Who are Bharat Ratna recipients?
In this post we will see who all are the recipients of this prestigious award Bharat Ratna but lets understand what exactly the award is and what is the eligibility of this award.
Some details about the Bharat Ratna award:
What is Bharat Ratna?
‘Bharat Ratna’, the highest civilian Award of the country, was instituted in the year 1954.
Eligibility:
Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for
these awards. The award is a recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest
order in any field of human endeavour.
Who recommends the award?
The Prime Minister himself recommends the names of persons to the President. No formal recommendations for this are necessary.
How many persons can be conferred with Bharat Ratna?
The number of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year.
What does the recipient receive on conferment of the award?
On conferment of the award, the recipient receives a Sanad (certificate) signed by
the President and a medallion.
What does the award not carry?
The Award does not carry any monetary grant.
What are the terms of use of the award?
In terms of Article 18 (1) of the Constitution, the award cannot be used as a prefix or
suffix to the recipient’s name. However, should an award winner consider it
necessary, he/she may use the following expression in their biodata/letterhead/visiting card etc. to indicate that he/she is a recipient of the award:
‘Awarded Bharat Ratna by the President’
or
‘Recipient of Bharat Ratna Award’
Lets have a look at the recipients of this prestigious award.
S.No | NAME | AWARDED IN |
1 | Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878-1972) | 1954 |
2 | Shri Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) | 1954 |
3 | ShriChandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) | 1954 |
4 | Dr. Bhagwan Das (1869-1958) | 1955 |
5 | Shri Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861-1962) | 1955 |
6 | Shri Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 -1964) | 1955 |
7 | Shri Govind Ballabh Pant (1887-1961) | 1957 |
8 | Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858-1962) | 1958 |
9 | Shri Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882-1962) | 1961 |
10 | Shri Purushottam Das Tandon (1882-1962) | 1961 |
11 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) | 1962 |
12 | Dr. Zakir Husain (1897-1969) | 1963 |
13 | Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880-1972) | 1963 |
14 | Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) (1904-1966) | 1966 |
15 | Smt. Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) | 1971 |
16 | Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1894-1980) | 1975 |
17 | Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj (Posthumous) (1903-1975) | 1976 |
18 | Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (1910-1997) | 1980 |
19 | Acharya VinobaBhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982) | 1983 |
20 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988) | 1987 |
21 | Shri Manidur Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous)(1917-1987) | 1988 |
22 | Dr.Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) (1891-1956) | 1990 |
23 | Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) | 1990 |
24 | Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995) | 1991 |
25 | Shri Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991) | 1991 |
26 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950) | 1991 |
27 | Maulana AbulKalam Azad (Posthumous) (1888-1958) | 1992 |
28 | Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1904-1993) | 1992 |
29 | Shri Satyajit Ray (Posthumous) (1922-1992) | 1992 |
30 | Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda (Posthumous) (1898-1998) | 1997 |
31 | Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) (1909-1996) | 1997 |
32 | Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (1931-2015) | 1997 |
33 | Smt. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (1916-2005) | 1998 |
34 | Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910-2000) | 1998 |
35 | Shri Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (1902-1979) | 1998 |
36 | Professor Amartya Sen (b-1933) | 1999 |
37 | Shri Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (1890-1950) | 1999 |
38 | Pandit Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) | 1999 |
39 | Ms. Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (1929-2022) | 2001 |
40 | Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006) | 2001 |
41 | Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (1922-2011) | 2009 |
42 | Prof. Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao (b-1934) | 2014 |
43 | Shri Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar(b-1973) | 2014 |
44 | Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-2018) | 2015 |
45 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous)(1861-1946) | 2015 |
46 | Shri Nanaji Deshmukh (Posthumous)(1916-2010) | 2019 |
47 | Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika (Posthumous)(1926-2011) | 2019 |
48 | Shri Pranab Mukherjee (1935-2020) | 2019 |
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