The Padma Awardees include 40 from the field of art, ten medicine, eight politicians and seven sports personalities.

NEW DELHI, Jan 25 (The CONNECT) - Lehgendary singer S P Balasubramanyam, cardiologist B M Hegde, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are among those who have been awarded Padma Vibhushan awards this year, while former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and former Gujarat CM Keshubhai Patel are among the awarded Padma Bhushan.

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 and fields of activities, such as 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.

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 119 Padma Awards including one duo case. The list comprises 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.

Here, the complete list of Padma awardees:

Padma Vibhushan

SN	Name	Field	State/Country
1.	Shri Shinzo Abe	Public Affairs	Japan
2.	Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous)	Art	Tamil Nadu
3.	Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde	Medicine	Karnataka
4.	Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous)	Science and Engineering	United States of America
5.	Maulana Wahiduddin Khan	Others- Spiritualism	Delhi
6.	Shri B. B. Lal	Others- Archaeology	Delhi
7.	Shri Sudarshan Sahoo	Art	Odisha

Padma Bhushan

8.	Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra	Art	Kerala
9.	Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Assam
10.	Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara	Literature and Education	Karnataka
11.	Ms. Sumitra Mahajan	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
12.	Shri Nripendra Misra	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
13.	Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Bihar

14.	Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Gujarat
15.	Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous)	Others-Spiritualism	Uttar Pradesh
16.	Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
17.	Shri Tarlochan Singh	Public Affairs	Haryana

Padma Shri

18.	Shri Gulfam Ahmed	Art	Uttar Pradesh
19.	Ms. P. Anitha	Sports	Tamil Nadu
20.	Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu	Art	Andhra Pradesh
21.	Shri Subbu Arumugam	Art	Tamil Nadu
22.	Shri Prakasarao Asavadi	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
23.	Ms. Bhuri Bai	Art	Madhya Pradesh
24.	Shri Radhe Shyam Barle	Art	Chhattisgarh
25.	Shri Dharma Narayan Barma	Literature and Education	West Bengal
26.	Ms. Lakhimi Baruah	Social Work	Assam
27.	Shri Biren Kumar Basak	Art	West Bengal
28.	Ms. Rajni Bector	Trade and Industry	Punjab
29.	Shri Peter Brook	Art	United Kingdom
30.	Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak	Social Work	Mizoram
31.	Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat	Art	Assam
32.	Ms. Bijoya Chakravarty	Public Affairs	Assam
33.	Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay	Literature and Education	West Bengal
34.	Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous)	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
35.	Shri Tsultrim Chonjor	Social Work	Ladakh
36.	Ms. Mouma Das	Sports	West Bengal
37.	Shri Srikant Datar	Literature and Education	United States of America
38.	Shri Narayan Debnath	Art	West Bengal
39.	Ms. Chutni Devi	Social Work	Jharkhand
40.	Ms. Dulari Devi	Art	Bihar

41.	Ms. Radhe Devi	Art	Manipur
42.	Ms. Shanti Devi	Social Work	Odisha
43.	Shri Wayan Dibia	Art	Indonesia
44.	Shri Dadudan Gadhavi	Literature & Education	Gujarat
45.	Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane	Art	Maharashtra
46.	Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal	Literature and Education	Haryana
47.	Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder	Literature and Education	West Bengal
48.	Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary	Literature and Education	Assam
49.	Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa	Sports	Arunachal Pradesh
50.	Ms. Purnamasi Jani	Art	Odisha
51.	Matha B. Manjamma Jogati	Art	Karnataka
52.	Shri Damodaran Kaithapram	Art	Kerala
53.	Shri Namdeo C Kamble	Literature and Education	Maharashtra
54.	Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) * (Posthumous)	Art	Gujarat
55.	Shri Rajat Kumar Kar	Literature and Education	Odisha
56.	Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap	Literature and Education	Karnataka
57.	Ms. Prakash Kaur	Social Work	Punjab
58.	Shri Nicholas Kazanas	Literature and Education	Greece
59.	Shri K Kesavasamy	Art	Puducherry
60.	Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan	Art	Jammu and Kashmir
61.	Shri Lakha Khan	Art	Rajasthan
62.	Ms. Sanjida Khatun	Art	Bangladesh
63.	Shri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar	Art	Goa
64.	Ms. Niru Kumar	Social Work	Delhi
65.	Ms. Lajwanti	Art	Punjab
66.	Shri Rattan Lal	Science and Engineering	United States of America
67.	Shri Ali Manikfan	Others-Grassroots Innovation	Lakshadweep
68.	Shri Ramachandra Manjhi	Art	Bihar

69.	Shri Dulal Manki	Art	Assam
70.	Shri Nanadro B Marak	Others- Agriculture	Meghalaya
71.	Shri Rewben Mashangva	Art	Manipur
72.	Shri Chandrakant Mehta	Literature and Education	Gujarat
73.	Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal	Medicine	Punjab
74.	Shri Madhavan Nambiar	Sports	Kerala
75.	Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal	Social Work	Rajasthan
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