Shinzo Abe, SP Balasubramaniam Among 119 Recipients of Padma Awards | Check Full List

Here is the complete list of 119 recipients who have been honoured with Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awards this year.

Padma Awards 2021: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday announced the list of 119 recipients of Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Shri awards. On the eve of the Republic Day, the Home Ministry said that President Ram Nath Kovind has approved the conferment of 119 Padma awards — 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri.

Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe and late singer SP Balasubramaniam are among the recipients of India’s second-highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan, while no one has been named for the Bharat Ratna — India’s highest civilian award.

Former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi, ex-Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan and former Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan are among the 10 Padma Bhushan awardees announced on Monday,

And among the 102 Padma Shri awardees are former Governor of Goa Mridula Sinha, British film director Peter Brook, Father Vallés (posthumous) and Professor Chaman Lal Sapru (posthumous).

The awardees include 29 women and a transgender theatre artist Matha B Manjamma Jogati.

There are 10 persons from the category of foreigners, Non-Resident Indians (NRI), Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) PIO and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI), while 16 have been awarded posthumously.

Here is the complete list of 119 recipients who have been honoured with Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awards this year:

Padma Vibhushan (7)

The seven Padma Vibhushan awardees include Sand artist Sudarshan Sahoo, Belle Monappa Hegde, an eminent cardiologist from Karnataka, Indian-American physicist Narinder Singh Kapany (posthumous), Islamic scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and archaeologist BB Lal. SP Balasubramaniam has been given the award posthumously.

Padma Bhushan (10)

Former Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Nripendra Misra, religious leader Kalbe Sadiq (posthumous), and social worker Tarlochan Singh have been awarded Padma Bhushan.

Padma Bhushan awardees also include Carnatic musician Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, Kannada poet and playwright Chandrashekhar Kambara and industrialist Rajnikant Devidas Shroff.

Padma Shri (102)

Former governor late Mridula Sinha and former union minister Bijoya Bijoya Chakravarty are among Padma Shri winners.

The 102 Padma Shri awardees also include Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir, a veteran of the Bangladesh liberation war, artist Gulfam Ahmed from Uttar Pradesh, basketball player P Anitha from Tamil Nadu and litterateur Sujit Chattopadhyay from West Bengal.

Among the other awardees are table tennis player Mouma Das, physician from Punjab Rattan Lal Mittal, academician from Jammu and Kashmir Chaman Lal Sapru (posthumous) and social worker from Assam Birubala Rabha.