Padma Award Types
Passionate Social Worker from Sirsa serving society by providing child care, serving hospital patients and taking care of homeless and destitute children
Renowned Gamaka Singer from Shivamogga - preserving the Kavya Vachana artform of storytelling
80 year old Veteran Hockey Coach and Selector – making a seminal contribution to Indian hockey over 6 decades
Uneducated fruit vendor who has devoted his life and life’s earnings towards educating other poor children of his Newpadupu village in Dakshin Kannada
97 years old Gujarati Author dedicated to children's literature - wrote 2,000 stories in 500 books across multiple languages (Posthumous)
Decorated Sattriya Mask Maker from Majuli - preserving, promoting as well as innovating on Assam’s centuries-old ceremonial mask-making culture
Celebrated Gujarati Bhajan Singer - popular for his Lok Dayras
Traditional Medicine Practitioner treating patients in Naxal affected Narayanpur & Bastar - known for his knowledge of special herbs from forest
Farmer & Environmentalist, working selflessly for the protection of nature - has planted lakhs of plants in desert areas of Nagaur
Pioneering Geneticist in India - conducted research on the population decline of the Onge Tribe in Andaman & Nicobar
Langar Baba selflessly serving poor patients outside PGIMER free food for the past 2 decades - was a self-made crorepati, who had come to India empty handed during partition
Social Worker from Jashpur transforming lives of Birhor tribes – across health, education etc