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. ‘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 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 the 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.
Padma Vibhushan Awards Winners 2022
Ms. Prabha Atre
Art
Maharashtra
Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Uttar Pradesh
General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous)
Civil Service
Uttarakhand
Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous)
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
Padma Bhushan Awards Winners 2022
Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad
Public Affairs
Jammu and Kashmir
Shri Victor Banerjee
Art
West Bengal
Ms. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous)
Art
Punjab
Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Public Affairs
West Bengal
Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo)
Trade and Industry
Telangana
Ms. Madhur Jaffery
Others-Culinary
United States of America
Shri Devendra Jhajharia
Sports
Rajasthan
Shri Rashid Khan
Art
Uttar Pradesh
Shri Rajiv Mehrishi
Civil Service
Rajasthan
Shri Satya Narayana Nadella
Trade and Industry
United States of America
Shri Sundararajan Pichai
Trade and Industry
United States of America
Shri Cyrus Poonawalla
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
Shri Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous)
Science and Engineering
Mexico
Ms. Pratibha Ray
Literature and Education
Odisha
Swami Sachidanand
Literature and Education
Gujarat
Shri Vashishth Tripathi
Literature and Education
Uttar Pradesh
Padma Shri Awards Winners 2022
Shri Prahlad Rai Agarwala
Trade and Industry
West Bengal
Prof. Najma Akhtar
Literature and Education
Delhi
Shri Sumit Antil
Sports
Haryana
Shri T Senka Ao
Literature and Education
Nagaland
Ms. Kamalini Asthana and Ms. Nalini Asthana* (Duo)
Art
Uttar Pradesh
Shri Subbanna Ayyappan
Science and Engineering
Karnataka
Shri J K Bajaj
Literature and Education
Delhi
Shri Sirpi Balasubramaniam
Literature and Education
Tamil Nadu
Srimad Baba Balia
Social Work
Odisha
Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Science and Engineering
West Bengal
Ms. Madhuri Barthwal
Art
Uttarakhand
Shri Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat
Literature and Education
Ladakh
Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar
Medicine
Maharashtra
Shri Harmohinder Singh Bedi
Literature and Education
Punjab
Shri Pramod Bhagat
Sports
Odisha
Shri S Ballesh Bhajantri
Art
Tamil Nadu
Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia
Art
Sikkim
Shri Maria Christopher Byrski
Literature and Education
Poland
Acharya Chandanaji
Social Work
Bihar
Ms. Sulochana Chavan
Art
Maharashtra
Shri Neeraj Chopra
Sports
Haryana
Ms. Shakuntala Choudhary
Social Work
Assam
Shri Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil
Sports
Kerala
Shri S Damodaran
Social Work
Tamil Nadu
Shri Faisal Ali Dar
Sports
Jammu and Kashmir
Shri Jagjit Singh Dardi
Trade and Industry
Chandigarh
Dr. Prokar Dasgupta
Medicine
United Kingdom
Shri Aditya Prasad Dash
Science and Engineering
Odisha
Dr. Lata Desai
Medicine
Gujarat
Shri Malji bhai Desai
Public Affairs
Gujarat
Ms. Basanti Devi
Social Work
Uttarakhand
Ms. Lourembam Bino Devi
Art
Manipur
Ms. Muktamani Devi
Trade and Industry
Manipur
Ms. Shyamamani Devi
Art
Odisha
Shri Khalil Dhantejvi(Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Gujarat
Shri Savaji Bhai Dholakia
Social Work
Gujarat
Shri Arjun Singh Dhurve
Art
Madhya Pradesh
Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre
Medicine
Maharashtra
Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi
Art
Rajasthan
Shri Dhaneswar Engti
Literature and Education
Assam
Shri Om Prakash Gandhi
Social Work
Haryana
Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati
Literature and Education
Andhra Pradesh
Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Jharkhand
Shri Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Bihar
Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru
Literature and Education
Odisha
Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan(Posthumous)
Art
Andhra Pradesh
Shri Ryuko Hira
Trade and Industry
Japan
Ms. Sosamma Iype
Others - Animal Husbandry
Kerala
Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia
Literature and Education
Madhya Pradesh
Ms. Sowcar Janaki
Art
Tamil Nadu
Ms. Tara Jauhar
Literature and Education
Delhi
Ms. Vandana Kataria
Sports
Uttarakhand
Shri H R Keshavamurthy
Art
Karnataka
Shri Rutger Kortenhorst
Literature and Education
Ireland
Shri P Narayana Kurup
Literature and Education
Kerala
Ms. Avani Lekhara
Sports
Rajasthan
Shri Moti Lal Madan
Science and Engineering
Haryana
Shri Shivnath Mishra
Art
Uttar Pradesh
Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra(Posthumous)
Medicine
Madhya Pradesh
Shri Darshanam Mogilaiah
Art
Telangana
Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous)
Civil Service
Delhi
Shri Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan
Art
Puducherry
Ms. R Muthukannammal
Art
Tamil Nadu
Shri Abdul Khader Nadakattin
Others - Grassroots Innovation
Karnataka
Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik
Others - Agriculture
Karnataka
Shri Tsering Namgyal
Art
Ladakh
Shri A K C Natarajan
Art
Tamil Nadu
Shri V L Nghaka
Literature and Education
Mizoram
Shri Sonu Nigam
Art
Maharashtra
Shri Ram Sahay Panday
Art
Madhya Pradesh
Shri Chirapat Prapandavidya
Literature and Education
Thailand
Ms. K V Rabiya
Social Work
Kerala
Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi
Science and Engineering
Maharashtra
Shri Sheesh Ram
Art
Uttar Pradesh
Shri Ramachandraiah
Art
Telangana
Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao
Medicine
Andhra Pradesh
Ms. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai
Social Work
Gujarat
Ms. Padmaja Reddy
Art
Telangana
Guru Tulku Rinpoche
Others - Spiritualism
Arunachal Pradesh
Shri Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
Sports
Goa
Shri Vidyanand Sarek
Literature and Education
Himachal Pradesh
Shri Kali Pada Saren
Literature and Education
West Bengal
Dr. Veeraswamy Seshiah
Medicine
Tamil Nadu
Ms. Prabhaben Shah
Social Work
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Shri Dilip Shahani
Literature and Education
Delhi
Shri Ram Dayal Sharma
Art
Rajasthan
Shri Vishwamurti Shastri
Literature and Education
Jammu and Kashmir
Ms. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan
Literature and Education
Russia
Shri Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Karnataka
Shri Kaajee Singh
Art
West Bengal
Shri Konsam Ibomcha Singh
Art
Manipur
Shri Prem Singh
Social Work
Punjab
Shri Seth Pal Singh
Others - Agriculture
Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Vidya Vindu Singh
Literature and Education
Uttar Pradesh
Baba Iqbal Singh Ji
Social Work
Punjab
Dr. Bhimsen Singhal
Medicine
Maharashtra
Shri Sivananda
Others - Yoga
Uttar Pradesh
Shri Ajay Kumar Sonkar
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Ajita Srivastava
Art
Uttar Pradesh
Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami
Others - Spiritualism
Goa
Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous)
Medicine
Maharashtra
Shri Raghuvendra Tanwar
Literature and Education
Haryana
Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi
Medicine
Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Lalita Vakil
Art
Himachal Pradesh
Ms. Durga Bai Vyam
Art
Madhya Pradesh
Shri Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas
Science and Engineering
Gujarat
Ms. Badaplin War
Literature and Education
Meghalaya