Padma Awards 2021

27 Jan 2021

The President of India has approved conferment of 119 Padma Awards including 1 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one).

The awards comprise 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.

About Padma Awards

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.

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.
- ‘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.

List of Awardees

Padma Vibhushan

Shri Shinzo Abe - Public Affairs - Japan
Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous) - Art - Tamil Nadu
Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde - Medicine - Karnataka
Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) - Science and Engineering - United States of America
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan - Others - Spiritualism - Delhi
Shri B. B. Lal Others - Archaeology - Delhi
Shri Sudarshan Sahoo - Art - Odisha

Padma Bhushan

Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra - Art - Kerala
Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) - Public Affairs - Assam
Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara - Literature and Education - Karnataka
Ms. Sumitra Mahajan - Public Affairs - Madhya Pradesh
Shri Nripendra Misra - Civil Service - Uttar Pradesh
Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) - Public Affairs - Bihar
Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous)- Public Affairs - Gujarat
Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) Others - Spiritualism- Uttar Pradesh
Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra
Shri Tarlochan Singh - Public Affairs - Haryana

Padma Shri

Art

Shri Gulfam Ahmed (Uttar Pradesh)
Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu (Andhra Pradesh)
Shri Subbu Arumugam (Tamil Nadu)
Ms. Bhuri Bai (Madhya Pradesh)
Shri Radhe Shyam Barle (Chhattisgarh)
Shri Biren Kumar Basak (West Bengal)
Shri Peter Brook (United Kingdom)
Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat (Assam)
Shri Narayan Debnath (West Bengal)
Ms. Dulari Devi (Bihar)
Ms. Radhe Devi (Manipur)
Ms. Purnamasi Jani (Odisha)
Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane (Maharashtra)
Matha B. Manjamma Jogati (Karnataka)
Shri Damodaran Kaithapram (Kerala)
Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) * (Posthumous) (Gujarat)
Shri K Kesavasamy (Puducherry)
Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan (Jammu and Kashmir)
Shri Lakha Khan (Rajasthan)
Shri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar (Goa)
Ms. Lajwanti (Punjab)
Shri Ramachandra Manjhi (Bihar)
Shri Dulal Manki (Assam)
Shri Rewben Mashangva (Manipur)
Shri Kartar Paras Ram Singh (Himachal Pradesh)
Shri Kartar Singh (Punjab)
Shri K C Sivasankar (Posthumous) (Tamil Nadu)
Ms. Nidumolu Sumathi (Andhra Pradesh)
Shri K K Ramachandra Pulavar (Kerala)
Shri Kanaka Raju (Telangana)
Ms. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath (Tamil Nadu)
Shri Satyaram Reang (Tripura)
Shri Wayan Dibia (Indonesia)
Ms. Sanjida Khatun (Bangladesh)

Sports

Ms. P. Anitha (Tamil Nadu)
Ms. Mouma Das (West Bengal)
Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa (Arunachal Pradesh)
Shri Madhavan Nambiar (Kerala)
Ms. Sudha Hari Narayan Singh (Uttar Pradesh)
Shri Virender Singh (Haryana)
Shri K Y Venkatesh (Karnataka)

Literature and Education

Shri Prakasarao Asavadi (Andhra Pradesh)
Shri Dharma Narayan Barma (West Bengal)
Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay (West Bengal)
Shri Dadudan Gadhavi (Gujarat)
Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal (Haryana)
Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder (West Bengal)
Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary (Assam)
Shri Namdeo C Kamble (Maharashtra)
Shri Rajat Kumar Kar (Odisha)
Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap (Karnataka)
Shri Chandrakant Mehta (Gujarat)
Ms. Usha Yadav (Uttar Pradesh)
Shri Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous) (Jammu and Kashmir)
Shri Arjun Singh Shekhawat (Rajasthan)
Shri Ram Yatna Shukla (Uttar Pradesh)
Ms. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous) (Bihar)
Shri Kapil Tiwari (Madhya Pradesh)
Shri Imran Shah (Assam)
Shri Balan Putheri (Kerala)
Shri Nanda Prusty (Odisha)
Shri Srikant Datar (United States of America)
Father Vallés (Posthumous), Spain
Shri Nicholas Kazanas (Greece)
Literature and Education- Journalism
Shri Roman Sarmah (Assam)
Shri Solomon Pappaiah (Tamil Nadu)

Social Work

Ms. Lakhimi Baruah (Assam)
Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak (Mizoram)
Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous), Uttar Pradesh
Shri Tsultrim Chonjor (Ladakh)
Ms. Shanti Devi (Odisha)
Chutni Devi (Jharkhand)
Ms. Prakash Kaur (Punjab)
Ms. Niru Kumar (Delhi)
Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal (Rajasthan)
Shri Jitender Singh Shunty (Delhi)
Guru Maa Kamali Soren (West Bengal)
Shri Marachi Subburaman (Tamil Nadu)
Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal (Maharashtra)
Shri Girish Prabhune (Maharashtra)
Ms. Birubala Rabha (Assam)

Trade & Industry

Ms. Rajni Bector (Punjab)
Shri P Subramanian (Posthumous) (Tamil Nadu)
Ms. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat (Maharashtra)
Shri Sridhar Vembu (Tamil Nadu)

Public Affairs

Bijoya Chakravarty (Assam)
Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir (Bangladesh)

Science and Engineering

Shri Rattan Lal (United States of America)

Others-Grassroots Innovation

Shri Ali Manikfan (Lakshadweep)

Others- Agriculture

Shri Nanadro B Marak (Meghalaya)
Shri Prem Chand Sharma (Uttarakhand)
Ms. Pappammal (Tamil Nadu)
Shri Chandra Shekhar Singh (Uttar Pradesh)

Medicine

Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal (Punjab)
Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav (Delhi)
Dr. J N Pande (Posthumous), Delhi
Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay (Uttarakhand)
Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous), Tamil Nadu
Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo (Kerala)
Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu (Uttar Pradesh)
Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi (Odisha)
Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh (Bihar)