{"id":319284,"date":"2020-01-26T02:49:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T02:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319284"},"modified":"2020-01-26T02:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T02:49:03","slug":"george-fernandes-arun-jaitley-sushma-swaraj-posthumously-awarded-padma-vibhushan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/george-fernandes-arun-jaitley-sushma-swaraj-posthumously-awarded-padma-vibhushan\/","title":{"rendered":"George Fernandes, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj posthumously awarded Padma Vibhushan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319285 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ferarunsushma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/ferarunsushma.jpg 687w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/ferarunsushma-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/strong>Former Union ministers Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, George Fernandes will be awarded the Padma Vibhushan on the 71st Republic Day on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Among the other Padma Vibhushan awardees are Olympian boxer MC Mary Kom, former Mauritius prime minister Anerood Jugnauth and Indian classical singer Chhannulal Mishra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former defence minister Manohar Parrikar, industrialist Anand Mahindra, Olympian badminton player PV Sindhu and Jammu and Kashmir politician Muzaffar Hussain Baig have been awarded the Padma Bhushan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The awards were announced on the eve of Republic Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This year&#8217;s Padma Awards list includes 7 Padma Vibhushan, 16 Padma Bhushan and 118 Padma Shri Awards (fourth highest civilian honour), the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Padma awardees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations to all those who have been conferred the Padma Awards. The awardees include extraordinary individuals who have made exceptional contributions to our society, nation and humanity,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This year President Ram Nath Kovind has approved conferment of 141 Padma awards, including four duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one), the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Padma Awards &#8211; one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The 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, etc, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2018Padma Vibhushan\u2019 is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; \u2018Padma Bhushan\u2019 for distinguished service of high order and \u2018Padma Shri\u2019 for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Union ministers Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, George Fernandes will be awarded the Padma Vibhushan on the 71st Republic Day on Sunday. Among the other Padma Vibhushan awardees are Olympian boxer MC Mary Kom, former Mauritius prime minister Anerood Jugnauth and Indian classical singer Chhannulal Mishra. Former defence minister Manohar Parrikar, industrialist Anand Mahindra, Olympian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319286,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319284\/revisions\/319286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}