Padma Awards 2021 Announced: See Full List Of Recipients

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)

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)

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

Padma Shri (102)

1. Shri Gulfam Ahmed - Art - Uttar Pradesh
2. Ms. P. Anitha – Sports - Tamil Nadu
3. Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu – Art - Andhra Pradesh
4. Shri Subbu Arumugam - Art - Tamil Nadu
5. Shri Prakasarao Asavadi - Literature and Education - Andhra Pradesh
6. Ms. Bhuri Bai - Art - Madhya Pradesh
7. Shri Radhe Shyam Barle - Art - Chhattisgarh
8. Shri Dharma Narayan Barma - Literature and Education - West Bengal
9. Ms. Lakhimi Baruah - Social Work - Assam
10. Shri Biren Kumar Basak - Art - West Bengal
11. Ms. Rajni Bector - Trade and Industry - Punjab
12. Shri Peter Brook - Art - United Kingdom
13. Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak - Social Work - Mizoram
14. Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat - Art - Assam
15. Bijoya Chakravarty - Public Affairs - Assam
16. Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay - Literature and Education - West Bengal
17. Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous)-  Social Work - Uttar Pradesh
18. Shri Tsultrim Chonjor - Social Work - Ladakh
19. Ms. Mouma Das - Sports - West Bengal
20. Shri Srikant Datar - Literature and Education - United States of America
21. Shri Narayan Debnath - Art - West Bengal
22. Chutni Devi - Social Work - Jharkhand
23. Ms. Dulari Devi - Art - Bihar
24. Ms. Radhe Devi - Art - Manipur
25. Ms. Shanti Devi - Social Work - Odisha
26. Shri Wayan Dibia – Art - Indonesia
27. Shri Dadudan Gadhavi - Literature & Education - Gujarat
28. Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane - Art - Maharashtra
29. Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal - Literature and Education - Haryana
30. Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder - Literature and Education - West Bengal
31. Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary - Literature and Education - Assam
32. Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa - Sports - Arunachal Pradesh
33. Ms. Purnamasi Jani - Art - Odisha
34. Matha B. Manjamma Jogati - Art - Karnataka
35. Shri Damodaran Kaithapram - Art - Kerala
36. Shri Namdeo C Kamble - Literature and Education - Maharashtra
37. Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) * (Posthumous) - Art - Gujarat
38. Shri Rajat Kumar Kar - Literature and Education - Odisha
39. Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap - Literature and Education - Karnataka
40. Ms. Prakash Kaur - Social Work - Punjab
41. Shri Nicholas Kazanas - Literature and Education - Greece
42. Shri K Kesavasamy – Art-  Puducherry
43. Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan - Art - Jammu and Kashmir
44. Shri Lakha Khan - Art - Rajasthan
45. Ms. Sanjida Khatun - Art - Bangladesh
46. Shri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar - Art - Goa
47. Ms. Niru Kumar - Social Work - Delhi
48. Ms. Lajwanti - Art - Punjab
49. Shri Rattan Lal - Science and Engineering - United States of America
50. Shri Ali Manikfan Others -Grassroots Innovation - Lakshadweep
51. Shri Ramachandra Manjhi - Art - Bihar
52. Shri Dulal Manki - Art - Assam
53. Shri Nanadro B Marak Others – Agriculture - Meghalaya
54. Shri Rewben Mashangva - Art - Manipur
55. Shri Chandrakant Mehta - Literature and Education - Gujarat
56. Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal - Medicine - Punjab
57. Shri Madhavan Nambiar - Sports - Kerala
58. Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal - Social Work - Rajasthan
59. Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav – Medicine - Delhi
60. Dr. J N Pande (Posthumous) – Medicine - Delhi
61. Shri Solomon Pappaiah - Literature and Education - Journalism Tamil Nadu
62. Ms. Pappammal Others – Agriculture - Tamil Nadu
63. Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi - Medicine - Odisha
64. Ms. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra
65. Shri Girish Prabhune - Social Work - Maharashtra
66. Shri Nanda Prusty - Literature and Education - Odisha
67. Shri K K Ramachandra Pulavar - Art - Kerala
68. Shri Balan Putheri - Literature and Education - Kerala
69. Ms. Birubala Rabha - Social Work - Assam
70. Shri Kanaka Raju - Art - Telangana
71. Ms. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath - Art - Tamil Nadu
72. Shri Satyaram Reang -  Art - Tripura
73. Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo - Medicine - Kerala
74. Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu - Medicine - Uttar Pradesh
75. Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay - Medicine - Uttarakhand
76. Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal - Social Work - Maharashtra
77. Shri Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous) – Literature and Education - Jammu and Kashmir
78. Shri Roman Sarmah - Literature and Education – Journalism - Assam
79. Shri Imran Shah - Literature and Education - Assam
80. Shri Prem Chand Sharma Others - Agriculture - Uttarakhand
81. Shri Arjun Singh Shekhawat - Literature and Education - Rajasthan
82. Shri Ram Yatna Shukla - Literature and Education - Uttar Pradesh
83. Shri Jitender Singh Shunty - Social Work - Delhi
84. Shri Kartar Paras Ram Singh - Art - Himachal Pradesh
85. Shri Kartar Singh - Art - Punjab
86. Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh - Medicine – Bihar
87. Shri Chandra Shekhar Singh Others - Agriculture - Uttar Pradesh
88. Ms. Sudha Hari Narayan - Singh Sports - Uttar Pradesh
89. Shri Virender Singh - Sports - Haryana
90. Ms. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous) - Literature and Education - Bihar
91. Shri K C Sivasankar (Posthumous) - Art - Tamil Nadu
92. Guru Maa Kamali Soren - Social Work - West Bengal
93. Shri Marachi Subburaman - Social Work - Tamil Nadu
94. Shri P Subramanian (Posthumous) - Trade and Industry - Tamil Nadu
95. Ms. Nidumolu Sumathi - Art - Andhra Pradesh
96. Shri Kapil Tiwari - Literature and Education - Madhya Pradesh
97. Father Vallés (Posthumous) - Literature and Education - Spain
98. Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous) - Medicine - Tamil Nadu
99. Shri Sridhar Vembu - Trade and Industry - Tamil Nadu
100. Shri K Y Venkatesh - Sports - Karnataka
101. Ms. Usha Yadav - Literature and Education - Uttar Pradesh
102. Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir - Public Affairs - Bangladesh