List of Padma awardees 2017

14 Apr 2017

List of Padma awardees 2017

Here is the list of 2017 Padma award winners. The list comprises of 7 Padma Vibhushan7 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri Awardees.  19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 5 persons from the category of foreigners(विदेशियों) , NRIs, PIOs and 6 Posthumous(मरणोपरांत) awardees.

 

Padma Vibhushan

Awardee Field of Prominence

Sharad Pawar Public Affairs

Murli Manohar Joshi Public Affairs

P.A. Sangma (posthumous) Public Affairs

Sunder Lal Patwah (posthumous) Public Affairs

K.J.Yesudas Art - Music

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Others - Spiritualism

Udipi Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering

Padma Bhushan

Awardee Field of Prominence

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Art - Music

Devi Prasad Dwivedi Literature & Education

Tehemton Udwadia Medicine

Ratna Sundar Maharaj Others-Spiritualism

Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati Others-Yoga

H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Foreigner) Literature & Education

Cho Ramaswamy (Posthumous) Literature & Education –Journalism

 

 

Padma Shri

 

Awardee Field of Prominence

Basanti Bisht Art-Music

Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair Art-Dance

Aruna Mohanty Art-Dance

Bharathi Vishnuvardhan Art-Cinema

Sadhu Meher Art-Cinema

T K Murthy Art-Music

Laishram Birendrakumar Singh Art-Music

Krishna Ram Chaudhary Art-Music

Baoa Devi Art-Painting

Tilak Gitai Art-Painting

Aekka Yadagiri Rao Art-Sculpture

Jitendra Haripal Art-Music

Kailash Kher Art-Music

Parassala B Ponnammal Art-Music

Sukri Bommagowda Art-Music

Mukund Nayak Art-Music

Purushottam Upadhyay Art-Music

Anuradha Paudwal Art-Music

Wareppa Naba Nil Art-Theatre

Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary Civil Service

T.K. Viswanathan Civil Service

Kanwal Sibal Civil Service

Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla Literature & Education

Eli Ahmed Literature & Education

Narendra Kohli Literature & Education

G. Venkatasubbiah Literature & Education 

Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri Literature & Education

Kashi Nath Pandita Literature & Education

Chamu Krishna Shastry Literature & Education

Harihar Kripalu Tripathi Literature & Education

Michel Danino Literature & Education

Punam Suri Literature & Education

VG Patel Literature & Education

V Koteswaramma Literature & Education

Balbir Dutt Literature & Education-Journalism

Bhawana Somaaya Literature & Education-Journalism

Vishnu Pandya Literature & Education-Journalism

Subroto Das Medicine

Bhakti Yadav Medicine

Mohammed Abdul Waheed Medicine

Madan Madhav Godbole Medicine

Devendra Dayabhai Patel Medicine

Harkishan Singh Medicine

Mukut Minz Medicine

Arun Kumar Sharma Others-Archaeology

Sanjeev Kapoor Others-Culinary

Meenakshi Amma Others-Martial Art

Genabhai Dargabhai Patel Others-Agriculture

Chandrakant Pithawa Science & Engineering

Ajoy Kumar Ray Science & Engineering

Chintakindi Mallesham Science & Engineering

Jitendra Nath Goswami Science & Engineering

Daripalli Ramaiah Social Work

Girish Bhardwaj Social Work

Karimul Hak Social Work

Bipin Ganatra Social Work

Nivedita Raghunath Bhide Social work

Appasaheb Dharmadhikari Social Work

Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal Social Work

Virat Kohli Sports-Cricket

Shekar Naik Sports-Cricket

Vikasa Gowda Sports-Discus Throw

Deepa Malik Sports-Athletics

Mariyappan Thangavelu Sports-Athletics

Dipa Karmakar Sports-Gymnastics

P. R. Shreejesh Sports-Hockey

Sakshi Malik Sports-Wrestling

Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu Trade & Industry

Imrat Khan  (NRI/PIO) Art-Music

Anant Agarwal (NRI/PIO) Literature & Education

H.R. Shah (NRI/PIO) Literature & Education-Journalism

Suniti Solomon (Posthumous) Medicine

Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (Posthumous) Others-Archaeology

Dr. Mapuskar (Posthumous) Social Work

Anuradha Koirala (Foreigner) Social Work

 

 

Civilian awards in India 

Bharat Ratna

The Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the country, was instituted(स्थापित) in the year 1954. Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position, or gender is eligible for this award. It is awarded in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavour(प्रयास). On conferment of the award, the recipient receives a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medallion.

 

Padma awards

Padma Awards were instituted in the year 1954. Except for brief interruptions (रुकावटें) during the years 1977 to 1980 and 1993 to 1997, these awards have been announced every year on Republic Day. The award is given in three categories, viz. Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, in the decreasing order of importance.

 

 

Padma Vibhushan for "exceptional and distinguished service".

Padma Bhushan for "distinguished service of a high order".

Padma Shri is awarded for "distinguished service".

This award seeks to recognize work of any distinction and is given for distinguished and exceptional achievements/service in all fields of activities/disciplines, such as art, literature and education, sports, medicine, social work, science and engineering, public affairs, civil service, trade and industry, etc. All persons without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex are eligible for these awards.

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