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 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.
Mahavir Chakra:
Colonel Santosh Babu (Galwan Valley martyr) (Posthumous) – Telangana
President’s Police Medal for Gallantry:
- CRPF ASI Mohan Lal (Galwan Valley martyr) (Posthumous) – Kerala
- CRPF ASI Banua Oraon (Galwan Valley martyr) (Posthumous) – Jharkhand
Padma Vibhushan
- Shinzo Abe (Former Japanese Prime Minister) – Public Affairs
- Shri SP Balasubrahmanyam (Posthumous) – Art
- Dr Belle Monappa Hegde – Medicine
- Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) – Science and Tech
- Maulana Wahidudeen Khan – Spiritualism
- Shri BB Lal – Archaeology
- Shri Sudarshan Sahoo – Art
Padma Bhushan
- Ms Krishnan Nair Shanthakumari Chithra – Art
- Sumitra Mahajan – Former Lok Sabha Speaker
- Nripendra Misra – Former Principal Secretary to PM Modi
- Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) – Former Union Minister
- Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) – Former Assam Chief Minister
- Chandrasekhar Kambara – Literarature and Education
- Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) – Public Affairs
- Kalbe Sadiq – (Posthumous) – Spiritualism
- Rajnikant Devidas Shroff – Trade and Industry
- Tarlochan Singh – Public Affairs
Here‘s the complete list of awardees who will be receiving their medals on Republic Day 2021.