Srinagar, Jan 26 (GNS): Ghulam Nabi Dar and Romalo Ram from Jammu and Kashmir have been conferred with coveted ‘Padma Shri’ award in ‘Arts Category’ and Togdan Rinpoche, Others –Spiritualism Ladakh, from Ladakh with ‘Padma Bhushan’ posthumously.
“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”, reads a notification from the Ministry of Home Affairs, as per GNS.
“‘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, the notification reads, are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March / April every year. For the year 2024, the President has approved conferment of 132 Padma Awards including 2 duo cases (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri Awards. 30 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 8 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 9 Posthumous awardees.
Among the ‘Padma Vibhushan’ recipients include; Vyjayantimala Bali, Arts, Tamil Nadu; Konidela Chiranjeevi, Art, Andhra Pradesh; M Venkaiah Naidu, Public Affairs, Andhra Pradesh; Bindeshwar Pathak (Posthumous), Social Work, Bihar and Padma Subrahmanyam, Art, Tamil Nadu.
Among Padma Bhushan recipients include; M Fathima Beevi (Posthumous), Public Affairs, Kerala; Hormusji N Cama, Literature & Education – Journalism, Maharashtra; Mithun Chakraborty, Art, West Bengal; Sitaram Jindal, Trade & Industry, Karnataka; Young Liu Trade & Industry Taiwan; Ashwin Balachand Mehta, Medicine, Maharashtra; Satyabrata Mookherjee (Posthumous), Public Affairs, West Bengal; Ram Naik, Public Affairs, Maharashtra; Tejas Madhusudan Patel Medicine Gujarat; Olanchery Rajagopal, Public Affairs, Kerala; Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt, Art, Maharashtra; Pyarelal Sharma, Art, Maharashtra; Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur Medicine Bihar; Usha Uthup, Art, West Bengal, Vijaykanth (Posthumous), Art, Tamil Nadu; Kundan Vyas, Literature & Education – Journalism, Maharashtra.
The Padma Shri recipients, as per the notification, include; Khalil Ahamad, Art, Uttar Pradesh; Badrappan M, Art, Tamil Nadu; Kaluram Bamaniya, Art, Madhya Pradesh; Rezwana Choudhury Bannya Art Bangladesh; Naseem Bano, Art, Uttar Pradesh, Ramlal Bareth, Art, Chhattisgarh; Gita Roy Barman, Art, West Bengal; Parbati Baruah, Social Work, Assam; Sarbeswar Basumatary, Others – Agriculture, Assam; Som Datt Battu, Art, Himachal Pradesh; Takdira Begum, Art, West Bengal; Sathyanarayana Beleri, Others – Agriculture, Kerala; Drona Bhuyan, Art, Assam; Ashok Kumar Biswas Art Bihar, Rohan Machanda Bopanna, Sports, Karnataka, Smriti Rekha Chakma, Art, Tripura; Narayan Chakraborty, Science & Engineering, West Bengal; A Velu Ananda Chari, Art, Telangana; Ram Chet Chaudhary, Science & Engineering, Uttar Pradesh; K Chellammal, Others – Agriculture, Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Joshna Chinappa, Sports, Tamil Nadu; Charlotte Chopin, Others – Yoga, France; Raghuveer Choudhary, Literature & Education, Gujarat; Joe D Cruz, Literature & Education, Tamil Nadu; Chitta Ranjan Debbarma, Others – Spiritualism, Tripura; Uday Vishwanath Deshpande, Sports, Maharashtra; Prema Dhanraj, Medicine, Karnataka; Radha Krishan Dhiman, Medicine, Uttar Pradesh; Manohar Krishana Dole, Medicine, Maharashtra; Pierre Sylvain Filliozat, Literature & Education, France; Mahabir Singh Guddu, Art, Haryana; Anupama Hoskere, Art, Karnataka; Yazdi Maneksha Italia, Medicine, Gujarat; Rajaram Jain, Literature & Education, Uttar Pradesh; Jankilal, Art, Rajasthan; Ratan Kahar, Art, West Bengal, Yashwant Singh Kathoch, Literature & Education, Uttarakhand; Zahir I Kazi, Literature & Education, Maharashtra; Gaurav Khanna, Sports, Uttar Pradesh; Surendra Kishore, Literature & Education – Journalism, Bihar; Dasari Kondappa, Art, Telangana; Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy, Literature & Education, Karnataka; Yanung Jamoh Lego, Others – Agriculture, Arunachal Pradesh; Jordan Lepcha, Art, Sikkim; Satendra Singh Lohia, Sports, Madhya Pradesh; Binod Maharana, Art, Odisha; Purnima Mahato, Sports, Jharkhand; Uma Maheshwari D, Art, Andhra Pradesh; Dukhu Majhi, Social Work, West Bengal; Ram Kumar Mallick, Art, Bihar; Hemchand Manjhi, Medicine, Chhattisgarh; Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram, Medicine, Maharashtra; Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous), Art, Uttar Pradesh; Ali Mohammed & Ghani Mohammed* (Duo), Art, Rajasthan; Kalpana Morparia, Trade & Industry, Maharashtra; Chami Murmu, Social Work, Jharkhand; Sasindran Muthuvel, Public Affairs, Papua New Guinea; G Nachiyar, Medicine, Tamil Nadu; Kiran Nadar, Art, Delhi; Pakaravur Chithran Namboodiripad (Posthumous), Literature & Education, Kerala; Narayanan E P Art Kerala; Shailesh Nayak, Science & Engineering, Delhi; Harish Nayak (Posthumous), Literature & Education, Gujarat; Fred Negrit Literature & Education France; Hari Om, Science & Engineering, Haryana; Bhagabat Padhan, Art, Odisha; Sanatan Rudra Pal, Art, West Bengal; Shankar Baba Pundlikrao Papalkar, Social Work, Maharashtra; Radhe Shyam Pareek, Medicine, Uttar Pradesh; Dayal Mavjibhai Parmar, Medicine, Gujarat; Binod Kumar Pasayat, Art, Odisha; Silbi Passah Art Meghalaya; Shanti Devi Paswan & Shri Shivan Paswan* (Duo), Art, Bihar; Sanjay Anant Patil, Others – Agriculture, Goa; Muni Narayana Prasad, Literature & Education, Kerala; K S Rajanna, Social Work, Karnataka; Chandrashekar Channapatna Rajannachar, Medicine, Karnataka; Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit, Literature & Education, Madhya Pradesh; Navjivan Rastogi, Literature & Education, Uttar Pradesh; Nirmal Rishi, Art, Punjab; Pran Sabharwal, Art, Punjab; Gaddam Sammaiah, Art, Telangana; Sangthankima, Social Work, Mizoram; Machihan Sasa, Art, Manipur; Omprakash Sharma, Art, Madhya Pradesh; Eklabya Sharma, Science & Engineering, West Bengal; Ram Chander Sihag, Science & Engineering, Haryana; Harbinder Singh, Sports, Delhi; Gurvinder Singh, Social Work, Haryana; Godawari Singh Art Uttar Pradesh; Ravi Prakash Singh, Science & Engineering, Mexico; Seshampatti T Sivalingam, Art, Tamil Nadu; Somanna, Social Work, Karnataka; Kethavath Somlal, Literature & Education, Telangana; Shashi Soni, Trade & Industry, Karnataka; Urmila Srivastava, Art, Uttar Pradesh; Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Posthumous), Art, West Bengal; Gopinath Swain, Art, Odisha; Laxman Bhatt Tailang, Art, Rajasthan; Maya Tandon, Social Work, Rajasthan; Aswathi Thirunal Gouri; Lakshmi Bayi Thampuratty, Literature & Education, Kerala; Jagdish Labhshanker Trivedi, Art, Gujarat; Sano Vamuzo, Social Work, Nagaland; Balakrishnan Sadanam Puthiya Veetil, Art, Kerala; Kurella Vittalacharya, Literature & Education, Telangana; Kiran Vyas, Others – Yoga, France; Jageshwar Yadav, Social Work, Chhattisgarh and Babu Ram Yadav, Art, Uttar Pradesh. (GNS)