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FEB 12:SMILE: Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise'
Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar on Saturday (February 12) launched the Central sector scheme 'SMILE: Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise' aimed to provide welfare and rehabilitation to the transgender community and the people engaged in the act of begging.
PADMA AWARD WINNERS 2022
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Padma Vibhushan
S.No. Name Field State/Country
1. Ms. Prabha Atre Art Maharashtra
2 Shri Radheyshyam Khemka Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
(Posthumous)
3 General Bipin Rawat Civil Service Uttarakhand
(Posthumous)
4 Shri Kalyan Singh Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
(Posthumous)
Padma Bhushan
S.No. Name Field State/Country
1 Shri Victor Banerjee Art West Bengal
2 Ms. Gurmeet Bawa Art Punjab
(Posthumous)
3 Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Public Affairs West Bengal
4 Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran Trade and Industry Maharashtra
5 Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo) Trade and Industry Telangana
6 Ms. Madhur Jaffery Others-Culinary United States of America
7 Shri Devendra Jhajharia Sports Rajasthan
8 Shri Rashid Khan Art Uttar Pradesh
9 Shri Rajiv Mehrishi Civil Service Rajasthan
10 Shri Satya Narayana Nadella Trade and Industry United States of America
11 Shri Sundararajan Pichai Trade and Industry United States of America
12 Shri Cyrus Poonawalla Trade and Industry Maharashtra
13 Shri Sanjaya Rajaram Science and Engineering Mexico
(Posthumous)
14 Ms. Pratibha Ray Literature and Education Odisha
15 Swami Sachidanand Literature and Education Gujarat
16 Shri Vashishth Tripathi Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
Padma Shri
S.No. Name Field State/Country
1 Prof. Najma Akhtar Literature and Education Delhi
2 Shri Sumit Antil Sports Haryana
3 Shri T Senka Ao Literature and Education Nagaland
4 Ms. Kamalini Asthana and Ms. Nalini Asthana* (Duo) Art Uttar Pradesh
5 Shri Subbanna Ayyappan Science and Engineering Karnataka
6 Shri J K Bajaj Literature and Education Delhi
7 Shri Sirpi Balasubramaniam Literature and Education Tamil Nadu
8 Srimad Baba Balia Social Work Odisha
9 Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Science and Engineering West Bengal
10 Ms. Madhuri Barthwal Art Uttarakhand
11 Shri Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat Literature and Education Ladakh
12 Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar Medicine Maharashtra
13 Shri Harmohinder Singh Bedi Literature and Education Punjab
14 Shri Pramod Bhagat Sports Odisha
15 Shri S Ballesh Bhajantri Art Tamil Nadu
16 Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia Art Sikkim
17 Shri Maria Christopher Byrski Literature and Education Poland
18 Acharya Chandanaji Social Work Bihar
19 Ms. Sulochana Chavan Art Maharashtra
20 Shri Neeraj Chopra Sports Haryana
21 Ms. Shakuntala Choudhary Social Work Assam
22 Shri Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil Sports Kerala
23 Shri S Damodaran Social Work Tamil Nadu
24 Shri Faisal Ali Dar Sports Jammu and Kashmir
25 Shri Jagjit Singh Dardi Trade and Industry Chandigarh
26 Dr. Prokar Dasgupta Medicine United Kingdom
27 Shri Aditya Prasad Dash Science and Engineering Odisha
28 Dr. Lata Desai Medicine Gujarat
29 Shri Malji bhai Desai Public Affairs Gujarat
30 Ms. Basanti Devi Social Work Uttarakhand
31 Ms. Lourembam Bino Devi Art Manipur
32 Ms. Muktamani Devi Trade and Industry Manipur
33 Ms. Shyamamani Devi Art Odisha
34 Shri Khalil Dhantejvi Literature and Education Gujarat
(Posthumous)
35 Shri Savaji Bhai Dholakia Social Work Gujarat
36 Shri Arjun Singh Dhurve Art Madhya Pradesh
37 Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre Medicine Maharashtra
38 Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi Art Rajasthan
39 Shri Dhaneswar Engti Literature and Education Assam
40 Shri Om Prakash Gandhi Social Work Haryana
41 Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
42 Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju Literature and Education Jharkhand
(Posthumous)
43 Shri Shaibal Gupta Literature and Education Bihar
(Posthumous)
44 Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru Literature and Education Odisha
45 Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan Art Andhra Pradesh
(Posthumous)
46 Shri Ryuko Hira Trade and Industry Japan
47 Ms. Sosamma Iype Others - Animal Husbandry Kerala
48 Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh
49 Ms. Sowcar Janaki Art Tamil Nadu
50 Ms. Tara Jauhar Literature and Education Delhi
51 Ms. Vandana Kataria Sports Uttarakhand
52 Shri H R Keshavamurthy Art Karnataka
53 Shri Rutger Kortenhorst Literature and Education Ireland
54 Shri P Narayana Kurup Literature and Education Kerala
55 Ms. Avani Lekhara Sports Rajasthan
56 Shri Moti Lal Madan Science and Engineering Haryana
57 Shri Shivnath Mishra Art Uttar Pradesh
58 Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra Medicine Madhya Pradesh
(Posthumous)
59 Shri Darshanam Mogilaiah Art Telangana
60 Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra Civil Service Delhi
(Posthumous)
61 Shri Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan Art Puducherry
62 Ms. R Muthukannammal Art Tamil Nadu
63 Shri Abdul Khader Nadakattin Others - Grassroots Innovation Karnataka
64 Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik Others - Agriculture Karnataka
65 Shri Tsering Namgyal Art Ladakh
66 Shri A K C Natarajan Art Tamil Nadu
67 Shri V L Nghaka Literature and Education Mizoram
68 Shri Sonu Nigam Art Maharashtra
69 Shri Ram Sahay Panday Art Madhya Pradesh
70 Shri Chirapat Prapandavidya Literature and Education Thailand
71 Ms. K V Rabiya Social Work Kerala
72 Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi Science and Engineering Maharashtra
73 Shri Sheesh Ram Art Uttar Pradesh
74 Shri Ramachandraiah Art Telangana
75 Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao Medicine Andhra Pradesh
76 Ms. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai Social Work Gujarat
77 Ms. Padmaja Reddy Art Telangana
78 Guru Tulku Rinpoche Others - Spiritualism Arunachal Pradesh
79 Shri Brahmanand Sankhwalkar Sports Goa
80 Shri Vidyanand Sarek Literature and Education Himachal Pradesh
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