Awards and Honours in India, Latest GK and Current Affairs

Awards , are something presented to some one to honour their contributions as well. ‘Awards and honours in India’ is an important topic expected to come on competitive exams like PSC, SSC, RRB, Banking. The Government of India started to give away two civilian awards the Bharat Ratna & the Padma Vibhushan in 1954, but later in the very next year 1955 one among them , the Padma Vibhushan was further divided into three categories together known as PADMA awards:

Padma Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shri.

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Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the country and Padma Vibhushan for exceptional and distinguished service, Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of a high order, last not the least Padma Shri for the distinguished service. The awards are distributed to to citizens of India in recognition of their distinguished contribution in various fields of activities including the arts, education, industry, literature, science, sports, medicine, social service and public affairs.

Awards and Honours in India

Here we are providing you the entire list of Civilian Awards Winners (Bharat Ratna & Padma Awards) 2019

AWARD CATEGORY	AWARDEE
BHARAT RATNA	Pranab Mukherjee Nanaji Deshmukh Bhupen Hazarika
PADMA VIBHUSHAN	Teejan Bai (Art-Vocals-Folk) Ismail Omar Guelleh (Public Affairs) Anilkumar Manibhai Naik (Trade & Industry-Infrastructure) Balwant Moreshwar Purandare (Art-Acting-Theatre)
PADMA BHUSHAN	John Chambers (Trade & Industry-Technology) Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (Public Affairs) Pravin Gordhan (Foreigner) for Public Affairs Mahashay Dharam Pal Gulati (Trade & Industry-Food Processing) Darshan Lal Jain (Social Work) Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade (Medicine-Affordable Healthcare) Kariya Munda (Public Affairs) Budhaditya Mukherjee (Art-Music-Sitar) Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair (Art-Acting-Film) S Nambi Narayan (Science & Engineering-Space) Kuldip Nayar (Posthumous) for Literature & Education (Journalism) Bachendri Pal (Sports-Mountaineering) V K Shunglu (Civil Service) Hukumdev Narayan Yadav (Public Affairs)
PADMA SHRI	Rajeshwar Acharya – Art-Vocal-Hindustani Bangaru Adigalar – Spiritualism Illias Ali – Medicine-Surgery Manoj Bajpayee – Art-Acting-Films Uddhab Kumar Bharali – Science & Engineering-Grassroots Innovation Omesh Kumar Bharti – Medicine (Rabies) Pritam Bhartwan – Art-Vocals-Folk Jyoti Bhatt – Art-Painting Dilip Chakravarty – Archaeology Mammen Chandy – Medicine (Hematology) Swapan Chaudhuri – Art-Music(Tabla) Kanwal Singh Chauhan – Agriculture Sunil Chhetri – Sports (Football) Dinyar Contractor – Art-Acting(Theatre) Muktaben Pankajkumar Dagli – Social Work (Divyang Welfare) Babulal Dahiya – Agriculture Thanga Darlong – Art-Music Prabhu Deva – Art-Dance Rajkumari Devi – Agriculture Bhagirathi Devi – Public Affairs Baldev Singh Dhillon – Science and Engineering (Agriculture) Harika Dronavalli – Sports (Chess) Godawari Dutta – Art-Painting Gautam Gambhir – Sports (Cricket) Draupadi Ghimiray – Social Work (Divyang Welfare) Rohini Godbole – Science and Engineering (Nuclear) Sandeep Guleria – Medicine (Surgery) Pratap Singh Hardia – Medicine (Ophthalmology) Bulu Imam – Social Work (Culture) Friederike Irina (Foreigner) – Social Work (Animal Welfare) Joravarsinh Jadav – Art (Dance Folk) S Jaishankar – Civil Service Narsingh Dev Jamwal – Literature and Education Fayaz Ahmad Jan – Art-Craft (Papier Mache) K G Jayan – Art-Music-Bhakti Subhash Kak (Foreigner) – Science and Engineering-Technology Sharath Kamal – Sports (Table Tennis) Rajani Kant – Social Work Sudam Kate – Medicine (Sickle Cell) Waman Kendre – Art-Acting-Theatre Kader Khan (Posthumous-Foreigner) – Art-Acting-Films Abdul Gafur Khatri – Art-Painting Ravindra Kolhe (Duo)* – Medicine (Affordable Healthcare) Smita Kolhe (Duo)* – Medicine (Affordable Healthcare) Bombayla Devi Laishram – Sports (Archery) Kailash Madbaiya – Literature and Education Ramesh Babaji Maharaj – Social Work (Animal Welfare) Vallabhbhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya – Agriculture Gita Mehta (Foreigner) – Literature and Education Shadab Mohammad – Medicine (Dentistry) KK Muhammed – Archaeology Shyama Prasad Mukherjee – Medicine (Affordable Healthcare) Daitari Naik – Social Work Shankar Mahadevan Narayan – Art-Vocals-Films Shantanu Narayen (Foreigner) – Trade and Industry (Technology) Nartaki Natraj – Art-Dance (Bharatnatyam) Tsering Norboo – Medicine-Surgery Anup Ranjan Pandey – Art-Music Jagdish Prasad Parikh – Agriculture Ganpat I Patel (Foreigner) – Literature and Education Bimal Patel – Architecture Hukumchand Patidar – Agriculture Harvinder Singh Phoolka – Public Affairs Madurai Chinna Pillai – Social Work (Microfinance) Tao Porchon-Lynch (Foreigner) – Yoga Kamala Pujhari – Agriculture Bajrang Punia – Sports (Wrestling) Jagat Ram – Medicine (Ophthalmology) R V Ramani – Medicine (Ophthalmology) Devarapalli Prakash Rao – Social Work (Affordable Education) Anup Sah – Art-Photography Milena Salvini (Foreigner) – Art-Dance (Kathakali) Nagindas Sanghavi – Literature & Education-Journalism Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry – Art-Lyrics Shabbir Sayyad – Social Work (Animal Welfare) Mahesh Sharma – Social Work (Tribal Welfare) Mohammad Hanif Khan Shastri – Literature and Education Brijesh Kumar Shukla – Literature & Education Narendra Singh – Animal Husbandry Prashanti Singh – Sports (Basketball) Sultan Singh – Animal Husbandry Jyoti Kumar Sinha – Social Work (Affordable Education) Anandan Sivamani – Art-Music Sharada Srinivasan – Archaeology Devendra Swarup (Posthumous) – Literature and Education-Journalism Ajay Thakur – Sports-Kabaddi – Rajeev Tharanath – Art-Music-Sarod Saalumarada Thimmakka – Social Work (Environment) Jamuna Tudu – Social Work (Environment) Bharat Bhushan Tyagi – Agriculture Ramaswami Venkataswami – Medicine (Surgery) Ram Saran Verma – Agriculture Swami Vishudhananda – Spiritualism Hiralal Yadav – Art-Vocals-Folk Venkateswara Rao Yadlapalli – Agriculture

Every year these awards are distributed on the occasion of Republic Day of India. This year we have 3 Bharat Ratna winners, 4 People Awarded with Padma Vibhushan, 14 awardees for Padma Bhushan, and 94 People Awarded with Padma Shri.

These Civilian Awards are very important for the all types of competitive exams held in India every year , thus we the Team ENTRI are giving you a concise pack for students to read this blog with complete concentration.

All the best for your examinations!