PADMA AWARDS 2018 : FULL LIST 

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

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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

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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 :

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Padma Vibhushan

Sl. No	Name	Field	State
1.	Shri Illaiyaraja	Art-Music	Tamil Nadu
2.	Shri Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Art-Music	Maharashtra
3.	Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran	Literature and Education	Kerala

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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

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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