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Padma Shri Awards 2017 Celebrates The ‘Unsung Heroes’ This Year

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The list of the highest civilian awards ‘Padma Shri awards’ has been announced on Wednesday. The Padma Shri awards celebrate the ‘Unsung Hero’ this year, as several doctors and experts in different fields will also be sharing honors with Indian cricket and hockey captains Virat Kohli and PR Shreejesh.

Also Read: Sport Stars Including Virat Kohli, Sreejesh, Sakshi, Thangavelu On The List Of Padma Shri Awardees

President Pranab Mukherjee has named 89 people for the country’s highest civilian awards, including seven Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri awards, to mark India’s 68th Republic Day.

The awardees included 19 women and five persons NRIs/PIOs (Persons of Indian Origin) while six of the awards have been made posthumously.

The focus of this year’s Padma awards, according to the officials in the Home Ministry, was on recognising talent of unknown and unsung heroes of the country.

Here is the list of some ‘unsung Heros’ in Padma Shri list:

* Nonogenarian Bhakti Yadav, popularly known as “Doctor Dadi” from Indore, and captain of Indian cricket team of blind Shekhar Naik are among the unsung heroes who were today named for Padma Shri.

Yadav, 91, is the first woman from Indore to hold an MBBS degree. She has been treating patients free of cost for the past 68 years and has helped deliver thousands of babies.

* Meenakshi Amma: The 76-year-old from Kerala is India’s oldest exponent of Kalaripayattu,She is the country’s oldest woman Kalaripayattu exponent and has been practising and teaching martial arts for more than 68 years.

Kalaripayattu originated from south-west Kerala and is believed to be the root of Chinese martial arts.

* Daripalli Ramaiah: 68, knows as Chetla Ramaiah or “The Tree Man” from Telangana has also been selected for Padma Shri.

Ramaiah is a common man who has dedicated his life to make India green by planting over one crore trees. He takes out seeds from his pocket and plants them wherever he sees a barren spot.

* Bipin Ganatra: Volunteer fire fighter Bipin Ganatra from West Bengal has will be decorated with Padma Shri. He is the only person apart from fire brigade officials who has been to almost every fire accident site in Kolkata in the last 40 years.

The 59-year-old decided to devote his life to helping people caught in fire after losing his brother to an inferno.

*Dr Suniti Solomon: He is the person who diagnosed the first AIDS case in India in 1985, has figured in the Padma Shri list posthumously.

Dr Subroto Das:”Highway Messiah” Dr Subroto Das has also been named for Padma Shri. He is one of the pioneers in bringing medical relief to accident victims on national highways.
Das, 51, hails from Gujarat. He started the Lifeline Foundation after he met with an accident.

Today, he provides emergency medical services on the highway network spanning 4,000 kilometres in Maharashtra, Kerala, Rajasthan and West Bengal.

*Girish Bharadwaj: 66-year-old social worker from Karnataka, also known as “Sethu (bridge) Bandhu”, has to his credit building of more than 100 low-cost and eco-friendly suspension bridges connecting remote villages across India. He has also been selected for Padma Shri.

* Anuradha Koirala: A 67-year Nepalese woman, who has been instrumental in rescuing and rehabilitating 12,000 sex trafficking victims and prevented 45,000 from being trafficked.

* Karimul Haque: a tea garden worker affectionately called “Ambulance Dada”, hails from West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri, will be decorated with the award for converting his bike into an ambulance offering a 24×7 service.

He innovated the bike ambulance after he could not save his mother due to the lack of such an emergency vehicle.

* Dr Mapuskar: Another person in the Padma Shri list is “Swacchhta Doot” from Pune’s Dehu village, Dr Mapuskar (88), who dedicated his life to make his village open defecation free beginning as early as in the 1960s.

* Balbir Singh Seechewal: Balbir Singh Seechewal, 51, from Punjab will be honoured with the award for rendering social service and resurrecting 160-km-long river Kali Bein in the state by mobilising local youths and volunteers in the mission.

He goes by many names like “Rastewale Baba” (one who makes path), “Sadakanwale Baba” (one who lays roads) and “Eco Baba” (one who works for environment).

* Genabhai Dargabhai Patel: Gujarat’s Genabhai Dargabhai Patel (52) is a “divyang” farmer and has taken huge efforts to make his drought-hit village in Banaskantha district become the largest producer of pomegranate in the country. Also known as “Anar Dada”, he will be conferred Padma Shri.



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