BHARAT RATNA
‘Bharat Ratna’, the highest civilian award of India, was instituted in the year 1954.
Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for these awards.
It is awarded for exceptional service towards advancement of Art, Literature and Science, and in recognition of public service of the highest order.
The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister himself to the President. No formal recommendations for this are necessary.
The number of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year.
On conferment of the award, the recipient receives a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medallion.
The award does not carry any monetary grant.
In terms of Article 18 (1) of the Constitution, the award cannot be used as a prefix or suffix to the recipient’s name. However, should an award winner consider it necessary, he/she may use the following expression in their bio-data/letterhead/visiting card etc. to indicate that he/she is a recipient of the award: –
‘Awarded Bharat Ratna by the President’
or
‘Recipient of Bharat Ratna award’
List of Bharat Ratna Awardees
- Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan (1954)
- Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1954)
- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1954)
- Dr. Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya (1955)
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1955)
- Dr. Bhagwan Das (1955)
- Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant (1957)
- Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve (1958)
- Purushottam Das Tandon (1961)
- Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy (1961)
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1962)
- Dr. Zakir Hussain (1963)
- Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963)
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966)
- Mrs. Indira Gandhi (1971)
- Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1975)
- Kumaraswamy Kamraj (1976)
- Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) (1980)
- Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1983)
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)
- Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran (1988)
- Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1990)
- Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr (1990)
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1991)
- Rajiv Gandhi (1991)
- Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1991)
- Satyajit Ray (1992)
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1992)
- Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1992)
- Gulzari Lal Nanda (1997)
- Mrs. Aruna Asaf Ali (1997)
- Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (1997)
- Mrs. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (1998)
- Chidambaram Subramaniam (1998)
- Pandit Ravi Shankar (1999)
- Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan (1999)
- Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (1999)
- Prof. Amartya Sen (1999)
- Ustad Bismillah Khan (2001)
- Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (2001)
- Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (2008)
- Prof. Chintamani Nagesha Ramachandra Rao (2014)
- Sachin Tendulkar (2014)
- Madan Mohan Malaviya (2015)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2015)
- Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh (Nanaji Deshmukh) (2019)
- Dr. Bhupen Hazarika (2019)
- Pranab Mukherjee (2019)
Originally posted 2017-02-24 22:31:52.
My voting bharat ratan swamivivekanand
Mahatma phule and his wife both must be awarded bharath ratna ,because mahatma phule first started schools for backward classes,sc and sts,his wife savitri bai phule started first girls school in india at the time when education for girls is taboo in our society,I strongly support for this grat couple
My vote for bharat rattan is honourable swami vivekanand
My vote for bharat rattan is honourable swami vivekanand,
My special Vote. 4 my Honorable Lady Leader Late. INDIRA GANDHI JI….
my vote all person
My vote is for national hero dhyanchand
My vote for bharatratna is for national hero dhyanchandnational
my vote for Bharat ratna dhyanchand G
My vote is Sachin tendulkar.India’s best cricketer.word’s no1Hero
my vote mager dhyanchandra ko bhart ratn milna chahiye
Sachin
Bharat Ratna awarded major Dhyanchand ko v milna chahiye..
He is the hero of national Sports ” Hockey”. Hockey is my national sports
Bharat Ratna
My vote for lata ji
MY VOTE FOR JYOTI BASU…
(KOLKATA)
MY VOTE FOR Pandit Ravi Shankar…..BUT JYOTI BASU KO BI BHARAT RATNA AWARD MILNA CHIHAY………
my vote goes to k.chandrashaker roa and virat kohli
my vote goes to swamivivekanand ji
Barath Rathna should awarded for great hero Baghath Singh
Mere khyal se bharat ratn mejar dhyan chandra ko diya jaana chahiye kyo ki unho ne desh ka naam ucha kiya hai aur vah isake haqdaar hai
my dream “Bharat ratna”..
i respect to all of them..but my dream “Bharat ratna”..and their is not any boundation for dreams..
My vote for Bharat Rattan honoruble Swami Vivekanand
Majar Dyanchand ji ko bhi milna chahiye bharat rattan
India ka ser
sarunee purab pati
kerakat junpur (UP)
Mu vote for. Alka yagni and Kumar sano he is gret singer
My Vote for Sachin Tendulkar Forever.
My dream
Sbne Kisi n Kisi ka naam likha h but Kisi apna naam ni likha u know why bcz khud Kuch bda ni krna chahte… .
Amrit kumar$ ajanera$ – my vote for bharat ratan is honourable Radha krishnan
Dashrath manjhi must be next bharat ratna