Padma Awards 2020: Check out the winners of Padma Awardees

By Lokmat English Desk | Published: January 27, 2020 02:56 PM2020-01-27T14:56:23+5:302020-01-27T15:51:32+5:30

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Harekala Hajabba- A fruit vendor who devoted his life and life's earnings towards educating others

Tulasi Gowda- Halakki Tribal woman known for possessing endless knowledge of plants and herbs

Kushal Konwar Sarma - An extraordinary elephant doctor, helping Asia's endangered

Sathyanarayan Mundayoor - Keralite who has devoted his life to spreading the joy of reading, in Arunachal

Moozhikkal Pankajashi - Only practitioner of Nokkuvidhya Pavakalli, a traditional puppetry art

Rahibai Soma Popere - self taught tribal woman famous globally for her work in agro bio-diversity conservation.

Javed Ahmad Tak - Has been improving the lives of Kashmir's specially-abled children

Arunoday Mondal - Has been tirelessly providing medical aid to needy in remote Sunderbans

Sundaram Verma - He planted 50k plus trees in arid areas of Rajasthan with 100% survival rate, using just 1 ltr water per tree

Abdul Jabbar- Fought for fair treatment and rehabilitation of Bhopal as tragedy survivors for over 3 decades

Jagdish Lal Ahuja - Has been selflessly organizing langars for 500+ poor patients daily for over 2 decades

Mohammaed Sharif- Bicycle mechanic who has been performing the last rites of thousands of unclaimed dead bodies for the last 25 yrs

S Ramakrishnan - A neck-down fully paralysed social worker, India's biggest name in rehabilitation of divyang

Ravi Kannan- A medical messiah for cancer patients in remote Barak valley

Yogi Aeron- He has been treating burn & bite victims for free in the Himalayas, for over 35 years

Munna Master- Muslim bhajan singer, epitome of India's syncretic ethos

Popatrao Pawar- Transformed a drought prone village into a green model village

Trinity Saioo- She spearheaded the women-led turmeric farming movement in Meghalaya, enabling the women farmers to triple their incomes