Padma Awards 2022: List of 128 Winners of Padma Shri Award

Types of Padma Awards 2022

There are 3 types of Padma Awards 2022 depending on the individual’s contribution in a particular domain. These include

• Padma Shri – “for distinguished services.” It is the Fourth Highest Civilian Award.
• Padma Bhushan – “for distinguished service of higher-order.” It is the Third Highest Civilian Award.
• Padma Vibhushan – “for exceptional and distinguished services.” It is the Second Highest Civilian Award.

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Note: Among the Padma awardees, 34 are women, 10 awardees from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, and 13 are Posthumous awardees. Bharat Ratana is the biggest civilian award in the country.

• Padma Awards were first instituted in 1954 by the Government of India, but later, there were two brief intervals in which Padma Awards were not allocated. One was from 1977 to 1980 second was from 1993 to 1997.
• Initially, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri were classed as Pahela Varg, Dusra Varg, and Tisra Varg, renamed Presidential Notification Issued on January 8, 1955.

History of Padma Awards

The Padma Awards was created by two civilian awards-Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan, in 1954 by the Government of India. The latter had three types: Dusra Varg, Pahela Varg, and Tisra Varg. These were subsequently renamed Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri vide Presidential Notification on January 8, 1955.

Padma Award is granted yearly on the occasion of Republic Day. It does not add to a label and cannot be utilized as a suffix or prefix to the recipient’s name. Listed are the fields in which people received Padma Awards 2022 recently.

Categories Under Padma Awards 2022

The Padma award recognizes works of excellence and is given for outstanding accomplishments/service in all activities/fields. A definitive list of the areas is as follows:

• Literature and Education -Teaching, Journalism, Book Writing, Education Reforms, Literature, Poetry, the upliftment of education and literacy
• Public Affairs- Law, Politics, Public Life, etc.
• Art – Music, Painting, Theatre, Cinema, Sculpture, Photography, etc.
• Civil Service – Distinction in management
• Social work – Contribution to public projects, Charitable service, Social service, etc.
• Sports – Mountaineering, Athletics, Yoga Adventure, promotion of sports, and other Popular Sports.
• Trade and Industry – Business, Promotion of Tourism, Economic Activities, Banking, Management, etc.
• Engineering and Science – Space Engineering, Information Technology, Nuclear Science, Research and Development in Science and its associated subjects, etc.
• Medicine- Specialization in Allopathy, Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Siddha, Medical research, etc.
• Other fields may comprise Wild Life protection, conservation, Indian Culture, guarding Human Rights, etc.

Who is Eligible for the Padma Awards 2022?

All persons without distinction of status, profession, ethnicity, or sex are qualified for Padma awards. However, the government’s servers, including PSUs (except scientists and doctors), do not qualify for Padma awards.

• The award aspires to discover the work of excellence.
• It is given for exceptional achievements in fields of Art, Social work, Public affairs (including public life, law, guidelines, etc.), Trade and Industry, Science and Engineering, Medicine, Civil services, Literature and Education, Sports, and others.
• All nominations accepted for Padma Awards are put in front of the Padma Award Committee, which is constituted by Prime Ministers annually.
• The committee is controlled by the Cabinet Secretary and contains four-six notable individuals and Home Secretary.
• The committee’s recommendations are presented to the President and Prime Minister of India.

List of Padma Vibhushan Awards 2022

Below is the list of the names of Padma Vibhushan 2022 winners, their residing places, and the field where they contributed.

Padma Vibhushan 2022 Winners	Field and State/Country
Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous)	Literature and Education (Uttar Pradesh)
Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous)	Public Affairs (Uttar Pradesh)
General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous)	Civil Service (Uttarakhand)
Ms. Prabha Atre	Art (Maharashtra)

Ms. Prabha Atre:

Dr. Prabha Atre is a classical vocalist of India belonging to Kirana Gharana.

• Dr. Prabha Atre has the world record of casting 11 books (from a single stage) on music at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
• Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1991)
• Padma Shri (1990)
• Padma Bhushan (2002)

General Bipin Rawat:

Mr. Rawat was an Indian military officer and four-star general of the Indian Army.

• Bipin served as the first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Indian Armed Forces from 2020 until he died in a helicopter crash in December 2021.
• He acted as the 57th Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Armed Forces of India and the 26th Chief of the Indian Army Staff (COAS).

Shri Radheyshyam Khemka:

A journalist who was the editor of Kalyan, published by Gita Press for 38 years. He was also the Chairman of Gita Press Trust Boar.

Shri Kalyan Singh:

He was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

• He served twice as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Member of Parliament.
• He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh during the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992.
• Mr. Singh died on 21 August 2021 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

List of 17 Padma Bhushan Awards 2022

Below is the 17 Padma Bhushan 2022 winners, their states, and the field where they worked exceptionally well.

Padma Bhushan Award 2022 Winners	State/Country	Field
Shri Rajiv Mehrishi	Rajasthan	Civil Service
Shri Vashishth Tripathi	Uttar Pradesh	Literature and Education
Shri Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous)	Mexico	Science and Engineering
Swami Sachidanand	Gujarat	Literature and Education
Shri Satya Narayana Nadella	United States of America	Trade and Industry
Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	West Bengal	Public Affairs
Ms. Pratibha Ray	Odisha	Literature and Education
Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo)	Telangana	Trade and Industry
Shri Cyrus Poonawalla	Maharashtra	Trade and Industry
Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran	Maharashtra	Trade and Industry
Ms. Madhur Jaffery	United States of America	Others-Culinary
Ms. Gurmeet Bawa(Posthumous)	Punjab	Art
Shri Rashid Khan	Uttar Pradesh	Art
Shri Devendra Jhajharia	Rajasthan	Sports
Shri Sundararajan Pichai	United States of America	Trade and Industry
Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad	Jammu and Kashmir	Public Affairs
Shri Victor Banerjee	West Bengal	Art

Padma Shri Award List 2022: Total 107

There were a total of 107 winners who received the Padma Shri Award 2022. Below is the complete list.

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

Winners Refusing Padma Awards:

• Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and playback singer Sandhya Mukherjee have refused the Padma awards.
• Former CPM General Secretary late EMS Namboodripad rejected the Padma Vibhushan in 1992.
• Civil servants PN Haksar and K Subrahmanyam had also denied the awards, as did historian Romila Thapar.

Highlights About Padma Award 2022

• The youngest recipient of Padma Shri is Vishwanath Anand, 18.
• Initially, the recommendations were made by ministers only, but in 2015 current BJP Government decided to end this practice; now, the requests can be made by Indian Citizens for others and themselves via the online Padma Award.
• Padma Award usually is not conferred posthumously. However, in highly deserving cases, The Government can consider giving an award posthumously.
• A higher category of Padma award can be granted to an individual only where at least five years have passed since the earlier Padma Award.
• However, in the case of highly deserving candidates, relaxation can be made by the Award Committee.
• Awards are offered by the President of India, usually in March/April.
• If awardees desire, their names are published in the Gazette of India on the day of the Presentation Ceremony.
• The total number of awards given in a year (excluding posthumous awards and NRI/Foreigner/OCIs) should not be more than 120.
• The award does not amount to a title and cannot be used as a suffix or prefix to the awardee’s name.
• Padma Award winners get a Sanad (certificate) with President’s signature and medallion.
• Padma Awardees do not get any cash allowance or special rail/air travel concessions. Neither do they get a Diplomatic passport-like Bharat Ratana Awardee.

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