Padma Awards: President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind presented the two Padma Vibhushan, eight Padma Bhushan and 54 Padma Shri Awards at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-I held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 21 March 2022.
This year a total of 128 Padma Awards are being conferred, including two duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one). The list of awardees comprises four Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards.
The Civil Investiture Ceremony-II is scheduled to be held on March 28.
Padma Vibhushan(4):
- Ms. Prabha Atre Art Maharashtra
- Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous) Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh
- General Bipin Rawat Civil Service Uttarakhand (Posthumous)
- Shri Kalyan Singh Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh (Posthumous)
Padma Bhushan(17):
- Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad Public Affairs Jammu and Kashmir
- Shri Victor Banerjee Art West Bengal
- Ms. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) Art Punjab
- Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Public Affairs West Bengal
- Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran Trade and Industry Maharashtra
- Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo) Trade and Industry Telangana
- Ms. Madhur Jaffery Others-Culinary
- Shri Devendra Jhajharia Sports Rajasthan
- Shri Rashid Khan Art Uttar Pradesh
- Shri Rajiv Mehrishi Civil Service Rajasthan
- Shri Satya Narayana Nadella Trade and Industry USA
- Shri Sundararajan Pichai Trade and Industry USA
- Shri Cyrus Poonawalla Trade and Industry Maharashtra
- Shri Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous) Science and Engineering Mexico
- Ms. Pratibha Ray Literature and Education Odisha
- Swami Sachidanand Literature and Education Gujarat
- Shri Vashishth Tripathi Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
Padma Shri(107):
- Shri Prahlad Rai Agarwala Trade and Industry West Bengal
- Prof. Najma Akhtar Literature and Education Delhi
- Shri Sumit Antil Sports Haryana
- Shri T Senka Ao Literature and Education Nagaland
- Ms. Kamalini Asthana and Ms.Nalini Asthana* (Duo) Art Uttar Pradesh
- Shri Subbanna Ayyappan Science and Engineering Karnataka
- Shri J K Bajaj Literature and Education Delhi
- Shri Sirpi Balasubramaniam Literature and Education Tamil Nadu
- Srimad Baba Balia Social Work Odisha
- Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Science and Engineering West Bengal
- Ms. Madhuri Barthwal Art Uttarakhand
- Shri Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat Literature and Education Ladakh
- Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar Medicine Maharashtra
- Shri Harmohinder Singh Bedi Literature and Education Punjab
- Shri Pramod Bhagat Sports Odisha
- Shri S Ballesh Bhajantri Art Tamil Nadu
- Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia Art Sikkim
- Shri Maria Christopher Byrski Literature and Education Poland
- Acharya Chandanaji Social Work Bihar
- Ms. Sulochana Chavan Art Maharashtra
- Shri Neeraj Chopra Sports Haryana
- Ms. Shakuntala Choudhary Social Work Assam
- Shri Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil Sports Kerala
- Shri S Damodaran Social Work Tamil Nadu
- Shri Faisal Ali Dar Sports J&K
- Shri Jagjit Singh Dardi Trade and Industry Chandigarh
- Dr. Prokar Dasgupta Medicine United Kingdom
- Shri Aditya Prasad Dash Science and Engineering Odisha
- Dr. Lata Desai Medicine Gujarat
- Shri Malji bhai Desai Public Affairs Gujarat
- Ms. Basanti Devi Social Work Uttarakhand
- Ms. Lourembam Bino Devi Art Manipur
- Ms. Muktamani Devi Trade and Industry Manipur
- Ms. Shyamamani Devi Art Odisha
- Shri Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) Literature and Education Gujarat
- Shri Savaji Bhai Dholakia Social Work Gujarat
- Shri Arjun Singh Dhurve Art Madhya Pradesh
- Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre Medicine Maharashtra
- Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi Art Rajasthan
- Shri Dhaneswar Engti Literature and Education Assam
- Shri Om Prakash Gandhi Social Work Haryana
- Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
- Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous) Literature and Education Jharkhand
- Shri Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) Literature and Education Bihar
- Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru Literature and Education Odisha
- Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous) Art Andhra Pradesh
- Shri Ryuko Hira Trade and Industry Japan
- Ms. Sosamma Type Others - Animal Husbandry Kerala
- Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh
- Ms. Sowcar Janaki Art Tamil Nadu
- Ms. Tara Jauhar Literature and Education Delhi
- Ms. Vandana Kataria Sports Uttarakhand
- Shri H R Keshavamurthy Art Karnataka
- Shri Rutger Kortenhorst Literature and Education Ireland
- Shri P Narayana Kurup Literature and Education Kerala
- Ms. Avani Lekhara Sports Rajasthan
- Shri Moti Lal Madan Science and Engineering Haryana
- Shri Shivnath Mishra Art Uttar Pradesh
- Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) Medicine Madhya Pradesh
- Shri Darshanam Mogilaiah Art Telangana
- Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) Civil Service Delhi
- 62.Shri Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan Art Puducherry
- 63.Ms. R Muthukannammal Art Tamil Nadu
- 64.Shri Abdul Khader Nadakattin Others - Grassroots Innovation Karnataka
- 65.Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik Others - Agriculture Karnataka
- 66.Shri Tsering Namgyal Art Ladakh
- 67.Shri A K C Natarajan Art Tamil Nadu
- 68.Shri V L Nghaka Literature and Education Mizoram
- 69.Shri Sonu Nigam Art Maharashtra
- 70.Shri Ram Sahay Panday Art Madhya Pradesh
- 71.Shri Chirapat Prapandavidya Literature and Education Thailand
- 72.Ms. K V Rabiya Social Work Kerala
- 73.Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi Science and Engineering Maharashtra
- 74.Shri Sheesh Ram Art Uttar Pradesh
- 75.Shri Ramachandraiah Art Telangana
- 76.Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao Medicine Andhra Pradesh
- 77.Ms. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai Social Work Gujarat
- 78.Ms. Padmaja Reddy Art Telangana
- 79.Guru Tulku Rinpoche Others - Spiritualism Arunachal Pradesh
- 80.Shri Brahmanand Sankhwalkar Sports Goa
- 81.Shri Vidyanand Sarek Literature and Education Himachal Pradesh
- 82.Shri Kali Pada Saren Literature and Education West Bengal
- 83.Dr. Veeraswamy Seshiah Medicine Tamil Nadu
- 84.Ms. Prabhaben Shah Social Work Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- 85.Shri Dilip Shahani Literature and Education Delhi
- 86.Shri Ram Dayal Sharma Art Rajasthan
- 87.Shri Vishwamurti Shastri Literature and Education J&K
- 88.Ms. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan Literature and Education Russia
- 89.Shri Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous) Literature and Education Karnataka
- 90.Shri Kaajee Singh Art West Bengal
- 91.Shri Konsam Ibomcha Singh Art Manipur
- 92.Shri Prem Singh Social Work Punjab
- 93.Shri Seth Pal Singh Others - Agriculture Uttar Pradesh
- 94.Ms. Vidya Vindu Singh Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
- 95.Baba Iqbal Singh Ji Social Work Punjab
- 96.Dr. Bhimsen Singhal Medicine Maharashtra
- 97.Shri Sivananda Others - Yoga Uttar Pradesh
- 98.Shri Ajay Kumar Sonkar Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh
- 99.Ms. Ajita Srivastava Art Uttar Pradesh
- 100.Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami Others - Spiritualism Goa
- 101.Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) Medicine Maharashtra
- 102.Shri Raghuvendra Tanwar Literature and Education Haryana
- 103.Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi Medicine Uttar Pradesh
- 104.Ms. Lalita Vakil Art Himachal Pradesh
- 105.Ms. Durga Bai Vyam Art Madhya Pradesh
- 106.Shri Jyantkumar Maganlal
- 107.Vyas Science and Engineering Gujarat
- 108. Ms. Badaplin War Literature and Education Meghalaya
About Padma Awards:
- Padma Awards are highest civilian awards in India.
- These awards are conferred in three categories- Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.
- They are presented by the President of India.
- The Padma Awards are being awarded to the citizens since 1954.
- The awards are being presented under the categories such as social work, art, science and engineering, public affairs, medicine, trade and industry, civil service, education, sports, 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.
