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Padma Awards 2018 announced

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New Delhi: 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 of India has approved conferment of 85 Padma Awards including two duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri Awards. 14 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 16 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 3 Posthumous awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

Sl. No Name Field State
1. Shri Illaiyaraja Art-Music Tamil Nadu
2. Shri Ghulam Mustafa Khan Art-Music Maharashtra
3. Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran Literature and Education Kerala

Padma Bhushan

Sl. No Name Field State
4. Shri Pankaj Advani Sports- Billiards/Snooker Karnataka
5. Shri Philipose Mar Chrysostom Others-Spiritualism Kerala
6. Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni Sports-Cricket Jharkhand
7. Shri Alexander Kadakin

(Foreigner/Posthumous)

Public Affairs Russia

8. Shri Ramachandran Nagaswamy Others-Archaeology Tamil Nadu
9. Shri Ved Prakash Nanda

(OCI)

Literature and Education USA
10. Shri Laxman Pai Art-Painting Goa
11. Shri Arvind Parikh Art-Music Maharashtra
12. Ms. Sharda Sinha Art-Music Bihar

Padma Shri

Sl. No Name Field State
13. Shri Abhay Bang (Duo) Medicine Maharashtra
Ms. Rani Bang (Duo) Medicine Maharashtra
14. Shri Damodar Ganesh Bapat Social Work Chhattisgarh
15. Shri Prafulla Govinda Baruah Literature and Education-Journalism Assam
16. Shri Mohan Swaroop Bhatia Art-Folk Music Uttar Pradesh
17. Shri Sudhanshu Biswas Social Work West Bengal
18. Ms. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu Sports-Weightlifting Manipur
19. Shri Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi Literature and Education-Journalism Chhattisgarh
20. Shri Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner) Trade & Industry Philippines
21. Ms. Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi Art-Weaving Manipur
22. Shri Somdev Devvarman Sports-Tennis Tripura
23. Shri Yeshi Dhoden Medicine Himachal Pradesh
24. Shri Arup Kumar Dutta Literature and Education Assam
25. Shri Doddarange Gowda Art-Lyrics Karnataka
26. Shri Arvind Gupta Literature and Education Maharashtra
27. Shri Digamber Hansda Literature and Education Jharkhand
28. Shri Ramli Bin Ibrahim

(Foreigner)

Art-Dance Malaysia
29. Shri Anwar Jalalpuri

(Posthumous)

Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
30. Shri Piyong Temjen Jamir Literature and Education Nagaland
31. Ms. Sitavva Joddati Social Work Karnataka
32. Ms. Malti Joshi Literature and Madhya Pradesh
Education
33. Shri Manoj Joshi Art-Acting Maharashtra
34. Shri Rameshwarlal Kabra Trade & Industry Maharashtra
35. Shri Pran Kishore Kaul Art Jammu and
Kashmir
36. Shri Bounlap Keokangna Others-Architecture Laos
(Foreigner)
37. Shri Vijay Kichlu Art-Music West Bengal
38. Shri Tommy Koh Public Affairs Singapore
(Foreigner)
39. Ms. Lakshmikutty Medicine-Traditional Kerala
40. Ms. Joyshree Goswami Literature and Assam
Mahanta Education
41. Shri Narayan Das Maharaj Others-Spiritualism Rajasthan
42. Shri Pravakara Maharana Art-Sculpture Odisha
43. Shri Hun Many Public Affairs Cambodia
(Foreigner)
44. Ms. Nouf Marwaai Others- Yoga Saudi Arabia
(Foreigner)
45. Shri Zaverilal Mehta Literature and Gujarat
Education-Journalism
46. Shri Krishna Bihari Mishra Literature and West Bengal
Education
47. Shri Sisir Purushottam Art-Cinema Maharashtra
Mishra
48. Ms. Subhasini Mistry Social Work West Bengal
49. Shri Tomio Mizokami Literature and Japan
(Foreigner) Education
50. Shri Somdet Phra Maha Others-Spiritualism Thailand
Muniwong
(Foreigner)
51. Shri Keshav Rao Literature and Madhya Pradesh
Musalgaonkar Education
52. Dr Thant Myint – U Public Affairs Myanmar
(Foreigner)
53. Ms. V Nanammal Others-Yoga Tamil Nadu
54. Ms. Sulagitti Narasamma Social Work Karnataka
55. Ms. Vijayalakshmi Art-Folk Music Tamil Nadu
Navaneethakrishnan
56. Shri I Nyoman Nuarta Art- Sculpture Indonesia
(Foreigner)
57. Shri Malai Haji Abdullah Social Work Brunei
Bin Malai Haji Othman Darussalam
(Foreigner)
58. Shri Gobaradhan Panika Art-Weaving Odisha
59. Shri Bhabani Charan Public Affairs Odisha
Pattanaik
60. Shri Murlikant Petkar Sports-Swimming Maharashtra
61. Shri Habibullo Rajabov Literature and Tajikistan
(Foreigner) Education
62. Shri M R Rajagopal Medicine-Palliative Kerala
Care
63. Shri Sampat Ramteke Social Work Maharashtra
(Posthumous)
64. Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath Literature and Odisha
Education
65. Shri S S Rathore Civil Service Gujarat
66. Shri Amitava Roy Science and West Bengal
Engineering
67. Shri Sanduk Ruit Medicine- Nepal
(Foreigner) Ophthalmology
68. Shri R Sathyanarayana Art-Music Karnataka
69. Shri Pankaj M Shah Medicine-Oncology Gujarat
70. Shri Bhajju Shyam Art-Painting Madhya Pradesh
71. Shri Maharao Raghuveer Literature and Rajasthan
Singh Education
72. Shri Kidambi Srikanth Sports-Badminton Andhra Pradesh
73. Shri Ibrahim Sutar Art-Music Karnataka
74. Shri Siddeshwara Swamiji Others-Spiritualism Karnataka
75. Ms. Lentina Ao Thakkar Social Work Nagaland
76. Shri Vikram Chandra Science and Uttarakhand
Thakur Engineering
77. Shri Rudrapatnam Art-Music Karnataka
Narayanaswamy
Tharanathan (Duo)
Shri Rudrapatnam Art-Music Karnataka
Narayanaswamy
Thyagarajan (Duo)
78. Shri Nguyen Tien Thien Others-Spiritualism Vietnam
(Foreigner)
79. Shri Bhagirath Prasad Literature and Uttar Pradesh
Tripathi Education
80. Shri Rajagopalan Vasudevan Science and Tamil Nadu
Engineering
81. Shri Manas Bihari Verma Science and Bihar
Engineering
82. Shri Panatawane Gangadhar Literature and Maharashtra
Vithobaji Education
83. Shri Romulus Whitaker Others-Wildlife Tamil Nadu
Conservation
84. Shri Baba Yogendra Art Madhya Pradesh
85. Shri A Zakia Literature and Mizoram
Education

Click here for “Unsung Heroes” among above List of Padma Shri Awardees

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