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Padma Awards 2024

Padma Awards - one of the country's highest civilian 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. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field.

For 2024, the President has approved the conferment of 132 Padma Awards. The list of awardees in the performing arts category are listed below.

Padma Vibhushan

Smt. Vyjayantimala Bali and Dr Padma Subrahmanyam

                

Padma Shri

Name

State

Genre

Shri Badrappan M

Tamil Nadu

Folk (Valli Oyil Kummi)

Shri Kaluram Bamaniya

Madhya Pradesh

Kabir Bhajan Singer

Ms. Rezwana Choudhury Bannya

Bangladesh

Rabindra Sangeet

Shri Ramlal Bareth

Chhattisgarh

Kathak

Ms. Gita Roy Barman

West Bengal

Rajbanshi community's Bhawaiya folk songs

Shri Som Datt Battu

Himachal Pradesh

Hindustani Music - patiala gharana

Shri Drona Bhuyan

Assam

Folk dance

Ms. Anupama Hoskere

Karnataka

Puppeteer

Shri Jankilal

Rajasthan

Folk (Behupriya)

Shri Ratan Kahar

West Bengal

Folk Singer

Shri Dasari Kondappa

Telangana

Burra Veena

Ms. Uma Maheshwari D

Andhra Pradesh

Harikatha

Shri Ram Kumar Mallick

Bihar

Drupad

Shri Narayanan E P

Kerala

Theyyam

Shri Bhagabat Padhan

Odisha

Folk - Sabda Nrutya

Shri Binod Kumar Pasayat

Odisha

Lyricist/playwright

Ms. Silbi Passah

Meghalaya

Folk music

Shri Romalo Ram

Jammu & Kashmir

Folk music

Shri Pran Sabharwal

Punjab

Theatre

Shri Gaddam Sammaiah

Telangana

Chindu Yakshaganam

Shri Omprakash Sharma

Madhya Pradesh

Folk Theatre - Mach

Shri Seshampatti T Sivalingam

Tamil Nadu

Nagaswaram

Ms. Urmila Srivastava

Uttar Pradesh

Kajri Singer

Shri Gopinath Swain

Odisha

Krishna Leela singer

Shri Laxman Bhatt Tailang

Rajasthan

Drupad

Shri Balakrishnan Sadanam PuthiyaVeetil

Kerala

Kathakali

 

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