Question
Download Solution PDFIn the year 2022, total how many persons have been honoured with Padma Awards?
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe 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 Ella* (Duo) |
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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