Padam Shri Awards 2020

List of Padma Shri Awardees

Union government, on the eve of 71st Republic Day, announced names of Padma awardees who will be conferred Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. Padma Shri Awards Benefit is that it is the most highly prestigious award getting it from the president who is holding the top most and only one chair of the nation.  

These Padma Shri Awardees 2020 are one of the highest civilian awards in the country. Various fields like art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. are applauded by these awards.

·        The legends that were conferred with Padma Vibhushan awardees were prominent names like former union ministers Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and George Fernandes. These departed leaders were awarded posthumously.

·        Sportspersons Mary Kom & PV Sindhu have been awarded Padma Vibhushan.

·        From the entertainment world, film director Karan Johar, actress Kangana Ranaut, TV Producer Ekta Kapoor have featured in the list of Padma Shri awardees.

·        Singer Suresh Wadkar, Adnan Sami as well as veteran TV actor Sarita Joshi has been conferred Padma Shri.

The complete list of Padma Shri Recipients 2020 is shown in the image below-

SN	Name	Field	State/Country
1	Guru Shashadhar Acharya	Art	Jharkhand
2	Dr. Yogi Aeron	Medicine	Uttarakhand
3	Jai Prakash Agarwal	Trade and Industry	Delhi
4	Jagdish Lal Ahuja	Social Work	Punjab
5	Kazi Masum Akhtar	Literature and Education	West Bengal
6	Ms. Gloria Arieira	Literature and Education	Brazil
7	Khan Zaheerkhan Bakhtiyarkhan	Sports	Maharashtra
8	Dr. Padmavathy Bandopadhyay	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
9	Dr. Sushovan Banerjee	Medicine	West Bengal
10	Dr. Digambar Behera	Medicine	Chandigarh
11	Dr. Damayanti Beshra	Literature and Education	Odisha
12	Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji	Social Work	Maharashtra
13	Himmata Ram Bhambhu	Social Work	Rajasthan
14	Sanjeev Bikhchandani	Trade and Industry	Uttar Pradesh
15	Gafurbhai M. Bilakhia	Trade and Industry	Gujarat
16	Bob Blackman	Public Affairs	United Kingdom
17	Indira P. P. Bora	Art	Assam
18	Madan Singh Chauhan	Art	Chhattisgarh
19	Usha Chaumar	Social Work	Rajasthan
20	Lil Bahadur Chettri	Literature and Education	Assam
21	Lalitha & Ms. Saroja Chidambaram (Duo)*	Art	Tamil Nadu
22	Dr. Vajira Chitrasena	Art	Sri Lanka
23	Dr. Purushottam Dadheech	Art	Madhya Pradesh
24	Utsav Charan Das	Art	Odisha
25	Prof. Indra Dassanayake(Posthumous)		Sri Lanka
26	H. M. Desai	Literature and Education	Gujarat
27	Manohar Devadoss	Art	Tamil Nadu
28	Oinam Bembem Devi	Sports	Manipur
29	Lia Diskin	Social Work	Brazil
30	M. P. Ganesh	Sports	Karnataka
31	Dr. Bangalore Gangadhar	Medicine	Karnataka
32	Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
33	Barry Gardiner	Public Affairs	United Kingdom
34	Chewang Motup Goba	Trade and Industry	Ladakh
35	Bharat Goenka	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
36	Yadla Gopalarao	Art	Andhra Pradesh
37	Mitrabhanu Gountia	Art	Odisha
38	Tulasi Gowda	Social Work	Karnataka
39	Sujoy K. Guha	Science and Engineering	Bihar
40	Harekala Hajabba	Social Work	Karnataka
41	Enamul Haque	Others-Archaeology	Bangladesh
42	Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh	Art	Jharkhand
43	Abdul Jabbar (Posthumous)	Social Work	Madhya Pradesh
44	Bimal Kumar Jain	Social Work	Bihar
45	Meenakshi Jain	Literature and Education	Delhi
46	Nemnath Jain	Trade and Industry	Madhya Pradesh
47	Shanti Jain	Art	Bihar
48	Sudhir Jain	Science and Engineering	Gujarat
49	Benichandra Jamatia	Literature and Education	Tripura
50	K. V. Sampath Kumar & Ms. Vidushi Jayalakshmi K.S.(Duo)*	Literature and Education-Journalism	Karnataka
51	Karan Johar	Art	Maharashtra
52	Dr. Leela Joshi	Medicine	Madhya Pradesh
53	Sarita Joshi	Art	Maharashtra
54	C. Kamlova	Literature and Education	Mizoram
55	Dr. Ravi Kannan R.	Medicine	Assam
56	Ekta Kapoor	Art	Maharashtra
57	Yazdi Naoshirwan Karanjia	Art	Gujarat
58	Narayan J. Joshi Karayal	Literature and Education	Gujarat
59	Dr. Narindar Nath Khanna	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
60	Naveen Khanna	Science and Engineering	Delhi
61	S. P. Kothari	Literature and Education	USA
62	V. K. Munusamy Krishnapakthar	Art	Puducherry
63	M. K. Kunjol	Social Work	Kerala
64	Manmohan Mahapatra (Posthumous)	Art	Odisha
65	Ustad Anwar Khan Mangniyar	Art	Rajasthan
66	Kattungal Subramaniam Manilal	Science and Engineering	Kerala
67	Munna Master	Art	Rajasthan
68	Prof. Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra	Literature and Education	Himachal Pradesh
69	Binapani Mohanty	Literature and Education	Odisha
70	Dr. Arunoday Mondal	Medicine	West Bengal
71	Dr. Prithwindra Mukherjee	Literature and Education	France
72	Sathyanarayan Mundayoor	Social Work	Arunachal Pradesh
73	Manilal Nag	Art	West Bengal
74	N. Chandrasekharan Nair	Literature and Education	Kerala
75	Dr. Tetsu Nakamura (Posthumous)	Social Work	Afghanistan
76	Shiv Datt Nirmohi	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
77	Pu Lalbiakthanga Pachuau	Literature and Education-Journalism	Mizoram
78	Moozhikkal Pankajakshi	Art	Kerala
79	Dr. Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik	Literature and Education	USA
80	Jogendra Nath Phukan	Literature and Education	Assam
81	Rahibai Soma Popere	Others-Agriculture	Maharashtra
82	Yogesh Praveen	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
83	Jitu Rai	Sports	Uttar Pradesh
84	Tarundeep Rai	Sports	Sikkim
85	S. Ramakrishnan	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
86	Rani Rampal	Sports	Haryana
87	Kangana Ranaut	Art	Maharashtra
88	Dalavai Chalapathi Rao	Art	Andhra Pradesh
89	Shahbuddin Rathod	Literature and Education	Gujarat
90	Kalyan Singh Rawat	Social Work	Uttarakhand
91	Chintala Venkat Reddy	Others-Agriculture	Telangana
92	Dr. Shanti Roy	Medicine	Bihar
93	Radhammohan & Ms. Sabarmatee (Duo)*	Others-Agriculture	Odisha
94	Batakrushna Sahoo	Animal Husbandry	Odisha
95	Trinity Saioo	Others-Agriculture	Meghalaya
96	Adnan Sami	Art	Maharashtra
97	Vijay Sankeshwar	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
98	Dr. Kushal Konwar Sarma	Medicine	Assam
99	Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri alias Sayedbhai	Social Work
100	Mohammed Sharif	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
101	Shyam Sunder Sharma	Art	Bihar
102	Dr. Gurdip Singh	Medicine	Gujarat
103	Ramjee Singh	Social Work	Bihar
104	Vashishtha Narayan Singh (Posthumous)	Science and Engineering	Bihar
105	Daya Prakash Sinha	Art	Uttar Pradesh
106	Dr. Sandra Desa Souza	Medicine	Maharashtra
107	Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam	Literature and Education	Telangana
108	Kalee Shabi Mahaboob & Sheik Mahaboob Subani (Duo)*	Art	Tamil Nadu
109	Javed Ahmad Tak	Social Work	Jammu and Kashmir
110	Pradeep Thalappil	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
111	Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi	Literature and Education	Arunachal Pradesh
112	Robert Thurman	Literature and Education	USA
113	Agus Indra Udayana	Social Work	Indonesia
114	Harish Chandra Verma	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
115	Sundaram Verma	Social Work	Rajasthan
116	Dr. Romesh Tekchand Wadhwani	Trade and Industry	USA
117	Suresh Wadkar	Art	Maharashtra
118	Prem Watsa	Trade and Industry	Canada

SOURCE: https://www.flypped.com/the-prestigious-padma-shri-awards-2020-conferred-to-the-legends-on-the-71st-republic-day-26th-january-2020/news/