Facts about Bharat Ratna and list of Bharat Ratna Awardees Till Date
The highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, is the most prestigious award of the Republic of India. The Bharat Ratna is awarded as the exceptional performance or service of the highest order.
There is no doubt that this award is supreme in itself and the person i.e. the awardee who is awarded the Bharat Ratna has played a significant and immortal role in their field and serves to the utmost level.
When Bharat Ratna got Suspended...
Specifications of the Bharat Ratna
Facts about Bharat Ratna in a Glance-
Here’s a list of awardees for the Bharat Ratna Till Date-
My Views on the Bharat Ratna Award & the Awardees-
Also,
Bharat Ratna is awarded to the person for their service irrespective of occupation, sex, race, position.
When this award was initiated for the first time, it majorly focuses on the achievements limited to arts, literature, science, and public services but in December 2011, the government broaden the criteria to “
any field of human endeavor.”
Maximum three awardees can be selected for Bharat Ratna in a year. Prime Minister is the one who recommends the name of the nominee for Bharat Ratna to the President.
Along with other civil honors, the Bharat Ratna got briefly suspended for three years from July 1977 to January 1980 because it was the time when the national government is changing and new amendments were forming.
Furthermore, it again(August 1992 to December 1995) got suspended when certain PILs challenged the constitutional validity of certain civil honors along with the Bharat Ratna.
The current award is looking like a peepal leaf, around 2+516 inches (59 mm) long, 1+78 inches (48 mm) wide, and 18 inches (3.2 mm) thick and rimmed in platinum.
The emblazoned sunburst configuration, made of platinum, on the front side of the decoration has a measurement of 58 inches (16 mm) with beams fanning out from 56 inches (21 mm) to 12 inches (13 mm) from the focal point of the Sun.
- In the order of precedence, the recipients of Bharat Ratna are ranked on the number seventh.
- The recipients of the Bharat Ratna also receive a certificate called Sanad, signed by the president.
- There is nothing like a Nomination process for selecting the awardees. Instead, The Prime Minister recommends the names for the nominations to The President.
- Bharat Ratna is awarded irrespective of gender, race, power, sex.
- This award is awarded to the person for their exceptional service or performance of the supreme order.
Name of the Awardee Year
C. Rajagopalachari 1954
C. V. Raman 1954
Bhagwan Das 1955
M. Visvesvaraya 1955
Jawaharlal Nehru 1955
Govind Ballabh Pant 1957
Dhondo Keshav Karve 1958
Bidhan Chandra Roy 1961
Purushottam Das Tandon 1961
Rajendra Prasad 1962
Zakir Husain 1963
Pandurang Vaman Kane 1963
Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966
Indira Gandhi 1971
V.V Giri 1975
K. Kamaraj 1976
Mother Teresa 1980
Vinoba Bhave 1983
Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1987
M.G. Ramachandran 1988
B.R. Ambedkar 1990
Nelson Mandela 1990
Rajiv Gandhi 1991
Vallabhbhai Patel 1991
Morarji Desai 1991
Abul Kalam Azad 1992
J.R.D. Tata 1992
Satyajit Ray 1992
Gulzarilal Nanda 1997
Aruna Asaf Ali 1997
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 1997
M.S. Subbulakshmi 1998
Chidambaram Subramaniam 1998
Jayaprakash Narayan 1999
Amartya Sen 1999
Gopinath Bordoloi 1999
Ravi Shankar 1999
Lata Mangeshkar 2001
Bismillah Khan 2001
Bhimsen Joshi 2009
C.N.R. Rao 2014
Sachin Tendulkar 2014
Madan Mohan Malaviya 2015
Atal Bihari Vajpayee 2015
Pranab Mukherjee 2019
Bhupen Hazarika 2019
Nanaji Deshmukh 2019
The Bharat Ratna is considered the highest civilian award in our country and I believe the awardees who have been awarded the Bharat Ratna have selflessly served their service for the nation not only in the field of art & literature but also in sports and politics too.
One of the major things I love about Bharat Ratna is that it is awarded to the person and their service irrespective of their occupation, gender, race, and sex.
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