabhaben Shah
- Dilip Shahani
- Ram Dayal Sharma
- Vishwamurti Shastri
- Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan
- Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous)
- Kaajee Singh
- Konsam Ibomcha Singh
- Prem Singh
- Seth Pal Singh
- Vidya Vindu Singh
- Baba Iqbal Singh
- Bhimsen Singhal
- Sivananda
- Ajay Kumar Sonkar
- Ajita Srivastava
- Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami
- Balaji Tambe (Posthumous)
- Raghuvendra Tanwar
- Kamlakar Tripathi
- Lalita Vakil
- Durga Bai Vyam
- Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas
- Badaplin War
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