Actor Kangana Ranaut, filmmakers Karan Johar, and Ekta Kapoor, PV Sindhu, Rani Rampal are among the 119 Padma awardees this year. President Ramnath Kovind and Home Minister Amit Shah among others were also present at the prestigious ceremony. The official ceremony started today, November 8 and the ceremony was conducted at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi.
Kangana Ranaut, Karan Johar, and Ekta Kapoor were among the 102 people who received the prestigious Padma Shri awards. Well, they were also honored with the same award last year. They were honored by this award due to the contribution they added to the field of performing arts.
Padma Shri is the fourth-highest civilian award in India after Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, and Padma Bhushan.
Olympian PV Sindhu, women’s hockey team captain Rani Rampal were among those honored with coveted Padma Awards.
Late BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, and late singer SP Balasubramaniam were also honored with the award posthumously.
Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj received the Padma Vibhushan award on her behalf.
Other names who have been honored with the prestigious civilian awards include producer singers Suresh Wadkar and Adnan Sami, Hindustani classical exponent Pandit Chhannulal Mishra, former head scientist at ICMR Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar, Air Marshal Dr. Padma Bandopadhyay among others.
These awards are given for their hard work and contribution to their fields of activities such as art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, and civil service.
In total, 119 Padma Awards were presented by President Kovind this year, which includes 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan, and 102 Padma Shri Awards. While 29 of the awardees are women, 16 are posthumous awardees, and 1 transgender awardee.
Here’s the complete list of the awardees:
Padma Vibhushan:
George Fernandes
Arun Jaitley
Anerood Jugnauth GCSK
M. C. Mary Kom
Chhannulal Mishra
Sushma Swaraj
Vishveshateertha Swamiji Sri Pejavara
Adhokhaja Matha Udupi
Padma Bhushan:
M. Mumtaz Ali (Sri M)
Syed Muazzem Ali
Muzaffar Hussain Baig
Ajoy Chakravorty
Manoj Das
Balkrishna Doshi
Krishnammal Jagannathan
S. C. Jamir
Anil Prakash Joshi
Dr. Tsering Landol
Anand Mahindra
Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar
Jagdish Sheth
P. V. Sindhu
Venu Srinivasan
Padma Shri:
Guru Shashadhar Acharya
Dr. Yogi Aeron
Jai Prakash Agarwal
Jagdish Lal Ahuja
Kazi Masum Akhtar
Gloria Arieira
Khan Zaheerkhan Bakhtiyarkhan
Dr. Padmavathy Bandopadhyay
Dr. Sushovan Banerjee
Dr. Digambar Behera
Dr. Damayanti Beshra
Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji
Himmata Ram Bhambhu
Sanjeev Bikhchandani
Gafurbhai M. Bilakhia
Bob Blackman
Indira P. P. Bora
Madan Singh Chauhan
Usha Chaumar
Lil Bahadur Chettri
Ms. Lalitha & Ms. Saroja Chidambaram
Dr. Vajira Chitrasena
Dr. Purushottam Dadheech
Utsav Charan Das
Prof. Indra Dassanayake
M. Desai
Manohar Devadoss
Oinam Bembem Devi
Lia Diskin
P. Ganesh
Dr. Bangalore Gangadhar
Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar
Barry Gardiner
Chewang Motup Goba
Bharat Goenka
Yadla Gopalarao
Mitrabhanu Gountia
Tulasi Gowda
Sujoy K. Guha
Harekala Hajabba
Enamul Haque
Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh
Abdul Jabbar
Bimal Kumar Jain
Meenakshi Jain
Nemnath Jain
Shanti Jain
Sudhir Jain
Benichandra Jamatia
V. Sampath Kumar & Vidushi Jayalakshmi K.S
Karan Johar
Leela Joshi
Sarita Joshi
Kamlova
Dr. Ravi Kannan R.
Ekta Kapoor
Yazdi Naoshirwan Karanjia
Narayan J. Joshi Karayal
Narindar Nath Khanna
Naveen Khanna
P. Kothari
K. Munusamy Krishnapakthar
K. Kunjol
Manmohan Mahapatra
Ustad Anwar Khan Mangniyar
Kattungal Subramaniam Manilal
Munna Master
Prof. Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra
Binapani Mohanty
Dr. Arunoday Mondal
Dr. Prithwindra Mukherjee
Sathyanarayan Mundayoor
Manilal Nag
Chandrasekharan Nair
Dr. Tetsu Nakamura
Shiv Datt Nirmohi
Pu Lalbiakthanga Pachuau
Moozhikkal Pankajakshi
Dr. Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik
Jogendra Nath Phukan
Rahibai Soma Popere
Yogesh Praveen
Jitu Rai
Tarundeep Rai
Ramakrishnan
Rani Rampal
Kangana Ranaut
Dalavai Chalapathi Rao
Shahbuddin Rathod
Kalyan Singh Rawat
Chintala Venkat Reddy
Dr. Shanti Roy
Radhammohan & Sabarmatee
Batakrushna Sahoo
Trinity Saioo
Adnan Sami
Vijay Sankeshwar
Kushal Konwar Sarma
Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri alias Sayedbhai
Mohammed Sharif
Shyam Sunder Sharma
Dr. Gurdip Singh
Ramjee Singh
Vashishtha Narayan Singh
Daya Prakash Sinha
Dr. Sandra Desa Souza
Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam
Kalee Shabi Mahaboob & Sheik Mahaboob Subani
Javed Ahmad Tak
Pradeep Thalappil
Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi
Robert Thurman
Agus Indra Udayana
Harish Chandra Verma
Sundaram Verma
Dr. Romesh Tekchand Wadhwani
Suresh Wadkar
Prem Watsa
