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Bharat Ratna Awards 2024: The Government of India will honour five distinguished persons with the Bharat Ratna Award for the year 2024.

Bharat Ratna Awards 2024: Award Winner List

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The Government of India will honour five distinguished persons with the Bharat Ratna Award for the year 2024.

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Bharat Ratna Awardee 2024

  • Bharat Ratna Awards 2024: Bharat Ratna To Karpoori Thakur

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    • Popularly known as ‘Jan Nayak’, Karpoori Thakur was an Indian politician who served as the 11th Chief Minister of Bihar twice, from 1970-71 and 1977-79.
    • Hailing from Nai community, which is an Extremely Backward Class (EBC) among OBCs, Thakur initiated measured for upliftment of Backward Classes.
    • He introduced a reservation model, which allocated 26% of reservations with specific quotas for OBCs, EBCs, women, and economically backward classes among upper castes.

  • Bharat Ratna Awards 2024: Bharat Ratna To Lal Krishna Advani

    • Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician, who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He was one of the co-founders of Bharatiya Janata Party and served as the president of the party three times.
    • Advani was the initiator of the Ram Rath Yatra from Somnath in Gujarat and concluding in Ayodhya, to advocate for the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

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  • Bharat Ratna Awards 2024: Bharat Ratna To PV Narasimha Rao

    • PV Narasimha Rao was an Indian lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the 9th prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. 
    • Rao was the first Prime Minister from the South of India and the second Prime Minister from a non-Hindi speaking region.
    • He, along with the then Finance Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, initiated economic reforms agenda primarily focused on ‘liberalisation, privatisation, globalisation‘, often referred to as LPG.
    • This move is said to have pulled back the country from the economic brink it was facing at the height of a severe foreign exchange crisis.

  • Bharat Ratna Awards 2024: Bharat Ratna To Chaudhary Charan Singh

    • Chaudhary Charan Singh was a farmer leader and the 5th Prime Minister of India. He is hailed as the champion of Indian peasants.
    • Charan Singh is credited for inventing and executing the well-known Zamindari Abolition Act.
    • He also initiated the Land Holding Act 1960 which was aimed at lowering the ceiling on land holdings to make it uniform throughout the State.

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  • Bharat Ratna Awards 2024: Bharat Ratna To MS Swaminathan

    • MS Swaminathan was an agronomist, agricultural scientist, plant geneticist, administrator, and humanitarian, who is widely known as the ‘father of the Green Revolution’ in India.
    • The Bharat Ratna is being awarded in recognition of his monumental contributions to India’s agriculture and farmers’ welfare. 
    • Dr Swaminathan is considered to have played a pivotal role in helping India achieve self-reliance in agriculture and also made outstanding efforts towards modernizing Indian agriculture.

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Bharat Ratna Award

  • About: Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award in India. 
  • Origin: The award was constituted in 1954, to be conferred in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order, without discrimination on the basis of race, occupation, position, or sex. 
  • Eligibility: Initially, the award was restricted to achievements in the arts, literature, science, and public services.
    • Since 2011, the awards criteria have been expanded to include any field of human endeavour.
    • There is no written provision to award Bharat Ratna to only Indian citizens.
    • Previously, the award was not conferred posthumously. This criterion was changed in 1966.
  • Cap on Recipients: The number of recipients of Bharat Ratna Awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year.
    • It is not mandatory to give Bharat Ratna every year.
  • Recommendation: Unlike Padma Awards where there is a committee to select recipients, the Bharat Ratna award is directly recommended by the Prime Minister of India to the President.
  • Award Constituents: The award includes a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medallion. There is no monetary grant.
  • The Medallion: The medallion is in the shape of a peepal leaf with ‘Bharat Ratna’ inscribed in Devanagri script under a sunburst figure.
    • The reverse side of the medallion features the phrase ‘Satyameva Jayate’ written in Hindi under an inscription of the state emblem.
    • The emblem, the sun and the rim of the Bharat Ratna award are made using platinum metal while the inscriptions are in burnished bronze.

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Bharat Ratna Award Winners List From 1954 to 2024

Year of Award Recipient’s Name Contributing Field
1954 Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Literature 
Sir C V Raman Science 
C Rajagopalachari Public Service
1955 Sir M Vivesvaraya Science 
Dr Bhagwan Das Education 
Jawaharlal Nehru Public Service
1957 Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Public Service
1958 Dr Dhonde Keshav Karve Education 
1961 Purushottam Das Tandon  Public Service
Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy  Education/ Public Service
1962 Dr Rajendra Prasad Public Service
1963 Dr Panduran Vaman Kane Literature 
Dr Zakir Hussain Public Service
1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri Public Service
1971 Indira Gandhi Public Service
1975 V V Giri Public Service
1976 K Kamaraj Public Service
1980 Mother Teresa Public Service
1983 Acharya Vinoba Bhave Public Service
1987 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Public Service
1988 M G Ramachandran  Arts/ Public Service
1990 Nelson Mandela Public Service
Dr B R Ambedkar Public Service
1991 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Public Service 
Morarji Desai Public Service
Rajiv Gandhi Public Service
1992 Satyajit Ray Arts 
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata Education/Business
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Public Service/Education
1997 Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Science
Gulzari Lal Nanda Public Service
Aruna Asaf Ali Public Service
1998 M S Subbulakshmi Arts 
Chidambaram Subramaniam Public Service
1999 Pandit Ravi Shankar Arts 
Jayprakash Narayan Public Service
Gopinath Bordoloi Public Service
Prof Amartya Sen  Science 
2001 Ustad Bismillah Khan Arts 
Lata Mangeshkar Arts 
2008 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Arts 
2014 Prof CNR Rao Science 
Sachin Tendulkar Sports 
2015 Atal Bihari Vajpayee  Public Service
Madan Mohan Malviya Education
2019 Pranab Mukherjee Public Service
Nanaji Deshmukh Education
Bhupen Hazarika Arts
2024 Karpoori Thakur Public Service
Lal Krishna Advani Public Service
P V Narasimha Rao Public Service
Chaudhary Charan Singh Public Service
Dr M S Swaminathan Agriculture Science

 

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Miscellaneous Facts About Bharat Ratna

  • 1st Recipients: C. Rajagopalachari, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Sir C. V. Raman, were the first recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1954.
  • Foreign Recipients: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Nelson Mandela are the foreigners awarded with the Bharat Ratna. A naturalised Indian citizen, Mother Teresa was conferred with the award in 1980.
  • Woman Recipient: Indira Gandhi was the first woman Bharat Ratna recipient.
  • Youngest Recipient: Sachin Tendulkar is the youngest Bharat Ratna recipient.
  • Highest Recipients in a Year: The five Bharat Ratna awards given in 2024 marks the highest number of Bharat Ratna awarded in a single year, surpassing the four awarded in 1999.
  • Use as a Prefix: Under Article 18 (1) of the Indian Constitution, the award cannot be used as a prefix or suffix to the recipient’s name.
    • However, they are eligible to add ‘Awarded Bharat Ratna by the President’ or ‘Recipient of Bharat Ratna Award’ in their biodata, visiting card, letter head, etc. 
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Frequently Asked Questions

Karpoori Thakur, Lal Krishna Advani, P V Narasimha Rao, Chaudhary Charan Singh and Dr M S Swaminathan have been awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2024.

Initially, the award was restricted to achievements in the arts, literature, science, and public services. Since 2011, the awards criteria have been expanded to include any field of human endeavour. There is no written provision to award Bharat Ratna to only Indian citizens. Previously, the award was not conferred posthumously. This criterion was changed in 1966.

Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar is the youngest recipient of the Bharat Ratna Award.

Yes. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Nelson Mandela are the foreigners awarded with the Bharat Ratna. A naturalised Indian citizen, Mother Teresa was conferred with the award in 1980.

The five Bharat Ratna awards given in 2024 marks the highest number of Bharat Ratna awarded in a single year, surpassing the four awarded in 1999.

Under Article 18 (1) of the Indian Constitution, the award cannot be used as a prefix or suffix to the recipient's name.

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