Complete List Of 21 Padma-Shri Awardees Announced By Centre On The Eve of 71st Republic Day

Ahead of the Republic Day, the Union Government has announced the list of 21 Padma-Shri awardees for this year, reports India.com.

Here is the complete list:

PADMA Shri (21): Awarded for "distinguished service", it is the fourth-highest civilian award in India

• Jagdish Lal Ahuja -- “ Selflessly organising langar for over 500 poor patients daily for over two decades. ”
• Mohammed Sharif -- “ Performed the last rites of over 25,000 unclaimed bodies in and around Faizabad over the past 25 years ”
• Javed Ahmed Tak -- “ Improving the lives of Kashmir’s divyang children. ”
• Tulsi Gowda -- “ Known as the encyclopedia of forests, she at the age of 72 continues to nurture plants ”
• Sathyanarayan -- “ For promoting education in remote Arunachal Pradesh ”
• Abdul Jabbar -- “ Convener of Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan ”
• Usha Chaumar -- “ A manual scavenger since the age of 7 ”
• Harekala Hajabba (AKA Akshara Santa) -- “Educated poor children in Dakshin Kannada for over 20 years.”
• Arunoday Mondal -- “ Doctor who travels six hours every weekend to treat patients in remote Sundarban villages. ”
• Radha Mohan & Sabarmati-- “ Started Sambhav, a resource centre for farmers across the country where they visit to exchange seeds and learn organic farming. ”
• Kushal Konwar -- “ Guwahati veterinarian who has devoted his life to the conservation of Asian elephants. He hasn’t taken a single weekend off in the last three decades. ”
• Trinity Saioo -- “ school teacher and tribal farmer who led 800 women in the Jaintia Hills region to cultivate and boost the popularity of the indigenous, high curcumin content Lakadong variety of turmeric ”
• Ravi Kannan -- “ Oncologist from Chennai who has treated over 70,000 cancer patients free of cost in Barak valley. ”
• S Ramakrishnan -- “ Divyang social worker from Tamil Nadu. ”
• Sundaram Verma -- “ A Rajasthan farmer who grew 50,000 trees ”
• Popatrao Pawar -- “ Transformed a drought-prone village of Maharashtra into a green model village. ”
• Munna Master -- “ Muslim Bhajan singer. Has penned bhajans in praise of Lord Krishna & Cows ”
• Yogi Aeron -- “ Treats over 500 patients free of cost every year, suffering from burns or are mauled by animals – Patients are mostly poor, hill women from remote villages in the Himalayas. ”
• Rahibai Soma Popere -- “ Illiterate Tribal farmer from Ahmednagar district, honoured with the title of ‘Seed Mother’ by CSIR for her inspirational work in the tribal-dominated region ”
• Himmata Ram -- “ Took care of 1,000+ birds & animals by feeding them with 20 kg grains every day ”
• Moozhikkal -- “ Preserving the traditional art form of Nokkuvidhya Pavakalli, currently under the threat of extinction ”