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 72nd 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

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