Padma Awards: Padma Vibhushan For S P Balasubrahmanyam

One of the highest civilian Awards of the country, Padma Awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day, like every year.

The President of India has approved the conferment of 119 Padma Awards including 1 duo case. The late legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam was conferred with Padma Vibhushan, in the Posthumous awardees category, for his exceptional and distinguished service in art.

SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away on September 25 2020 while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Chennai after testing positive for Covid-19.

Senior singer K S Chitra has been conferred with Padma Bhushan award. Other popular politician Sumithra Mahajan has been conferred the Padma Bhushan Award, while Late Tarun Gogoi and Late Ram Vilas paswan also will be awarded with Padma Bhushan Awards in Posthumous category.

There are 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan, and 102 Padma Shri Awards this time. 29 of the awardees are women and 10 persons from the category of Foreigners. 16 Posthumous awardees and 1 transgender awardee.

These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/April every year.

Here is the list of Awardees

Padma Vibhushan (7)

  1. Shri Shinzo Abe Public Affairs Japan
  2. Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous) Art Tamil Nadu
  3. Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine Karnataka
  4. Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) Science and Engineering United States of America
  5. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Others- Spiritualism Delhi
  6. Shri B. B. Lal Others- Archaeology Delhi
  7. Shri Sudarshan Sahoo Art Odisha

Padma Bhushan (10)

  1. Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra Art Kerala
  2. Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) Public Affairs Assam
  3. Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara Literature and Education Karnataka
  4. Ms. Sumitra Mahajan Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh
  5. Shri Nripendra Misra Civil Service Uttar Pradesh
  6. Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) Public Affairs Bihar
  7. Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) Public Affairs Gujarat
  8. Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) Others-Spiritualism Uttar Pradesh
  9. Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff Trade and Industry Maharashtra
  10. Shri Tarlochan Singh Public Affairs Haryana

Padma Shri

  1. Shri Gulfam Ahmed Art Uttar Pradesh
  2. Ms. P. Anitha Sports Tamil Nadu
  3. Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu Art Andhra Pradesh
  4. Shri Subbu Arumugam Art Tamil Nadu
  5. Shri Prakasarao Asavadi Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
  6. Ms. Bhuri Bai Art Madhya Pradesh
  7. Shri Radhe Shyam Barle Art Chhattisgarh
  8. Shri Dharma Narayan Barma Literature and Education West Bengal
  9. Ms. Lakhimi Baruah Social Work Assam
  10. Shri Biren Kumar Basak Art West Bengal
  11. Ms. Rajni Bector Trade and Industry Punjab
  12. Shri Peter Brook Art United Kingdom
  13. Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak Social Work Mizoram
  14. Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat Art Assam
  15. Ms. Bijoya Chakravarty Public Affairs Assam
  16. Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay Literature and Education West Bengal
  17. Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous) Social Work Uttar Pradesh
  18. Shri Tsultrim Chonjor Social Work Ladakh
  19. Ms. Mouma Das Sports West Bengal
  20. Shri Srikant Datar Literature and Education United States of America
  21. Shri Narayan Debnath Art West Bengal
  22. Ms. Chutni Devi Social Work Jharkhand
  23. Ms. Dulari Devi Art Bihar
  24. Ms. Radhe Devi Art Manipur
  25. Ms. Shanti Devi Social Work Odisha
  26. Shri Wayan Dibia Art Indonesia
  27. Shri Dadudan Gadhavi Literature & Education Gujarat
  28. Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane Art Maharashtra
  29. Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal Literature and Education Haryana
  30. Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder Literature and Education West Bengal
  31. Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary Literature and Education Assam
  32. Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa Sports Arunachal Pradesh
  33. Ms. Purnamasi Jani Art Odisha
  34. Matha B. Manjamma Jogati Art Karnataka
  35. Shri Damodaran Kaithapram Art Kerala
  36. Shri Namdeo C Kamble Literature and Education Maharashtra
  37. Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) *(Posthumous) Art Gujarat
  38. Shri Rajat Kumar Kar Literature and Education Odisha
  39. Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap Literature and Education Karnataka
  40. Ms. Prakash Kaur Social Work Punjab
  41. Shri Nicholas Kazanas Literature and Education Greece
  42. Shri K Kesavasamy Art Puducherry
  43. Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan Art Jammu and Kashmir
  44. Shri Lakha Khan Art Rajasthan
  45. Ms. Sanjida Khatun Art Bangladesh
  46. Shri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar Art Goa
  47. Ms. Niru Kumar Social Work Delhi
  48. Ms. Lajwanti Art Punjab
  49. Shri Rattan Lal Science and Engineering United States of America
  50. Shri Ali Manikfan Others-Grassroots Innovation Lakshadweep
  51. Shri Ramachandra Manjhi Art Bihar
  52. Shri Dulal Manki Art Assam
  53. Shri Nanadro B Marak Others- Agriculture Meghalaya
  54. Shri Rewben Mashangva Art Manipur
  55. Shri Chandrakant Mehta Literature and Education Gujarat
  56. Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal Medicine Punjab
  57. Shri Madhavan Nambiar Sports Kerala
  58. Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal Social Work Rajasthan
  59. Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav Medicine Delhi
  60. Dr. J N Pande (Posthumous) Medicine Delhi
  61. Shri Solomon Pappaiah Literature and Education- Journalism Tamil Nadu
  62. Ms. Pappammal Others- Agriculture Tamil Nadu
  63. Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi Medicine Odisha
  64. Ms. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat Trade and Industry Maharashtra
  65. Shri Girish Prabhune Social Work Maharashtra
  66. Shri Nanda Prusty Literature and Education Odisha
  67. Shri K K Ramachandra Pulavar Art Kerala
  68. Shri Balan Putheri Literature and Education Kerala
  69. Ms. Birubala Rabha Social Work Assam
  70. Shri Kanaka Raju Art Telangana
  71. Ms. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath Art Tamil Nadu
  72. Shri Satyaram Reang Art Tripura
  73. Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo Medicine Kerala
  74. Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu Medicine Uttar Pradesh
  75. Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay Medicine Uttarakhand
  76. Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal Social Work Maharashtra
  77. Shri Chaman Lal Sapru (Posthumous) Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir
  78. Shri Roman Sarmah Literature and Education- Journalism Assam
  79. Shri Imran Shah Literature and Education Assam
  80. Shri Prem Chand Sharma Others- Agriculture Uttarakhand
  81. Shri Arjun Singh Shekhawat Literature and Education Rajasthan
  82. Shri Ram Yatna Shukla Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
  83. Shri Jitender Singh Shunty Social Work Delhi
  84. Shri Kartar Paras Ram Singh Art Himachal Pradesh
  85. Shri Kartar Singh Art Punjab
  86. Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh Medicine Bihar
  87. Shri Chandra Shekhar Singh Others-Agriculture Uttar Pradesh
  88. Ms. Sudha Hari Narayan Singh Sports Uttar Pradesh
  89. Shri Virender Singh Sports Haryana
  90. Ms. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous) Literature and Education Bihar
  91. Shri K C Sivasankar (Posthumous) Art Tamil Nadu
  92. Guru Maa Kamali Soren Social Work West Bengal
  93. Shri Marachi Subburaman Social Work Tamil Nadu
  94. Shri P Subramanian (Posthumous) Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu
  95. Ms. Nidumolu Sumathi Art Andhra Pradesh
  96. Shri Kapil Tiwari Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh
  97. Father Vallés (Posthumous) Literature and Education Spain
  98. Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous) Medicine Tamil Nadu
  99. Shri Sridhar Vembu Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu
  100. Shri K Y Venkatesh Sports Karnataka
  101. Ms. Usha Yadav Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
  102. Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir Public Affairs Bangladesh
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