2018 Padma Awards Winner
President Ram Nath Kovind has announced names of recipients of year 2018 Padma awards viz. Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. He approved conferment of Padma Awards on 85 persons.
Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards bestowed for distinguished service of high order in various disciplines- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.
The 2018 list includes 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri Awardees. 14 awardees are women, 16 awardees are from category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs while 3 are posthumous awardees. The list also includes unsung persons and also people who rendered selfless service at the grassroots.
1.PADMA VIBHUSHAN
It is the second highest civilian award.
1Illaiyaraja Art-Music Tamil Nadu
2Ghulam Mustafa KhanArt-Music Maharashtra
3 Parameswaran Parameswaran Literature and Education Kerala
2.PADAMA BHUSHAN
It is the third highest civilian award.
1Pankaj AdvaniSports- Billiards/Snooker Karnataka
2Philipose Mar ChrysostomOthers-Spiritualism Kerala
3Mahendra Singh DhoniSports-Cricket Jharkhand
4Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner)Public Affairs Russia
5Ramachandran Nagaswamy Others-ArchaeologyTamil Nadu
6Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI)Literature and Education US
7Laxman Pai Art-Painting Goa
8Arvind Parikh Art-Music Maharashtra
9 Sharda Sinha Art-Music Bihar
3.PADAMA SHRI
It is the fourth highest civilian award.
1Abhay Bang (Duo) Medicine Maharashtra
2 Rani Bang (Duo) Medicine Maharashtra
3 Damodar Ganesh Bapat Social Work Chhattisgarh
4 Prafulla Govinda Baruah Literature and Education-Journalism Assam
5Mohan Swaroop BhatiaArt-Folk MusicUttar Pradesh
6Sudhanshu Biswas Social Work West Bengal
7Saikhom Mirabai Chanu Sports-Weightlifting Manipur
8Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi Literature and Education-Journalism Chhattisgar
9 Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner)Trade & Industry Philippines
10Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi Art-Weaving Manipur
11Somdev Devvarman Sports-Tennis Tripura
12Yeshi Dhoden Medicine Himachal Prades
13 Arup Kumar Dutta Literature and Education
Assam
14 Doddarange Gowda Art-Lyrics Karnatak
15Arvind Gupta Literature and Education Maharashtra
16Digamber Hansda Literature and Education Jharkhand
17Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner) Art-Dance Malaysia
18Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous) Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
19Piyong Temjen Jamir Literature and EducationNagalan
20Sitavva Joddati Social WorkKarnataka
21Malti Joshi Literature and Education MP
22Manoj JoshiArt-Acting Maharashtra
23Rameshwarlal KabraTrade & Industry Maharashtra
24Pran Kishore Kaul ArtJ&K
25Bounlap Keokangna(Foreigner) Others-Architecture Laos
26Vijay Kichlu Art-Music West Bengal
27Tommy Koh(Foreigner) Public Affairs Singapore
28 Lakshmikutty Medicine-Traditional Kerala
29Joyshree Goswami Mahanta Literature and Education Assam
30Narayan Das Maharaj Others-Spiritualism Rajasthan
31Pravakara Maharana Art-Sculpture Odisha
32Hun Many (Foreigner) Public Affairs Cambodia
33Nouf Marwaai(Foreigner) Others- Yoga Saudi Arabia
34Zaverilal Mehta Literature and Education-Journalism Gujarat
35Krishna Bihari Mishra Literature and Education West Bengal
36 Sisir Purushottam Misra Art-Cinema Maharashtra
37 Subhasini MistrySocial Work West Bengal
38 Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner) Others-Spiritualism Thailand
39 Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar Literature and Education MP
40Dr Thant Myint – U(Foreigner)Public Affairs Myanmar
41V Nanammal Others-YogaTamil Nadu
42 Sulagitti Narasamma Social Work Karnatak
43 Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan Art-Folk Music Tamil Nadu
44 I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner)Art- Sculpture Indonesi
45 Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman(Foreigner) Social Work Brunei
46 Gobaradhan PanikaArt-Weaving Odisha
47 Bhabani Charan Pattanaik Public Affairs Odisha
48 Murlikant PetkarSports-Swimming Maharashtra
49 Habibullo Rajabov(Foreigner) Literature and Education Tajikistan
50 M R Rajagopal Medicine-Palliative care Kerala
51 52Sampat Ramteke(Posthumous) Social Work Maharashtra
53 Chandra Sekhar Rath Odisha
54 S S RathoreCivil Service Gujarat
55 Amitava RoyScience and Engineering West Bengal
56 Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner) Medicine- Ophthalmology Nepal
57 R Sathyanarayana Art-Music Karnataka
58 Pankaj M Shah Medicine- Ophthalmology Gujara
59 Bhajju Shyam Art- Painting MP
60 Maharao Raghuveer Singh Literature and Education Rajasthan
61 Kidambi Srikanth Sports-Badminton Andhra Prades
62 Ibrahim Sutar Art-Music Karnataka
63 Siddeshwara Swamiji Others-Spiritualism Karnataka
64 Lentina Ao Thakkar Social Work Nagaland
65 Vikram Chandra Thakur Science and Engineering Uttarakhand
66 Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo) Art-Music Karnataka
67 Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo) Art-Music Karnataka
68 Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner)Others-Spiritualism Vietnam
69 Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi Literature and Education UP
70 Rajagopalan Vasudevan Science and Engineering Bihar
71Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji Literature and Education Maharashtra
72Romulus Whitaker Others-Wildlife ConservationTamil Nadu
73Baba Yogendra Art Madhya Pradesh
74A Zakia Literature and Education Mizoram
