Padma Awards 2021

President Ram Nath Kovind has conferred 119 Padma Awards for the year 2021. Every year on Republic Day, the President of India approves the conferment of Padma Awards in three categories- Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.

Padma Vibhushan

It is conferred for exceptional and distinguished service. It is the 2nd highest civilian Award. This year, 7 people have been conferred with Padma Vibhushan.

2021 Padma Vibhushan Awardees

  • Shinzo Abe (Public Affairs/Japan)
  • Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) (Science and Engineering/USA)
  • Belle Monappa Hegde (Medicine/Karnataka)
  • S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous) (Art/Tamil Nadu)
  • Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (Spiritualism/Delhi)
  • Sudarshan Sahoo (Art/Odisha)
  • B. Lal (Archaeology/Delhi)

Padma Bhushan

It is conferred for distinguished service of a high order. It is 3rd highest civilian Award. This year, 10 people have been conferred with Padma Bhushan.

2021 Padma Bhushan Awardees

  • Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) (Public Affairs/Assam)
  • Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (Art/Kerala)
  • Chandrashekhar Kambara (Literature and Education/Karnataka)
  • Nripendra Misra (Civil Service/Uttar Pradesh)
  • Sumitra Mahajan (Public Affairs/Madhya Pradesh)
  • Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) (Public Affairs/Bihar)
  • Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) (Spiritualism/Uttar Pradesh)
  • Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) (Public Affairs/Gujarat)
  • Rajnikant Devidas Shroff (Trade and Industry/Maharashtra)
  • Tarlochan Singh (Public Affairs/Haryana)

Padma Shri

It is conferred for distinguished service in any field. This year, 102 people have been conferred with Padma Shri.

2021 Padma Shri Awardees

  • Peter Brook (Art/United Kingdom)
  • Wayan Dibia (Art/Indonesia)
  • Matha B. Manjamma Jogati (Art/Karnataka)
  • Bhuri Bai (Art/Madhya Pradesh)
  • Subbu Arumugam (Art/Tamil Nadu)
  • Gulfam Ahmed (Art/Uttar Pradesh)
  • Damodaran Kaithapram (Art/Kerala)
  • Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar (Art/Goa)
  • Sanjida Khatun (Art/Bangladesh)
  • Ghulam Rasool Khan (Art/Jammu and Kashmir)
  • Lakha Khan (Art/Rajasthan)
  • Purnamasi Jani (Art/Odisha)
  • Rama Swamy Annavarapu (Art/Andhra Pradesh)
  • Radhe Shyam Barle (Art/Chhattisgarh)
  • Biren Kumar Basak (Art/West Bengal)
  • K Kesavasamy (Art/Puducherry)
  • Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat (Art/Assam)
  • Maheshbhai & Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) (Art/Gujarat)
  • Radhe Devi (Art/Manipur)
  • Ramachandra Manjhi (Art/Bihar)
  • Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane (Art/Maharashtra)
  • Narayan Debnath (Art/West Bengal)
  • Dulari Devi (Art/Bihar)
  • Rewben Mashangva (Art/Manipur)
  • Lajwanti (Art/Punjab)
  • Kanaka Raju (Art/Telangana)
  • Dulal Manki (Art/Assam)
  • Satyaram Reang (Art/Tripura)
  • K K Ramachandra Pulavar (Art/Kerala)
  • Anitha (Sports/Tamil Nadu)
  • Mouma Das (Sports/West Bengal)
  • Madhavan Nambiar (Sports/Kerala)
  • Anshu Jamsenpa (Sports/Arunachal Pradesh)
  • Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap (Literature and Education/Karnataka)
  • Mangal Singh Hazowary (Literature and Education/Assam)
  • Prakasarao Asavadi (Literature and Education/Andhra Pradesh)
  • Namdeo C Kamble (Literature and Education/Maharashtra)
  • Dharma Narayan Barma (Literature and Education/West Bengal)
  • Sujit Chattopadhya (Literature and Education/West Bengal)
  • Chandrakant Mehta (Literature and Education/Gujarat)
  • Jagadish Chandra Halder (Literature and Education/West Bengal)
  • Nicholas Kazanas (Literature and Education/Greece)
  • Dadudan Gadhavi (Literature & Education/Gujarat)
  • Srikant Datar (Literature and Education/USA)
  • Solomon Pappaiah (Literature and Education- Journalism/Tamil Nadu)
  • Jai Bhagwan Goyal (Literature and Education/Haryana)
  • Rajat Kumar Kar (Literature and Education/Odisha)
  • Usha Yadav (Literature and Education/Uttar Pradesh)
  • Balan Putheri (Literature and Education/Kerala)
  • Lakhimi Baruah (Social Work/Assam)
  • Sangkhumi Bualchhuak (Social Work/Mizoram)
  • Shyam Sundar Paliwal (Social Work/Rajasthan)
  • Tsultrim Chonjor (Social Work/Ladakh)
  • Chutni Devi (Social Work/Jharkhand)
  • Shanti Devi (Social Work/Odisha)
  • Prakash Kaur (Social Work/Punjab)
  • Niru Kumar (Social Work/Delhi)
  • Sindhutai Sapkal (Social Work/Maharashtra)
  • Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous) (Social Work/Uttar Pradesh)
  • Rajni Bector (Trade and Industry/Punjab)
  • Bijoya Chakravarty (Public Affairs/Assam)
  • Ali Manikfan (Others-Grassroots Innovation/Lakshadweep)
  • Rattan Lal (Science and Engineering/USA)
  • Nanadro B Marak (Others- Agriculture/Meghalaya)
  • Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir (Public Affairs/Bangladesh)
  • Rattan Lal Mittal (Medicine/Punjab)
  • J N Pande (Posthumous) (Medicine/Delhi)
  • Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav (Medicine/Delhi)
  • Krishna Mohan Pathi (Medicine/Odisha)
  • Father Vallés (Posthumous) (Literature and Education/Spain)
  • Pappammal (Others- Agriculture/Tamil Nadu)
  • Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat (Trade and Industry/Maharashtra)
  • Girish Prabhune (Social Work/Maharashtra)
  • Nanda Prusty (Literature and Education/Odisha)
  • Birubala Rabha (Social Work/Assam)
  • Bombay Jayashri Ramnath (Art/Tamil Nadu)
  • Ashok Kumar Sahu (Medicine/Uttar Pradesh)
  • Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo (Medicine/Kerala)
  • Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay (Medicine/Uttarakhand)
  • Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous) (Literature and Education/Jammu and Kashmir)
  • Roman Sarmah (Literature and Education- Journalism /Assam)
  • Kapil Tiwari (Literature and Education/Madhya Pradesh)
  • Imran Shah (Literature and Education/Assam)
  • Prem Chand Sharma (Others- Agriculture/Uttarakhand)
  • Arjun Singh Shekhawat (Literature and Education/Rajasthan)
  • Ram Yatna Shukla (Literature and Education/Uttar Pradesh)
  • Jitender Singh Shunty (Social Work/Delhi)
  • Kartar Paras Ram Singh (Art/Himachal Pradesh)
  • Kartar Singh (Art/Punjab)
  • Dilip Kumar Singh (Medicine/Bihar)
  • Chandra Shekhar Singh (Others-Agriculture/Uttar Pradesh)
  • Sudha Hari Narayan Singh (Sports/Uttar Pradesh)
  • Virender Singh (Sports/Haryana)
  • Mridula Sinha (Posthumous) (Literature and Education/Bihar)
  • K C Sivasankar (Posthumous) (Art/Tamil Nadu)
  • Guru Maa Kamali Soren (Social Work/West Bengal)
  • Marachi Subburaman (Social Work/Tamil Nadu)
  • P Subramanian (Posthumous) (Trade and Industry/Tamil Nadu)
  • Nidumolu Sumathi (Art/Andhra Pradesh)
  • Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous)(Medicine/Tamil Nadu)
  • Sridhar Vembu (Trade and Industry/Tamil Nadu)
  • K Y Venkatesh (Sports/Karnataka)

These awards will be given in a ceremony in March or April this year.