{"id":10527,"date":"2023-05-02T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10527"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:21:17","slug":"padma-awards-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/padma-awards-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Padma Awards-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Padma Awards:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Padma Awards namely, <strong>Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri<\/strong>, are amongst the highest civilian awards of the country.<\/li>\n<li>These Awards were <strong>instituted in 1954<\/strong> and they are announced every year on the occasion of Republic Day.<\/li>\n<li>The award seeks to <strong>recognize \u2018work of distinction\u2019<\/strong> and is given for distinguished and <strong>exceptional achievements\/service in all fields\/disciplines<\/strong>, such as- Art, Literature and Education, Sports, Medicine, Social Work etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligibility for the nomination-<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>All persons without distinction <\/strong>of race, occupation, position, or sex are eligible for these Awards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Government servants<\/strong> including those working with PSUs, <strong>except Doctors and Scientists,<\/strong> are <strong>not eligible<\/strong> for Padma Awards.<\/li>\n<li>Awardees receive a <strong>Sanad (Certificate) and Medallion<\/strong>, a small size replica (miniature) of the main medal is separately handed over to the recipient <strong>but no monetary grant<\/strong> is attached to these Awards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who decides the winner?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>All nominations received for Padma Awards are placed before the <strong>Padma Awards Committee<\/strong>, which is <strong>constituted by the Prime Minister every year<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Padma Awards Committee is <strong>headed by the Cabinet Secretary<\/strong> and includes Home Secretary, Secretary to the President and four to six eminent persons as members.<\/li>\n<li>The Prime Minister and the President of India <strong>finally review and approve<\/strong> the recommendations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Result announcement<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The result will be announced on the occasion of Republic Day to recognize the \u2018work of distinction\u2019 of the people for their distinguished and exceptional achievements\/service in all fields\/disciplines.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) When did India become a republic?<\/h3>\n<p>Though India became a free nation on August 15, 1947, it declared itself a Sovereign, Democratic and Republic state with the adoption of the Constitution on January 26, 1950.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1921190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nominations for Padma Awards-2024 open till 15th September, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padma Awards namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri, are the highest civilian awards of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}