Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri Awardee List Released By Ministry Of Home Affairs

MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS PRESS NOTE 

North Block, New Delhi-1 Dated the 25th January, 2021 
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. 

2. 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 119 Padma Awards including 1 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per 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) SN Name Field State/Country 

1. Shri Shinzo Abe Public Affairs Japan 

2. Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous) Art Tamil Nadu 

3. Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine Karnataka 

4. Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) Science and Engineering United States of America

 5. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Others- Spiritualism Delhi 

6. Shri B. B. Lal Others- Archaeology Delhi

7. Shri Sudarshan Sahoo Art Odisha Padma Bhushan (10) 

8. Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra Art Kerala 

9. Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) Public Affairs Assam 

10. Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara Literature and Education Karnataka 

11. Ms. Sumitra Mahajan Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh 

12. Shri Nripendra Misra Civil Service Uttar Pradesh 

13. Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) Public Affairs Bihar 

14. Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) Public Affairs Gujarat 

15. Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) Others-Spiritualism Uttar Pradesh 

16. Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff Trade and Industry Maharashtra 

17. Shri Tarlochan Singh Public Affairs Haryana Padma Shri (102) 

18. Shri Gulfam Ahmed Art Uttar Pradesh 

19. Ms. P. Anitha Sports Tamil Nadu 

20. Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu Art Andhra Pradesh 

21. Shri Subbu Arumugam Art Tamil Nadu 

22. Shri Prakasarao Asavadi Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh 

23. Ms. Bhuri Bai Art Madhya Pradesh 

24. Shri Radhe Shyam Barle Art Chhattisgarh 

25. Shri Dharma Narayan Barma Literature and Education West Bengal 

26. Ms. Lakhimi Baruah Social Work Assam 

27. Shri Biren Kumar Basak Art West Bengal 

28. Ms. Rajni Bector Trade and Industry Punjab 

29. Shri Peter Brook Art United Kingdom 

30. Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak Social Work Mizoram 

31. Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat Art Assam 

32. Ms. Bijoya Chakravarty Public Affairs Assam 

33. Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay Literature and Education West Bengal 

34. Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous) Social Work Uttar Pradesh 

35. Shri Tsultrim Chonjor Social Work Ladakh 

36. Ms. Mouma Das Sports West Bengal 

37. Shri Srikant Datar Literature and Education United States of America 

38. Shri Narayan Debnath Art West Bengal 

39. Ms. Chutni Devi Social Work Jharkhand 

40. Ms. Dulari Devi Art Bihar 

41. Ms. Radhe Devi Art Manipur 

42. Ms. Shanti Devi Social Work Odisha 

43. Shri Wayan Dibia Art Indonesia 

44. Shri Dadudan Gadhavi Literature & Education Gujarat 

45. Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane Art Maharashtra 

46. Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal Literature and Education Haryana 

47. Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder Literature and Education West Bengal 

48. Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary Literature and Education Assam 

49. Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa Sports Arunachal Pradesh 

50. Ms. Purnamasi Jani Art Odisha 

51. Matha B. Manjamma Jogati Art Karnataka 

52. Shri Damodaran Kaithapram Art Kerala 

53. Shri Namdeo C Kamble Literature and Education Maharashtra 

54. Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) * (Posthumous) Art Gujarat 

55. Shri Rajat Kumar Kar Literature and Education Odisha 

56. Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap Literature and Education Karnataka 

57. Ms. Prakash Kaur Social Work Punjab 

58. Shri Nicholas Kazanas Literature and Education Greece 

59. Shri K Kesavasamy Art Puducherry 

60. Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan Art Jammu and Kashmir 

61. Shri Lakha Khan Art Rajasthan 

62. Ms. Sanjida Khatun Art Bangladesh 

63. Shri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar Art Goa 

64. Ms. Niru Kumar Social Work Delhi 

65. Ms. Lajwanti Art Punjab 

66. Shri Rattan Lal Science and Engineering United States of America 

67. Shri Ali Manikfan Others-Grassroots Innovation Lakshadweep 

68. Shri Ramachandra Manjhi Art Bihar 

69. Shri Dulal Manki Art Assam 

70. Shri Nanadro B Marak Others- Agriculture Meghalaya 

71. Shri Rewben Mashangva Art Manipur 

72. Shri Chandrakant Mehta Literature and Education Gujarat 

73. Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal Medicine Punjab 

74. Shri Madhavan Nambiar Sports Kerala 

75. Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal Social Work Rajasthan 

76. Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav Medicine Delhi 

77. Dr. J N Pande (Posthumous) Medicine Delhi 

78. Shri Solomon Pappaiah Literature and Education- Journalism Tamil Nadu 

79. Ms. Pappammal Others- Agriculture Tamil Nadu 

80. Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi Medicine Odisha 

81. Ms. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat Trade and Industry Maharashtra 

82. Shri Girish Prabhune Social Work Maharashtra 

83. Shri Nanda Prusty Literature and Education Odisha 

84. Shri K K Ramachandra Pulavar Art Kerala 

85. Shri Balan Putheri Literature and Education Kerala 

86. Ms. Birubala Rabha Social Work Assam 

87. Shri Kanaka Raju Art Telangana 

88. Ms. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath Art Tamil Nadu 

89. Shri Satyaram Reang Art Tripura 

90. Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo Medicine Kerala 

91. Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu Medicine Uttar Pradesh 

92. Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay Medicine Uttarakhand 

93. Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal Social Work Maharashtra 

94. Shri Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous) Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir 

95. Shri Roman Sarmah Literature and Education- Journalism Assam 

96. Shri Imran Shah Literature and Education Assam 

97. Shri Prem Chand Sharma Others- Agriculture Uttarakhand 

98. Shri Arjun Singh Shekhawat Literature and Education Rajasthan 

99. Shri Ram Yatna Shukla Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 

100. Shri Jitender Singh Shunty Social Work Delhi 

101. Shri Kartar Paras Ram Singh Art Himachal Pradesh 

102. Shri Kartar Singh Art Punjab 

103. Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh Medicine Bihar 

104. Shri Chandra Shekhar Singh Others-Agriculture Uttar Pradesh 

105. Ms. Sudha Hari Narayan Singh Sports Uttar Pradesh 

106. Shri Virender Singh Sports Haryana 

107. Ms. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous) Literature and Education Bihar 

108. Shri K C Sivasankar (Posthumous) Art Tamil Nadu 

109. Guru Maa Kamali Soren Social Work West Bengal 

110. Shri Marachi Subburaman Social Work Tamil Nadu 

111. Shri P Subramanian (Posthumous) Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 

112. Ms. Nidumolu Sumathi Art Andhra Pradesh 

113. Shri Kapil Tiwari Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh 

114. Father Vallés (Posthumous) Literature and Education Spain 

115. Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous) Medicine Tamil Nadu 

116. Shri Sridhar Vembu Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 

117. Shri K Y Venkatesh Sports Karnataka 

118. Ms. Usha Yadav Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 

119. Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir Public Affairs Bangladesh

Note: * In duo case, the award is counted as one.