List of Important Awards in India

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List of Major Awards in India

Below is the list of Most Important Awards in India with relevant details in brief form:


Award	Established In	Category	Details
Bharat Ratna	1954	Civilian	Bharat Ratna is the highest Civilian Award in India. This award is conferred for achievements in the field of Science, Literature, Arts and Public Services. In 2013, sports were also included in this award category.
Param Vir Chakra	1950	Military	It India’s highest wartime gallantry award. It is given for highest degree of valour in the presence of the enemy during war time.
Ashoka Chakra	1952	Military	The Ashok Chakra is awarded for bravery, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield. It is the peacetime equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra and is awarded for the “most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent valour or self-sacrifice” other than in the face of the enemy The Ashok Chakra was established as the “Ashoka Chakra, Class I” by the President of India, 4 January 1952 (with effect from 15 August 1947).
Mahavir Chakra	1950	Military	The Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) is the second-highest military decoration in India and is awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry in the presence of the enemy, whether on land, at sea or in the air and maybe awarded posthumously. Maha Veer translates to extraordinarily brave.
Kirti Chakra	1952	Military	The Kirti Chakra is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the field of battle. It may be awarded to civilians as well as military personnel, including posthumous awards. It is the peacetime equivalent of the Maha Vir Chakra. It is second in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards.
Vir Chakra	1947	Military	The Vir Chakra is awarded for acts of gallantry in the presence of the enemy, whether on land or at sea or in the air. It is third highest wartime gallantry awards following the Param Vir Chakra and Maha Vir Chakra. It was established by the President of India on 26 January 1950 (with effect from 15 August 1947) and may be awarded posthumously.
Shaurya Chakra	1952	Military	The Shaurya Chakra is the peacetime equivalent of the Vir Chakra. It was established as the “Ashoka Chakra, Class III” by the President of India, 4 January 1952 (with effect from 15 August 1947). The statutes for the award were revised and the decoration renamed on 27 January 1967. The honour may be awarded posthumously. It is a circular bronze medal with a green ribbon divided into four equal parts by three vertical lines.
Padma Vibhushan	1954	Civilian	It is the second-highest civilian award in India. The awrd is given for exceptional and distinguished service in any field including service rendered by Government servants.
Padma Bhushan	1954	Civilian	It is the third-highest civilian award in India. The awrd is given for exceptional and distinguished service in any field including service rendered by Government servants.
Padma Shri	1954	Civilian	It is the fourth-highest civilian award in India. The awrd is given for exceptional and distinguished service in any field including service rendered by Government servants.
Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak	1961	Civilian	It is a Civilian Lifesaving award given by Indian Government for saving lives from drowning, fire, or mine accidents.
Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak	1961	Civilian	It is a Civilian Lifesaving award given by Indian Government for saving lives from drowning, fire, or mine accidents.
Jeevan Raksha Padak	1961	Civilian	It is a Civilian Lifesaving award given by Indian Government for saving lives from drowning, fire, or mine accidents.
Vyas Samman	1991	Literature	The award is given annually by the K.K. Birla Foundation and includes a cash payout of Rs 4,00,000.
Saraswati Samman	1991	Literature	The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any of the 22 languages of India.
Jnanpith award	1961	Literature	This literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their “outstanding contribution towards literature”.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award	1969	Film	The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India’s highest award in cinema. It is presented annually by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Arjuna Award	1961	Sports	The award is given to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. The Arjuna Awards are given annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India.
Dronacharya Award	1985	Sports	Dronacharya Award is given to the sports coaches for their outstanding contribution.
Dhyan Chand Award	2002	Sports	Dhyan Chand Award is a Lifetime Achievement award in Sports and Games in India.
Major Dhyan Chan Khel Ratna Award	1991	Sports	It is the highest sporting honour in India.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	1958	Science and Technology	The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award is given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine and Physics.
International Gandhi Peace Prize	1995	Peace	The award is named after Mahatma Gandhi. It is awarded by the Government of India for contribution in Peace.
Sahitya Akademi Award	1954	Literature	It is given to the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages recognised by the Akademi.
Sangeet-Natak Akademi Award	1952	Literature	The Sangeet-Natak Akademi Award is given for highest achievement in music, dance and drama.
Nari Shakti Puraskar	1999	Bravery	The Nari Shakti Puraskar is an annual award given by the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India to individual women or to institutions that work towards the cause of women empowerment.
Rashtriyata Veerta Puraskar	1957	Bravery	The National Bravery Awards are a set of awards given annually to about 25 Indian children below 18 years of age for “meritorious acts of bravery against all odds.” The awards are given by the Government of India and the Indian Council for Child Welfare. The award was instituted in 1957

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List of Important Award Winners in India

List of Paramveer Chakra Award Winners

On 26 January 1950, celebrated as Republic Day of India, the PVC was instituted as a Gallantry Medal with retrospective effect from 15 August 1947 by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the then President of India.
The Medal translates as the “Wheel of the Ultimate Brave”, and the award is granted for “most conspicuous bravery in the presence of the enemy”.
The medal was designed by Mrs. Savitri Khanolkar.
The designer drew inspiration from sage Dadhichi, a vedic rishi who made the ultimate sacrifice by giving up his body so that the Gods could make a deadly weapon called Vajra or Thunderbolt from his spine.
The medal is cast in bronze. In the centre, on a raised circle, is the state emblem, surrounded by four replicas of Indra’s Vajra, flanked by the sword of Shivaji. The decoration is suspended from a straight swiveling suspension bar, and is held by a 32 mm purple ribbon.

Name	Rank^**	Unit	Date of action	Conflict
Somnath Sharma	Major	Kumaon Regiment	3 November 1947*	Battle of Badgam
Jadunath Singh	Naik	Rajput Regiment	6 February 1948*	Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
Rama Raghoba Rane	Second Lieutenant	Bombay Sappers	8 April 1948	Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
Piru Singh	Company Havildar Major	Rajputana Rifles	17 July 1948*	Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
Karam Singh	Lance Naik	Sikh Regiment	13 October 1948	Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
Gurbachan Singh Salaria	Captain	1 Gorkha Rifles[d]	5 December 1961*	Congo Crisis
Dhan Singh Thapa	Major	8 Gorkha Rifles	20 October 1962	Sino-Indian War
Joginder Singh	Subedar	Sikh Regiment	23 October 1962*	Sino-Indian War
Shaitan Singh	Major	Kumaon Regiment	18 November 1962*	Sino-Indian War
Abdul Hamid	Company Quarter Master Havildar	The Grenadiers	10 September 1965*	Battle of Asal Uttar
Ardeshir Tarapore	Lieutenant Colonel	Poona Horse	11 September 1965*	Battle of Chawinda
Albert Ekka	Lance Naik	Brigade of the Guards	3 December 1971*	Battle of Hilli
Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon	Flying Officer	No. 18 Squadron IAF	14 December 1971*	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Arun Khetarpal	Second Lieutenant	Poona Horse	16 December 1971*	Battle of Basantar
Hoshiar Singh Dahiya	Major	The Grenadiers	17 December 1971	Battle of Basantar
Bana Singh	Naib Subedar	Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry	23 May 1987	Operation Rajiv
Ramaswamy Parameshwaran	Major	Mahar Regiment[e]	25 November 1987*	Operation Pawan
Manoj Kumar Pandey	Lieutenant	11 Gorkha Rifles	3 July 1999*	Operation Vijay
Yogendra Singh Yadav	Grenadier	The Grenadiers	4 July 1999	Battle of Tiger Hill
Sanjay Kumar	Rifleman	Jammu and Kashmir Rifles	5 July 1999	Kargil War
Vikram Batra	Captain	Jammu and Kashmir Rifles	5 July 1999*	Operation Vijay

This along with the * indicates that the Param Vir Chakra was awarded posthumously. ** Rank refers to the rank held at the time of the award.

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List of Indian Nobel Prize Winners

Nobel Prize is the most coveted international award in the world.
Nobel Prize was instituted by Alfred Bernard Nobel (inventor of dynamite).
The Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women since 1901 from around the world for outstanding achievements in the fields, like, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, Literature and Economics.
Apart from Economics, all other categories have been given since 1901. Economics Nobel Prize was instituted in 1967 and was first given in 1969.
Alfred Nobel laid the foundation of the Prize in 1895 when he wrote his last will and leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the prize.
The award is given on December 10 (the death anniversary of Alfred Bernard Nobel).

Nobel Laureates of India	Field	Year
Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	1913
C.V. Raman	Physics	1930
Mother Teresa	Peace	1979
Amartya Sen	Economic Studies	1998
Kailash Satyarthi	Peace	2014

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List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners

Bharat Ratna is the highest Civilian Award in India. This award is conferred for achievements in the field of Science, Literature, Arts and Public Services. In 2013, sports were also included in this award category.
The award has the shape of a peepal leaf and is bronze-toned. The award has the emblem of Sun in the middle, and the words “Bharat Ratna” are inscribed below the emblem in Devanagari Script. On the reverse side, it has the State Emblem and State Motto.

Year	Laureates
1954	Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Dr Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
1955	Dr Bhagwan Das Jawaharlal Nehru Dr Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya
1957	Pt Govind Ballabh Pant
1958	Dr Dhonde Keshav Karve
1961	Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy Purushottam Das Tandon
1962	Dr Rajendra Prasad
1963	Dr Pandurang Vaman Kane Dr Zakir Hussain
1966	Lal Bahadur Shastri
1971	Indira Gandhi
1975	Varahagiri Venkata Giri
1976	Kumaraswamy Kamraj
1980	Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
1983	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
1987	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1988	Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran (1988)
1990	Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr Dr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
1991	Morarji Ranchhodji Desai Rajiv Gandhi Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
1992	Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Satyajit Ray
1997	Dr Abul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam Aruna Asaf Ali Gulzari Lal Nanda
1998	Chidambaram Subramaniam Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi
1999	Prof Amartya Sen Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan
2001	Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar Ustad Bismillah Khan
2008	Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
2014	Sachin Tendulkar CNR Rao
2015	Madan Mohan Malaviya Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2019	Pranab Mukherjee Bhupen Hazarika Nanaji Deshmukh

List of Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award Winners

‘Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award’ is given for the spectacular and most outstanding performance in the field of sports by a sportsperson over the period of the previous four years.
First awarded in 1991-92, the Khel Ratna award is handed annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
The selected athletes are awarded a medallion and a certificate, along with a cash prize of ₹ 25 lakh.
The first-ever recipient of the Khel Ratna was chess legend, Viswanathan Anand.

Here’s the full list of winners of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards along with their disciplines:

Year	Player	Sports
1991-92	Vishwanathan Anand	Chess
1992-93	Geet Sethi	Billiards
1993-94	Homi Motivala	Yachting
1993-94	Pushpendra Kumar Garg	Yachting
1994-95	Karnam Malleswari	Weightlifting
1995-96	Nameirakpam Kunjarani	Weightlifting
1996-97	Leander Paes	Tennis
1997-98	Sachin Tendulkar	Cricket
1998-1999	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	Athletics
1999-2000	Dhanraj Pillay	Hockey
2000-2001	Pullela Gopichand	Badminton
2001-2002	Abhinav Bindra	Shooting
2002-2003	K.M Beenamol	Athletics
2002-2003	Anjali Bhagwat	Shooting
2003	Anju Bobby George	Athletics
2004	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore	Shooting
2005	Pankaj Advani	Billiards and Snooker
2006	Manavjit Singh Sandhu	Shooting
2007	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Cricket
2009	Mary Kom	Boxing
2009	Vijender Singh	Boxing
2009	Sushil Kumar	Wrestling
2010	Saina Nehwal	Badminton
2011	Gagan Narang	Shooting
2012	Vijay Kumar	Shooting
2012	Yogeshwar Dutt	Shooting
2013	Ranjan Sodhi	Shooting
2015	Sania Mirza	Tennis
2016	PV Sindhu	Badminton
2016	Deepa Karmakar	Gymnastics
2016	Jitu Rai	Shooting
2016	Sakshi Malik	Wresting
2017	Devendra Jhajharia	Paralympic Athletics
2017	Sardara Singh	Hockey
2018	Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	Weightlifting
2018	Virat Kohli	Cricket
2019	Bajrang Punia	Wrestling
2019	Deepa Malik	Para Athletics
2020	Shri Rohit Sharma	Cricket
2020	Shri Mariyappan T.	Para Athletics
2020	Ms. Manika Batra	Table Tennis
2020	Ms. Vinesh	Wrestling
2020	Ms. Rani	Hockey
2021	Neeraj Chopra	Athletics
2021	Ravi Kumar	Wrestling
2021	Lovlina Borgohain	Boxing
2021	Sreejesh P.R	Hockey
2021	Avani Lekhara	Para Shooting
2021	Sumit Antil	Para Athletics
2021	Pramod Bhagat	Para Badminton
2021	Krishna Nagar	Para Badminton
2021	Manish Narwal	Para Shooting
2021	Mithali Raj	Cricket
2021	Sunil Chhetri	Football
2021	Manpreet Singh	Hockey

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List of Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize Winners

Mahatma Gandhi peace prize was named after Mahatma Gandhi and it is awarded annually by the government of India.
The international Gandhi peace prize was launched in 1995 on the 125th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as a tribute.
The Gandhi peace prize is awarded to groups, organizations, institutes, or individuals for their contribution to the society towards economic growth, social growth, and political transformation through non-violence and Gandhian methods.
The word consists of 1 crore rupee cash which is convertible in any currency in the world, a plaque, and a citation. It is an international award therefore it is open to all regardless of gender race and nationality.

Year	Awarded To
1995	Dr.Julius K.Nyerere, former President of Tanzania
1996	Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Founder President of Sarvodaya Sharamadana Movement, Sri Lanka.
1997	Dr. Gerhard Fischer of Germany
1998	Rama Krishna Mission (India)
1999	Baba Amte (Murlidhar Devidas Amte) (India)
2000	Dr. Nelson Mandela and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh (jointly)
2001	Dr. John Hume, Ireland
2002	Dr. John Hume, Ireland
2003	Mr. Vaclav Havel, former President of Czechoslovakia
2005	Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa
2013	Sh.Chandi Prasad Bhatt
2014	Indian Space Research Organisation
2015	Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari
2016	Akshaya Patra Foundation and Sulabh International [Jointly]
2017	Ekal Abhiyan Trust
2018	Shri Yohei Sasakawa
2019	Qaboos bin Said Al Said
2020	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

FAQs on List of Important Awards in India

Q. What is National Sports Awards?

Ans. National Sports Awards are given every year to recognize and reward excellence in sports. National Sports Awards are given in 6 categories.

Q. Who is awarded with Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2022?

Ans: This year Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2022 will be given to Sharath Kamal Achanta.

Q. Which are the two categories of the Dronacharya Award?

Ans: ‘Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games’ is given to coaches for doing outstanding and meritorious work on a consistent basis and for enabling sportspersons to excel in International events. It has two categories: 1. Regular Category and 2. Lifetime Category.

Q. Who was Major Shaitan Singh Bhati?

Ans. Major Shaitan Singh Bhati was Commanding Officer of Charlie Company of 13 Kumaon Regiment of Indian Army during India-China War.

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