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!