Teejan Bai gets ‘Padma Vibhushan’, Karia Munda & Hukumdev Yadav get ‘Padma Bhushan’

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New Delhi : The President of India has this year approved conferment of 112 Padma Awards including one duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one). The list comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 14 Padma Bhushan and 94 Padma Shri Awards. Twentyone of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, 3 Posthumous awardees and 1 transgender person.

Teejan Bai, Art-Vocals-Folk, Chhattisgarh, Ismail Omar Guelleh (Foreigner), Public Affairs, Djibouti, Anilkumar Manibhai Naik, Trade & Industry-Infrastructure, Maharashtra, and Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, Art-Acting-Theatre, Maharashtra , have been conferred on ‘Padma Vibhushan’ for exceptional and distinguished service.

John Chambers (Foreigner),Trade & Industry-Technology, USA, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Public Affairs, Punjab, Pravin Gordhan (Foreigner), South Africa, Mahashay Dharam Pal Gulati, Trade & Industry-Food Processing, Delhi, Darshan Lal Jain, Social Work , Haryana, Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade, Medicine-Affordable Healthcare, Maharashtra, Kariya Munda, Public Affairs, Jharkhand, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Art-Music-Sitar, West Bengal, Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair, Art-Acting-Film, Kerala, S Nambi Narayan, Science & Engineering-Space, Kerala, Kuldip Nayar (Posthumous), Literature & Education (Journalism), Delhi, Bachendri Pal, Sports-Mountaineering, Uttarakhand, V K Shunglu, Civil Service, Delhi, and Hukumdev Narayan Yadav, Public Affairs, Bihar, have been conferred on ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order, according to a PIB release