The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presented the Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awards today (March 30, 2015) at a Civil Investiture Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Among the dignitaries present on the occasion were the Vice President of India, Prime Minister, Union Ministers of Home Affairs, Finance and Human Resource Development.
List of Awardees
- Bharat Ratna
- Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous)
- Padma Vibhushan
- Sh. Lal Kishinchand Advani
- Sardar Parkash Singh Badal
- Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya
- Padam Vibhushan
- Dr. Swapan Das Gupta
- Sh. David Frawley
- Sh. Bill Gates
- Smt. Melinda Gates
- Sh. Needamangalam Gopalaswamy
- Sh. Saichiro Misumi
- Smt. Sudha Raghunathan
- Sh. Harish Narendra Salve
- Dr. Ashok Seth
- Sh. Rajat Sharma
- Prof Khadg Singh Valdiya
- Padma Shri
- Dr. Manjula Anagani
- Ms. Kanyakumari Avasarala
- Prof Huang Baosheng
- Sh. Naresh Bedi
- Sh. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
- Sh. Jean-Claude Carriere
- Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi
- Smt. Jaya Kumar Chikkala
- Prof Ashok Gulati
- Dr. Randeep Guleria
- Sh. George L. Hart
- Sh. Rahul Jain
- Sh. Prasoon Joshi
- Dr. Prafful Kar
- Smt. Ushakiran Khan
- Prof. Alka Kriplani
- Dr. Harsh Kumar
- Sh. N. Purushothama Mallaya
- Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan
- Sh. Tarak Janubhai Mehta
- Sh. Chewang Norphel
- Dr. Tejas Madhusudan Patel
- Dr. Raghu Rama Pillarisetti
- Smt. Bimla Poddar
- Dr. N. Prabhakar
- Dr. Saumitra Rawat
- Dr. Annette Schmiedchen
- Sh. Brahmdev Sharma
- Sh. Pran Kumar Sharma
- Ms. P. V. Sindhu
- Ms. Arunima Sinha
- Dr. Nikhil Tandon
- Sh. Sardar Singh
- Dr. Prahlada
