Padma Awardees: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri 2021

The names of Padma Awardees are announced every year on the eve of Republic Day. This year also the government announced the names of Padma Awardees for the year 2021 on the eve of 72^nd Republic Day. The winners of Padma Awards are given a Sanad (certificate), having a sign of the President, a medallion and a small replica of the medallion.

President has approved a total of 119 Padma Awards for the year 2021. These include 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri Awards. While 29 women have been awarded Padma Awards for 2021, the number of people winning Padma Awards this year posthumously (after death) is 16. The number of foreigners/ NRIs/PIOs/OCIs winning Padma Awards in 2021 is 10. The list of Padma awardees for 2021 also includes one transgender awardee. The duo of Maheshbhai and Nareshbhai Kanodia from Gujarat have been given a single Padma Shri for 2021.

Total number of Padma Awardees	119 (29 women, 16 posthumous, 10 foreigners/ NRIs/PIOs/OCIs, one transgender & others)
Number of Padma Vibhushan Awardees	7
Number of Padma Bhushan Awardees	10
Number of Padma Shri Awardees	102

About Padma Awards:

Padma Awards Presentation Ceremony: Padma Awards are presented by the President of India. The award ceremony is organized at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The award ceremony is usually organized around March/ April every year.
Categories of Padma Awards: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri are three awards included in Padma awards. While Padma Vibhushan is given for exceptional and distinguished service, Padma Bhushan is given for distinguished service of a high order. Padma Shri is given for distinguished service.
Historical background of Padma Awards: The government started Padma Vibhushan in 1954. On 8 January 1955, three categories of Padma Vibhushan (Pahela Varg, Dusra Varg and Tisra Varg) were renamed Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. Padma awards were not announced on the occasion of Republic Day in 1978 and 1979 and in the years 1993 to 1997. While Padma Vibhushan has been given to 314 people since 1954, Padma Bhushan has been given to 1271 people since 1954. The number of people, who have won Padma Shri since 1954 is 3123.
Selection process for Padma Awards: Prime Minister constitutes Padma Awards Committee every year. Cabinet Secretary is the head of the Padma Awards Committee. Home Secretary and Secretary to the President are its members. Along with Home Secretary and Secretary to the President, other members of the Padma Awards Committee are four to six eminent persons. Padma Awards Committee gives its recommendations on all nominations received through a nomination process that is open for the public. A person can also nominate his/her name for Padma Awards. The recommendations of the Padma Awards Committee go to the Prime Minister and the President of India for approval.
Eligibility conditions and criteria for Padma Awards: Padma awards can be given in any field. All persons are eligible for Padma Awards. Government servants are not eligible for Padma Awards. But, doctors and scientists working as government servants are eligible. Usually, Padma Awards are not given posthumously. But, the government can give them posthumously in highly deserving cases. A person cannot be given a Padma Award of the higher category before the passing of at least five years since he received Padma Award of lower category. But, the Padma Awards committee can relax this criterion in highly deserving cases.
Maximum Number of Padma Awards: The government can give a maximum of 120 awards every year. But, the awards given posthumously or to NRI/foreigners/OCIs are not included in the limit of maximum 120 awards every year.

For details about winners of Padma Awards 2020, see the table given below:

Padma Vibhushan
S No.	Name	State/Country	Field
1.	Shri Shinzo Abe	Japan	Public Affairs
2.	Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous)	Tamil Nadu	Art
3.	Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde	Medicine	Karnataka
4.	Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous)	United States of America	Science and Engineering
5.	Maulana Wahiduddin Khan	Delhi	Others - Spiritualism
6.	Shri B. B. Lal	Delhi	Others - Archaeology
7.	Shri Sudarshan Sahoo	Odisha	Art

Padma Bhushan
S. No.	Name	State/Country	Field
8.	Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra	Kerala	Art
9.	Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous)	Assam	Public Affairs
10.	Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara	Karnataka	Literature and Education
11.	Ms. Sumitra Mahajan	Mdhya Pradesh	Public Affairs
12.	Shri Nripendra Misra	Uttar Pradesh	Civil Service
13.	Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous)	Bihar	Public Affairs
14.	Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous)	Gujarat	Public Affairs
15.	Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous)	Uttar Pradesh	Others-Spiritualism
16.	Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff	Maharashtra	Trade and Industry
17.	Shri Tarlochan Singh	Haryana	Public Affairs

Padma Shri
S. No.	Name	State/Country	Field
18.	Shri Gulfam Ahmed	Uttar Pradesh	Art
19.	Ms. P. Anitha	Tamil Nadu	Sports
20.	Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu	Andhra Pradesh	Art
21.	Shri Subbu Arumugam	Tamil Nadu	Art
22.	Shri Prakasarao Asavadi	Andhra Pradesh	Literature and Education
23.	Ms. Bhuri Bai	Madhya Pradesh	Art
24.	Shri Radhe Shyam Barle	Chhattisgarh	Art
25.	Shri Dharma Narayan Barma	West Bengal	Literature and Education
26.	Ms. Lakhimi Baruah	Social Work	Assam
27.	Shri Biren Kumar Basak	West Bengal	Art
28.	Ms. Rajni Bector	Punjab	Trade and Industry
29.	Shri Peter Brook	United Kingdom	Art
30.	Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak	Mizoram	Social Work
31.	Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat	Assam	Art
32.	Bijoya Chakravarty	Assam	Public Affairs
33.	Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay	West Bengal	Literature and Education
34.	Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous)	Uttar Pradesh	Social Work
35.	Shri Tsultrim Chonjor	Ladakh	Social Work
36.	Ms. Mouma Das	West Bengal	Sports
37.	Shri Srikant Datar	United States of America	Literature and Education
38.	Shri Narayan Debnath	West Bengal	Art
39.	Chutni Devi	Jharkhand	Social Work
40.	Ms. Dulari Devi	Bihar	Art
41.	Ms. Radhe Devi	Manipur	Art
42.	Ms. Shanti Devi	Odisha	Social Work
43.	Shri Wayan Dibia	Indonesia	Art
44.	Shri Dadudan Gadhavi	Gujarat	Literature & Education
45.	Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane	Maharashtra	Art
46.	Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal	Haryana	Literature and Education
47.	Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder	West Bengal	Literature and Education
48.	Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary	Assam	Literature and Education
49.	Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa	Arunachal Pradesh	Sports
50.	Ms. Purnamasi Jani	Odisha	Art
51.	Matha B. Manjamma Jogati	Karnataka	Art
52.	Shri Damodaran Kaithapram	Kerala	Art
53.	Shri Namdeo C Kamble	Maharashtra	Literature and Education
54.	Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) * (Posthumous)	Gujarat	Art
55.	Shri Rajat Kumar Kar	Odisha	Literature and Education
56.	Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap	Karnataka	Literature and Education
57.	Ms. Prakash Kaur	Punjab	Social Work
58.	Shri Nicholas Kazanas	Greece	Literature and Education
59.	Shri K Kesavasamy	Puducherry	Art
60.	Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan	Jammu and Kashmir	Art
61.	Shri Lakha Khan	Rajasthan	Art
62.	Ms. Sanjida Khatun	Bangladesh	Art
63.	Shri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar	Goa	Art
64.	Ms. Niru Kumar	Delhi	Social Work
65.	Ms. Lajwanti	Punjab	Art
66.	Shri Rattan Lal	United States of America	Science and Engineering
67.	Shri Ali Manikfan	Lakshadweep	Others-Grassroots Innovation
68.	Shri Ramachandra Manjhi	Bihar	Art
69.	Shri Dulal Manki	Assam	Art
70.	Shri Nanadro B Marak	Meghalaya	Others-Agriculture
71.	Shri Rewben Mashangva	Manipur	Art
72.	Shri Chandrakant Mehta	Gujarat	Literature and Education
73.	Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal	Punjab	Medicine
74.	Shri Madhavan Nambiar	Kerala	Sports
75.	Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal	Rajasthan	Social Work
76.	Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav	Delhi	Medicine
77.	Dr. J N Pande (Posthumous)	Delhi	Medicine
78.	Shri Solomon Pappaiah	Tamil Nadu	Literature and Education- Journalism
79.	Ms. Pappammal	Tamil Nadu	Others-Agriculture
80.	Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi	Odisha	Medicine
81.	Ms. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat	Maharashtra	Trade and Industry
82.	Shri Girish Prabhune	Maharashtra	Social Work
83.	Shri Nanda Prusty	Odisha	Literature and Education
84.	Shri K K Ramachandra Pulavar	Kerala	Art
85.	Shri Balan Putheri	Kerala	Literature and Education
86.	Ms. Birubala Rabha	Assam	Social Work
87.	Shri Kanaka Raju	Telangana	Art
88.	Ms. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath	Tamil Nadu	Art
89.	Shri Satyaram Reang	Tripura	Art
90.	Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo	Kerala	Medicine
91.	Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu	Uttar Pradesh	Medicine
92.	Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay	Uttarakhand	Medicine
93.	Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal	Maharashtra	Social Work
94.	Shri Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous)	Jammu and Kashmir	Literature and Education
95.	Shri Roman Sarmah	Assam	Literature and Education- Journalism
96.	Shri Imran Shah	Assam	Literature and Education
97.	Shri Prem Chand Sharma	Uttarakhand	Others-Agriculture
98.	Shri Arjun Singh Shekhawat	Rajasthan	Literature and Education
99.	Shri Ram Yatna Shukla	Uttar Pradesh	Literature and Education
100.	Shri Jitender Singh Shunty	Delhi	Social Work
101.	Shri Kartar Paras Ram Singh	Himachal Pradesh	Art
102.	Shri Kartar Singh	Punjab	Art
103.	Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh	Bihar	Medicine
104.	Shri Chandra Shekhar Singh	Uttar Pradesh	Others-Agriculture
105.	Ms. Sudha Hari Narayan Singh	Uttar Pradesh	Sports
106	Shri Virender Singh	Haryana	Sports
107.	Ms. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous)	Bihar	Literature and Education
108.	Shri K C Sivasankar (Posthumous)	Tamil Nadu	Art
109.	Guru Maa Kamali Soren	West Bengal	Social Work
110.	Shri Marachi Subburaman	Tamil Nadu	Social Work
111.	Shri P Subramanian (Posthumous)	Tamil Nadu	Trade and Industry
112.	Ms. Nidumolu Sumathi	Andhra Pradesh	Art
113.	Shri Kapil Tiwari	Madhya Pradesh	Literature and Education
114.	Father Vallés (Posthumous)	Spain	Literature and Education
115.	Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous)	Tamil Nadu	Medicine
116.	Shri Sridhar Vembu	Tamil Nadu	Trade and Industry
117.	Shri K Y Venkatesh	Karnataka	Sports
118.	Ms. Usha Yadav	Uttar Pradesh	Literature and Education
119.	Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir	Bangladesh	Public Affairs