Are you aware of Padma Awards and their recent Recipients? Candidates preparing for various competitive examinations must be aware of the List Of Padma Awards and the details related to the Padam Awards. On the eve of Republic Day, President has declared the recipients of prestigious Padma Awards. There are a total of 178 Padma Awards for the year of 2022. This includes the likes of Late Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, Vaccacine Maker against covid, and the Olympic Gold Medal Winner Neeraj Chopra. Candidates must know the List Of Padama Award winners and should have some information on them. Questions on the Padma award had been asked in the UPSC Prelims Examination 2021, hence the candidates for examinations like PCS and UPSC should also be aware of Padma Awards' other details. The space below contains all the details related to the most Recent Padama Awards along with other details.If you are preparing for NDA/NA (I) 2022 Exam and are looking for expert guidance, then join now: NDA 2022 (1) Champion Batch.
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Padma Awards
The Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian honors of India announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. The awards are given as recognition of the exceptional service and achievements in any field including public service. Originally the Padama Awards were constituted in the year of 1954 as two civilian awards-Bharat Ratna & Padma Vibhushan. Later in 1985, they became Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.
Each year the president of India decares the list of Padma Awards which is recommended to the Honourable President by a Committee headed by the Prime Minister. Padma Awards have been announced for all the years since 1954 except during the years 1978 and 1979 and 1993 to 1997.
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Padam Awards - Categories And Criteria
As mentioned above they are given in three categories for which the criteria along with the filed have been mentioned below:- Padma Vibhushan for exceptional and distinguished service;
- Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of a high order; and
- Padma Shri for distinguished service.
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List Of Padama Awards 2022
The awards have been declared in the official ceremony by the President. Before we mention the List Of Padam Awards candidates must also be aware of the number of awards in various categories, which is as follows.
| Padma Award | Number Of Recipients For 2022 |
| Padma Vibhushan | 04 |
| Padma Bhushan | 17 |
| Padma Shri Awards | 107 |
Note:
- 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.
- In Duo's case, the Award is counted as one.
The List Of Padma Awards for the year 2022 is as follows:
List Of Padma Vibhushan- (4)
| Name | Field | State/Country |
| Ms. Prabha Atre | Art | Maharashtra |
| Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous) | Literature and Education | U.P. |
| General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous) | Civil Service | Uttarakhand |
| Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
List Of Padma Bhushan (17)
| Name | Field | State/Country |
| Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad | Public Affairs | Jammu and Kashmir |
| Shri Victor Banerjee | Art | West Bengal |
| Ms. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) | Art | Punjab |
| Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
|
Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo) |
Trade and Industry | Telangana |
| Ms. Madhur Jaffery | Others-Culinary | USA |
| Shri Devendra Jhajharia | Sports | Rajasthan |
| Shri Rashid Khan | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| Shri Rajiv Mehrishi | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
| Shri Satya Narayana Nadella | Trade and Industry | USA |
| Shri Sundararajan Pichai | Trade and Industry | USA |
| Shri Cyrus Poonawalla | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
| Shri Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous) | Sci and Engg | Mexico |
| Ms. Pratibha Ray | Literature and Education | Odisha |
| Swami Sachidanand | Literature and Education | Gujarat |
| Shri Vashishth Tripathi | Literature ane Education | Uttar Pradesh |
List Of Padma Shri (107)
| Name | Field | State/Country |
| Shri Prahlad Rai Agarwala | Trade and Industry | West Bengal |
| Prof. Najma Akhtar | Literature and Education | Delhi |
| Shri Sumit Antil | Sports | Haryana |
| Shri T Senka Ao | Literature and Education | Nagaland |
|
Ms. Kamalini Asthana and Ms. Nalini Asthana* (Duo) |
Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| Shri Subbanna Ayyappan | Science and Engineering | Karnataka |
| Shri J K Bajaj | Literature and Education | Delhi |
| Shri Sirpi Balasubramaniam | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu |
| Srimad Baba Balia | Social Work | Odisha |
| Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | Science and Engineering | West Bengal |
| Ms. Madhuri Barthwal | Art | Uttarakhand |
| Shri Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat | Literature and Education | Ladakh |
| Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| Shri Harmohinder Singh Bedi | Literature and Education | Punjab |
| Shri Pramod Bhagat | Sports | Odisha |
| Shri S Ballesh Bhajantri | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia | Art | Sikkim |
| Shri Maria Christopher Byrski | Literature and Education | Poland |
| Acharya Chandanaji | Social Work | Bihar |
| Ms. Sulochana Chavan | Art | Maharashtra |
| Shri Neeraj Chopra | Sports | Haryana |
| Ms. Shakuntala Choudhary | Social Work | Assam |
| Shri Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil | Sports | Kerala |
| Shri S Damodaran | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| Shri Faisal Ali Dar | Sports | J&K |
| Shri Jagjit Singh Dardi | Trade and Industry | Chandigarh |
| Dr. Prokar Dasgupta | Medicine | U.K. |
| Shri Aditya Prasad Dash | Science and Engineering | Odisha |
| Dr. Lata Desa | Medicine | Gujarat |
| Shri Malji bhai Desai | Public Affairs | Gujarat |
| Ms. Basanti Devi | Social Work | Uttarakhand |
| Ms. Lourembam Bino Devi | Art | Manipur |
| Ms. Muktamani Devi | Trade and Industry | Manipur |
| Ms. Shyamamani Devi | Art | Odisha |
| Shri Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) | Lit. and Education | Gujarat |
| Shri Savaji Bhai Dholakia | Social Work | Gujarat |
| Shri Arjun Singh Dhurve | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi | Art | Rajasthan |
| Shri Dhaneswar Engti | Lit. and Education | Assam |
| Shri Om Prakash Gandhi | Social Work | Haryana |
| Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati | Lit. and Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous) | Lit. and Education | Jharkhand |
| Shri Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) | Lit. and Education | Bihar |
| Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru | Lit. and Education | Odisha |
| Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous) | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| Shri Ryuko Hira | Trade and Industry | Japan |
| Ms. Sosamma Iype | Animal Husbandry | Kerala |
| Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia | Lit. and Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| Ms. Sowcar Janaki | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| Ms. Tara Jauhar | Lit and Education | Delhi |
| Ms. Vandana Kataria | Sports | Uttarakhand |
| Shri H R Keshavamurthy | Art | Karnataka |
| Shri Rutger Kortenhorst | Lit and Education | Ireland |
| Shri P Narayana Kurup | Lit and Education | Kerala |
| Ms. Avani Lekhara | Sports | Rajasthan |
| Shri Moti Lal Madan | Sci and Engineering | Haryana |
| Shri Shivnath Mishra | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) | Medicine | Madhya Pradesh |
| Shri Darshanam Mogilaiah | Art | Telangana |
| Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) | Civil Service | Delhi |
| Shri Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan | Art | Puducherry |
| Ms. R Muthukannammal | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| Shri Abdul Khader Nadakattin | Grassroots Innovation | Karnataka |
| Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik | Agriculture | Karnataka |
| Shri Tsering Namgyal | Art | Ladakh |
| Shri A K C Natarajan | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| Shri V L Nghaka | Lit. and Education | Mizoram |
| Shri Sonu Nigam | Art | Maharashtra |
| Shri Ram Sahay Panday | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| Shri Chirapat Prapandavidya | Lit and Education | Thailand |
| Ms. K V Rabiya | Social Work | Kerala |
| Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi | Sci and Engineering | Maharashtra |
| Shri Sheesh Ram | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| Shri Ramachandraiah | Art | Telangana |
| Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao | Medicine | Andhra Pradesh |
| Ms. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai | Social Work | Gujarat |
| Ms. Padmaja Reddy | Art | Telangana |
| Guru Tulku Rinpoche | Spiritualism | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Shri Brahmanand Sankhwalkar | Sports | Goa |
| Shri Vidyanand Sarek | Lit and Education | Himachal Pradesh |
| Shri Kali Pada Saren | Lit. and Education | West Bengal |
| Dr. Veeraswamy Seshiah | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| Ms. Prabhaben Shah | Social Work | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu |
| Shri Dilip Shahani | Lit and Education | Delhi |
| Shri Ram Dayal Sharma | Art | Rajasthan |
| Shri Vishwamurti Shastri | Lit. and Education | J&K |
| Ms. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan | Lit. and Education | Russia |
| Shri Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous) | Lit. and Education | Karnataka |
| Shri Kaajee Singh | Art | West Bengal |
| Shri Konsam Ibomcha Singh | Art | Manipur |
| Shri Prem Singh | Social Work | Punjab |
| Shri Seth Pal Singh | Agriculture | Uttar Pradesh |
| Ms. Vidya Vindu Singh | Lit. and Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| Baba Iqbal Singh Ji | Social Work | Punjab |
| Dr. Bhimsen Singhal | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| Shri Sivananda | Yoga | Uttar Pradesh |
| Shri Ajay Kumar Sonkar | Sci and Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| Ms. Ajita Srivastava | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami | Spiritualism | Goa |
| Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| Shri Raghuvendra Tanwar | Lit and Education | Haryana |
| Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| Ms. Lalita Vakil | Art | Himachal Pradesh |
| Ms. Durga Bai Vyam | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| Shri Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas | Sci and Engineering | Gujarat |
| Ms. Badaplin War | Lit and Education | Meghalaya |
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