NEW DELHI: Eminent singer K J Yesudas is to receive the Padma Vibhushan, the country’s second-highest civilian honour, while mohan veena exponent Vishwa Mohan Bhatt bags the Padma Bhushan.
Actors Sadhu Meher from Odisha and Bharati Vishnuvardhan are among the Padma Shri Awardees. Renowned playback singers Anuradha Poudwal and Kailash Kher get the Padma Shri.
Renowned commentator and journalist Cho Ramaswamy has also been chosen to get the Padma Bhushan posthumously. Film analyst Bhawna Somayya of Maharashtra, and Vishnu Pandya of Gujarat, have been awarded Padma Shri for journalism.
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Cricketer Virat Kohli, gymnast Dipa Karmakar of Tripura, and wrestler Sakshi Malik of Haryana, have been chosen for Padma Shri from the field of sports.
Other sportspersons getting the Padma Shri from the field of sport are: cricketer Shekhar Naik and Vikasa Gowda (discus throw) of Karnataka, athletes Ms Deepa Malik of Haryana and Mariyappan Thangavelu of Kerala, P R Shreejesh of Kerala for hockey.
Others who have received awards in the field of music are Basanti Bisht of Uttarakhand, T K Murthy of Tamil Nadu, Laishram Birendrakumar Singh of Manipur, Krishna Ram Chaudhary of Uttar Pradesh, Jitendra Haripal of Odisha, Parassala B Ponnammal of Kerala, Sukri Bommagowda of Karnataka, Mukund Nayak of Jharkhand, and Purushottam Upadhyay of Gujarat. Wareppa Naba Nil of Manipur gets the award for theatre.
Sitar and surbahar player-composer Imrat Khan from the United States gets the award for music. Indian-American entrepreneur H R Shah is another NRI who has got the Padma Shri for journalism.
Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair of Kerala and Aruna Mohanty of Odisha are getting the Padma Shri for dance.
These awards are conferred by the President at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards to 89 persons as per the list below. The list comprises of 7 Padma Vibhushan, 7 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri Awardees. 19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes five persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and six posthumous awardees.
