Padma Awards 2022: Neeraj Chopra, Avani Lekhara get Padma Shri

Padma Awards 2022: The Centre on Tuesday unveiled the record of Padma awardees for 2022, with Olympic gold successful javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and 20-year-old para shooter Avani Lekhara amongst these awarded the Padma Shri.
Star Paralympic athlete Devendra Jhajharia was the one sportsperson awarded with the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour within the nation. Forty-year outdated Jhajharia has two gold medals within the javelin competitors of Paralympic Games, 2004 Athens and extra just lately in Rio 2016. He received a silver within the F46 occasion on the Tokyo Paralympics final yr.
The different sportspersons awarded with Padma Shri are para javelin thrower Sumit Antil, para badminton participant Pramod Bhagat, 93-year-old Kalaripayattu (indigenous martial artwork type) legend Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil, former worldwide martial arts champion Faisal Ali Dar, 29-year-old girls’s hockey participant Vandana Kataria and 67-year-old former Indian soccer workforce captain Brahmanand Sankhwalkar.

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Olympians Neeraj Chopra, Pramod Bhagat & Vandana Kataria, and singer Sonu Nigam to be awarded Padma Shri pic.twitter.com/J5K9aX9Qxz
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Padma Awards – one of many highest civilian Awards of the nation, are conferred in three classes, specifically, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in numerous disciplines/ fields of actions, viz.- artwork, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, commerce and trade, medication, literature and schooling, sports activities, civil service, and many others. ‘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 subject. The awards are introduced on the event of Republic Day yearly.

The awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial capabilities that are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan often round March/ April yearly. This yr the President has authorized conferment of 128 Padma Awards together with 2 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one). The record this yr contains 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. 34 of the awardees are girls and the record additionally consists of 10 individuals from the class of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.