On 25th January, 2024, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has announced the Padma Awards for 2024. Emmanuel Macron, President of France was the chief guest on 75th Republic Day of India.
Padma Awards2024:
i.Droupadi Murmu, the President of India has approved the conferment of 132 Padma Awards for 2024.
ii.The official list released comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan, and 110 Padma Shri awards, which include 2 duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one).
iii.Among the awardees, there are 30 women and the list also comprises 8 persons from the category of Foreigners/ NRI/ PIO/OCI and 9 Posthumous awardees.
6 Foreign Nationals Honoured with Padma Awards:
A total of six foreigners were included in the list of winners of the Padma Awards for the year 2024.
i.Among 6 foreign nationals, 4 people from France have been selected for Padma Awards (which is the highest for any foreign country).
- Name of these French people are: Charlotte Chopin(100 year old yoga exponent), Kiran Vyas(international yoga and ayurveda practioner), Pierre Sylvain Filliozat( a Sanskrit scholar) and Fred Negrit (an Indologist).
ii.Young Liu who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of tech giant Hon Hai Technology Group also known as Foxconn based in Taiwan. Foxconn is the world’s largest electronic manufacturing company.
- Young Liu has become 1st foreign national to receive India’s 3rd highest civilian honor, Padma Bhushan so far.
iii.Sasindran Muthuvel from Papua New Guinea was awarded Padma Shri in Public Affairs.
About Padma Awards:
i.Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian awards in India after”Bharat Ratna” and these awards are bestowed by Government of India. Padma Awards are given in different fields including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature, education, sports, civil service etc.
ii.Padma Awards are given in 3 different categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
- Padma Vibhushan: is India’s second- highest civilian honour and is given for exceptional and distinguished services.
- Padma Bhushan: is 3rd highest civilian award is given for distinguished service of high order.
- Padma Shri: is 4th highest civilian award and is given for distinguished service in any field.
Background of Padma Awards:
i.Government of India (GoI) established the Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan as two civilian honour in 1954.
ii.Initially, Padma Vibhushan was classified in 3 different categories: Pahela Varg, Dusra Varg and Tisra Varg.
iii.Later, These 3 classes were renamed as Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri on January 8, 1955 as per Presidential notification.
Note: These awards have been given annually since their inception, except in 1978, 1979 and 1993-1997.
Conferment of Awards:
i.Padma Awards are announced every year on Republic Day and its official ceremony held in Rashtrapati Bhavan (Delhi) tentatively in the month of March or April.
ii.The recipients receive a medallion made up of bronze but embossing on them is done with different metals and Sanad (Certificate) that is signed by the President.
iii.The total number of awards given in a year should not exceed 120 which excludes awards given posthumously and awards to NRIs, foreigners and OCIs.
iv.The award cannot be added as a prefix or suffix to the recipient’s name and is not equal to a title.
Padma Awards Committee:
i.Padma Awards are given based on recommendations made by the Padma Awards committee constituted by Prime Minister(PM) every year. The nomination process is open to the public and even self- nomination is accepted.
ii.Padma Awards committee is chaired by Cabinet Secretary of India which includes members such as: Home Secretary, Secretary to the President and 4 to 6 eminent people.
- At present, Rajiv Gauba is the cabinet secretary of India.
Padma Vibhushan(5):
| S.NO. | Name | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Shri Konidela Chiranjeevi | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2. | Shri. Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3. | Ms.Vyjayantimala Bali | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 4. | Shri Bindeshwar Pathak (Posthumous) | Social Work | Bihar |
| 5. | Ms.Padma Subrahmanyam | Art | Tamil Nadu |
Eminent Personalities who honoured with the Padma Vibhushan:
i.Former Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu, Telugu Megastar and Politician K. Chiranjeevi, Social worker and founder of Sulabh International Bindeshwar Pathak , Veteran Actor Vyjayantimali Bali and famous Bharat Natyam Dancer Padma Subrahmanyam are the recipients of Padma Vibhushan for this year.
ii.Veteran Politician M. Venkaiah Naidu who came from Chavatapalem, Nellore district(Andhra Pradesh) was elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Udayagiri(Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh) twice in 1978 and 1983.
- He served as union minister for rural development from September 2000 to June 2002 in then Prime Minister (PM) Vajpayee’s cabinet.
- He played important role in PM Modi government and served as minister for urban development and minister of information and broadcasting in 2014.
- He was elected as 13th Vice President of India in 2017 and remained in his office till 2022.
iii.K.Chiranjeevi is a prominent Telugu actor and he was honored with Padma Bhushan in 2006.
iv.Bindeshwar Pathak founder of Sulabh International social service organization (established in 1970) honored with Padma Vibhushan posthumously. Earlier, he was honored with Padma Bhushan in 1991.
v.Veteran actor, bharatnatyam dancer and politician Vyjayanthimala and famous Bharat Natyam dancer Padma Subrahmanyam were the other awardees.
Padma Bhushan(17):
| S.NO. | NAME | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6. | M. Fatima Beevi (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 7. | Shri Hormusji N. Cama | Literature & Education- Journalism | Maharashtra |
| 8. | Mithun Chakraborty | Art | West Bengal |
| 9. | Shri Sitaram Jindal | Trade and Industry | Karnataka |
| 10. | Young Liu | Trade and Industry | Taiwan |
| 11. | Ashwin Balachand Mehta | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 12. | Satyabrata Mookherjee (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 13. | Ram Naik | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 14. | Tejas Madhusudan Patel | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 15. | Olanchery Rajagopal | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 16. | Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt | Art | Maharashtra |
| 17. | Togdan Rinpoche (Posthumous) | Other- Spiritualism | Ladakh |
| 18. | Pyarelal Sharma | Art | Maharashtra |
| 19. | Usha Uthup | Art | West Bengal |
| 20. | Shri Vijaykanth (Posthumous) | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 21. | Shri Kundan Vyas | Literature & Education- Journalism | Maharashtra |
| 22. | Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur | Medicine | Bihar |
Eminent Personalities who are honoured with The Padma Bhushan:
i.M. Fatima Beevi, first women judge of Supreme Court of India ; Veteran Indian actor Mithun Chakraborty ; Ram Naik veteran Indian politician and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh(U.P.) are among some of the distinguished personalities honoured with Padma Bhushan.
Padma Shri(110):
| S.NO. | Name | Field | State/ Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23. | Shri Khalil Ahamad | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 24. | Shri Badrappan M | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 25. | Kaluram Bamaniya | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| 26. | Ms. Rezwana Choudhary Bannya | Art | Bangladesh |
| 27. | Ms. Naseem Bano | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 28. | Shri Ramlal Bareth | Art | Chhattisgarh |
| 29. | Ms. Gita Roy Barman | Art | West Bengal |
| 30. | Ms. Parbati Baruah | Social Work | Assam |
| 31. | Shri Sarbeswar Basumatary | Other- Agriculture | Assam |
| 32. | Som Datt Battu | Art | Himachal Pradesh |
| 33. | Takdira Begum | Art | West Bengal |
| 34. | Sathyanarayana Beleri | Other-Agriculture | Kerala |
| 35. | Drona Bhuyan | Art | Assam |
| 36. | Ashok Kumar Biswas | Art | Bihar |
| 37. | Rohan Machanda Bopanna | Sports | Karnataka |
| 38. | Ms. Smriti Rekha Chakma | Art | Tripura |
| 39. | Narayan Chakraborty | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 40. | Shri A. Velu Ananda Chari | Art | Telangana |
| 41. | Shri Ram Chet Chaudhary | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 42. | Ms. K Chellammal | Other- Agriculture | Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
| 43. | Ms. Joshna Chinappa | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
| 44. | Ms. Charlotte Chopin | Others- Yoga | France |
| 45. | Shri Raghuveer Choudhary | Literature and Education | Gujarat |
| 46. | Shri Joe D Cruz | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 47. | Ghulam Nabi Dar | Art | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 48. | Chitta Ranjan Debbarma | Others- Spiritualism | Tripura |
| 49. | Uday Vishwanath Deshpande | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 50. | Ms. Prema Dhanraj | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 51. | Shri Radha Krishan Dhiman | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 52. | Manohar Krishana Dole | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 53. | Shri Pierre Sylvain Filliozat | Literature and Education | France |
| 54. | Mahabir Singh Guddu | Art | Haryana |
| 55. | Ms. Anupama Hoskere | Art | Karnataka |
| 56. | Shri Yazdi Maneksha Italia | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 57. | Rajaram Jain | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 58. | Shri Jankilal | Art | Rajasthan |
| 59. | Shri Ratan Kahar | Art | West Bengal |
| 60. | Shri Yashwant Singh Kathoch | Literature and Education | Uttarakhand |
| 61. | Shri Zahir I Kazi | Literature and Education | Maharashtra |
| 62. | Gaurav Khanna | Sports | Uttar Pradesh |
| 63. | Shri Surendra Kishore | Literature and Education- Journalism | Bihar |
| 64. | Dasari Kondappa | Art | Telangana |
| 65. | Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy | Literature and Education | Karnataka |
| 66. | Ms. Yanung Jamoh Lego | Others- Agriculture | Arunachal Pradesh |
| 67. | Shri Jordan Lepcha | Art | Sikkim |
| 68. | Shri Satendra Singh Lohia | Sports | Madhya Pradesh |
| 69. | Shri Binod Maharana | Art | Odisha |
| 70. | Ms. Purnima Mahato | Sports | Jharkhand |
| 71. | Ms. Uma Maheshwari D | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 72. | Shri Dukhu Majhi | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 73. | Ram Kumar Mallick | Art | Bihar |
| 74. | Shri Hemchand Manjhi | Medicine | Chhattisgarh |
| 75. | Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 76. | Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous) | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 77. | Ali Mohammed and Ghani Mohammed(Duo) | Art | Rajasthan |
| 78. | Kalpana Morparia | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 79. | Chami Murmu | Social Work | Jharkhand |
| 80. | Sasindran Muthuvel | Public Affairs | Papua New Guinea |
| 81. | Ms. G. Nachiyar | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 82. | Ms. Kiran Nadar | Art | Delhi |
| 83. | Shri Pakaravur Chithran Namboodiripad (posthumous) | Literature and Education | Kerala |
| 84. | Shri Narayan EP | Art | Kerala |
| 85. | Shri Shailesh Nayak | Science and Engineering | Delhi |
| 86. | Shri Harish Nayak (Posthumous) | Literature and Education | Gujarat |
| 87. | Fred Negrit | Literature and Education | France |
| 88. | Shri Hari Om | Science and Engineering | Haryana |
| 89. | Shri Bhagabat Padhan | Art | Odisha |
| 90. | Shri Sanatan Rudra Pal | Art | West Bengal |
| 91. | Shri Shankar Baba Pundlikrao Papalkar | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 92. | Shri Radhe Shyam Pareek | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 93. | Shri Dayal MavjiBhai Parmar | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 94. | Shri Binod Kumar Pasayat | Art | Odisha |
| 95. | Ms. Silbi Passah | Art | Meghalaya |
| 96. | Ms. Shanti Devi Paswan & Shri Shivan Paswan (Duo) | Art | Bihar |
| 97. | Shri Sanjay Anant Patil | Others- Agriculture | Goa |
| 98. | Shri Muni Narayana Prasad | Literature and Education | Kerala |
| 99. | K.S. Rajanna | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 100. | Chandrashekar Channapatna Rajannachar | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 101. | Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit | Literature and Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 102. | Shri Romalo Ram | Art | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 103. | Shri Navjivan Rastogi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 104. | Nirmal Rishi | Art | Punjab |
| 105. | Shri Pran Sabharwal | Art | Punjab |
| 106. | Gaddam Sammaiah | Art | Telangana |
| 107. | Sangthankima | Social Work | Mizoram |
| 108. | Machihan Sasa | Art | Manipur |
| 109. | Shri Omprakash Sharma | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| 110. | Eklabya Sharma | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 111. | Shri Ram Chander Sihag | Science & Engineering | Haryana |
| 112. | Shri Harbinder Singh | Sports | Delhi |
| 113. | Shri Gurvinder Singh | Social Work | Haryana |
| 114. | Shri Godawari Singh | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 115. | Shri Ravi Prakash Singh | Science & Engineering | Mexico |
| 116. | Shri Seshampatti T. Sivalingam | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 117. | Shri Somanna | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 118. | Shri Kethavath Somlal | Literature and Education | Telangana |
| 119. | Ms. Shashi Soni | Trade and Industry | Karnataka |
| 120. | Ms. Urmila Srivastava | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 121. | Shri Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Posthumous) | Art | West Bengal |
| 122. | Shri Gopinath Swain | Art | Odisha |
| 123. | Shri Laxman Bhatt Tailang | Art | Rajasthan |
| 124. | Ms Maya Tandon | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 125. | Ms.Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi Thampuratty | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 126. | Shri Jagdish Labhshanker Trivedi | Art | Gujarat |
| 127. | Ms. Sano Vamuzo | Social Work | Nagaland |
| 128. | Shri Balakrishnan Sadanam Puthiya Veetil | Art | Kerala |
| 129. | Shri Kurella Vittalacharya | Literature & Education | Telangana |
| 130. | Shri Kiran Vyas | Others – Yoga | France |
| 131. | Shri Jageshwar Yadav | Social Work | Chattisgarh |
| 132. | Shri Babu Ram Yadav | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
Eminent Personalities who are honored with the Padma Shri:
Rohan Bopanna, Joshna Chinappa among 7 sports personalities to receive Padma Shri:
i.Ace Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna(is the oldest sports person in the world to be ranked No.1 in Men’s doubles tennis ranking) is selected for Padma Shri along with 6 other sports persons.
ii.Joshna Chinappa(Squash) have won several medals at Asian Games, two medals at Commonwealth Games and 4 medals at World Championship doubles.
Parbati Baruah among 6 from North-East to win Padma Shri
Government of India has selected 6 persons from North-East to honor them with India’s 4th highest civil award in order to recognize their work and contribution towards society in different fields.
i.Parbati Baruah(Assam) popularly known as “Hath ki Pari”, India’s 1st female elephant mahout; Sangthankima(Mizoram) runs an orphanage “Thutak NunpuituTeam” ; Yanung Jamoh Lego(Arunachal Pradesh).
ii.Sarbeswar Basumatary (Assam) for adopting mixed integrated farming approach; Smriti Rekha Chakma(Tripura) and Machichan Sasa(Manipur) for conserving ancient pottery”Longpi” that traces back to the Neolithic Period are selected for 2024 Padma Shri.
Other Important Persons Honored with The Padma Shri:
i.Chami Murmi known as the Lady Tarzan of Jharkhand has been selected for 2024 Padma Shri for her struggle against timber mafia in Jharkhand.
ii.Sathyanarayana Beleri also known as seeding Sathya from Kasargod, Kerala is selected for the Padma Shri award for his contribution of transforming guardian of paddy crops which results in preserving over 650 traditional rice varieties.
- He introduced “Rajakayame rice”which gave boost to production and conservation in 3 states: Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
About Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA):
Union Minister: Amit Shah(Lok Sabha Constituency: Gandhinagar, Gujarat)
Minister of State (MoS): Nityanand Rai (Lok Sabha Constituency: Ujiarpur, Bihar), Nisith Pramanik (Lok Sabha Constituency: Coochbehar, West Bengal), Ajay Kumar Mishra (Lok Sabha Constituency: Kheri, Uttar Pradesh)
