Padma Awards – 2018
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
April 4, 2018
SBI PO – Notification, Syllabus
April 28, 2018
Padma Awards (Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Shri), the highest civilian awards of the country, bestowed for distinguished services in various disciplines – art, literature, social works, science and engineering, civil services, medicine etc, for the year 2018 was declared by President Ram Nath Kovind. He approved the conferment of the awards on 85 persons.
The 2018 list includes 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri Awardees. The 2018 awardees are listed below:
Padma Vibhushan
| Sl. No | Name | Field | State |
| 1. | Shri Illaiyaraja | Art-Music | Tamil Nadu |
| 2. | Shri Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Art-Music | Maharashtra |
| 3. | Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran | Literature and Education | Kerala |
Padma Bhushan
| Sl. No | Name | Field | State |
| 1. | Shri Pankaj Advani | Sports- Billiards/Snooker | Karnataka |
| 2. | Shri Philipose Mar Chrysostom | Others-Spiritualism | Kerala |
| 3. | Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Sports-Cricket | Jharkhand |
| 4. | Shri Alexander Kadakin
(Foreigner/Posthumous) |
Public Affairs | Russia |
| 5. | Shri Ramachandran Nagaswamy | Others-Archaeology | Tamil Nadu |
| 6. | Shri Ved Prakash Nanda
(OCI) |
Literature and Education | USA |
| 7. | Shri Laxman Pai | Art-Painting | Goa |
| 8. | Shri Arvind Parikh | Art-Music | Maharashtra |
| 9. | Ms. Sharda Sinha | Art-Music | Bihar |
Padma Shri
| Sl. No | Name | Field | State | ||
| 1. | Shri Abhay Bang (Duo) | Medicine | Maharashtra | ||
| Ms. Rani Bang (Duo) | Medicine | Maharashtra | |||
| 2. | Shri Damodar Ganesh Bapat | Social Work | Chhattisgarh | ||
| 3. | Shri Prafulla Govinda Baruah | Literature and Education-Journalism | Assam | ||
| 4. | Shri Mohan Swaroop Bhatia | Art-Folk Music | Uttar Pradesh | ||
| 5. | Shri Sudhanshu Biswas | Social Work | West Bengal | ||
| 6. | Ms. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu | Sports-Weightlifting | Manipur | ||
| 7. | Shri Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi | Literature and Education-Journalism | Chhattisgarh | ||
| 8. | Shri Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner) | Trade & Industry | Philippines | ||
| 9. | Ms. Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi | Art-Weaving | Manipur | ||
| 10. | Shri Somdev Devvarman | Sports-Tennis | Tripura | ||
| 11. | Shri Yeshi Dhoden | Medicine | Himachal Pradesh | ||
| 12. | Shri Arup Kumar Dutta | Literature and Education | Assam | ||
| 13. | Shri Doddarange Gowda | Art-Lyrics | Karnataka | ||
| 14. | Shri Arvind Gupta | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | ||
| 15. | Shri Digamber Hansda | Literature and Education | Jharkhand | ||
| 16. | Shri Ramli Bin Ibrahim
(Foreigner) |
Art-Dance | Malaysia | ||
| 17. | Shri Anwar Jalalpuri
(Posthumous) |
Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | ||
| 18. | Shri Piyong Temjen Jamir | Literature and Education | Nagaland | ||
| 19. | Ms. Sitavva Joddati | Social Work | Karnataka | ||
| 20. | Ms. Malti Joshi | Literature and
Education |
Madhya Pradesh | ||
| 21. | Shri Manoj Joshi | Art-Acting | Maharashtra | ||
| 22. | Shri Rameshwarlal Kabra | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra | ||
| 23. | Shri Pran Kishore Kaul | Art | Jammu and
Kashmir |
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| 24. | Shri Bounlap Keokangna
(Foreigner) |
Others-Architecture | Laos | ||
| 25. | Shri Vijay Kichlu | Art-Music | West Bengal | ||
| 26. | Shri Tommy Koh
(Foreigner) |
Public Affairs | Singapore | ||
| 27. | Ms. Lakshmikutty | Medicine-Traditional | Kerala | ||
| 28. | Ms. Joyshree Goswami
Mahanta |
Literature and
Education |
Assam | ||
| 29. | Shri Narayan Das Maharaj | Others-Spiritualism | Rajasthan | ||
| 30. | Shri Pravakara Maharana | Art-Sculpture | Odisha | ||
| 31. | Shri Hun Many
(Foreigner) |
Public Affairs | Cambodia | ||
| 32. | Ms. Nouf Marwaai
(Foreigner) |
Others- Yoga | Saudi Arabia | ||
| 33. | Shri Zaverilal Mehta | Literature and
Education-Journalism |
Gujarat | ||
| 34. | Shri Krishna Bihari Mishra | Literature and
Education |
West Bengal | ||
| 35. | Shri Sisir Purushottam
Mishra |
Art-Cinema | Maharashtra | ||
| 36. | Ms. Subhasini Mistry | Social Work | West Bengal | ||
| 37. | Shri Tomio Mizokami
(Foreigner) |
Literature and
Education |
Japan | ||
| 38.
|
Shri Somdet Phra Maha
Muniwong (Foreigner) |
Others-Spiritualism
|
Thailand
|
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| 39. | Shri Keshav Rao
Musalgaonkar |
Literature and
Education |
Madhya Pradesh | ||
| 40. | Dr Thant Myint – U
(Foreigner) |
Public Affairs | Myanmar | ||
| 41. | Ms. V Nanammal | Others-Yoga | Tamil Nadu | ||
| 42. | Ms. Sulagitti Narasamma | Social Work | Karnataka | ||
| 43. | Ms. Vijayalakshmi
Navaneethakrishnan |
Art-Folk Music | Tamil Nadu | ||
| 44. | Shri I Nyoman Nuarta
(Foreigner) |
Art- Sculpture | Indonesia | ||
| 45.
|
Shri Malai Haji Abdullah
Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner) |
Social Work
|
Brunei
Darussalam |
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| 46. | Shri Gobaradhan Panika | Art-Weaving | Odisha | ||
| 47. | Shri Bhabani Charan
Pattanaik |
Public Affairs | Odisha | ||
| 48. | Shri Murlikant Petkar | Sports-Swimming | Maharashtra | ||
| 49. | Shri Habibullo Rajabov
(Foreigner) |
Literature and
Education |
Tajikistan
|
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| 50. | Shri M R Rajagopal | Medicine-Palliative
Care |
Kerala | ||
| 51. | Shri Sampat Ramteke
(Posthumous) |
Social Work | Maharashtra | ||
| 52. | Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath | Literature and
Education |
Odisha | ||
| 53. | Shri S S Rathore | Civil Service | Gujarat | ||
| 54. | Shri Amitava Roy | Science and
Engineering |
West Bengal | ||
| 55. | Shri Sanduk Ruit
(Foreigner) |
Medicine-
Ophthalmology |
Nepal | ||
| 56. | Shri R Sathyanarayana | Art-Music | Karnataka | ||
| 57. | Shri Pankaj M Shah | Medicine-Oncology | Gujarat | ||
| 58. | Shri Bhajju Shyam | Art-Painting | Madhya Pradesh | ||
| 59. | Shri Maharao Raghuveer
Singh |
Literature and
Education |
Rajasthan | ||
| 60. | Shri Kidambi Srikanth | Sports-Badminton | Andhra Pradesh | ||
| 61. | Shri Ibrahim Sutar | Art-Music | Karnataka | ||
| 62. | Shri Siddeshwara Swamiji | Others-Spiritualism | Karnataka | ||
| 63. | Ms. Lentina Ao Thakkar | Social Work | Nagaland | ||
| 64. | Shri Vikram Chandra
Thakur |
Science and
Engineering |
Uttarakhand | ||
| 65.
|
Shri Rudrapatnam
Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo) |
Art-Music
|
Karnataka
|
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| Shri Rudrapatnam
Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo) |
Art-Music
|
Karnataka
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| 66. | Shri Nguyen Tien Thien
(Foreigner) |
Others-Spiritualism | Vietnam | ||
| 67. | Shri Bhagirath Prasad
Tripathi |
Literature and
Education |
Uttar Pradesh | ||
| 68. | Shri Rajagopalan Vasudevan | Science and
Engineering |
Tamil Nadu | ||
| 69. | Shri Manas Bihari Verma | Science and
Engineering |
Bihar | ||
| 70. | Shri Panatawane Gangadhar
Vithobaji |
Literature and
Education |
Maharashtra | ||
| 71. | Shri Romulus Whitaker | Others-Wildlife
Conservation |
Tamil Nadu | ||
| 72. | Shri Baba Yogendra | Art | Madhya Pradesh | ||
| 73. | Shri A Zakia | Literature and
Education |
Mizoram | ||
-Najma Jamal