Complete list of Padma awardees: 2022 (highest civilian awards )

The Padma awards are one of the highest civilian awards in India and these are given in various disciplines- Literature, education, science, arts and trade, industry and engineering, public affairs, civil services, medicine, and sports. Each year, on Republic Day, these awards are announced. These are conferred by the president at a ceremonial function that is organized around March or April. This year the president announced as many as 128 Padma awards out of which 4 were Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan awards, and 107 Padma Shri awards. Out of these awardees, 34 are women, 13 awards are posthumous and 10 awards are for people who belong to the foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI categories. 

Padma Vibhushan

This is an award that is given for distinguished and extraordinary service. This is the second-highest civilian award in India.

Padma Bhushan

This award is given for distinguished service of the highest order. This is the third-highest civilian award in India.

Padma Shri

This award is given for distinguished service. In the order of the civilian awards, it ranks 4th.

History of Padma awards

• The government of India instituted the Padma awards in the year, 1954.
• This award is given annually on the occasion of Republic day.
• This award does not permit to be added up to a title and it can also not be used as a prefix or a suffix to the recipient’s name.

What do the awardees receive?

• The awardees receive a medallion along with a signed sanad by the president of India.
• The recipient is also given a duplication of the medallion that they will be able to wear in the course of any state or ceremonial function.
• The names of these awardees are published in the Gazette of India.
• The total number of awards given in one year cannot go beyond 120 excluding the posthumous and the foreigner awards.

Who decides?

• The Padma awards are given as per the recommendations of the Padma Awards Committee which is created annually by the Prime minister.
• The award committee is supervised by the cabinet secretary and it comprises the secretary to the president, 4-6 distinguished individuals as members, and the home secretary.
• The proposal of the award committee is forwarded to the Indian president and the prime minister for their consent.

Padma Bhushan awardees

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
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) Science and Engineering 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
18. Padma Shri Awardees
19. Shri Prahlad Rai Agarwala Trade and Industry West Bengal
20. Prof. Najma Akhtar Literature and Education Delhi
21. Shri Sumit Antil Sports Haryana
22. Shri T Senka Ao Literature and Education Nagaland
23. Ms. Kamalini Asthana and Ms.Nalini Asthana* (Duo) Art Uttar Pradesh
24. Shri Subbanna Ayyappan Science and Engineering Karnataka
25. Shri J K Bajaj Literature and Education Delhi
26. Shri Sirpi Balasubramaniam Literature and Education Tamil Nadu
27. Srimad Baba Balia Social Work Odisha
28. Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Science and Engineering West Bengal
29. Ms. Madhuri Barthwal Art Uttarakhand
30. Shri Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat Literature and Education Ladakh
31. Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar Medicine Maharashtra
32. Shri Harmohinder Singh Bedi Literature and Education Punjab
33. Shri Pramod Bhagat Sports Odisha
34. Shri S Ballesh Bhajantri Art Tamil Nadu
35. Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia Art Sikkim
36. Shri Maria Christopher Byrski Literature and Education Poland
37. Acharya Chandanaji Social Work Bihar
38. Ms. Sulochana Chavan Art Maharashtra
39. Shri Neeraj Chopra Sports Haryana
40. Ms. Shakuntala Choudhary Social Work Assam
41. Shri Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil Sports Kerala
42. Shri S Damodaran Social Work Tamil Nadu
43. Shri Faisal Ali Dar Sports J&K
44. Shri Jagjit Singh Dardi Trade and Industry Chandigarh
45. Dr. Prokar Dasgupta Medicine United Kingdom
46. Shri Aditya Prasad Dash Science and Engineering Odisha
47. Dr. Lata Desai Medicine Gujarat
48. Shri Malji bhai Desai Public Affairs Gujarat
49. Ms. Basanti Devi Social Work Uttarakhand
50. Ms. Lourembam Bino Devi Art Manipur
51. Ms. Muktamani Devi Trade and Industry Manipur
52. Ms. Shyamamani Devi Art Odisha
53. Shri Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) Literature and Education Gujarat
54. Shri Savaji Bhai Dholakia Social Work Gujarat
55. Shri Arjun Singh Dhurve Art Madhya Pradesh
56. Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre Medicine Maharashtra
57. Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi Art Rajasthan
58. Shri Dhaneswar Engti Literature and Education Assam
59. Shri Om Prakash Gandhi Social Work Haryana
60. Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
61. Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous) Literature and Education Jharkhand
62. Shri Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) Literature and Education Bihar
63. Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru Literature and Education Odisha
64. Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous) Art Andhra Pradesh
65. Shri Ryuko Hira Trade and Industry Japan
66. Ms. Sosamma Type Others - Animal Husbandry Kerala
67. Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh
68. Ms. Sowcar Janaki Art Tamil Nadu
69. Ms. Tara Jauhar Literature and Education Delhi
70. Ms. Vandana Kataria Sports Uttarakhand
71. Shri H R Keshavamurthy Art Karnataka
72. Shri Rutger Kortenhorst Literature and Education Ireland
73. Shri P Narayana Kurup Literature and Education Kerala
74. Ms. Avani Lekhara Sports Rajasthan
75. Shri Moti Lal Madan Science and Engineering Haryana
76. Shri Shivnath Mishra Art Uttar Pradesh
77. Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) Medicine Madhya Pradesh
78. Shri Darshanam Mogilaiah Art Telangana
79. Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) Civil Service Delhi
80. Shri Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan Art Puducherry
81. Ms. R Muthukannammal Art Tamil Nadu
82. Shri Abdul Khader Nadakattin Others - Grassroots Innovation Karnataka
83. Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik Others - Agriculture Karnataka
84. Shri Tsering Namgyal Art Ladakh
85. Shri A K C Natarajan Art Tamil Nadu
86. Shri V L Nghaka Literature and Education Mizoram
87. Shri Sonu Nigam Art Maharashtra
88. Shri Ram Sahay Panday Art Madhya Pradesh
89. Shri Chirapat Prapandavidya Literature and Education Thailand
90. Ms. K V Rabiya Social Work Kerala
91. Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi Science and Engineering Maharashtra
92. Shri Sheesh Ram Art Uttar Pradesh
93. Shri Ramachandraiah Art Telangana
94. Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao Medicine Andhra Pradesh
95. Ms. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai Social Work Gujarat
96. Ms. Padmaja Reddy Art Telangana
97. Guru Tulku Rinpoche Others - Spiritualism Arunachal Pradesh
98. Shri Brahmanand Sankhwalkar Sports Goa
99. Shri Vidyanand Sarek Literature and Education Himachal Pradesh
100. Shri Kali Pada Saren Literature and Education West Bengal
101. Dr. Veeraswamy Seshiah Medicine Tamil Nadu
102. Ms. Prabhaben Shah Social Work Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
103. Shri Dilip Shahani Literature and Education Delhi
104. Shri Ram Dayal Sharma Art Rajasthan
105. Shri Vishwamurti Shastri Literature and Education J&K
106. Ms. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan Literature and Education Russia
107. Shri Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous) Literature and Education Karnataka
108. Shri Kaajee Singh Art West Bengal
109. Shri Konsam Ibomcha Singh Art Manipur
110. Shri Prem Singh Social Work Punjab
111. Shri Seth Pal Singh Others - Agriculture Uttar Pradesh
112. Ms. Vidya Vindu Singh Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
113. Baba Iqbal Singh Ji Social Work Punjab
114. Dr. Bhimsen Singhal Medicine Maharashtra
115. Shri Sivananda Others - Yoga Uttar Pradesh
116. Shri Ajay Kumar Sonkar Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh
117. Ms. Ajita Srivastava Art Uttar Pradesh
118. Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami Others - Spiritualism Goa
119. Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) Medicine Maharashtra
120. Shri Raghuvendra Tanwar Literature and Education Haryana
121. Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi Medicine Uttar Pradesh
122. Ms. Lalita Vakil Art Himachal Pradesh
123. Ms. Durga Bai Vyam Art Madhya Pradesh
124. Shri Jyantkumar Maganlal
125. Vyas Science and Engineering Gujarat
126. Ms. Badaplin War Literature and Education Meghalaya

Padma Vibhushan Awardees

• Ms Prabha Atre from Maharashtra for her contribution in Art.
• Shri Radheshyam Khemka from Uttar Pradesh for her contribution in the field of Literature and education.
• General Bipan Rawat from Uttarakhand for his contribution in Civil Service.
• Shri Kalyan Singh from Uttar Pradesh for his contribution in the field of public affairs.