Padma Vibhushan for Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, George Fernandes posthumously; Manohar Parrikar given Padma Bhushan, Padma Shree for 118

This year, 7 people have been chosen for Padma Vibhushan, sixteen have been given the Padma Bhushan and 118 the Padma Shri for their outstanding achievements and distinguished services in their respective fields.

New Delhi: Former union ministers Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and George Fernandes, Olympian boxer Mary Kom and former Mauritius prime minister Anerood Jugnauth were among seven prominent personalities awarded the Padma Vibhushan on Saturday, the Home Ministry announced.

Famous classical bhajan singer from Varanasi Channulal Mishra and Vishveshateertha Swamiji Sri Pejavara Adhokhaja Matha Udupi, who passed away recently, have also been given the highest Padma award--Padma Vibhushan.

Former defence minister Manohar Parrikar, industrialists Anand Mahindra and Venu Shrinivasan, Olympian badminton player P V Sindhu, former Nagaland chief minister S C Jamir and Jammu and Kashmir politician Muzaffar Hussain Baig have been awarded the Padma Bhushan, a home ministry statement said.

The awards are announced on the eve of Republic Day. Jaitley, Swaraj, Fernandes, Parrikar and Vishwesha Teertha Swami have been awarded posthumously, the officials said. This year, the President has approved conferment of 141 Padma awards including four duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one), the statement said. "Thirty-four of the awardees are women and the list also includes 18 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 12 posthumous awardees," it said.

Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards -are conferred in three categories - Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. Sixteen people have been given the Padma Bhushan and 118 the Padma Shri.

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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Padma awardees, saying they include extraordinary people. "Congratulations to all those who have been conferred the Padma Awards," he tweeted. From Bollywood, filmmakers Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor and actor Kangana Ranaut have been awarded Padma Shri. 

Singers Suresh Wadkar and Adnan Sami, as well as veteran TV actor Sarita Joshi have been conferred with the fourth highest civilian award of the country. 

Six sports persons, including cricketer Zaheer Khan, current Indian women's hockey captain Rani Rampal, former Indian men's hockey player M P Ganesh, shooter Jitu Rai, former Indian women's football team captain Oinam Bembem Devi and archer Tarundeep Rai have been given Padma Shri.

Naukri.Com founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani, industrialist Bharat Goenka, technocrat Nemnath Jain have been conferred the Padma Shri. The award has also been given to Lucknow-based historian and journalist Yogesh Praveen and Assam-based historian Jogendra Nath Phukan have been awarded Padma Shri

There are 21 'unsung' heroes who were given Padma Shri this year including Jagdish Lal Ahuja, who serves free food to patients and attendants outside PGI hospital in Chandigarh; Mohammed Sharif from Faizabad, who has performed last rites of over 25,000 unclaimed bodies' and veterinarian from Assam Kushal Konwar Sarma who is known for treating elephants.

Seventy-two-year-old Tulasi Gowda from Karnataka, who earned the sobriquet "encyclopedia of forests" because of her vast knowledge of diverse plants species in spite of lacking formal education, has also been given the award, it said.

Sathyanarayan Mundayoor, known as Uncle Moosa of Arunachal Pradesh, who has been promoting education and reading culture in remote areas of Northeastern states for last four decades; Abdul Jabbar aka 'voice of Bhopal' (posthumously), known for fighting for the cause of victims and survivor of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy; and Usha Chaumar, a Dalit social worker working in the field of sanitation in Rajasthan, have also been given the award. 

Here are the names of Padma award winners

Padma Vibhushan  (7) 

S.No.		Name		Field		State/Country
1.		Shri George Fernandes(Posthumous)		Public Affairs		Bihar
2.		Shri Arun Jaitley(Posthumous)		Public Affairs		Delhi
3.		Sir Anerood Jugnauth GCSK		Public Affairs		Mauritius
4.		Smt. M. C. Mary Kom		Sports		Manipur
5.		Shri Chhannulal Mishra		Art		Uttar Pradesh
6.		Smt. Sushma Swaraj(Posthumous)		Public Affairs		Delhi
7.		Sri Vishveshateertha Swamiji SriPejavaraAdhokhajaMathaUdupi (Posthumous)		Others-Spiritualism		Karnataka

Padma Bhushan (16)

S.No.		Name		Field		State/Country
8.		Shri M. Mumtaz Ali (Sri M)		Others-Spiritualism		Kerala
9.		Shri Syed Muazzem Ali (Posthumous)		Public Affairs		Bangladesh
10.		Shri Muzaffar Hussain Baig		Public Affairs		Jammu	and Kashmir

Padma Shree (118)

11.		Shri Ajoy Chakravorty	Art			West Bengal
12.		Shri Manoj Das	Literature	andEducation	Puducherry
13.		Shri Balkrishna Doshi	Others-Architecture			Gujarat
14.		Ms. Krishnammal Jagannathan	Social Work			Tamil Nadu
15.		Shri S. C. Jamir		Public Affairs			Nagaland
16.		Shri Anil Prakash Joshi	Social Work			Uttarakhand
17.		Dr. Tsering Landol		Medicine			Ladakh
18.		Shri Anand Mahindra	Trade and Industry			Maharashtra
19.		Shri Neelakanta Ramakrishna	Public Affairs			Kerala
		Madhava Menon (Posthumous)
20.		Shri Manohar Gopal krishna	Public Affairs			Goa
		Prabhu Parrikar (Posthumous)
21.		Prof. Jagdish Sheth		Literature	andEducation	USA
22.		Ms. P. V. Sindhu		Sports			Telangana
23.		Shri Venu Srinivasan	Trade and Industry			Tamil Nadu

S.No.		Name				Field			State/Country
24.		Guru Shashadhar Acharya		Art			Jharkhand
25.		Dr. Yogi Aeron		Medicine			Uttarakhand
26.		Shri Jai Prakash Agarwal		Trade and Industry			Delhi
27.		Shri Jagdish Lal Ahuja		Social Work			Punjab
28.		Kazi Masum Akhtar		Literature and Education		West Bengal
29.		Ms. Gloria Arieira		Literature and Education		Brazil
30.		Khan Zaheerkhan Bakhtiyarkhan		Sports			Maharashtra
31.		Dr. Padmavathy Bandopadhyay		Medicine			Uttar Pradesh
32.		Dr. Sushovan Banerjee		Medicine			West Bengal
33.		Dr. Digambar Behera		Medicine			Chandigarh
34.		Dr. Damayanti Beshra		Literature and Education		Odisha
35.		Shri Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji		Social Work			Maharashtra
36.	Shri Himmata Ram Bhambhu	Social Work	Rajasthan
37.	Shri Sanjeev Bikhchandani	Trade and Industry	Uttar Pradesh
38.	Shri Gafurbhai M. Bilakhia	Trade and Industry	Gujarat
39.	Shri Bob Blackman	Public Affairs	United Kingdom
40.	Ms. Indira P. P. Bora	Art	Assam
41.	Shri Madan Singh Chauhan	Art	Chhattisgarh
42.	Ms. Usha Chaumar	Social Work	Rajasthan
43.	Shri Lil Bahadur Chettri	Literature and Education	Assam
44.	Ms.Lalitha & Ms. Saroja Chidambaram (Duo)*	Art	Tamil Nadu
45.	Dr. Vajira Chitrasena	Art	Sri Lanka
46.	Dr. Purushottam Dadheech	Art	Madhya Pradesh
47.	Shri Utsav Charan Das	Art	Odisha
48.	Prof. Indra Dassanayake (Posthumous)	Literature and Education	Sri Lanka
49.	Shri H. M. Desai	Literature and Education	Gujarat
50.	Shri Manohar Devadoss	Art	Tamil Nadu
51.	Ms. Oinam Bembem Devi	Sports	Manipur
52.	Ms. Lia Diskin	Social Work	Brazil
53.	Shri M. P. Ganesh	Sports	Karnataka
54.	Dr. Bangalore Gangadhar	Medicine	Karnataka
55.	Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
56.	Shri Barry Gardiner	Public Affairs	United Kingdom
57.	Shri Chewang Motup Goba	Trade and Industry	Ladakh
58.	Shri Bharat Goenka	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
59.	Shri Yadla Gopalarao	Art	Andhra Pradesh
60.	Shri Mitrabhanu Gountia	Art	Odisha
61.	Ms. Tulasi Gowda	Social Work	Karnataka
62.	Shri Sujoy K. Guha	Science and Engineering	Bihar
63.	Shri. Harekala Hajabba	Social Work	Karnataka
64.	Shri Enamul Haque	Others-Archaeology		Bangladesh
65.	Shri Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh	Art		Jharkhand
66.	Shri Abdul Jabbar (Posthumous)	Social Work		Madhya Pradesh
67.	Shri Bimal Kumar Jain	Social Work		Bihar
68.	Ms. Meenakshi Jain	Literature and Education	Delhi
69.	Shri Nemnath Jain	Trade and Industry		Madhya Pradesh
70.	Ms. Shanti Jain	Art		Bihar
71.	Shri Sudhir Jain	Science and Engineering	Gujarat
72.	Shri Benichandra Jamatia	Literature and Education	Tripura
73.	Shri K. V. Sampath Kumar &	Literature	and	Karnataka
	Ms. Vidushi Jayalakshmi K.S.(Duo)*	Education-Journalism
74.	Shri Karan Johar	Art		Maharashtra
75.	Dr. Leela Joshi	Medicine		Madhya Pradesh
76.	Ms. Sarita Joshi	Art		Maharashtra
77.	Shri C. Kamlova	Literature and Education	Mizoram
78.	Dr. Ravi Kannan R.	Medicine		Assam
79.	Ms. Ekta Kapoor	Art		Maharashtra
80.	Shri Yazdi Naoshirwan Karanjia	Art		Gujarat
81.	Shri Narayan J. Joshi Karayal	Literature and Education	Gujarat
82.	Dr. Narindar Nath Khanna	Medicine		Uttar Pradesh
83.	Shri Naveen Khanna	Science and Engineering	Delhi
84.	Shri S. P. Kothari	Literature and Education	USA
85.	Shri V.K.Munusamy Krishnapakthar	Art		Puducherry
86.	Shri M. K. Kunjol		Social Work		Kerala
87.	Shri Manmohan Mahapatra (Posthumous)	Art		Odisha
88.	Ustad Anwar Khan Mangniyar	Art		Rajasthan
89.	Shri Kattungal Subramaniam Manilal	Science and Engineering	Kerala
90.	Shri Munna Master		Art		Rajasthan
91.	Prof. Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra	Literature and Education	Himachal Pradesh
92.	Ms. Binapani Mohanty	Literature and Education	Odisha
93.	Dr. Arunoday Mondal	Medicine		West Bengal
94.	Dr. Prithwindra Mukherjee	Literature and Education	France
95.	Shri Sathyanarayan Mundayoor	Social Work		Arunachal Pradesh
96.	Shri Manilal Nag	Art		West Bengal
97.	Shri N. Chandrasekharan Nair	Literature and Education	Kerala
98.	Dr. Tetsu Nakamura (Posthumous)	Social Work		Afghanistan
99.	Shri Shiv Datt Nirmohi	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
100.	Shri Pu Lalbiakthanga Pachuau	Literature	and Education-Journalism	Mizoram
101.	Ms. Moozhikkal Pankajakshi	Art		Kerala
102.	Dr. Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik	Literature and Education	USA
103.	Shri Jogendra Nath Phukan	Literature and Education	Assam
104.	Ms. Rahibai Soma Popere	Others-Agriculture		Maharashtra
105.	Shri Yogesh Praveen	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
106.	Shri Jitu Rai	Sports		Uttar Pradesh
107.	Shri Tarundeep Rai	Sports		Sikkim
108.	Shri S. Ramakrishnan	Social Work		Tamil Nadu
109.	Ms. Rani Rampal	Sports		Haryana
110.	Ms. Kangana Ranaut	Art		Maharashtra
111.	Shri Dalavai Chalapathi Rao	Art		Andhra Pradesh
112.	Shri Shahbuddin Rathod	Literature and Education	Gujarat
113.	Shri Kalyan Singh Rawat	Social Work		Uttarakhand
114.	Shri Chintala Venkat Reddy	Others-Agriculture		Telangana
115.	Smt. (Dr.) Shanti Roy	Medicine		Bihar
116.	Shri Radhammohan & Ms.Sabarmatee (Duo)*	Others-Agriculture		Odisha
117.	Shri Batakrushna Sahoo	Others-Animal Husbandry		Odisha
118.	Ms. Trinity Saioo	Others-Agriculture		Meghalaya
119.	Shri Adnan Sami	Art	Maharashtra
120.	Shri Vijay Sankeshwar	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
121.	Dr. Kushal Konwar Sarma	Medicine	Assam
122.	Shri Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri alias Sayedbhai	Social Work	Maharashtra
123.	Shri Mohammed Sharif	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
124.	Shri Shyam Sunder Sharma	Art	Bihar
125.	Dr. Gurdip Singh	Medicine	Gujarat
126.	Shri Ramjee Singh	Social Work	Bihar
127.	Shri Vashishtha Narayan Singh(Posthumous)	Science and Engineering	Bihar
128.	Shri Daya Prakash Sinha	Art	Uttar Pradesh
129.	Dr. Sandra Desa Souza	Medicine	Maharashtra
130.	Shri Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam	Literature and Education	Telangana
131.	Smt. Kalee Shabi Mahaboob &	Art	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Sheik Mahaboob Subani (Duo)*
132.	Shri Javed Ahmad Tak	Social Work	Jammu and Kashmir
133.	Shri Pradeep Thalappil	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
134.	Shri Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi	Literature and Education	Arunachal Pradesh
135.	Shri Robert Thurman	Literature and Education	USA
136.	Shri Agus Indra Udayana	Social Work	Indonesia
137.	Shri Harish Chandra Verma	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
138.	Shri Sundaram Verma	Social Work	Rajasthan
139.	Dr.Romesh Wadhwani Tekchand	Trade and Industry	USA
140.	Shri Suresh Wadkar	Art	Maharashtra
141.	Shri Prem Watsa	Trade and Industry	Canada