PADMA AWARDS 2018 : Full List – Download
PADMA AWARDS 2018 : Full List – Download
Dear Aspirants,
Current Affairs section in an exam plays a vital role in deciding the overall cutoff marks of that exams and one cannot neglect that section. Exams these days are complex in nature, making the candidate to think more for picking the right option and also the twist and turns are immense.
Awards segment cannot be missed in the current affairs section and recently the Padma Awards – one of the highest civilian Awards of the country was announced for the year 2018 and the total award winners counts to 85. The Padma Awards are conferred in three categories,
- Padma Vibhushan
- Padma Bhushan
- Padma Shri
These awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day and are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. The Padma Awards are given to awardees who has done distinguished service in different fields and the reason and the service for each award is mentioned below.
- ‘Padma Vibhushan’ – for exceptional and distinguished service
- ‘Padma Bhushan’ – for distinguished service of high order
- ‘Padma Shri’ – for distinguished service in any field
This year , the list comprises 3 Padma Vibhushan , 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri Awards and totally 85 Padma awards has been announced. Out of the 85 awardees, 14 of the awardess are women, 16 awardees from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 3 awardees are Posthumus. So here goes the list of the individual awardees of the Padma Awards :
Padma Vibhushan
|
Sl. No |
Name | Field | State |
| 1. | Shri Illaiyaraja | Art-Music | |
|
2. |
Shri Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Art-Music | Maharashtra |
| 3. | Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran | Literature and Education |
Padma Bhushan
| Sl. No | Name | Field | State |
| 1. | Shri Pankaj Advani | Sports- Billiards/Snooker | Karnataka |
| 2. | Shri Philipose Mar Chrysostom | Others-Spiritualism | Kerala |
| 3. | Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Sports-Cricket | Jharkhand |
| 4. | Shri Alexander Kadakin
(Foreigner/Posthumous) |
Public Affairs | Russia |
| 5. | Shri Ramachandran Nagaswamy | Others-Archaeology | Tamil Nadu |
| 6. | Shri Ved Prakash Nanda
(OCI) |
Literature and Education | USA |
| 7. | Shri Laxman Pai | Art-Painting | Goa |
| 8. | Shri Arvind Parikh | Art-Music | Maharashtra |
| 9. | Ms. Sharda Sinha | Art-Music | Bihar |
Padma Shri
|
Sl. No |
Name | Field |
State |
||
|
1. |
Shri Abhay Bang (Duo) | Medicine | Maharashtra | ||
| Ms. Rani Bang (Duo) |
Medicine |
Maharashtra |
|||
|
2. |
Shri Damodar Ganesh Bapat | Social Work | Chhattisgarh | ||
| 3. | Shri Prafulla Govinda Baruah | Literature and Education-Journalism |
Assam |
||
| 4. | Shri Mohan Swaroop Bhatia | Art-Folk Music | Uttar Pradesh | ||
| 5. | Shri Sudhanshu Biswas | Social Work | West Bengal | ||
| 6. | Ms. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu | Sports-Weightlifting | Manipur | ||
| 7. | Shri Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi | Literature and Education-Journalism | Chhattisgarh | ||
| 8. | Shri Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner) | Trade & Industry | Philippines | ||
| 9. | Ms. Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi | Art-Weaving | Manipur | ||
| 10. | Shri Somdev Devvarman | Sports-Tennis |
Tripura |
||
| 11. | Shri Yeshi Dhoden | Medicine | Himachal Pradesh | ||
| 12. | Shri Arup Kumar Dutta | Literature and Education | Assam | ||
| 13. | Shri Doddarange Gowda | Art-Lyrics | Karnataka | ||
| 14. | Shri Arvind Gupta | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | ||
| 15. | Shri Digamber Hansda | Literature and Education | Jharkhand | ||
| 16. | Shri Ramli Bin Ibrahim
(Foreigner) |
Art-Dance | Malaysia | ||
| 17. | Shri Anwar Jalalpuri
(Posthumous) |
Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | ||
| 18. | Shri Piyong Temjen Jamir | Literature and Education | Nagaland | ||
| 19. | Ms. Sitavva Joddati | Social Work | Karnataka | ||
| 20. | Ms. Malti Joshi | Literature and
Education |
Madhya Pradesh | ||
| 21. | Shri Manoj Joshi | Art-Acting | Maharashtra | ||
| 22. | Shri Rameshwarlal Kabra | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra | ||
| 23. | Shri Pran Kishore Kaul | Art | Jammu and
Kashmir |
||
| 24. | Shri Bounlap Keokangna
(Foreigner) |
Others-Architecture | Laos | ||
| 25. | Shri Vijay Kichlu | Art-Music | West Bengal | ||
| 26. | Shri Tommy Koh
(Foreigner) |
Public Affairs | Singapore | ||
| 27. | Ms. Lakshmikutty | Medicine-Traditional | Kerala | ||
| 28. | Ms. Joyshree Goswami
Mahanta |
Literature and
Education |
Assam | ||
| 29. | Shri Narayan Das Maharaj | Others-Spiritualism | Rajasthan | ||
| 30. | Shri Pravakara Maharana | Art-Sculpture | Odisha | ||
| 31. | Shri Hun Many
(Foreigner) |
Public Affairs | Cambodia | ||
| 32. | Ms. Nouf Marwaai
(Foreigner) |
Others- Yoga | Saudi Arabia | ||
| 33. | Shri Zaverilal Mehta | Literature and
Education-Journalism |
Gujarat | ||
| 34. | Shri Krishna Bihari Mishra | Literature and
Education |
West Bengal | ||
| 35. | Shri Sisir Purushottam
Mishra |
Art-Cinema | Maharashtra | ||
| 36. | Ms. Subhasini Mistry | Social Work | West Bengal | ||
| 37. | Shri Tomio Mizokami
(Foreigner) |
Literature and
Education |
Japan | ||
| 38.
|
Shri Somdet Phra Maha
Muniwong (Foreigner) |
Others-Spiritualism
|
Thailand
|
||
| 39. | Shri Keshav Rao
Musalgaonkar |
Literature and
Education |
Madhya Pradesh | ||
| 40. | Dr Thant Myint – U
(Foreigner) |
Public Affairs | Myanmar | ||
| 41. | Ms. V Nanammal | Others-Yoga | Tamil Nadu | ||
| 42. | Ms. Sulagitti Narasamma | Social Work | Karnataka | ||
| 43. | Ms. Vijayalakshmi
Navaneethakrishnan |
Art-Folk Music | Tamil Nadu | ||
| 44. | Shri I Nyoman Nuarta
(Foreigner) |
Art- Sculpture | Indonesia | ||
| 45.
|
Shri Malai Haji Abdullah
Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner) |
Social Work
|
Brunei
Darussalam |
||
| 46. | Shri Gobaradhan Panika | Art-Weaving | Odisha | ||
| 47. | Shri Bhabani Charan
Pattanaik |
Public Affairs | Odisha | ||
| 48. | Shri Murlikant Petkar | Sports-Swimming | Maharashtra | ||
| 49. | Shri Habibullo Rajabov
(Foreigner) |
Literature and
Education |
Tajikistan
|
||
| 50. | Shri M R Rajagopal | Medicine-Palliative
Care |
Kerala | ||
| 51. | Shri Sampat Ramteke
(Posthumous) |
Social Work | Maharashtra | ||
| 52. | Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath | Literature and
Education |
Odisha | ||
| 53. | Shri S S Rathore | Civil Service | Gujarat | ||
| 54. | Shri Amitava Roy | Science and
Engineering |
West Bengal | ||
| 55. | Shri Sanduk Ruit
(Foreigner) |
Medicine-
Ophthalmology |
Nepal | ||
| 56. | Shri R Sathyanarayana | Art-Music | Karnataka | ||
| 57. | Shri Pankaj M Shah | Medicine-Oncology | Gujarat | ||
| 58. | Shri Bhajju Shyam | Art-Painting | Madhya Pradesh | ||
| 59. | Shri Maharao Raghuveer
Singh |
Literature and
Education |
Rajasthan | ||
| 60. | Shri Kidambi Srikanth | Sports-Badminton | Andhra Pradesh | ||
| 61. | Shri Ibrahim Sutar | Art-Music | Karnataka | ||
| 62. | Shri Siddeshwara Swamiji | Others-Spiritualism | Karnataka | ||
| 63. | Ms. Lentina Ao Thakkar | Social Work | Nagaland | ||
| 64. | Shri Vikram Chandra
Thakur |
Science and
Engineering |
Uttarakhand | ||
| 65.
|
Shri Rudrapatnam
Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo) |
Art-Music
|
Karnataka
|
||
| Shri Rudrapatnam
Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo) |
Art-Music
|
Karnataka
|
|||
| 66. | Shri Nguyen Tien Thien
(Foreigner) |
Others-Spiritualism | Vietnam | ||
| 67. | Shri Bhagirath Prasad
Tripathi |
Literature and
Education |
Uttar Pradesh | ||
| 68. | Shri Rajagopalan Vasudevan | Science and
Engineering |
Tamil Nadu | ||
| 69. | Shri Manas Bihari Verma | Science and
Engineering |
Bihar | ||
| 70. | Shri Panatawane Gangadhar
Vithobaji |
Literature and
Education |
Maharashtra | ||
| 71. | Shri Romulus Whitaker | Others-Wildlife
Conservation |
Tamil Nadu | ||
| 72. | Shri Baba Yogendra | Art | Madhya Pradesh | ||
| 73. | Shri A Zakia | Literature and
Education |
Mizoram | ||
Aspirants can also download the list of Padma Awardees as a PDF from the below given link.
Download – PADMA AWARDS 2018
Aspirants can also download the current Affairs of October, November and December from the link provided below. This will also be useful for the aspirants for the forthcoming exams.
Current Affairs Capsule – For Clerk Exam and other exams
