In the year 2022, total how many persons have been honoured with Padma Awards?

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  1. 128 persons
  2. 18 persons
  3. 04 persons
  4. 34 persons

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Option 1 : 128 persons
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The correct answer is 128 persons. 

Key Points

  • 128 people have been honoured for 2022 with the awards that are conferred in three categories - Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.
  • The Home Ministry announced the list of recipients of the Padma awards - one of the highest civilian awards of the country, on 25 January 2022.
  • Singer Sonu Nigam and Olympic gold-medallist Neeraj Chopra have been honoured with a Padma Shri.

Important Points​ 

  • ​Below is the list of Padma Awardees 2022:

Padma Vibhushan(4):

Name  Field 
Ms Prabha Atre Art
Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous) Literature and Education
General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous) Civil Service
Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) Public Affairs

Padma Bhushan(17):

Name  Field 
Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad Public Affairs
Shri Victor Banerjee Art
Ms. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) Art
Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Public Affairs
Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran Trade and Industry
Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra
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Trade and Industry
Ms. Madhur Jaffery Others-Culinary
Shri Devendra Jhajharia Sports
Shri Rashid Khan Art
Shri Rajiv Mehrishi Civil Service
Shri Satya Narayana Nadella Trade and Industry
Shri Sundararajan Pichai Trade and Industry
Shri Cyrus Poonawalla Trade and Industry
Shri Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous) Sci and Engg
Ms. Pratibha Ray Literature and Education
Swami Sachidanand Literature and Education
Shri Vashishth Tripathi Literature and Education
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