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. ‘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. 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. This year the President of India has approved conferment of 112 Padma Awards including one duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 14 Padma Bhushan and 94 Padma Shri Awards.  21 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, 3 Posthumous awardees and 1 transgender person.
PADMA VIBHUSHAN (4)
 

S.No	Name	Field	State
	Ms. Teejan Bai	Art-Vocals-Folk	Chhattisgarh
	Shri Ismail Omar Guelleh (Foreigner)	Public Affairs	Djibouti
	Shri Anilkumar Manibhai Naik	Trade & Industry-Infrastructure	Maharashtra
	Shri Balwant Moreshwar Purandare	Art-Acting-Theatre	Maharashtra

 
PADMA BHUSHAN- (14)
 

S.No	Name	Field	State
	Shri John Chambers (Foreigner)	Trade & Industry-Technology	USA
	Shri Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	Public Affairs	Punjab
	Shri Pravin Gordhan (Foreigner)	Public Affairs	South Africa
	Shri Mahashay Dharam Pal Gulati	Trade & Industry-Food Processing	Delhi
	Shri Darshan Lal Jain	Social Work	Haryana
	Shri Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade	Medicine-Affordable Healthcare	Maharashtra
	Shri Kariya Munda	Public Affairs	Jharkhand
	Shri Budhaditya Mukherjee	Art-Music-Sitar	West Bengal
	Shri Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair	Art-Acting-Film	Kerala
	Shri S Nambi Narayan	Science & Engineering-Space	Kerala
	Shri Kuldip Nayar (Posthumous)	Literature & Education (Journalism)	Delhi
	Ms. Bachendri Pal	Sports-Mountaineering	Uttarakhand
	Shri V K Shunglu	Civil Service	Delhi
	Shri Hukumdev Narayan Yadav	Public Affairs	Bihar

 
PADMA SHRI- (94)
 

S.No	Name	Field	State
	Shri Rajeshwar Acharya	Art-Vocal-Hindustani	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Bangaru Adigalar	Others-Spiritualism	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Illias Ali	Medicine-Surgery	Assam
	Shri Manoj Bajpayee	Art-Acting-Films	Maharashtra
	Shri Uddhab Kumar Bharali	Science & Engineering-Grassroots Innovation	Assam
	Shri Omesh Kumar Bharti	Medicine-Rabies	Himachal Pradesh
	Shri Pritam Bhartwan	Art-Vocals-Folk	Uttarakhand
	Shri Jyoti Bhatt	Art-Painting	Gujarat
	Shri Dilip Chakravarty	Others-Archaeology	Delhi
	Shri Mammen Chandy	Medicine-Hematology	West Bengal
	Shri Swapan Chaudhuri	Art-Music-Tabla	West Bengal
	Shri Kanwal Singh Chauhan	Others-Agriculture	Haryana
	Shri Sunil Chhetri	Sports-Football	Telangana
	Shri Dinyar Contractor	Art-Acting-Theatre	Maharashtra
	Ms. Muktaben Pankajkumar Dagli	Social Work-Divyang Welfare	Gujarat
	Shri Babulal Dahiya	Others-Agriculture	Madhya Pradesh
	Shri Thanga Darlong	Art-Music-Flute	Tripura
	Shri Prabhu Deva	Art-Dance	Karnataka
	Ms. Rajkumari Devi	Others-Agriculture	Bihar
	Ms. Bhagirathi Devi	Public Affairs	Bihar
	Shri Baldev Singh Dhillon	Science & Engineering-Agriculture	Punjab
	Ms. Harika Dronavalli	Sports-Chess	Andhra Pradesh
	Ms. Godawari Dutta	Art-Painting	Bihar
	Shri Gautam Gambhir	Sports-Cricket	Delhi
	Ms. Draupadi Ghimiray	Social Work-Divyang Welfare	Sikkim
	Ms. Rohini Godbole	Science & Engineering-Nuclear	Karnataka
	Shri Sandeep Guleria	Medicine-Surgery	Delhi
	Shri Pratap Singh Hardia	Medicine- Ophthmology	Madhya Pradesh
	Shri Bulu Imam	Social Work-Culture	Jharkhand
	Ms. Friederike Irina (Foreigner)	Social Work-Animal Welfare	Germany
	Shri Joravarsinh Jadav	Art-Dance Folk	Gujarat
	Shri S Jaishankar	Civil Service	Delhi
	Shri Narsingh Dev Jamwal	Literature & Education	Jammu & Kashmir
	Shri Fayaz Ahmad Jan	Art-Craft-Papier Mache	Jammu & Kashmir
	Shri K G Jayan	Art-Music-Bhakti	Kerala
	Shri Subhash Kak (Foreigner)	Science & Engineering-Technology	USA
	Shri Sharath Kamal	Sports-Table Tennis	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Rajani Kant	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Sudam Kate	Medicine-Sickle Cell	Maharashtra
	Shri Waman Kendre	Art-Acting-Theatre	Maharashtra
	Shri Kader Khan (Posthumous-Foreigner)	Art-Acting-Films	Canada
	Shri Abdul Gafur Khatri	Art-Painting	Gujarat
	Shri Ravindra Kolhe (Duo)*	Medicine-Affordable Healthcare	Maharashtra
	Ms. Smita Kolhe (Duo)*	Medicine-Affordable Healthcare	Maharashtra
	Ms. Bombayla Devi Laishram	Sports-Archery	Manipur
	Shri Kailash Madbaiya	Literature & Education	Madhya Pradesh
	Shri Ramesh Babaji Maharaj	Social Work-Animal Welfare	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Vallabhbhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya	Others-Agriculture	Gujarat
	Ms. Gita Mehta (Foreigner)	Literature & Education	USA
	Shri Shadab Mohammad	Medicine-Dentistry	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri K K Muhammed	Others-Archaeology	Kerala
	Shri Shyama Prasad Mukherjee	Medicine-Affordable Healthcare	Jharkhand
	Shri Daitari Naik	Social Work	Odisha
	Shri Shankar Mahadevan Narayan	Art-Vocals-Films	Maharashtra
	Shri Shantanu Narayen (Foreigner)	Trade & Industry-Technology	USA
	Nartaki Natraj	Art-Dance-Bharatnatyam	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Tsering Norboo	Medicine-Surgery	Jammu & Kashmir
	Shri Anup Ranjan Pandey	Art-Music	Chhattisgarh
	Shri Jagdish Prasad Parikh	Others-Agriculture	Rajasthan
	Shri Ganpatbhai Patel (Foreigner)	Literature & Education	USA
	Shri Bimal Patel	Others-Architecture	Gujarat
	Shri Hukumchand Patidar	Others-Agriculture	Rajasthan
	Shri Harvinder Singh Phoolka	Public Affairs	Punjab
	Ms. Madurai Chinna Pillai	Social Work-Microfinance	Tamil Nadu
	Ms. Tao Porchon-Lynch (Foreigner)	Others-Yoga	USA
	Ms. Kamala Pujhari	Others-Agriculture	Odisha
	Shri Bajrang Punia	Sports-Wrestling	Haryana
	Shri Jagat Ram	Medicine-Ophthalmology	Chandigarh
	Shri R V Ramani	Medicine-Ophthalmology	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Devarapalli Prakash Rao	Social Work-Affordable Education	Odisha
	Shri Anup Sah	Art-Photography	Uttarakhand
	Ms. Milena Salvini (Foreigner)	Art-Dance-Kathakali	France
	Shri Nagindas Sanghavi	Literature & Education-Journalism	Maharashtra
	Shri Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry	Art-Lyrics	Telangana
	Shri Shabbir Sayyad	Social Work-Animal Welfare	Maharashtra
	Shri Mahesh Sharma	Social Work-Tribal Welfare	Madhya Pradesh
	Shri Mohammad Hanif Khan Shastri	Literature & Education	Delhi
	Shri Brijesh Kumar Shukla	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Narendra Singh	Others-Animal Husbandry	Haryana
	Ms. Prashanti Singh	Sports-Basketball	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Sultan Singh	Others-Animal Husbandry	Haryana
	Shri Jyoti Kumar Sinha	Social Work-Affordable Education	Bihar
	Shri Anandan Sivamani	Art-Music	Tamil Nadu
	Ms. Sharada Srinivasan	Others-Archaeology	Karnataka
	Shri Devendra Swarup (Posthumous)	Literature & Education-Journalism	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Ajay Thakur	Sports-Kabaddi	Himachal Pradesh
	Shri Rajeev Tharanath	Art-Music-Sarod	Karnataka
	Ms. Saalumarada Thimmakka	Social Work-Environment	Karnataka
	Ms. Jamuna Tudu	Social Work-Environment	Jharkhand
	Shri Bharat Bhushan Tyagi	Others-Agriculture	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Ramaswami Venkataswami	Medicine-Surgery	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Ram Saran Verma	Others-Agriculture	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Swami Vishudhananda	Others-Spiritualism	Kerala
	Shri Hiralal Yadav	Art-Vocals-Folk	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Venkateswara Rao Yadlapalli	Others-Agriculture	Andhra Pradesh

 
Note: * indicates duo case. (counted as one award)
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