Padma Awards 2022: The Center on Tuesday unveiled the listing of Padma awardees for 2022, which incorporates Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, Paralympic athlete Avani Lekhara, who’ve been awarded the Padma Shri.
Paralympic athlete Devendra Jhajharia was the one sportsperson to be awarded the Padma Bhushan.
The different sportspersons awarded with Padma Shri are Paralympian Sumit Antil, Paralympian Pramod Bhagat, Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil, Faisal Ali Dar, hockey participant Vandana Kataria and footballer Brahmanand Sankhwalkar.
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Olympians Neeraj Chopra, Pramod Bhagat & Vandana Kataria, and singer Sonu Nigam to be awarded Padma Shri pic.twitter.com/J5K9aX9Qxz
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Padma Awards – one of many highest civilian awards of the nation, are conferred in three classes, particularly Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The awards are given in varied disciplines/areas of actions, such as- arts, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, commerce and business, medication, literature and schooling, sports activities, civil service, and many others. Awarded ‘Padma Vibhushan’. For distinctive and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of excessive order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any subject. The awards are introduced yearly on the event of Republic Day.
The awards are introduced by the President of India in ceremonial ceremonies that are often held at Rashtrapati Bhavan round March/April yearly. This yr the President has accepted the conferment of 128 Padma Awards involving 2 doubles instances (in a doubles case, the award is counted as one). This yr’s listing consists of 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri awards. 34 of the awardees are girls and the listing additionally consists of 10 individuals from the class of Foreigners/NRIs/PIOs/OCIs and 13 posthumous awardees.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
