Sunday, October 9, 2011

BHARAT RATNA


BHARAT RATNA
‘Bharat Ratna’, the highest civilian award of India, was instituted in the year 1954.
Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for these awards.
It is awarded for exceptional service towards advancement of Art, Literature and Science, and in recognition of public service of the highest order.
The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister himself to the President. No formal recommendations for this are necessary.
The number of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year.
On conferment of the award, the recipient receives a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medallion.
The award does not carry any monetary grant.
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 bio-data/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’
List of Bharat Ratna Awardees
                              NAME 
AWARDED IN
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878-1972)
1954
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975)
1954
Dr Chandrasekhar Venkat Raman (1888-1970)
1954
Dr Bhagwan Das (1869-1958)
1955
Dr Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861-1962)
1955
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
1955
Govind Ballabh Pant (1887-1961)
1957
Dr Dhondo Keshave Karve (1858-1962)
1958
Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882-1962)
1961
Purushottam Das Tandon (1882-1962)
1961
Dr Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963)
1962
Dr Zakir Hussain (1897-1969)
1963
Dr Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880-1972)
1963
Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) (1904-1966)
1966
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
1971
Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980)
1975
Kumaraswami Kamraj (Posthumous) (1903-1975)
1976
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (1910-1997)
1980
Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982)
1983
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988)
1987
Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous) (1917-1987)
1988
Dr Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) (1891-1956)
1990
Dr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918)
1990
Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991)
1991
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950)
1991
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995)
1991
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) (1888-1958)
1992
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1904-1993)
1992
Satyajit Ray (Posthumous) (1922-1992)
1992
Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) (1909-1996)
1997
Gulzari Lal Nanda (Posthumous) (1898-1997)
1997
Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (b-1931)
1997
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbalakshmi (1916-2004)
1998
Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910-2000)
1998
Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (1902-1979)
1999
Professor Amartya Sen (b-1933)
1999
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (1890-1950)
1999
Pandit Ravi Shankar (b -1920)
1999
Sushri Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (b-1929)
2001
Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006)
2001
Bhimsen Joshi (1922-2011)
2008
 

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