The President of India has approved the conferment of 128 Padma Awards including 2 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) for the year 2022.
The list of Padma Awards 2022 comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan, and 107 Padma Shri Awards.
34 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.
Padma Vibhushan Awards (4)
| S.No | Name | Field | State/Country |
| 1 | Ms. Prabha Atre | Art | Maharashtra |
| 2 | Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous) | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 3 | General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous) | Civil Service | Uttarakhand |
| 4 | Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
Padma Bhushan Awards (17)
| S.No | Name | Field | State/Country |
| 1 | Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad | Public Affairs | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 2 | Shri Victor Banerjee | Art | West Bengal |
| 3 | Ms. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) | Art | Punjab |
| 4 | Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 5 | Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Shri Krishna Ella and Smt Suchitra Ella* (Duo) | Trade and Industry | Telangana |
| 7 | Ms. Madhur Jaffery | Others-Culinary | United States of America |
| 8 | Shri Devendra Jhajharia | Sports | Rajasthan |
| 9 | Shri Rashid Khan | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 10 | Shri Rajiv Mehrishi | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
| 11 | Shri Satya Narayana Nadella | Trade and Industry | United States of America |
| 12 | Shri Sundararajan Pichai | Trade and Industry | United States of America |
| 13 | Shri Cyrus Poonawalla | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Shri Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous) | Science and Engineering | Mexico |
| 15 | Ms. Pratibha Ray | Literature and Education | Odisha |
| 16 | Swami Sachidanand | Literature and Education | Gujarat |
| 17 | Shri Vashishth Tripathi | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh |
For the Padma Shri (107) Awards Please Download the pdf file.
About Padma Awards:
The Padma Awards is one of the highest civilian Awards of the country. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.
⇒ Padma Awards are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
- The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.
- Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service.
- Padma Bhushan is awarded for distinguished service of high order.
- Padma Shri is awarded for distinguished service in any field.