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 RashtrapatiBhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President has approved conferment of 128 Padma Awards including 2 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per 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(4)

SN	Name	Field	State/Country
	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(17)

	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 (107)

	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

Note: * In Duo case, the Award is counted as one.