Padma Awards 2022 Announced

The list comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. 34 of the awardees are women.

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Padma Awards – one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President has approved conferment of 128 Padma Awards including 2 duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one) as per the list below. The list comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards.  34 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.

Padma Vibhushan (4)

 SN Name Field State/Country
      1 Ms Prabha Atre Art Maharashtra
     2 Shri Radheyshyam Khemka

(Posthumous)

Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
     3 General Bipin Rawat

(Posthumous)

Civil Service Uttarakhand
     4 Shri Kalyan Singh

(Posthumous)

Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh

Padma Bhushan (17)

      5 Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad Public Affairs Jammu and Kashmir
     6 Shri Victor Banerjee Art West Bengal
     7 Ms. Gurmeet Bawa

(Posthumous)

Art Punjab
     8 Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Public Affairs West Bengal
    9 Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran Trade and Industry Maharashtra
    10 Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo) Trade and Industry Telangana
     11 Ms Madhur Jaffery Others-Culinary United States of America
     12 Shri Devendra Jhajharia Sports Rajasthan
    13 Shri Rashid Khan Art Uttar Pradesh
    14 Shri Rajiv Mehrishi Civil Service Rajasthan
    15 Shri Satya Narayana Nadella Trade and Industry United States of America
    16 Shri Sundararajan Pichai Trade and Industry United States of America
    17 Shri Cyrus Poonawalla Trade and Industry Maharashtra
    18 Shri Sanjaya Rajaram

(Posthumous)

Science and Engineering Mexico
    19 Ms. Pratibha Ray Literature and Education Odisha
    20 Swami Sachidanand Literature and Education Gujarat
     21 Shri Vashishth Tripathi Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh

Padma Shri (107)

     22 Shri Prahlad Rai Agarwala Trade and Industry West Bengal
    23 Prof. Najma Akhtar Literature and Education Delhi
    24 Shri SumitAntil Sports Haryana
    25 Shri T SenkaAo Literature and Education Nagaland
    26 Ms. Kamalini Asthana and Ms. Nalini Asthana* (Duo) Art Uttar Pradesh
     27 Shri Subbanna Ayyappan Science and Engineering Karnataka
    28 Shri J K Bajaj Literature and Education Delhi
    29 Shri SirpiBalasubramaniam Literature and Education Tamil Nadu
     30 Srimad Baba Balia Social Work Odisha
     31 Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Science and Engineering West Bengal
    32 Ms. Madhuri Barthwal Art Uttarakhand
    33 Shri AkhoneAsgar Ali Basharat Literature and Education Ladakh
    34 Dr. HimmatraoBawaskar Medicine Maharashtra
    35 Shri Harmohinder Singh Bedi Literature and Education Punjab
    36 Shri Pramod Bhagat Sports Odisha
    37 Shri S BalleshBhajantri Art Tamil Nadu
    38 Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia Art Sikkim
    39 Shri Maria Christopher Byrski Literature and Education Poland
    40 Acharya Chandanaji Social Work Bihar
    41 Ms. Sulochana Chavan Art Maharashtra
    42 Shri Neeraj Chopra Sports Haryana
    43 Ms. Shakuntala Choudhary Social Work Assam
    44 Shri Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil Sports Kerala
    45 Shri S Damodaran Social Work Tamil Nadu
    46 Shri Faisal Ali Dar Sports Jammu and Kashmir
    47 Shri Jagjit Singh Dardi Trade and Industry Chandigarh
    48 Dr. Prokar Dasgupta Medicine United Kingdom
    49 Shri Aditya Prasad Dash Science and Engineering Odisha
    50 Dr. Lata Desai Medicine Gujarat
    51 Shri Malji bhai Desai Public Affairs Gujarat
    52 Ms. Basanti Devi Social Work Uttarakhand
    53 Ms. Lourembam Bino Devi Art Manipur
   54 Ms. Muktamani Devi Trade and Industry Manipur
   55 Ms. Shyamamani Devi Art Odisha
   56 Shri Khalil Dhantejvi

(Posthumous)

Literature and Education Gujarat
    57 Shri Savaji Bhai Dholakia Social Work Gujarat
   58 Shri Arjun Singh Dhurve Art Madhya Pradesh
   59 Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre Medicine Maharashtra
    60 Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi Art Rajasthan
    61 Shri DhaneswarEngti Literature and Education Assam
    62 Shri Om Prakash Gandhi Social Work Haryana
   63 Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
   64 Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju

(Posthumous)

Literature and Education Jharkhand
   65 Shri Shaibal Gupta

(Posthumous)

Literature and Education Bihar
    66 Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru Literature and Education Odisha
    67 Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan

(Posthumous)

Art Andhra Pradesh
   68 Shri Ryuko Hira Trade and Industry Japan
   69 Ms. SosammaIype Others – Animal Husbandry Kerala
   70 Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh
   71 Ms. Sowcar Janaki Art Tamil Nadu
    72 Ms. Tara Jauhar Literature and Education Delhi
   73 Ms. Vandana Kataria Sports Uttarakhand
   75 Shri H R Keshavamurthy Art Karnataka
    76 Shri RutgerKortenhorst Literature and Education Ireland
    77 Shri P Narayana Kurup Literature and Education Kerala
   78 Ms. AvaniLekhara Sports Rajasthan
   79 Shri Moti Lal Madan Science and Engineering Haryana
   80 Shri Shivnath Mishra Art Uttar Pradesh
    81 Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra

(Posthumous)

Medicine Madhya Pradesh
    82 Shri DarshanamMogilaiah Art Telangana
    83 Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra

(Posthumous)

Civil Service Delhi
    84 Shri ThavilKongampattu A V Murugaiyan Art Puducherry
   85 Ms. R Muthukannammal Art Tamil Nadu
   86 Shri Abdul Khader Nadakattin Others – Grassroots Innovation Karnataka
    87 Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik Others – Agriculture Karnataka
    88 Shri Tsering Namgyal Art Ladakh
    89 Shri A K C Natarajan Art Tamil Nadu
    90 Shri V L Nghaka Literature and Education Mizoram
    91 Shri Sonu Nigam Art Maharashtra
    92 Shri Ram Sahay Panday Art Madhya Pradesh
    93 Shri ChirapatPrapandavidya Literature and Education Thailand
    94 Ms. K V Rabiya Social Work Kerala
    95 Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi Science and Engineering Maharashtra
    96 Shri Sheesh Ram Art Uttar Pradesh
    97 Shri Ramachandraiah Art Telangana
    98 Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao Medicine Andhra Pradesh
    99 Ms. GamitRamilabenRaysingbhai Social Work Gujarat
   100 Ms. Padmaja Reddy Art Telangana
    101 Guru Tulku Rinpoche Others – Spiritualism Arunachal Pradesh
   102 Shri BrahmanandSankhwalkar Sports Goa
    103 Shri VidyanandSarek Literature and Education Himachal Pradesh
    104 Shri Kali Pada Saren Literature and Education West Bengal
   105 Dr. VeeraswamySeshiah Medicine Tamil Nadu
   106 Ms. Prabhaben Shah Social Work Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
   107 Shri Dilip Shahani Literature and Education Delhi
    108 Shri Ram Dayal Sharma Art Rajasthan
    109 Shri Vishwamurti Shastri Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir
    110 Ms. Tatiana LvovnaShaumyan Literature and Education Russia
    111 Shri Siddhalingaiah

(Posthumous)

Literature and Education Karnataka
    112 Shri Kaajee Singh Art West Bengal
    113 Shri KonsamIbomcha Singh Art Manipur
    114 Shri Prem Singh Social Work Punjab
    115 Shri Seth Pal Singh Others – Agriculture Uttar Pradesh
    116 Ms. Vidya Vindu Singh Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
    117 Baba Iqbal Singh Ji Social Work Punjab
    118 Dr. Bhimsen Singhal Medicine Maharashtra
   119 Shri Sivananda Others – Yoga Uttar Pradesh
   120 Shri Ajay Kumar Sonkar Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh
    121 Ms. Ajita Srivastava Art Uttar Pradesh
    122 Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami Others – Spiritualism Goa
    123 Dr. Balaji Tambe

(Posthumous)

Medicine Maharashtra
    124 Shri RaghuvendraTanwar Literature and Education Haryana
    125 Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi Medicine Uttar Pradesh
    126 Ms. Lalita Vakil Art Himachal Pradesh
    127 Ms. Durga Bai Vyam Art Madhya Pradesh
    128 Shri JyantkumarMaganlal Vyas Science and Engineering Gujarat
    129 Ms. Badaplin War Literature and Education Meghalaya

Note: * In Duo case, the Award is counted as one.