Former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, megastar Konidela Chiranjeevi, famous actor of yesteryears Vyjayantimala Bali are among personalities who have been honoured with Padma Vibhushan in the awards announced by the government on Thursday on the eve of 75th Republic Day.
The home ministry on Thursday announced the Padma awards which included five Padma Bhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri.
Sulabh International founder Bindeshwar Pathak has been awarded Padma Vibhushan posthumously.
Renowned classical dancer Padma Subrahmanyam has also been conferred Padma Vibhushan.
The Padma Bhushan awardees include actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty and former Union Minister Ram Naik and singer Usha Utthup.
Padma Awards, the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in
three categories -- Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
The Awards are given in various disciplines and fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports and civil service.
'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.
The awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March or April every year.
Thirty of the awardees are women and the list also includes eight persons from the category of foreigners, NRI, PIO OCI and nine posthumous awardees.
Here is the full list of Padma Awards 2024 Recipients:
Padma Vibhushan
1. Vyjayantimala Bali
2. Konidela Chiranjeevi
3. M Venkaiah Naidu
4. Bindeshwar Pathak (Posthumous)
5. Padma Subrahmanyam
Padma Bhushan
1. M Fathima Beevi (Posthumous)
2. Hormusji N Cama
3. Mithun Chakraborty
4. Sitaram Jindal
5. Young Liu
6. Ashwin Balachand Mehta
7. Satyabrata Mookherjee (Posthumous)
8. Ram Naik
9. Tejas Madhusudan Patel
10. Olanchery Rajagopal
11. Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo Alias Rajdutt
12. Togdan Rinpoche (Posthumous)
13. Pyarelal Sharma
14. Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur
15. Usha Uthup
16. Vijaykanth (Posthumous)
17. Kundan Vyas
Padma Shri
1. Khalil Ahamad
2. Badrappan M
3. Kaluram Bamaniya
4. Rezwana Choudhury Bannya
5. Naseem Bano
6. Ramlal Bareth
7. Gita Roy Barman
8. Parbati Baruah
9. Sarbeswar Basumatary
10. Som Datt Battu
11. Takdira Begum
12. Sathyanarayana Beleri
13. Drona Bhuyan
14. Ashok Kumar Biswas
15. Rohan Machanda Bopanna
16. Smriti Rekha Chakma
17. Narayan Chakraborty
18. A Velu Ananda Chari
19. Ram Chet Chaudhary
20. K Chellammal
21. Joshna Chinappa
22. Charlotte Chopin
23. Raghuveer Choudhary
24. Joe D Cruz
25. Ghulam Nabi Dar
26. Chitta Ranjan Debbarma
27. Uday Vishwanath Deshpande
28. Prema Dhanraj
29. Radha Krishan Dhiman
30. Manohar Krishana Dole
31. Pierre Sylvain Filliozat
32. Mahabir Singh Guddu
33. Anupama Hoskere
34. Yazdi Maneksha Italia
35. Rajaram Jain
36. Jankilal
37. Ratan Kahar
38. Yashwant Singh Kathoch
39. Zahir I Kazi
40. Gaurav Khanna
41. Surendra Kishore
42. Dasari Kondappa
43. Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy
44. .Yanung Jamoh Lego
45. Jordan Lepcha
46. Satendra Singh Lohia
47. Binod Maharana
48. Purnima Mahato
49. Uma Maheshwari D
50. Dukhu Majhi
51. Ram Kumar Mallick
52. Hemchand Manjhi
53. Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram
54. Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous)
55. Ali Mohammed & Shri Ghani Mohammed (Duo)
56. Kalpana Morparia
57. Chami Murmu
58. Sasindran Muthuvel
59. G Nachiyar
60. Kiran Nadar
61. Pakaravur Chithran Namboodiripad (Posthumous)
62. Narayanan E P
63. Shailesh Nayak
64. Harish Nayak (Posthumous)
65. Fred Negrit
66. Hari Om
67. Bhagabat Padhan
68. Sanatan Rudra Pal
69. Shankar Baba Pundlikrao Papalkar
70. Radhe Shyam Pareek
71. Dayal Mavjibhai Parmar
72. Binod Kumar Pasayat
73. Silbi Passah
74. Shanti Devi Paswan & Shri Shivan Paswan (Duo)
75. Sanjay Anant Patil
76. Muni Narayana Prasad
77. K S Rajanna
78. Chandrashekar Channapatna Rajannachar
79. Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit
80. Romalo Ram
81. Navjivan Rastogi
82. Nirmal Rishi
83. Pran Sabharwal
84. Gaddam Sammaiah
85. Sangthankima
86. Machihan Sasa
87. Omprakash Sharma
88. Eklabya Sharma
89. Ram Chander Sihag
90. Harbinder Singh
91. Gurvinder Singh
92. Godawari Singh
93. Ravi Prakash Singh
94. Seshampatti T Sivalingam
95. Somanna
96. Kethavath Somlal
97. Shashi Soni
98. Urmila Srivastava
99. Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Posthumous)
100. Gopinath Swain
101. Laxman Bhatt Tailang
102. Maya Tandon
103. Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi Thampuratty
104. Jagdish Labhshanker Trivedi
105. Sano Vamuzo
106. Balakrishnan Sadanam Puthiya Veetil
107. Kurella Vittalacharya
108. Kiran Vyas
109. Jageshwar Yadav
110. Babu Ram Yadav
