Ministry of Home Affairs Padma Awards 2022 Announced

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs Announced the Padma Awards on the Eve of the country’s 73rd Republic Day

The Union ministry of home affairs announced the Padma awards on the eve of the country’s 73rd Republic Day. The Awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of higher-order) and Padma Shri (distinguished service). The award seeks to recognize achievements in all fields of activities or disciplines where an element of public service is involved.

List of Padma Awardees 2022

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 128 Padma Awards including 2 duo cases (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. 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 case, the Award is counted as one.

Who Decides the Padma awards ?

All nominations received for Padma Awards are placed before the Padma Awards Committee, which is constituted by the Prime Minister every year. The Padma Awards Committee is headed by the Cabinet Secretary and includes Home Secretary, Secretary to the President and four to six eminent persons as members. The recommendations of the committee are submitted to the Prime Minister and the President of India for approval. 

Following is the list of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri Awardees of 2022 : 

• Ms. Prabha Atre Art Maharashtra
• Shri Radheyshyam
• Khemka (Posthumous) Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh
• General Bipin Rawat Civil Service Uttarakhand
• (Posthumous)
• Shri Kalyan Singh Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh (Posthumous)

• 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 9 Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran Trade and Industry Maharashtra
• Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo) Trade and Industry Telangana
• Ms. Madhur Jaffery Others-Culinary
• 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) Science and Engineering Mexico
• Ms. Pratibha Ray Literature and Education Odisha
• Swami Sachidanand Literature and Education Gujarat
• Shri Vashishth Tripathi Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh

• 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 United Kingdom
• Shri Aditya Prasad Dash Science and Engineering Odisha
• Dr. Lata Desai 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) Literature 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 Literature and Education Assam
• Shri Om Prakash Gandhi Social Work Haryana
• Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
• Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous) Literature and Education Jharkhand
• Shri Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) Literature and Education Bihar
• Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru Literature and Education Odisha
• Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous) Art Andhra Pradesh
• Shri Ryuko Hira Trade and Industry Japan
• Ms. Sosamma Type Others – Animal Husbandry Kerala
• Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh
• Ms. Sowcar Janaki Art Tamil Nadu
• Ms. Tara Jauhar Literature and Education Delhi
• Ms. Vandana Kataria Sports Uttarakhand
• Shri H R Keshavamurthy Art Karnataka
• Shri Rutger Kortenhorst Literature and Education Ireland
• Shri P Narayana Kurup Literature and Education Kerala
• Ms. Avani Lekhara Sports Rajasthan
• Shri Moti Lal Madan Science 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 Others – Grassroots Innovation Karnataka
• Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik Others – Agriculture Karnataka
• Shri Tsering Namgyal Art Ladakh
• Shri A K C Natarajan Art Tamil Nadu
• Shri V L Nghaka Literature and Education Mizoram
• Shri Sonu Nigam Art Maharashtra
• Shri Ram Sahay Panday Art Madhya Pradesh
• Shri Chirapat Prapandavidya Literature and Education Thailand
• Ms. K V Rabiya Social Work Kerala
• Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi Science 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 Others – Spiritualism Arunachal Pradesh
• Shri Brahmanand Sankhwalkar Sports Goa
• Shri Vidyanand Sarek Literature and Education Himachal Pradesh
• Shri Kali Pada Saren Literature 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 Literature and Education Delhi
• Shri Ram Dayal Sharma Art Rajasthan
• Shri Vishwamurti Shastri Literature and Education J&K
• Ms. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan Literature and Education Russia
• Shri Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous) Literature 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 Others – Agriculture Uttar Pradesh
• Ms. Vidya Vindu Singh Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
• Baba Iqbal Singh Ji Social Work Punjab
• Dr. Bhimsen Singhal Medicine Maharashtra
• Shri Sivananda Others – Yoga Uttar Pradesh
• Shri Ajay Kumar Sonkar Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh
• Ms. Ajita Srivastava Art Uttar Pradesh
• Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami Others – Spiritualism Goa
• Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) Medicine Maharashtra
• Shri Raghuvendra Tanwar Literature 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 Science and Engineering Gujarat
• Ms. Badaplin War Literature and Education Meghalaya 

What are Padma awards?

The PADMA Awards Were instituted in 1954 along with Bharat Ratna.

The Padma awards are the highest civilian honour of India after the Bharat Ratna. They are announced every year on the eve of Republic Day. The awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of higher order) and Padma Shri (distinguished service). The award seeks to recognise achievements in all fields of activities or disciplines where an element of public service is involved.

The awards are given in certain select categories which include Art, Social Work, Public Affairs, Science & Engineering, Trade & Industry, Medicine, Literature & Education, Civil Service and Sports. Awards are also given for propagation of Indian culture, protection of human rights, wildlife protection among others.

Who is eligible for Padma awards?

All persons without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex are eligible for these awards. However, government servants including those working with PSUs, except doctors and scientists, are not eligible for these awards.

The award seeks to recognise works of distinction and is given for distinguished and exceptional achievements or service in all fields of activities and disciplines.

Who nominates the Padma awardees?

Any citizen of India can nominate a potential recipient. One can even nominate one’s own self. All nominations are to be done online where a form is to be filled along with details of the person or the organisation being nominated. An 800-word essay detailing the work done by the potential awardee is also to be submitted for the nomination to be considered.

The government opens the Padma awards portal for nominations between May 1 and September 15 every year. 

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