Padma Awards Flashcards
Who rejected Padma Vibhushan 2022?
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Sandhya Mukherjee and Anindya Chatterjee
How many Padma Awards were approved this year?
128
Padma Vibhushan-4
Padma Bhushan-17
Padma Shri-107
Posthumous winners of Padma Vibhushan
Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (literature and education) UP
Gen Bipin Rawat (Civil service) Uttarakhand
Shri Kalyan Singh (public affairs) UP
The only non posthumously awarded Padma Vibhushan candidate is
Prabha Atre (Art)
Covid vaccine makers who have been awarded Padma Bhushan are
Cyrus Poonawalla (Serum Institute of India-covishield)
Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella(Bharat Biotech- India’s first vaccine-COVAXIN)
Category - ‘Trade and Industry’
First woman Air marshal of IAF Padma Bandopadhyay for which field was awarded Padma Shri?
Medicine
She is the first woman of Air force to be promoted to a 3 star rank of an Air Marshall
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was named for which award
Padma Bhushan
Category - ‘Trade and Industry’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received which award
Padma Bhushan
Category - ‘Trade and Industry’
Padma awards are announced annually on
26th January
When were Padma awards instituted
1954
Order of the Padma Series of awards
Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri
Who constitutes the Padma committee
Prime Minister
Who confers the Padma awards?
President of India
Highest civillian award
Bharat Ratna Award
What does Padma mean in Sanskrit
Lotus
First recipients of Padma award
6 recipients, one of them was Jigme Dorji Wangchuk ( 3rd Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan )
When was Bharat Ratna instituted
1954
First woman recipient of Bharat Ratna
Indira Gandhi in 1971
First foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna
Abdul Ghafar Khan in 1987
First awardees of Bharat Ratna
C. Rajgopalachari ,
S. Radhakrishnan,
C.V Raman
Last awarded ( Bharat Ratna )
2019 to Nanaji Deshmukh, Bhupen Hazarika, Pranab Mukherjee
When were Padma wards interupted
1978, 1979, 1993, 1997
Max number of Padma awards that can be given
120
Eligibility criteria for Padma awards
All persons except govt servants working with PSUs (except doctors and scientists) are eligible for their awards
When was the constitutional validity of Padma Awards was challenged
The constitutional validity of Padma Awards was challenged in 1992 in Kerala and Madhya Pradesh with respect to the Public interest Litigation filed. Until the issue has resolved in the respective court, the award was suspended.
Years in which Padma Awards were not granted?
1978, 1979, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997 due to the change of government.