Padma Awards 2021 Announced: See Full List Of Recipients

Jan 26, 2021, 14:43 IST

Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on the eve of Republic Day 2021 announced the recipients for Padma awards. This year the President has approved the conferment of 119 Padma Awards.

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 a 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 the conferment of 119 Padma Awards including 1 duo case (in a duo case, the award is counted as one) as per the list below. 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)

Shri Shinzo Abe - Public Affairs - Japan
Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous) - Art - Tamil Nadu
Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde - Medicine - Karnataka
Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) - Science and Engineering - United States of America
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan - Others - Spiritualism - Delhi
Shri B. B. Lal Others - Archaeology - Delhi
Shri Sudarshan Sahoo - Art - Odisha

Padma Bhushan (10)

Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra - Art - Kerala
Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) - Public Affairs - Assam
Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara - Literature and Education - Karnataka
Ms. Sumitra Mahajan - Public Affairs - Madhya Pradesh
Shri Nripendra Misra - Civil Service - Uttar Pradesh
Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) - Public Affairs - Bihar
Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) - Public Affairs - Gujarat
Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) Others -Spiritualism - Uttar Pradesh
Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra
Shri Tarlochan Singh - Public Affairs - Haryana

Padma Shri (102)

Shri Gulfam Ahmed - Art - Uttar Pradesh
Ms. P. Anitha – Sports - Tamil Nadu
Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu – Art - Andhra Pradesh
Shri Subbu Arumugam - Art - Tamil Nadu
Shri Prakasarao Asavadi - Literature and Education - Andhra Pradesh
Ms. Bhuri Bai - Art - Madhya Pradesh
Shri Radhe Shyam Barle - Art - Chhattisgarh
Shri Dharma Narayan Barma - Literature and Education - West Bengal
Ms. Lakhimi Baruah - Social Work - Assam
Shri Biren Kumar Basak - Art - West Bengal
Ms. Rajni Bector - Trade and Industry - Punjab
Shri Peter Brook - Art - United Kingdom
Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak - Social Work - Mizoram
Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat - Art - Assam
Bijoya Chakravarty - Public Affairs - Assam
Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay - Literature and Education - West Bengal
Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous)- Social Work - Uttar Pradesh
Shri Tsultrim Chonjor - Social Work - Ladakh
Ms. Mouma Das - Sports - West Bengal
Shri Srikant Datar - Literature and Education - United States of America
Shri Narayan Debnath - Art - West Bengal
Chutni Devi - Social Work - Jharkhand
Ms. Dulari Devi - Art - Bihar
Ms. Radhe Devi - Art - Manipur
Ms. Shanti Devi - Social Work - Odisha
Shri Wayan Dibia – Art - Indonesia
Shri Dadudan Gadhavi - Literature & Education - Gujarat
Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane - Art - Maharashtra
Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal - Literature and Education - Haryana
Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder - Literature and Education - West Bengal
Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary - Literature and Education - Assam
Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa - Sports - Arunachal Pradesh
Ms. Purnamasi Jani - Art - Odisha
Matha B. Manjamma Jogati - Art - Karnataka
Shri Damodaran Kaithapram - Art - Kerala
Shri Namdeo C Kamble - Literature and Education - Maharashtra
Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) * (Posthumous) - Art - Gujarat
Shri Rajat Kumar Kar - Literature and Education - Odisha
Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap - Literature and Education - Karnataka
Ms. Prakash Kaur - Social Work - Punjab
Shri Nicholas Kazanas - Literature and Education - Greece
Shri K Kesavasamy – Art- Puducherry
Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan - Art - Jammu and Kashmir
Shri Lakha Khan - Art - Rajasthan
Ms. Sanjida Khatun - Art - Bangladesh
Shri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar - Art - Goa
Ms. Niru Kumar - Social Work - Delhi
Ms. Lajwanti - Art - Punjab
Shri Rattan Lal - Science and Engineering - United States of America
Shri Ali Manikfan Others -Grassroots Innovation - Lakshadweep
Shri Ramachandra Manjhi - Art - Bihar
Shri Dulal Manki - Art - Assam
Shri Nanadro B Marak Others – Agriculture - Meghalaya
Shri Rewben Mashangva - Art - Manipur
Shri Chandrakant Mehta - Literature and Education - Gujarat
Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal - Medicine - Punjab
Shri Madhavan Nambiar - Sports - Kerala
Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal - Social Work - Rajasthan
Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav – Medicine - Delhi
Dr. J N Pande (Posthumous) – Medicine - Delhi
Shri Solomon Pappaiah - Literature and Education - Journalism Tamil Nadu
Ms. Pappammal Others – Agriculture - Tamil Nadu
Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi - Medicine - Odisha
Ms. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra
Shri Girish Prabhune - Social Work - Maharashtra
Shri Nanda Prusty - Literature and Education - Odisha
Shri K K Ramachandra Pulavar - Art - Kerala
Shri Balan Putheri - Literature and Education - Kerala
Ms. Birubala Rabha - Social Work - Assam
Shri Kanaka Raju - Art - Telangana
Ms. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath - Art - Tamil Nadu
Shri Satyaram Reang - Art - Tripura
Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo - Medicine - Kerala
Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu - Medicine - Uttar Pradesh
Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay - Medicine - Uttarakhand
Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal - Social Work - Maharashtra
Shri Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous) – Literature and Education - Jammu and Kashmir
Shri Roman Sarmah - Literature and Education – Journalism - Assam
Shri Imran Shah - Literature and Education - Assam
Shri Prem Chand Sharma Others - Agriculture - Uttarakhand
Shri Arjun Singh Shekhawat - Literature and Education - Rajasthan
Shri Ram Yatna Shukla - Literature and Education - Uttar Pradesh
Shri Jitender Singh Shunty - Social Work - Delhi
Shri Kartar Paras Ram Singh - Art - Himachal Pradesh
Shri Kartar Singh - Art - Punjab
Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh - Medicine – Bihar
Shri Chandra Shekhar Singh Others - Agriculture - Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Sudha Hari Narayan - Singh Sports - Uttar Pradesh
Shri Virender Singh - Sports - Haryana
Ms. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous) - Literature and Education - Bihar
Shri K C Sivasankar (Posthumous) - Art - Tamil Nadu
Guru Maa Kamali Soren - Social Work - West Bengal
Shri Marachi Subburaman - Social Work - Tamil Nadu
Shri P Subramanian (Posthumous) - Trade and Industry - Tamil Nadu
Ms. Nidumolu Sumathi - Art - Andhra Pradesh
Shri Kapil Tiwari - Literature and Education - Madhya Pradesh
Father Vallés (Posthumous) - Literature and Education - Spain
Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous) - Medicine - Tamil Nadu
Shri Sridhar Vembu - Trade and Industry - Tamil Nadu
Shri K Y Venkatesh - Sports - Karnataka
Ms. Usha Yadav - Literature and Education - Uttar Pradesh
Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir - Public Affairs - Bangladesh