Former Union ministers Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, George Fernandes, Olympian boxer Mary Kom, former Mauritius prime minister Anerood Gugnath, and Hindustani classical singer Chhannulal Mishrahave been posthumously awarded Padma Vibhushan, India’s second-highest civilian honour, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced today.
The Padma Vibhushan for this year has been awarded to a total of seven prominent personalities, while 16 have been given the Padma Bhushan, 118 have been given the Padma Shri on the 71st Republic Day this year. These awards are conferred by the President at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/April every year.
Former Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, former Nagaland chief minister SC Jamir and Jammu and Kashmir politician Muzaffar Hussain Baig, industrialists Anand Mahindra and Venu Shrinivasan, Architect Balkrishna Doshi, Olympian badminton player PV Sindhu, directors Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor, actor Kangana Ranaut, singer Adnan Sami and mathematician Vashishtha Narayan Singh (posthumously) and singer Suresh Wadkar have been awarded the Padma Bhushan, they said.
Current Indian women’s hockey captain Rani Rampal, former Indian women’s football team captain Oinam Bembem Devi, cricketer Zaheer Khan, former Indian men’s hockey player M P Ganesh, shooter Jitu Rai and archer Tarundeep Rai were among the six other sportspersons who figured in the list of the 118 Padma Shri awardees.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the recipients for their contributions in the respective fields via twitter.
‘Padma Vibhushan’, the highest Padma award, is given for exceptional and distinguished service, while ‘Padma Bhushan’ is given for distinguished service of a high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field.
Here is the full list of recipients:
Padma Vibhushan (7)
Anerood Jugnauth, GCSK Public Affairs, Mauritius
Arun Jaitley (Posthumous), Public Affairs, Delhi
Chhannulal Mishra, Art, Uttar Pradesh
George Fernandes (Posthumous), Public Affairs, Bihar
M. C. Mary Kom, Sports, Manipur
Sushma Swaraj (Posthumous), Public Affairs, Delhi
Vishveshateertha Swamiji (Posthumous), Others-Spiritualism, Karnataka
Padma Bhushan (16)
Ajoy Chakravorty, Art, West Bengal
Anand Mahindra, Trade and Industry, Maharashtra
Anil Prakash Joshi, Social Work, Uttarakhand
Balkrishna Doshi, Others-Architecture, Gujarat
Jagdish Sheth, Literature and Education, USA
Krishnammal Jagannathan, Social Work, Tamil Nadu
M. Mumtaz Ali (Sri M), Others-Spiritualism, Kerala
Manohar Parrikar (Posthumous), Public Affairs, Goa
Manoj Das, Literature & Education, Puducherry
Muzaffar Hussain Baig, Public Affairs, JK
N R Madhava Menon (Posthumous), Public Affairs, Kerala
P. V. Sindhu, Sports, Telangana
S. C. Jamir, Public Affairs, Nagaland
Syed Muazzem Ali (Posthumous), Public Affairs, Bangladesh
Tsering Landol, Medicine, Ladakh
Venu Srinivasan, Trade and Industry, Tamil Nadu
Padma Shri (118)
Abdul Jabbar (Posthumous), Social Work, Madhya Pradesh
Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra, Literature and Education, HP
Adnan Sami, Art, Maharashtra
Agus Indra Udayana, Social Work, Indonesia
Arunoday Mondal, Medicine, West Bengal
Bangalore Gangadhar, Medicine, Karnataka
Barry Gardiner, Public Affairs, United Kingdom
Batakrushna Sahoo, Animal Husbandry, Odisha
Benichandra Jamatia, Literature & Education, Tripura
Bharat Goenka, Trade and Industry, Karnataka
Bimal Kumar Jain, Social Work, Bihar
Binapani Mohanty, Literature and Education, Odisha
Bob Blackman, Public Affairs, United Kingdom
C. Kamlova, Literature and Education, Mizoram
Chewang Motup Goba, Trade and Industry, Ladakh
Chintala Venkat Reddy, Others-Agriculture, Telangana
Dalavai Chalapathi Rao, Art, Andhra Pradesh
Damayanti Beshra, Literature & Education, Odisha
Daya Prakash Sinha, Art, Uttar Pradesh
Digambar Behera, Medicine, Chandigarh
Ekta Kapoor, Art, Maharashtra
Enamul Haque, Others-Archaeology, Bangladesh
Gafurbhai M. Bilakhia, Trade and Industry, Gujarat
Gloria Arieira, Literature & Education, Brazil
Gurdip Singh, Medicine, Gujarat
Guru Shashadhar Acharya, Art, Jharkhand
H. M. Desai, Literature & Education, Gujarat
Harekala Hajabba, Social Work, Karnataka
Harish Chandra Verma, Science and Engineering, UP
Himmata Ram Bhambhu, Social Work, Rajasthan
Indira P. P. Bora, Art, Assam
Indra Dassanayake (Posthumous), Literature & Education, Sri Lanka
Jagdish Lal Ahuja, Social Work, Punjab
Jai Prakash Agarwal, Trade and Industry, Delhi
Javed Ahmad Tak, Social Work, JK
Jitu Rai, Sports, UP
Jogendra Nath Phukan, Literature and Education, Assam
Kalyan Singh Rawat, Social Work, Uttarakhand
Kangana Ranaut, Art, Maharashtra
Karan Johar, Art, Maharashtra
Kattungal Subramaniam Manilal, Science and Engineering, Kerala
Kazi Masum Akhtar, Literature & Education, West Bengal
Khan Zaheerkhan Bakhtiyarkhan, Sports, Maharashtra
KS Mahaboob & SM Subani (Duo), Art, Tamil Nadu
Kushal Konwar Sarma, Medicine, Assam
KV Sampath Kr & Vidushi Jayalakshmi KS (Duo), Lit & Edu-Journalism, Karnataka
Lalitha & Saroja Chidambaram (Duo), Art, Tamil Nadu
Leela Joshi, Medicine, Madhya Pradesh
Lia Diskin, Social, Work Brazil
Lil Bahadur Chettri, Literature & Education, Assam
M. P. Ganesh, Sports, Karnataka
Madan Singh Chauhan, Art, Chhattisgarh
Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh, Art, Jharkhand
Manilal Nag, Art, West Bengal
Manmohan Mahapatra (Posthumous), Art, Odisha
Manohar Devadoss, Art, Tamil Nadu
Meenakshi Jain, Literature & Education, Delhi
Mitrabhanu Gountia, Art, Odisha
MK Kunjol, Social Work, Kerala
Mohammed Sharif, Social Work, Uttar Pradesh
Moozhikkal Pankajakshi, Art, Kerala
Munna Master, Art, Rajasthan
N Chandrasekharan Nair, Literature and Education, Kerala
Narayan J. Joshi Karayal, Literature and Education, Gujarat
Narindar Nath Khanna, Medicine, Uttar Pradesh
Naveen Khanna, Science and Engineering, Delhi
Nemnath Jain, Trade and Industry, Madhya Pradesh
Oinam Bembem Devi, Sports, Manipur
Padmavathy Bandopadhyay, Medicine, Uttar Pradesh
Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji, Social Work, Maharashtra
Pradeep Thalappil, Science and Engineering, Tamil Nadu
Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik, Literature and Education, USA
Prem Watsa, Trade and Industry, Canada
Prithwindra Mukherjee, Literature and Education, France
Pu Lalbiakthanga Pachuau, Lit & Edu-Journalism, Mizoram
Purushottam Dadheech, Art, Madhya Pradesh
Radhammohan & Sabarmatee (Duo), Others-Agriculture, Odisha
Rahibai Soma Popere, Others-Agriculture, Maharashtra
Raman Gangakhedkar, Science & Engineering, Maharashtra
Ramjee Singh, Social Work, Bihar
Rani Rampal, Sports, Haryana
Ravi Kannan R., Medicine, Assam
Robert Thurman, Literature and Education, USA
Romesh Tekchand Wadhwani, Trade and Industry, USA
S. Ramakrishnan, Social Work, Tamil Nadu
Sandra Desa Souza, Medicine, Maharashtra
Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Trade and Industry, Uttar Pradesh
Sarita Joshi, Art, Maharashtra
Sathyanarayan Mundayoor, Social Work, Arunachal
Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri alias Sayedbhai, Social Work, Maharashtra
Shahbuddin Rathod, Literature and Education, Gujarat
Shanti Jain, Art, Bihar
Shanti Roy, Medicine, Bihar
Shiv Datt Nirmohi, Literature and Education, JK
Shri Sundaram Verma, Social Work, Rajasthan
Shyam Sunder Sharma, Ar,t Bihar
SP Kothari, Literature and Education, USA
Sudhir Jain, Science and Engineering, Gujarat
Sujoy K. Guha, Science & Engineering, Bihar
Suresh Wadkar, Art, Maharashtra
Sushovan Banerjee, Medicine, West Bengal
Tarundeep Rai, Sports, Sikkim
Tetsu Nakamura (Posthumous), Social Work, Afghanistan
Trinity Saioo, Others-Agriculture, Meghalaya
Tulasi Gowda, Social Work, Karnataka
Usha Chaumar, Social Work, Rajasthan
Ustad Anwar Khan Mangniyar, Art, Rajasthan
Utsav Charan Das, Art, Odisha
Vajira Chitrasena, Art, Sri Lanka
Vashishtha Narayan Singh (Posthumous), Science and Engineering, Bihar
Vijay Sankeshwar, Trade and Industry, Karnataka
Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam, Literature and Education, Telangana
VK Munusamy Krishnapakthar, Art, Puducherry
Yadla Gopalarao, Art, Andhra Pradesh
Yazdi Naoshirwan Karanjia, Art, Gujarat
Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi, Literature and Education, Arunachal
Yogesh Praveen, Literature and Education, UP
Yogi Aeron, Medicine, Uttarakhand
