The winners of the prized Padma Awards were revealed by the central government on Saturday.
Every year on the eve of Republic Day, India announces the Padma Awards, one of its highest civilian honors.
Padma Vibhushan (for extraordinary and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (for distinguished service of higher degree), and Padma Shri (for distinguished service) are the three categories in which the awards are bestowed.
The award aims to honor accomplishments in any discipline or area of endeavor with a public service component. The Padma Awards Committee, which the prime minister annually appoints, makes recommendations that lead to the awarding of the Padma Awards.
The government has given out 113 Padma Shri, 19 Padma Bhushan, and 7 Padma Vibhushan awards this year. At a formal ceremony conducted at Rashtrapati Bhawan, often in March or April each year, the President bestows these honors.
Here's a full list of Padma Award winners:
Padma Vibhushan
- Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy
- Justice (Retd.) Jagdish Singh Khehar
- Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia
- Lakshminarayana Subramaniam
- MT Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous)
- Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous)
- Sharda Sinha (Posthumous)
Padma Bhushan
- A Surya Prakash
- Anant Nag
- Bibek Debroy (Posthumous)
- Jatin Goswami
- Jose Chacko Periappuram
- Kailash Nath Dikshit
- Manohar Joshi (Posthumous)
- Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti
- Nandamuri Balakrishna
- PR Sreejesh
- Pankaj Patel
- Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous)
- Rambahadur Rai
- Sadhvi Ritambhara
- S Ajith Kumar
- Shekhar Kapur
- Shobana Chandrakumar
- Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous)
- Vinod Dham
Padma Shri
- Advaita Charan Gadanayak
- Achyut Ramchandra Palav
- Ajay V Bhatt
- Anil Kumar Boro
- Arijit Singh
- Arundhati Bhattacharya
- Arunoday Saha
- Arvind Sharma
- Ashok Kumar Mahapatra
- Ashok Laxman Saraf
- Ashutosh Sharma
- Ashwini Bhide Deshpande
- Baijnath Maharaj
- Barry Godfray John
- Begam Batool
- Bharat Gupt
- Bheru Singh Chouhan
- Bhim Singh Bhavesh
- Bhimawa Doddabalappa Shiilekyathara
- Budhendra Kumar Jain
- C S Vaidyanathan
- Chaitram Deochand Pawar
- Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous)
- Chandrakant Sompura
- Chetan E Chitnis
- David R Syiemlieh
- Durga Charan Ranbir
- Farooq Ahmad Mir
- Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid
- Gita Upadhyay
- Gokul Chandra Das
- Guruvayur Dorai
- Harchandan Singh Bhatty
- Hariman Sharma
- Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale
- Harvinder Singh
- Hassan Raghu
- Hemant Kumar
- Hriday Narayan Dixit
- Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous)
- Inivalappil Mani Vijayan
- Jagadish Joshila
- Jaspinder Narula
- Jonas Masetti
- Joynacharan Bathari
- Jumde Yomgam Gamlin
- K. Damodaran
- K L Krishna
- K Omanakutty Amma
- Kishore Kunal (Posthumous)
- L Hangthing
- Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer
- Lalit Kumar Mangotra
- Lama Lobzang (Posthumous)
- Libia Lobo Sardesai
- M D Srinivas
- Madugula Nagaphani Sarma
- Mahabir Nayak
- Mamata Shankar
- Manda Krishna Madiga
- Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli
- Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous)
- Nagendra Nath Roy
- Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous)
- Naren Gurung
- Neerja Bhatla
- Nirmala Devi
- Nitin Nohria
- Onkar Singh Pahwa
- P Datchanamoorthy
- Pandi Ram Mandavi
- Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai
- Pawan Goenka
- Prashanth Prakash
- Pratibha Satpathy
- Purisai Kannappa Sambandan
- R Ashwin
- R G Chandramogan
- Radha Bahin Bhatt
- Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy
- Ramdarash Mishra
- Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar
- Ratan Kumar Parimoo
- Reba Kanta Mahanta
- Renthlei Lalrawna
- Ricky Gyan Kej
- Sajjan Bhajanka
- Sally Holkar
- Sant Ram Deswal
- Satyapal Singh
- Seeni Viswanathan
- Sethuraman Panchanathan
- Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
- Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa)
- Shyam Bihari Agrawal
- Soniya Nityanand
- Stephen Knapp
- Subhash Khetulal Sharma
- Suresh Harilal Soni
- Surinder Kumar Vasal
- Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj)
- Syed Ainu Hasan
- Tejendra Narayan Majumdar
- Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi
- Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla
- Vadiraj Raghavendracharya Panchamukhi
- Vasudeo Kamath
- Velu Assaan
- Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar
- Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj
- Vijayalakshmi Deshamane
- Vilas Dangre
- Vinayak Lohani