Padma Awards 2017

Recipients announced for 2017 that we have profiled so far (2 Padma Shri). The official list is published by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

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Karimul Hak

A tea garden worker from Jalpaiguri who turned his motorbike into a free ambulance for villages that had no other way to reach a hospital.

India's hockey goalkeeper "The Wall", who won Olympic bronze at Tokyo and Paris, honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 2025.