34.      Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910-2000)                                          1998
       35.      Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (1902-1979)                        1999
       36.      Professor Amartya Sen (b-1933)                                               1999
       37.      Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (1890-1950)                          1999
       38.      Pandit Ravi Shankar (1920-2012)                                              1999
       39.      Sushil Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (b-1929)                                     2001
       40.      Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006)                                             2001
       41.      Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (b-1922-2011)                                   2009
       42.      Prof. C.N.R. Rao (1934)                                                      2014
       43.      Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (b-1973)                                             2014
       44.      Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous) (1861-1946)                         2015
       45.       Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-2018)                                            2015
           PADMA AWARDS ANNOUNCED ON REPUBLIC DAY 2018
      Padma Awards
           Padma Awards are amongst the highest civilian awards of the country. There are three
      categories of Padma Awards- ‘Padma Vibhushan’, ‘Padma Bhushan’ and ‘Padma Shri’. These
      are given for distinguished service in any fieid including art, literature and education, science,
      engineering, sports, medicine, etc. Padma Awards are announced on the eve of the Republic Day
      every year. In 2017, the President of India conferred 88 Padma Awards as listed below. The list
      comprises 7 Padma Vibhushan, 7 Padma Bhushan and 74 Padma Shri awardees. 19 of the
      awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of foreigners, NRls,
      PIOs and Posthumous Awardees.
       Padma Vibhushan Recipients                      : Ilaiyaraaja
                                                       : Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
                                                       : P. Parameswaran
       Padma Bhushan Recipients                        : Pankaj Advani
                                                          Most Rev. Dr. Philipose Mar Chrysostom
                                                       :
                                                          Mar Thoma Valiya Metropolitan
                                                       : Mahendra Singh Dhoni
                                                          His Excellency Alexander Kadakin
                                                       :
                                                          (Foreigner/Posthumous)
                                                       : Dr. Ramachandran Nagaswamy