Padma Awards

About Padma Awards

Padma Award is Second Highest Awards which is divided into three category.
 1. Padma Vibhusan  2. Padma Bhusan
 3. Padma Shri

Highest Civilian Awards is Bharat Ratna Award.

The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.

‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service;
‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and
‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field.

The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.
These awards are conferred by the President of India 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 112 persons as per the list below.
The list comprises of
10 Padma Vibhushan,
19 Padma Bhushan and
83 Padma Shri Awardees.
19 of the awardees are women
10 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs (include one posthumous)
4 Posthumous awardees.

Chief Justice of India

Name	Duration	Bar	Appointed By
H. J. Kania	26/1/1950 to 6/11/1951	Bonbay High Court	Rajendra Prasad
M. Patanjali Sastri	7/11/1951 to 3/1/1954	Madras High Court
Mehr Chand Mahajan	4/1/1954 to 22/12/1954	East Punjab High Court
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea	23/12/1954 to 31/1/1956	Culcatta High Court
Sudhi Ranjan Das	1/2/1956 to 30/9/1959	Culcatta High Court
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha	1/10/1956 to 31/1/1964	Patana High Court
P. B. Gajendragadkar	1/2/1964 to 15/3/1966	Bombay High Court	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Amal Kumar Sarkar	16/3/1966 to 29/6/1966	Culcatta High Court
Koka Subba Rao	30/6/1966 to 11/4/1967	Madras High Court
Kailas Nath Wanchoo	12/4/1967 to 24/2/1968	Allahabad High Court
Mohammad Hidayatullah	25/2/1968 to 16/12/1970	Bombay High Court	Zakir Hussain
Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah	17/12/1970 to 21/1/1971	Bombay High Court	Varahagiri Venkata Giri
Sarv Mittra Sikri	22/1/1971 to 25/4/1973	Lahor High Court
Ajit Nath Ray	26/4/1973 to 27/1/1977	Culcatta High Court
Mirza Hameedullah Beg	28/1/1978 to 21/2/1978	Allahabad High Court	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud	22/2/1978 to 11/7/1985	Bombay High Court	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati	12/7/1985 to 20/12/1986	Gujarat High Court	Giani Zail Singh
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak	21/12/1986 to 18/6/1989	Allahabad High Court
Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah	19/6/1989 to 17/12/1989	Karnataka High Court	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Sabyasachi Mukharji	18/12/1989 to 25/9/1990	Culcatta High Court
Ranganath Misra	26/9/1990 to 24/11/1991	Orissa High Court
Kamal Narain Singh	25/11/1991 to 12/12/1991	Allahabad High Court
Madhukar Hiralal Kania	13/12/1991 to 17/11/1992	Bombay High Court
Lalit Mohan Sharma	18/11/1992 to 11/2/1993	Patana High Court	Shankar Dayal Sharma
Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah	12/2/1993 to 24/10/1994	Karnataka High Court
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi	25/10/1994 to 24/3/1997	Gujarat High Court
Jagdish Sharan Verma	25/3/1997 to 17/1/1998	Madhya Pradesh High Court
Madan Mohan Punchhi	18/1/1998 to 9/10/1998	Punjab and Hariyana High Court	Kocheril Raman Narayanan
Adarsh Sein Anand	10/10/1998 to 11/1/2001	Jammu and Kashmir High Court
Sam Piroj Bharucha	11/1/2001 to 6/5/2002	Bombay High Court
Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	6/5/2002 to 8/11/2002	Delhi High Court
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik	8/11/2002 to 19/12/2002	Orissa High Court	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
V. N. Khare	19/12/2002 to 2/5/2004	Allahabad High Court
S. Rajendra Babu	2/5/2004 to 1/6/2004	Karanataka High Court
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti	1/6/2004 to 1/11/2005	Madhya Pradesh High Court
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	1/11/2005 to 13/1/2007	Delhi High Court
K. G. Balakrishnan	13/1/2007 to 11/5/2010	Kerala High Court
S. H. Kapadia	12/5/2010 to 28/9/2012	Bombay High Court	Pratibha Patil
Altamas Kabir	29/9/2012 to 18/7/2013	Culcatta High Court	Pranab Mukherjee
P. Sathasivam	19/7/2013 to 26/4/2014	Madras High Court
Rajendra Mal Lodha	27/4/2014 to 27/9/2014	Rajsthan High Court
H. L. Dattu	28/9/2014 to 2/12/2015	Karnataka High Court
T. S. Thakur	3/12/2015 to 3/1/2017	Jammu and Kashmir High Court
J. S. Khehar	4/1/2017 to 27/8/2017	Punjab and Haryana High Court
Dipak Misra	28/8/2017 to 2/10/2018	Odisha High Court	Ram Nath Kovind