Padma Awards 2022

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.

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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.

Padma Vibhushan(4)

S. No	Name	Field	State / Country
1	Ms. Prabha Atre	Art	Maharashtra
2	Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous)	Literature and Education	U.P.
3	General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous)	Civil Service	Uttarakhand
4	Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh

Padma Bhushan (17)

S. No	Name	Field	State / Country
1	Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad	Public Affairs	Jammu and Kashmir
2	Shri Victor Banerjee	Art	West Bengal
3	Ms. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous)	Art	Punjab
4	Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	Public Affairs	West Bengal
5	Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
6	Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo)	Trade and Industry	Telangana
7	Ms. Madhur Jaffery	Others-Culinary	USA
8	Shri Devendra Jhajharia	Sports	Rajasthan
9	Shri Rashid Khan	Art	Uttar Pradesh
10	Shri Rajiv Mehrishi	Civil Service	Rajasthan
11	Shri Satya Narayana Nadella	Trade and Industry	USA
12	Shri Sundararajan Pichai	Trade and Industry	USA
13	Shri Cyrus Poonawalla	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
14	Shri Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous)	Sci and Engg	Mexico
15	Ms. Pratibha Ray	Literature and Education	Odisha
16	Swami Sachidanand	Literature and Education	Gujarat
17	Shri Vashishth Tripathi	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh

Padma Shri (107)

S. No	Name	Field	State / Country
1	Shri Prahlad Rai Agarwala	Trade and Industry	West Bengal
2	Prof. Najma Akhtar	Literature and Education	Delhi
3	Shri Sumit Antil	Sports	Haryana
4	Shri T Senka Ao	Literature and Education	Nagaland
5	Ms. Kamalini Asthana and Ms. Nalini Asthana* (Duo)	Art	Uttar Pradesh
6	Shri Subbanna Ayyappan	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
7	Shri J K Bajaj	Literature and Education	Delhi
8	Shri Sirpi Balasubramaniam	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu
9	Srimad Baba Balia	Social Work	Odisha
10	Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay	Science and Engineering	West Bengal
11	Ms. Madhuri Barthwal	Art	Uttarakhand
12	Shri Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat	Literature and Education	Ladakh
13	Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar	Medicine	Maharashtra
14	Shri Harmohinder Singh Bedi	Literature and Education	Punjab
15	Shri Pramod Bhagat	Sports	Odisha
16	Shri S Ballesh Bhajantri	Art	Tamil Nadu
17	Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia	Art	Sikkim
18	Shri Maria Christopher Byrski	Literature and Education	Poland
19	Acharya Chandanaji	Social Work	Bihar
20	Ms. Sulochana Chavan	Art	Maharashtra
21	Shri Neeraj Chopra	Sports	Haryana
22	Ms. Shakuntala Choudhary	Social Work	Assam
23	Shri Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil	Sports	Kerala
24	Shri S Damodaran	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
25	Shri Faisal Ali Dar	Sports	J&K
26	Shri Jagjit Singh Dardi	Trade and Industry	Chandigarh
27	Dr. Prokar Dasgupta	Medicine	U.K.
28	Shri Aditya Prasad Dash	Science and Engineering	Odisha
29	Dr. Lata Desa	Medicine	Gujarat
30	Shri Malji bhai Desai	Public Affairs	Gujarat
31	Ms. Basanti Devi	Social Work	Uttarakhand
32	Ms. Lourembam Bino Devi	Art	Manipur
33	Ms. Muktamani Devi	Trade and Industry	Manipur
34	Ms. Shyamamani Devi	Art	Odisha
35	Shri Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous)	Lit. and Education	Gujarat
36	Shri Savaji Bhai Dholakia	Social Work	Gujarat
37	Shri Arjun Singh Dhurve	Art	Madhya Pradesh
38	Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre	Medicine	Maharashtra
39	Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi	Art	Rajasthan
40	Shri Dhaneswar Engti	Lit. and Education	Assam
41	Shri Om Prakash Gandhi	Social Work	Haryana
42	Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati	Lit. and Education	Andhra Pradesh
43	Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous)	Lit. and Education	Jharkhand
44	Shri Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous)	Lit. and Education	Bihar
45	Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru	Lit. and Education	Odisha
46	Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous)	Art	Andhra Pradesh
47	Shri Ryuko Hira	Trade and Industry	Japan
48	Ms. Sosamma Iype	Animal Husbandry	Kerala
49	Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia	Lit. and Education	Madhya Pradesh
50	Ms. Sowcar Janaki	Art	Tamil Nadu
51	Ms. Tara Jauhar	Lit and Education	Delhi
52	Ms. Vandana Kataria	Sports	Uttarakhand
53	Shri H R Keshavamurthy	Art	Karnataka
54	Shri Rutger Kortenhorst	Lit and Education	Ireland
55	Shri P Narayana Kurup	Lit and Education	Kerala
56	Ms. Avani Lekhara	Sports	Rajasthan
57	Shri Moti Lal Madan	Sci and Engineering	Haryana
58	Shri Shivnath Mishra	Art	Uttar Pradesh
59	Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous)	Medicine	Madhya Pradesh
60	Shri Darshanam Mogilaiah	Art	Telangana
61	Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous)	Civil Service	Delhi
62	Shri Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan	Art	Puducherry
63	Ms. R Muthukannammal	Art	Tamil Nadu
64	Shri Abdul Khader Nadakattin	Grassroots Innovation	Karnataka
65	Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik	Agriculture	Karnataka
66	Shri Tsering Namgyal	Art	Ladakh
67	Shri A K C Natarajan	Art	Tamil Nadu
68	Shri V L Nghaka	Lit. and Education	Mizoram
69	Shri Sonu Nigam	Art	Maharashtra
70	Shri Ram Sahay Panday	Art	Madhya Pradesh
71	Shri Chirapat Prapandavidya	Lit and Education	Thailand
72	Ms. K V Rabiya	Social Work	Kerala
73	Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi	Sci and Engineering	Maharashtra
74	Shri Sheesh Ram	Art	Uttar Pradesh
75	Shri Ramachandraiah	Art	Telangana
76	Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao	Medicine	Andhra Pradesh
77	Ms. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai	Social Work	Gujarat
78	Ms. Padmaja Reddy	Art	Telangana
79	Guru Tulku Rinpoche	Spiritualism	Arunachal Pradesh
80	Shri Brahmanand Sankhwalkar	Sports	Goa
81	Shri Vidyanand Sarek	Lit and Education	Himachal Pradesh
82	Shri Kali Pada Saren	Lit. and Education	West Bengal
83	Dr. Veeraswamy Seshiah	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
84	Ms. Prabhaben Shah	Social Work	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
85	Shri Dilip Shahani	Lit and Education	Delhi
86	Shri Ram Dayal Sharma	Art	Rajasthan
87	Shri Vishwamurti Shastri	Lit. and Education	J&K
88	Ms. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan	Lit. and Education	Russia
89	Shri Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous)	Lit. and Education	Karnataka
90	Shri Kaajee Singh	Art	West Bengal
91	Shri Konsam Ibomcha Singh	Art	Manipur
92	Shri Prem Singh	Social Work	Punjab
93	Shri Seth Pal Singh	Agriculture	Uttar Pradesh
94	Ms. Vidya Vindu Singh	Lit. and Education	Uttar Pradesh
95	Baba Iqbal Singh Ji	Social Work	Punjab
96	Dr. Bhimsen Singhal	Medicine	Maharashtra
97	Shri Sivananda	Yoga	Uttar Pradesh
98	Shri Ajay Kumar Sonkar	Sci and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
99	Ms. Ajita Srivastava	Art	Uttar Pradesh
100	Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami	Spiritualism	Goa
101	Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous)	Medicine	Maharashtra
102	Shri Raghuvendra Tanwar	Lit and Education	Haryana
103	Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
104	Ms. Lalita Vakil	Art	Himachal Pradesh
105	Ms. Durga Bai Vyam	Art	Madhya Pradesh
106	Shri Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas	Sci and Engineering	Gujarat
107	Ms. Badaplin War	Lit and Education	Meghalaya

Who Decides?

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.