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 119 Padma Awards including 1 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri Awards. 29 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, 16 Posthumous awardees and 1 transgender awardee. Padma Vibhushan(7) SN Name Field State/Country 1. Shri Shinzo Abe Public Affairs Japan 2. Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous) Art Tamil Nadu 3. Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine Karnataka 4. Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) Science and Engineering United States of America 5. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Others- Spiritualism Delhi 6. Shri B. B. Lal Others- Archaeology Delhi 7. Shri Sudarshan Sahoo Art Odisha Padma Bhushan (10) 8. Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra Art Kerala 9. Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) Public Affairs Assam 10. Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara Literature and Education Karnataka 11. Ms. Sumitra Mahajan Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh 12. Shri Nripendra Misra Civil Service Uttar Pradesh 13. Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) Public Affairs Bihar 14. Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) Public Affairs Gujarat 15. Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) Others-Spiritualism Uttar Pradesh 16. Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff Trade and Industry Maharashtra 17. Shri Tarlochan Singh Public Affairs Haryana Padma Shri (102) 18. Shri Gulfam Ahmed Art Uttar Pradesh 19. Ms. P. Anitha Sports Tamil Nadu 20. Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu Art Andhra Pradesh 21. Shri Subbu Arumugam Art Tamil Nadu 22. Shri Prakasarao Asavadi Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh 23. Ms. Bhuri Bai Art Madhya Pradesh 24. Shri Radhe Shyam Barle Art Chhattisgarh 25. Shri Dharma Narayan Barma Literature and Education West Bengal 26. Ms. Lakhimi Baruah Social Work Assam 27. Shri Biren Kumar Basak Art West Bengal 28. Ms. Rajni Bector Trade and Industry Punjab 29. Shri Peter Brook Art United Kingdom 30. Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak Social Work Mizoram 31. Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat Art Assam 32. Ms. Bijoya Chakravarty Public Affairs Assam 33. Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay Literature and Education West Bengal 34. Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous) Social Work Uttar Pradesh 35. Shri Tsultrim Chonjor Social Work Ladakh 36. Ms. Mouma Das Sports West Bengal 37. Shri Srikant Datar Literature and Education United States of America 38. Shri Narayan Debnath Art West Bengal 39. Ms. Chutni Devi Social Work Jharkhand 40. Ms. Dulari Devi Art Bihar 41. Ms. Radhe Devi Art Manipur 42. Ms. Shanti Devi Social Work Odisha 43. Shri Wayan Dibia Art Indonesia 44. Shri Dadudan Gadhavi Literature & Education Gujarat 45. Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane Art Maharashtra 46. Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal Literature and Education Haryana 47. Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder Literature and Education West Bengal 48. Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary Literature and Education Assam 49. Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa Sports Arunachal Pradesh 50. Ms. Purnamasi Jani Art Odisha 51. Matha B. Manjamma Jogati Art Karnataka 52. Shri Damodaran Kaithapram Art Kerala 53. Shri Namdeo C Kamble Literature and Education Maharashtra 54. Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) * (Posthumous) Art Gujarat 55. Shri Rajat Kumar Kar Literature and Education Odisha 56. Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap Literature and Education Karnataka 57. Ms. Prakash Kaur Social Work Punjab 58. Shri Nicholas Kazanas Literature and Education Greece 59. Shri K Kesavasamy Art Puducherry 60. Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan Art Jammu and Kashmir 61. Shri Lakha Khan Art Rajasthan 62. Ms. Sanjida Khatun Art Bangladesh 63. Shri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar Art Goa 64. Ms. Niru Kumar Social Work Delhi 65. Ms. Lajwanti Art Punjab 66. Shri Rattan Lal Science and Engineering United States of America 67. Shri Ali Manikfan Others-Grassroots Innovation Lakshadweep 68. Shri Ramachandra Manjhi Art Bihar 69. Shri Dulal Manki Art Assam 70. Shri Nanadro B Marak Others- Agriculture Meghalaya 71. Shri Rewben Mashangva Art Manipur 72. Shri Chandrakant Mehta Literature and Education Gujarat 73. Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal Medicine Punjab 74. Shri Madhavan Nambiar Sports Kerala 75. Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal Social Work Rajasthan 76. Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav Medicine Delhi 77. Dr. J N Pande (Posthumous) Medicine Delhi 78. Shri Solomon Pappaiah Literature and Education- Journalism Tamil Nadu 79. Ms. Pappammal Others- Agriculture Tamil Nadu 80. Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi Medicine Odisha 81. Ms. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat Trade and Industry Maharashtra 82. Shri Girish Prabhune Social Work Maharashtra 83. Shri Nanda Prusty Literature and Education Odisha 84. Shri K K Ramachandra Pulavar Art Kerala 85. Shri Balan Putheri Literature and Education Kerala 86. Ms. Birubala Rabha Social Work Assam 87. Shri Kanaka Raju Art Telangana 88. Ms. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath Art Tamil Nadu 89. Shri Satyaram Reang Art Tripura 90. Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo Medicine Kerala 91. Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu Medicine Uttar Pradesh 92. Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay Medicine Uttarakhand 93. Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal Social Work Maharashtra 94. Shri Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous) Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir 95. Shri Roman Sarmah Literature and Education- Journalism Assam 96. Shri Imran Shah Literature and Education Assam 97. Shri Prem Chand Sharma Others- Agriculture Uttarakhand 98. Shri Arjun Singh Shekhawat Literature and Education Rajasthan 99. Shri Ram Yatna Shukla Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 100. Shri Jitender Singh Shunty Social Work Delhi 101. Shri Kartar Paras Ram Singh Art Himachal Pradesh 102. Shri Kartar Singh Art Punjab 103. Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh Medicine Bihar 104. Shri Chandra Shekhar Singh Others-Agriculture Uttar Pradesh 105. Ms. Sudha Hari Narayan Singh Sports Uttar Pradesh 106. Shri Virender Singh Sports Haryana 107. Ms. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous) Literature and Education Bihar 108. Shri K C Sivasankar (Posthumous) Art Tamil Nadu 109. Guru Maa Kamali Soren Social Work West Bengal 110. Shri Marachi Subburaman Social Work Tamil Nadu 111. Shri P Subramanian (Posthumous) Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 112. Ms. Nidumolu Sumathi Art Andhra Pradesh 113. Shri Kapil Tiwari Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh 114. Father Vallés (Posthumous) Literature and Education Spain 115. Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous) Medicine Tamil Nadu 116. Shri Sridhar Vembu Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 117. Shri K Y Venkatesh Sports Karnataka 118. Ms. Usha Yadav Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 119. Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir Public Affairs Bangladesh Note: * In duo case, the award is counted as one.
