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The Padma Vibhushan award recipients are announced every year on Republic Day and registered in The Gazette of India—a publication released weekly by the Department of Publication, Ministry of Urban Development used for official government notices. [2] The conferral of the award is not considered official without its publication in the Gazette.
The Padma Vibhushan (IAST: Padma Vibhūṣaṇa, lit."Lotus Grandeur") is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna.Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "exceptional and distinguished service".
When instituted in 1954, the Padma Bhushan was classified as "Dusra Warg" (Class II) under the three-tier Padma Vibhushan awards, which were preceded by the Bharat Ratna in hierarchy. On 15 January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards as the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri. [3]
When instituted in 1954, the Padma Bhushan was classified as "Dusra Varg" (Class II) under the three-tier Padma Vibhushan awards, which were preceded by the Bharat Ratna in hierarchy. On 15 January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards as the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri. [3]
List of Padma Shri award recipients showing year, field and State/Union Territory/Other Nationality [1] Year S. No. Recipient Field State/Country 2020 1 Shashadhar Acharya: Arts: Jharkhand 2 Yogi Aereon: Medicine: Uttarakhand 3 Jai Prakash Agarwal: Trade & Industry: Delhi 4 Jagdish Lal Ahuja: Social Work: Punjab 5 Kazi Masum Akhtar: Literature ...
List of Padma Vibhushan award recipients This page was last edited on 6 March 2020, at 09:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Lists of Padma Bhushan award recipients cover people who have received the Padma Bhushan award from the Republic of India for "distinguished service of a high order...without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex." The lists are organized by period. List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)
Five different individuals have been conferred the Padma awards. [9] Anupama Gokhale was the first chess player to be awarded the Padma Shri at the age of 16 in 1986. Viswanathan Anand became the first sportsperson to receive the second highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan, in 2008 after becoming the undisputed World Chess Champion in 2007 ...