Bharat Ratna Awards 2019: Bharat Ratna Award is the highest civilian awards that are given to outstanding personalities. The Prime Minister Of India gives the recommendations for the Bharat Ratna to the President.
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Each year maximum number of three nominees are awarded this prestigious award. The award winner will get a certificate (Sanad) signed by the President of India and a peepal-leaf-shaped medal. The no monetary reward is given to awardees.
About Bharat Ratna Awards
The Bharat Ratna Award was started in 1954. The award is presented “in recognition of outstanding service of the highest order,” without discrimination of race, occupation, position, or sex.
The award was formerly limited to achievements in the arts, literature, science, and public services, but the government expanded the criteria to include “any field of human endeavor” in December 2011.
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The Bharat Ratna Awards winners rank seventh in the Indian order of preference. Politician C. Rajagopalachari, philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and scientist C.V. Raman were the first receiver of this award. Bharat Ratna Awards are presented to 48 individuals from 1954 -2019. Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first individual to be honored posthumously.
Know More About The Bharat Ratna Awards 2019 Recipients:
Pranab Mukherjee:
Pranab Mukherjee was born in Mirati in Birbhum District of West Bengal on December 11, 1935. Pranab Mukherjee’s life-long political career crossed about five decades.
During this period, he held various key posts in the Congress as well as in the governments led by Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, P V Narasimha Rao, and Manmohan Singh.
In the age of 83, he served as India’s 13th President from 2012-2017. Prior to this post, Mukherjee also served as the Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012.
Bhupen Hazarika:
Bhupen Hazarika was born on September 8, 1926, in Sadiya, Assam, British India. He made his singing debut at the age of 12 in 1939.
Assamese singer Bhupen Hazarika was most famous in Assam, Bengal and Other parts of India. He was responsible for starting the culture and folk music of Assam and northeast India to Hindi cinema.
He was popularly known as Sudhakantha, who received the National Film Award, Padmashri, Dada Saheb Phalke Award, Padma Vibhushan, and many other prestigious honors.
Some of his renowned works in Assamese music which audiences still enjoy includes “Bistirno Parore,” “Moi Eti Jajabo,” “Ganga Mor Maa,” and “Bimurto Mur Nixati Jen.”
Nanaji Deshmukh:
Nanaji Deshmukh was born on October 11 in 1916 in a small town of Hingoli in Maharashtra, Nanaji Deshmukh served Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur constituency in the Lok Sabha from 1977 to 1979.
He also worked as a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha from 1999 to 2005. Nanaji Deshmukh was honored with the Padma Vibhushan earlier. One of the founding members of Bharatiya Jan Sangh, Nanaji Deshmukh established a chain of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-inspired schools throughout India.
The veteran also played a major role in the Jai Prakash (JP) movement against Emergency in 1974 and was instrumental in the formation of the Janata Party government in 1977.
Bharat Ratna Awards: List Of Recipients
|
S.No. |
Name of the Awardees |
Year |
|
1 |
Shri C. Rajagopalachari |
1954 |
|
2 |
Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
1954 |
|
3 |
Dr.C. V. Raman |
1954 |
|
4 |
Dr.Bhagwan Das |
1955 |
|
5 |
Dr.M Visvesvaraya |
1955 |
|
6 |
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru |
1955 |
|
7 |
Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant |
1957 |
|
8 |
Dr.Dhondo Keshav Karve |
1958 |
|
9 |
Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy |
1961 |
|
10 |
Shri.Purushottam Das Tandon |
1961 |
|
11 |
Dr.Rajendra Prasad |
1962 |
|
12 |
Dr.Zakir Husain |
1962 |
|
13 |
Dr.Pandurang Vaman Kane |
1963 |
|
14 |
Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (posthumous) |
1966 |
|
15 |
Smt.Indira Gandhi |
1971 |
|
16 |
Shri V. V. Giri |
1975 |
|
17 |
Shri K. Kamaraj(posthumous) |
1976 |
|
18 |
Mother Teresa |
1980 |
|
19 |
Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
1983 |
|
20 |
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
1987 |
|
21 |
Shri M. G. Ramachandran |
1988 |
|
22 |
Dr.B. R. Ambedkar |
1990 |
|
23 |
Nelson Mandela |
1990 |
|
24 |
Shri.Rajiv Gandhi (posthumous) |
1991 |
|
25 |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (posthumous) |
1991 |
|
26 |
Shri Morarji Desai |
1991 |
|
27 |
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (posthumous) |
1992 |
|
28 |
Shri J. R. D. Tata |
1992 |
|
29 |
Shri Satyajit Ray |
1992 |
|
30 |
Shri Gulzarilal Nanda |
1997 |
|
31 |
Smt.Aruna Asaf Ali(posthumous) |
1997 |
|
32 |
Dr.A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
1997 |
|
33 |
Smt.M. S. Subbulakshmi |
1998 |
|
34 |
Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam |
1998 |
|
35 |
Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (posthumous) |
1999 |
|
36 |
Professor Amartya Sen |
1999 |
|
37 |
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (posthumous) |
1999 |
|
38 |
Pandit Ravi Shankar |
1999 |
|
39 |
ShushriLata Mangeshkar |
2001 |
|
40 |
Ustad Bismillah Khan |
2001 |
|
41 |
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi |
2009 |
|
42 |
Professor C. N. R. Rao |
2014 |
|
43 |
Shri Sachin Tendulkar |
2014 |
|
44 |
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (posthumous) |
2015 |
|
45 |
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
2015 |
|
46 |
Pranab Mukherjee |
2019 |
|
47 |
Bhupen Hazarika |
2019 |
|
48 |
Nanaji Deshmukh |
2019 |
Interesting Informations About Bharat Ratna Awards:
In 1954 specifications of the Bharat Ratna Awards was a circle made of gold 35 mm in diameter with a centered sunburst design on the obverse side.
The text ‘Bharat Ratna’ which is written in Devanagari script, is inscribed on the upper edge in silver gilt with a wreath set along on the lower edge.
A year later, the design was changed. The current medal is in the shape of a peepal leaf, approximately 59 mm long, 48 mm wide and 3.2 mm thick and rimmed in platinum.
Bharat Ratna Awards were temporarily suspended from July 1977 to January 1980 due to the change in the national government. It was again suspended for the second time from August 1992 to December 1995.
The year 1997 was the only time when the Bharat Ratna Awards were announced but not given. In 1992, the government decided to give the award posthumously to Subhas Chandra Bose.
But the decision of the government was opposed by those who had refused to accept his death. Following a 1997 Supreme Court decision, the press communique announcing Bose’s award had to be cancelled.
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