Around 128 people are to receive the award in 2022. The awards will be presented by President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
In 2022, the President Ram Nath Kovind approved 107 Padmashri awards, 17 Padmabhushan and Padma vibhushan awards. In all 128 Padma awards.
Of this one Padma award is a duo case. In duo cases, the award is considered as one. This time 34 recipients are women. Also, there are ten foreigners or NRI or OCI in the list. 13 are posthumous awardees.
Padma Vibhushan
The late CDS, Bipin Rawat and Kalyan Singh are to be presented with Padma Vibhushan posthumously.
Padma Bhushan
The former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is presented with Padma Bhushan. But Buddhadeb is to decline the award. He is a CPI (M) leader.
The congress leader Gulam Nabi Azad
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will also receive the award.
Gurmeet Bawa, the late folk singer of Punjab,
Rajiv Mehrishi, the union home secretaries are to be presented with Padma Bhushan.
Padma Shri
Sonu Nigam, the play back singer of Bollywood will receive Padma Shri.
A total of six sports persons are to receive the Padma awards 2022.ParalympianDevendraJhajharia is to receive Padma Bhushan. Hockey player VandanaKatariya and Paralympians Pramod Bhagat, Avani Lekhara, Sumit Antilare to receive Padma Shri. Neeraj Chopra, the Tokyo Olympics gold medalist will also receive Padma Shri.
Vaccine makers: Cyrus Poonawala, the founder of SII (Serum Institute of India) will receive Padma Bhushan. He is the man behind the popular “COVISHIELD”. The chairman of Bharat Biotech Krishna Ella and the co-founder of Bharat Biotech Suchitra Ella will also receive Padma Bhushan.
