Padma Awards 2019 Awardees – Know About 107 Yrs Old Awardee

PADMA AWARDs are the highest civilian awards of the country which is conferred in 3 different categories i.e. Padma Vibhushan (exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (high order distinguished service) and Padma Shri (distinguished service in any field).

The awards are given to the citizens of the country for their performances in different fields like Art, Social Service, Science & Engineering, Literature & Education, Trade & Industry, Public Affairs, Civil Services, Sports, etc.

These civilian awards are honored by the President of India in a ceremonial function which is held in Rashtrapati Bhawan around March / April every year. This year, 112 Padma Awards were approved including 1 duo case (award is counted as one). The list has 4 Padma Vibhushan, 14 Padma Bhushan and 94 Padma Shri Awards.

In the list, there were 21 women awardees inclusive of 11 from the categories of Foreign / NRI / OCI / POI, 3 Posthumous Awardees and 1 Transgender.

Below is the list of some of the most interesting awardees:

Saalumarada Thimmakka -A 107th years old awardee, she is an environmentalist

Apart from this, some of the notable awardees were Sir Pranab Mukherjee, Prabhudeva, Shankar Mahadevan, Manoj Bajpayee and Gautam Gambhir.

Padma Awards 2019 Awardees
Padma Awards 2019 Awardees | Gautam Gambhir- Prabhudeva- Manoj Bajpayee

Full list of awardees:

Bharat Ratna (3)

1. Nanaji Deshmukh (posthumous)

2. Dr. Bhupen Hazarika (posthumous)

3. Pranab Mukherjee

Padma Vibhushan (4)

1. Ms. Teejan Bai — Art-Vocals-Folk — Chhattisgarh

2. Shri Anilkumar Manibhai Naik — Trade & Industry-Infrastructure — Maharashtra

3. Shri Ismail Omar Guelleh (Foreigner) —  Public Affairs — Djibouti

4. Shri Balwant Moreshwar Purandare — Art-Acting-Theatre — Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan (14)

1. Shri John Chambers (Foreigner) — Trade & Industry-Technology — USA

2. Shri Mahashay Dharam Pal Gulati  — Trade & Industry-Food Processing — Delhi

3. Shri Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa — Public Affairs — Punjab

4. Shri Pravin Gordhan  (Foreigner) — Public Affairs — South Africa

5. Shri Budhaditya Mukherjee — Art-Music-Sitar — West Bengal

6. Shri Darshan Lal Jain — Social Work — Haryana

7. Shri Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade — Medicine-Affordable Healthcare — Maharashtra

8. Shri Kariya Munda — Public Affairs — Jharkhand

9. Shri Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair  — Art-Acting-Film  — Kerala

10. Shri S Nambi Narayan — Science & Engineering-Space — Kerala

11. Shri Hukumdev Narayan Yadav  — Public Affairs — Bihar

12. Shri Kuldip Nayar (Posthumous) — Literature & Education (Journalism) — Delhi

13. Ms. Bachendri Pal  — Sports-Mountaineering —  Uttarakhand

14.  Shri V K Shunglu  — Civil Service —  Delhi

Apart from this, 94 Padma Shree Awardees:

Padma Shri (94)

1. Shri Rajeshwar Acharya — Art-Vocal-Hindustani — Uttar Pradesh

2. Shri bangaru Adigalar — Others-spiritualism — Tamil Nadu

3. Shri Omesh Kumar Bharti — Medicine-Rabies — Himachal Pradesh

4. Shri Manoj Bajpayee — Art-Acting-Films — Maharashtra

5. Shri Uddhab Kumar Bharali — Science & Engineering-Grassroots Innovation — Assam

6. Shri Illias Ali — Medicine-Surgery — Assam

7. Shri Swapan Chaudhuri — Art-Music-Tabla — West Bengal

8. Shri Jyoti Bhatt — Art-Painting — Gujarat

9. Shri Dilip Chakravarty — Others-Archaeology — Delhi

10. Shri Mammen Chandy — Medicine-Hematology — West Bengal

11. Shri Pritam Bhartwan — Art-Vocals-Folk — Uttarakhand

12. Shri Kanwal Singh Chauhan — Others-Agriculture — Haryana

13. Shri Babulal Dahiya — Others-Agriculture — Madhya Pradesh

14. Shri Dinyar Contractor — Art-Acting-Theatre — Maharashtra

15. Ms. Muktaben Pankajkumar Dagli — Social Work-Divyang Welfare — Gujarat

16. Shri Sunil Chhetri — Sports-Football — Telangana

17. Shri Thanga Darlong — Art-Music-Flute — Tripura

18. Shri Baldev Singh Dhillon — Science & EngineeringAgriculture — Punjab

19. Ms. Rajkumari Devi — Others-Agriculture — Bihar

20. Ms. Bhagirathi Devi — Public Affairs — Bihar

21. Shri Prabhu Deva — Art-Dance — Karnataka

22. Ms. Harika Dronavalli — Sports-Chess — Andhra Pradesh

23. Ms. Draupadi Ghimiray — Social Work-Divyang Welfare — Sikkim

24. Ms. Godawari Dutta — Art-Painting — Bihar

25. Shri Gautam Gambhir — Sports-Cricket — Delhi

26. Shri Joravarsinh Jadav — Art – Dance (folk)  — Gujarat

27. Shri Bulu Imam — Social Work-Culture — Jharkhand

28. Shri Sandeep Guleria — Medicine-Surgery — Delhi

29. Shri Pratap Singh Hardia — Medicine-Ophthmology — Madhya Pradesh

30. Ms. Rohini Godbole — Science & Engineering-Nuclear — Karnataka

31. Ms. Friederike Irina (Foreigner) — Social Work-Animal Welfare — Germany

32. Shri Fayaz Ahmad Jan — Art-Craft-Papier Mache — Jammu & Kashmir

33. Shri S Jaishankar — Civil Service — Delhi

34. Shri Narsingh Dev Jamwal — Literature & Education — Jammu & Kashmir

35. Shri Joravarsinh Jadav — Art-Dance Folk — Gujarat

36. Shri K G Jayan — Art-Music-Bhakti — Kerala

37. Shri Subhash Kak (Foreigner) — Science & Engineering-Technology — USA

38. Shri Kader Khan (Posthumous-Foreigner) — Art-Acting-Films — Canada

39. Shri Rajani Kant — Social Work — Uttar Pradesh

40. Shri Sudam Kate — Medicine-Sickle Cell — Maharashtra

41. Shri Waman Kendre — Art-Acting-Theatre — Maharashtra

42. Shri Sharath Kamal — Sports-Table Tennis — Tamil Nadu

43. Shri Abdul Gafur Khatri — Art-Painting — Gujarat

44. Shri Ravindra Kolhe (Duo)* — Medicine-Affordable Healthcare — Maharashtra

Ms. Smita Kolhe (Duo)* — Medicine-Affordable Healthcare — Maharashtra

45. Shri Vallabhbhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya — Others-Agriculture — Gujarat

46. Shri Kailash Madbaiya — Literature & Education — Madhya Pradesh

47. Shri Ramesh Babaji Maharaj — Social Work-Animal Welfare — Uttar Pradesh

48. Ms. Bombayla Devi Laishram — Sports-Archery — Manipur

49. Ms. Gita Mehta (Foreigner) — Literature & Education — USA

50. Shri Daitari Naik — Social Work — Odisha

51. Shri K K Muhammed — Others-Archaeology — Kerala

52. Shri Shyama Prasad Mukherjee — Medicine-Affordable Healthcare — Jharkhand

53. Shri Shadab Mohammad — Medicine-Dentistry — Uttar Pradesh

54. Shri Shankar Mahadevan Narayan — Art-Vocals-Films — Maharashtra

55. Shri Shantanu Narayen (Foreigner) — Trade & Industry-Technology — USA

56. Shri Jagdish Prasad Parikh — Others-Agriculture — Rajasthan

57. Shri Tsering Norboo — Medicine-Surgery — Jammu & Kashmir

58. Shri Anup Ranjan Pandey — Art-Music — Chhattisgarh

59. Nartaki Natraj — Art-Dance-Bharatnatyam — Tamil Nadu

60. Ms. Tao Porchon-Lynch (Foreigner) — Others-Yoga — USA

61. Shri Bimal Patel —  Others-Architecture — Gujarat

62. Shri Hukumchand Patidar — Others-Agriculture — Rajasthan

63. Ms. Madurai Chinna Pillai — Social Work-Microfinance — Tamil Nadu

64. Shri Ganpatbhai Patel (Foreigner) — Literature & Education — USA

65. Ms. Kamala Pujhari — Others-Agriculture — Odisha

66. Shri Devarapalli Prakash Rao — Social Work-Affordable Education — Odisha

67. Shri Jagat Ram — Medicine-Ophthalmology — Chandigarh

68. Shri R V Ramani — Medicine-Ophthalmology — Tamil Nadu

69. Shri Bajrang Punia — Sports-Wrestling — Haryana

70. Shri Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry — Art-Lyrics — Telangana

71. Ms. Milena Salvini (Foreigner) — Art-Dance-Kathakali — France

72. Shri Nagindas Sanghavi — Literature & Education-Journalism — Maharashtra

73. Shri Anup Sah — Art-Photography — Uttarakhand

74. Shri Shabbir Sayyad — Social Work-Animal Welfare — Maharashtra

75. Shri Mahesh Sharma — Social Work-Tribal Welfare — Madhya Pradesh

76. Ms. Prashanti Singh — Sports-Basketball — Uttar Pradesh

77. Shri Brijesh Kumar Shukla — Literature & Education — Uttar Pradesh

78. Shri Narendra Singh — Others-Animal Husbandry — Haryana

79. Shri Mohammad Hanif Khan Shastri — Literature & Education — Delhi

80. Shri Sultan Singh — Others-Animal Husbandry — Haryana

81. Shri Devendra Swarup (Posthumous) — Literature & Education-Journalism — Uttar Pradesh

82. Shri Anandan Sivamani — Art-Music — Tamil Nadu

83. Ms. Sharada Srinivasan — Others-Archaeology — Karnataka

84. Shri Jyoti Kumar Sinha — Social Work-Affordable Education — Bihar

85. Shri Ajay Thakur — Sports-Kabaddi — Himachal Pradesh

86. Shri Bharat Bhushan Tyagi — Others-Agriculture — Uttar Pradesh

87. Ms. Saalumarada Thimmakka — Social Work-Environment — Karnataka

88. Ms. Jamuna Tudu — Social Work-Environment — Jharkhand

89. Shri Rajeev Tharanath — Art-Music-Sarod — Karnataka

90. Shri Ramaswami Venkataswami — Medicine-Surgery — Tamil Nadu

91. Shri Ram Saran Verma — Others-Agriculture — Uttar Pradesh

92. Shri Venkateswara Rao Yadlapalli — Others-Agriculture — Andhra Pradesh

93. Shri Hiralal Yadav — Art-Vocals-Folk — Uttar Pradesh

94. Shri Swami Vishudhananda — Others-Spiritualism — Kerala

*indicates duo case. (counted as one award)

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