About Bhatat Ratna Award
The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award in India, conferred to the individuals for their exceptional service towards advancement of art, literature and science, and in recognition of public service of the highest order. It was instituted in 1954 and is awarded by the President of India.
Some important facts about the Bharat Ratna Award are:
The award can be given to a maximum of three individuals in a year.
It is not mandatory to confer the award every year.
The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 1 crore and a citation.
Any citizen of India, without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for the award.
The award can also be conferred posthumously.
Sachin Tendulkar, Mother Teresa, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Lata Mangeshkar, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee are some of the notable recipients of the Bharat Ratna
Here is the List of Bharat ratna award winners sofar
- C. Rajagopalachari (1954)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (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 Hussain (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)
- Khan 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)
- Ravi Shankar (1999)
- Gopinath Bordoloi (1999)
- Lata Mangeshkar (2001)
- Bismillah Khan (2001)
- Amartya Sen (1999)
- Bhimsen Joshi (2008)
- C. N. R. Rao (2014)
- Sachin Tendulkar (2014)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2015)
- Madan Mohan Malaviya (2015)
- Nanaji Deshmukh (2019)
- Bhupen Hazarika (2019)
- Pranab Mukherjee (2019)
- Karpoori Thakur (2024)
- L.K Advani (2024)
- P.V Narasimha Rao (2024)
- Chaudhary Charan Singh (2024)
- M.S Swaminathan(2024)
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