President to confer Padma Awards for 2022 at Civil Investiture Ceremony-I in the present day

President of India Ram Nath Kovind will confer two Padma Vibhushan, eight Padma Bhushan and 54 Padma Shri awards for the yr 2022, on the Civil Investiture Ceremony-I to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the present day.

Amongst the distinguished awardees on the ceremony shall be Padma Vibhushan recipients Radhey Shyam and Common Bipin Rawat (posthumous), Ghulam Nabi Azad, Gurmeet Bawa (posthumous), N Chandrasekharan, Devendra Jhajharia, Rashid Khan, Rajiv Mehrishi, Dr Cyrus Poonawalla and Sachchidanand Swami who will obtain the Padma Bhushan awards. The Civil Investiture CeremonyII is scheduled to be held on March 28.

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The Awards are conferred in three classes: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. These Awards are given in varied disciplines/ fields of actions corresponding to artwork, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, commerce and business, drugs, literature and training, sports activities, civil service, and so on. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for distinctive and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of excessive order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any area. The awards are introduced on the event of Republic Day yearly.

The awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial features, that are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan. This yr a complete of 128 Padma Awards are being conferred, together with two duo instances (in a duo case, the award is counted as one). The record of awardees contains 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri awards. A complete of 34 of the awardees are girls and the record additionally consists of 10 individuals from the class of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, moreover 13 Posthumous awardees.

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