President Murmu confers Padma awards: Shibu Soren, Alka Yagnik, Mammootty among honourees

Padma awards

NEW DELHI: President Drupadi Murmu on Tuesday conferred the Padma Awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the second civil investiture ceremony. A total of 65 Padma awards were conferred including two Padma Vibhushan, seven Padma Bhushan and 56 Padma Shri Awardees.The conferred awardees included actor Mammootty, singer Alka Yagnik, cricketer Rohit Sharma and R Madhavan to name a few.

Here is the full list of awardeesPadma Bhushan awardees:Alka YagnikShibu SorenMammoottyPiyush PandeyUday Sureshkumar KotakKallipatti Ramasamy PalaniswamyDr Dattatreyudu NoriVellappally NatesanSKM MaeilanandhanVijay AmritrajR GaneshBhagat Singh KoshyariPadma Shri awardees: Rohit Gurunath SharmaMadhavan RanganathanHarmanpreet Kaur BhullarSavita PuniaSatish ShahProsenjit ChatterjeeChandramouli GaddamanuguDr Rajendra PrasadGadde Babu Rajendra PrasadNuruddin AhmedThiruvaarur BakthavathsalamKrishnamurty BalasubraniamAnkegowda M Bishwa BandhuBharat Singh BhartiBrij Lal Bhat Tarun BhattacharyaTaga Ram BheelRatilal Mohanlal BorisagarKumar BoseJanardan Bapurao BotheSwami BrahamdevJyotish DebnathJogesh DeuriBhiklya Ladakya DhindaArmida FernandezDevaki Amma GPrem Lal GautamRamchandra Godbole, Suneeta GodboleRajastapathi Kaliappa GoundarPadma GurmetAsok Kumar HaldarSuresh HanagavadiH V HandeCharan HembramShubha Venkatesha IyengarT T JagannathanNiranjan Dass Ji Gafaruddin Mewati JogiVeezhinathan KamakotiMangala KapoorMir Haji KasamAshok KhadeRaghuvir KhedkarLiudmila KhokhlovaLars-Christian KochR Krishnan KitnaPrabhakar Basaprabhu KoreMamidala Jagdesh KumarPraveen KumarK Vijay KumarShrirang Devba LadPokhila LekhpetiRama Reddy MamidiSaroj MandalNilesh Vinodchandra MandlewalaBuddha Rashmi ManiR V S ManiKalamandalam Vimala Menon Vladimer MestvirishviliMahendra Kumar MishraMaganti Murali MohanTripti MukherjeeHarimadhab MukhopadhyayA E MuthanayagamMohan NagarPunniamurthy NatesanSatyanarayan Nandlal NuwalMohan NagarK PajanivelDharmiklal Chunilal PandyaKailash Chandra PantSimanchal PatraSarat Kumar PatraN Swaminathan Sangyusang PongenerGarimella Balakrishna PrasadGadde Babu Rajendra PrasadKabindra PurkayasthaBhagwandas RaikwarK RamasamyAnil Kumar RastogiGuduru Venkat Rao Gayatri, RanjaniDeepika ReddyPalkonda Vijay Anand ReddyMahendra Nath Roy Vempaty Kutumba SastryHaricharan SaikiaPrateek SharmaShafi ShauqYumnam Jatra SinghBaldev SinghInderjit Singh SidhuAshok Kumar SinghRaghupat SinghSivasankariKhem Raj SundriyalShyam SundarR SreedherS G SusheelammaBudhri TatiKewal Krishan Thakral Rabilal TuduGopal Ji TrivediKumarasamy ThangarajArvind VaidyaNaresh Chandra Dev Varma Juzer VasiHally WarNarayan VyasShashi Shekhar Vempati Chiranji Lal YadavGambir Singh YonzoneSpeaking to ANI, Padma Shri awardee and Director of the National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa, Dr Padma Gurmet, expressed his happiness for receiving the award for the preservation and promotion of the Himalayan medical tradition."It feels wonderful. This year, I have been honoured with the Padma Award for the preservation and promotion of the Himalayan medical tradition. Conferring this recognition on a person like me, who is from such a remote area in Ladakh, is a great achievement not only for me but also for the Sowa-Rigpa community," he said.The first Civil Investiture Ceremony was held on May 26, during which the President Murmu conferred 66 Padma Awards.