
Check Out: President Pranab Mukherjee Presents Padma Awards
New Delhi: On Monday, President Pranab Mukherjee presented the Padma Awards at the Civil Investiture Ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President honoured 56 eminent personalities including Saina Nehwal, Anupam Kher, Ajay Devgn, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and others. He presented five Padma Vibhushan, eight Padma Bhushan and 43 Padma Shri awards at the event. On the eve of Republic Day, government announced the 112 winners of Padma Awards and the rest of the awardees will be honoured at another event, which will be held next month. Check out the complete list of winners here:
Padma Bhushan
Actor Anupam Pushkarnath Kher Badminton star Saina Nehwal Former CAG Vinod Rai Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry Hafeez Sorab Contractor Dr Barjinder Singh Hamdard Alla Venkata Rama Rao Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy
Padma Vibhushan
Founder of Reliance Industries late Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani (posthumous) Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Jagmohan Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Indian-American economist Avinash Kamalakar Dixit Renowned dancer Yamini Krishnamurti
Padma Shri
Actor Ajay Devgn Filmmaker Madhur R Bhandarkar Scientist Dr Mylswamy Annadurai Athlete Deepika Kumari Celebrated chef Mohammed Imtiaz Qureshi Classical musician Pandit Tulsidas Borkar Social worker Ajoy Kumar Dutta Folk tale artist Bhikhudan Govindbhai Gadhvi Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale Film director Naresh Chander Lal Ashok Malik Mahesh Chand Mehta Social worker Dr Sundar Aditya Menon Haldar Nag Social worker PP Gopinathan Nair Dr TV Narayana Professor Predrag K Nikic Subhash Palekar Filmmaker Nila Madhab Panda Advertising professional Piyush Pandey Journalist Pushpesh Pant Businessman Dilip Sanghvi Folk dancer Gulabi Sapera Dahyabhai Shastri Onkar Nath Srivastava Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana (Posthumous) Prahlad Chandra Tasa Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva Professro (Dr) Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav Dr Nayudamma Yarlagadda
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