PADMA AWARDS 2021

Jan. 26, 2021

This year the President has approved conferment of 119 Padma Awards including 1 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below.

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  • The list comprises 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri Awards. 29 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, 16 Posthumous awardees and 1 transgender awardee.

Padma Vibhushan (7)

  1. Shinzo Abe (Japan) - Public Affairs

  2. S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous) - Art

  3. Belle Monappa Hegde - Medicine

  4. Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) - Science and Engineering

  5. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan - Others: Spiritualism

  6. B. Lal - Others: Archaeology

  7. Sudarshan Sahoo – Art

Padma Bhushan (10)

  1. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra - Art

  2. Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) - Public Affairs

  3. Chandrashekhar Kambara - Literature and Education

  4. Sumitra Mahajan - Public Affairs

  5. Nripendra Misra - Civil Service

  6. Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) - Public Affairs

  7. Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) - Public Affairs

  8. Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) - Others: Spiritualism

  9. Rajnikant Devidas Shroff - Trade and Industry

  10. Tarlochan Singh - Public Affairs

Source : The Hindu

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