Padma Awards Announced, CDS Bipin Rawat, Serum Institue CEO, Bharat Biotech Founders Among Awardees. Full List HERE

Apart from Rawat, Prabha Atre, Radheyshyam Khemka (posthumous) and Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) have also been conferred with the Padma Vibhushan award.

New Delhi: The government of India on Tuesday announced the Padma Awards 2022.  This year, Chief Of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat will be conferred with Padma Vibhushan (posthumous). Apart from Rawat, vocalist Prabha Atre, former president of Geeta Press Radheyshyam Khemka (posthumous) and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) have also been conferred with the Padma Vibhushan award.

Cyrus Poonawalla, the CEO of Serum Institute of India, which manufactured Covishield, along with Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella, founder of Bharat Biotech, the manufactured Covaxin, have been awarded with Padma Bhushan, under Trade and Industry catagory, for their contribution in the fight against COVID-19. Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has also been conferred with Padma Bhushan under public affirs caragory.

Other among the notable receipients of Padma Shree are single Sonu Nigam and Opympian Neeraj Chopra.

The awards would be conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions at Rashtrapati Bhawan later in March or April. This year the President has approved conferment of 128 Padma Awards including two duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one). The list comprises four Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards.

List Of Padma Awardees

Padma Vibhushan

1.  Prabha Atre for Art
2. Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous) for Literature and Education
3. General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous) for Civil Service
4. Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) for Public Affairs

Padma Bhushan

1. Ghulam Nabi Azad for Public Affairs
2. Victor Banerjee for Art
3. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) for Art
4. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for Public Affairs
5. Natarajan Chandrasekaran for Trade and Industry
6. Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo) for Trade and Industry
7. Madhur Jaffery for Culinary
8. Devendra Jhajharia for Sports
9. Rashid Khan for Art
10. Rajiv Mehrishi for Civil Service
11. Satya Narayana Nadella for Trade and Industry
12. Sundararajan Pichai for Trade and Industry
13. Cyrus Poonawalla for Trade and Industry
14. Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous) for Science and Engineering
15. Pratibha Ray for Literature and Education
16. Swami Sachidanand for Literature and Education
17. Vashishth Tripathi for Literature and Education

Padma Shri

1. Prahlad Rai Agarwala for Trade and Industry
2. Professor Najma Akhtar for Literature and Education
3. Sumit Antil for Sports
4. T Senka Ao for Literature and Education
5. Kamalini Asthana and Ms. Nalini Asthana* (Duo) for Art
6. Subbanna Ayyappan for Science and Engineering
7. J K Bajaj f0r Literature and Education
8. Sirpi Balasubramaniam for Literature and Education
9. Srimad Baba Balia for Social Work
10. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay for Science and Engineering
11. Madhuri Barthwal for Art
12. Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat for Literature and Education
13. Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar for Medicine
14. Harmohinder Singh Bedi for Literature and Education
15. Pramod Bhagat for Sports
16. S Ballesh Bhajantri for Art
17. Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia for Art
18. Maria Christopher Byrski for Literature and Education
19. Acharya Chandanaji for Social Work
20. Sulochana Chavan for Art
21. Neeraj Chopra for Sports
22. Shakuntala Choudhary for Social Work
23. Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil for Sports
24. S Damodaran for Social Work
25. Faisal Ali Dar for Sports
26. Jagjit Singh Dardi for Trade and Industry
27. Dr. Prokar Dasgupta for Medicine
28. Aditya Prasad Dash for Science and Engineering
29. Dr. Lata Desai for Medicine
30. Malji bhai Desai for Public Affairs
31. Basanti Devi for Social Work
32. Lourembam Bino Devi for Art
33. Muktamani Devi for Trade and Industry
34. Shyamamani Devi for Art
35. Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) for Literature and Education
36. Savaji Bhai Dholakia for Social Work
37. Arjun Singh Dhurve for Art
38. Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre for Medicine
39. Chandraprakash Dwivedi for Art
40. Dhaneswar Engti for Literature and Education
41. Om Prakash Gandhi for Social Work
42. Narasimha Rao Garikapati for Literature and Education
43. Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous) for Literature and Education
44. Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) for Literature and Education
45. Narasingha Prasad Guru for Literature and Education
46. Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous) for Art
47. Ryuko Hira for Trade and Industry
48. Sosamma Iype for Animal Husbandry
49. Avadh Kishore Jadia for Literature and Education
50. Sowcar Janaki for Art
51. Tara Jauhar for Literature and Education
52. Vandana Kataria for Sports
53. H R Keshavamurthy for Art
54. Rutger Kortenhorst for Literature and Education
55. P Narayana Kurup for Literature and Education
56. Avani Lekhara for Sports
57. Moti Lal Madan for Science and Engineering
58. Shivnath Mishra for Art
59. Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) for Medicine
60. Darshanam Mogilaiah for Art
61. Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) for Civil Service
62. Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan for Art
63. R Muthukannammal for Art
64. Abdul Khader Nadakattin for Grassroots Innovation
65. Amai Mahalinga Naik for Agriculture
66. Tsering Namgyal for Art
67. A K C Natarajan for Art
68. V L Nghaka for Literature and Education
69. Sonu Nigam for Art
70. Ram Sahay Panday for Art
71. Chirapat Prapandavidya for Literature and Education
72. K V Rabiya for Social Work
73. Anil Kumar Rajvanshi for Science and Engineering
74. Sheesh Ram for Art
75. Ramachandraiah for Art
76. Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao for Medicine
77. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai for Social Work
78. Padmaja Reddy for Art
79. Guru Tulku Rinpoche for Spiritualism
80. Brahmanand Sankhwalkar for Sports
81. Vidyanand Sarek for Literature and Education
82. Kali Pada Saren for Literature and Education
83. Dr. Veeraswamy Seshiah for Medicine
84. Prabhaben Shah for Social Work
85. Dilip Shahani for Literature and Education
86. Ram Dayal Sharma for Art
87. Vishwamurti Shastri for Literature and Education
88. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan forLiterature and Education
89. Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous) for Literature and Education
90. Kaajee Singh for Art
91. Konsam Ibomcha Singh for Art
92. Prem Singh for Social Work
93. Seth Pal Singh for Agriculture
94. Vidya Vindu Singh for Literature and Education
95. Baba Iqbal Singh Ji for Social Work
96. Dr. Bhimsen Singhal for Medicine
97. Sivananda for Yoga
98. Ajay Kumar Sonkar for Science and Engineering
99. Ajita Srivastava for Art
100. Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami for Spiritualism
101. Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) for Medicine
102. Raghuvendra Tanwar for Literature and Education
103. Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi for Medicine
104. Lalita Vakil for Art
105. Durga Bai Vyam for Art
106. Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas for Science and Engineering
107. Badaplin War for Literature and Education

The Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian honours of India announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. The Awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of higher-order) and Padma Shri (distinguished service). The award seeks to recognize achievements in all fields of activities or disciplines where an element of public service is involved.

The Padma Awards are conferred on the recommendations made by the Padma Awards Committee, which is constituted by the Prime Minister every year. The nomination process is open to the public. Even self-nomination can be made.