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.
For 2022 how many awardees were Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI
10
Total no. of posthumous awardees for padma awards 2022
13
When was the death of the first CDS of India
8 Dec 2021
Why and when did Kalyan Singh(BJP politican) resign?
He resigned on 6 Dec 1992 because demolition of Babri masjid in Dec 1992.
He was re-elected as UP CM in 1997
Kalyan Singh acted as the governers of which states
Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh
Who is Prabha Atre?
Indian vocalist from Kirana Gharana.
Released 11 books on Music in Hindi and English in Bew Delhi on 18 April 2016.
What other padma awards was Prabha Atre conferred and in which year?
In 1990, she received Padma Shri
In 2002,she received Padma Bhushan
Name another prestigious award given to Prabha Atre
Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards in 1991
Who was Radheshyam Khemka?
Gita Press’s Khemka,the man who brought Ramcharitmanas to every home.
Gita Press is the largest publisher and distributor of religious literature established in Gorakhpur,UP in 1923
Who from Tata was awarded Padma Bhushan
Tata sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was the former Chief Minister of which state
West Bengal
Name the Congress leader who was conferred with Padma Bhushan
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Name the Paralympic javelin thrower who was conferred with Padma Bhushan
Devendra Jhajharia from Rajasthan
Category-Sports
He won Silver medal in Tokyo 2021 paralympics
Name the Bollywood Singer who was conferred with Padma Shri
Sonu Nigam
Name the olympic gold medallist who was conferred with Padma Shri
Neeraj Chopra
Category-Sports
Name the paralympic gold medallists who was conferred with Padma Shri
1.Pramod Bhagat
2.Sumit Antil
Category-Sports
name the personalities from martial arts who were conferred with Padma Shri
1.Sankaranarayan Menon Chundayil -Kerela
2.Faisal Ali Dar- J&K
Category-Sports
Women Indian Hockey team player conferred with Padma shri
Vandana Kataria
Personality from Japan conferred with Padma shri
Ryuko Hira - Japan
Category-Trade and industry
Yogic teacher who won Padma Shri
Sivandana-UP
Category-Others (Yoga)
Paralympic 1st women gold medallist conferred with Padma Shri
Avani Lekhara - Rajasthan
Category-Sports
She won a bronze medal as well
Civilian award conferred to women
Nari Shakti Puraskar
Civilian award meant for children
National Bravery Award
Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar
National Bal shakti award
Civilian award for Police
President’s Police Medal for Gallantry
First foreigner to be awarded Bharat Ratna
Mother Teresa 1980
Abdul Ghaffar khan 1987
Nelson Mandela 1990
Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra was conferred with which gallantry award
Param Vishisht Seva Medal PVSM
He enrolled as Naib Subedar of the 14th Battalion of the Rajputana Rifles on May 15,2016
Bharat Ratna was started by which President
Rajendra Prasad
Bharat Ratna was allowed to be given posthumously in which year
1966
Youngest Bharat Ratna recipient and first sportperson
Sachin Tendulkar in 2014
Only year where Bharat Ratna was given to 4 people
1999
The only case in which Bharat Ratna was announced and withdrawn
In 1992,Subhash Chandra Bose was posthumously going to be awarded with Bharat Ratna but following the controversy over his death,the SC cancelled the award in 1997.
How many Bharat Ratnas can be conferred in year
3
Which Captain was awarded with Vir Chakra for his Pakistan based aerial combat?
Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman, who downed an enemy jet during an aerial combat with Pakistan on February 27, 2019, was conferred withthe Vir Chakra award.
Which article states that no Indian Citizen can use Bharat Ratna as a prefix or suffix to their names?
Article 18(1)
Who in 1993, he successfully developed a method to develop black pearls in freshwater and recently received Padma shri
Dr.Ajay Kumar Sonkar from Prayagraj
He received an invitation to attend the first International Conference on Pearl Culture.
Amartya Sen was conferred with Bharat Ratna in which year?
1999
He was the Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 1998
Shinzo Abe won which padma award?
Padma Vibhushan in 2021
Name the recent chairman of ICHR who received Padma Shri?
Historian Raghavendra Tanwar
Name the first woman vice chancellor of Jamia Milia Islamia to get Padma Shri
Najma Akhtar
In which year did Nilmani Phookan Jr receive Padma Shri?
1990
First Indian female footballer to win Padma Shri
Oinam Bembem Devi
