Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Mary Kom Among 141 Padma Awards Recipients
Padma Awards 2020: Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj had died final 12 months (Document)
New Delhi:
Former central ministers Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and George Fernandes, were posthumously awarded Padma Vibhushan, India’s 2nd best possible civilian honour, the Ministry of House Affairs introduced on Saturday. Former Goa Leader Minister Manohar Parrikar has been given Padma Bhushan, the 3rd best possible civilian award. The entire 4 BJP stalwarts had died final 12 months. This 12 months’s Padma Awards checklist contains 7 Padma Vibhushan, 16 Padma Bhushan and 118 Padma Shri Awards (fourth best possible civilian honour), the observation stated, including 34 of the awardees are girls.
Olympic medal winner boxer MC Mary Kom has been given Padma Vibhushan; badminton megastar PV Sindhu has been conferred Padma Bhushan.
Famend classical singer from Varanasi, Chhannulal Mishra, is one of the Padma Vibhushan awardees; while playback singer Suresh Wadkar has been awarded the fourth best possible civilian honour.
Bollywood personalities – Karan Johar, Ekta Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut- are some of the Padma Shri awardees.
18 other folks from the class of “Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI” have additionally been awarded. Mauritius Top Minister Anerood Gugnauth has were given the second one best possible civilian honour.
Industrialists Anand Mahindra and Venu Shrinivasan, former Nagaland Leader Minister SC Jamir and Jammu and Kashmir baby-kisser Muzaffar Hussain Baig were awarded Padma Bhushan.
Naukri.com founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani, industrialist Bharat Goenka, technocrat Nemnath Jain were given Padma Shri.
‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for remarkable and outstanding provider; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for outstanding provider of top order and ‘Padma Shri’ for outstanding provider in any box. The awards are introduced at the instance of Republic Day annually.
