Padma Awards 2022: Women who made us proud

By Samyati Mohanty

The President of India Ram Nath Kovind conferred 128 Padma Awards, on the eve of 73rd Republic Day. The ceremony was held on January 26, 2022. This year four Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan, and 107 Padma Shri were awarded to people from different fields!

While we hear statistics like 92% of Indian women being confined to unpaid domestic work, irrespective of willingness, but the new about these amazing 34 prominent women who  broke the age-old norms and yet again proved themselves by recieving these Padma awards. These women not only stood for themselves but also were successful in setting examples for the world. Some through their artwork, while some through their word-power, won millions of hearts and encouraged the individuals to create an identity for themselves.

Here’s what you might desire to learn about the awardees from the artwork world, which incorporates music, painting, sculpture, photography, cinema, theatre, etc with respect to women’s achievements. Read on.

Vandana Katariya, named for Padma Shri Award: She located into a part of India’s ancient fourth-location end on the Tokyo Olympics and has additionally been a part of India’s Gold medal win on the Asian Champions Trophy in 2016, Asia Cup in 2017, Asian Games Bronze in 2014, and Silver in 2018 amongst numerous different achievements. 

Vandana Katariya is amongst 9 athletes and the lone hockey participant these 12 months who has been named for the Presidential award with a purpose to be conferred by the Hon’ble President of India. 

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The flexible ahead changed into the country’s pinnacle scorer on the FIH Hockey Junior World Cup Women 2013 in Monchengladbach, Germany wherein India received a Bronze Medal. The 12 months noticed Vandana being part of the crew that received the Bronze Medal on the eighth Women’s Asia Cup in Malaysia. 

Hockey India on Wednesday congratulated Vandana Katariya on being named for the celebrated Padma Shri award. She has been a part of a skilled attacking line for the Indian Women’s crew and has been a part of India’s numerous extensive feats. The double Olympian commenced her professional gambling for the Railway Sports Promotion Board and made it to the Indian Junior Women’s crew in 2006.

Pratibha Ray, named for Padma Bhushan Award: When she wrote for social order, primarily based on equality without class, caste, religion, or intercaste discriminations, a number of her critics branded her as a communist and a few as feminist. Her look for a "social order primarily based totally on equality, love, peace, and integration", continues, considering she first penned at the age of 9. She works withinside the cyclone-affected regions after Odisha's Super Cyclone of October 1999 and she is running for the rehabilitation of the orphans and widows of Cyclone-affected regions. 

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She commenced her expert profession as a faculty teacher, and later she taught in numerous authorities faculties in Odisha for thirty years. She continued her writing profession even after her marriage and made her closest circle of relatives- 3 kids and husband Akshay Ray who's an engineer, extrememly proud of her. She has been a thorough supporter in social reform and has fought against social injustice on many occasions. One essential incident in her life is protesting against color (caste/religion) discrimination via way of means of the monks of Jagannath Temple at Puri. She has guided doctoral studies and has posted many studies articles. Her post-doctoral study is on Tribalism and Criminology of Bondo Highlander, tribes of Odisha, India.

Najma Akhtar, named for Padma Shri Award: On her appointment after becoming the first woman vice-chancellor within the university's history, she stated, "My goal changed into now no longer to interrupt the glass ceiling however, I changed into without a doubt towards the glass ceiling. 

In April 2019, the Ministry of Human Resource Development obtained approval from the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, to employ Akhtar as vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia for a five-12 months term. 

Akhtar extended her services for fifteen years in the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, main institution for senior officers from a hundred and thirty countries. 

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Najma Akhtar is an Indian educational and educational administrator. She obtained a Commonwealth Fellowship to examine University management at the University of Warwick within the UK and was additionally skilled on the International Institute of Educational Planning in Paris (France). Akhtar has been a supporter for gender fairness. She installed the primary state-degree control institute at Allahabad and changed into the Controller of Examination and Director of Academic Programs at Aligarh Muslim University. Since April 2019, she has been the Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia, an Indian university.

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, named for Padma Shri Award: She acquired a bachelor of science in Physics from Presidency College, Kolkata before acquiring the bachelor's diploma (of technology) in Computer Science in 1992 from Rajabazar Science College Campus of University of Calcutta. 

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She then acquired a master's diploma in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and thereafter pursued a Ph. D. at the Indian Statistical Institute, acquiring it in 1998. A professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, she is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner in Engineering Science for 2010 and an Infosys Prize 2017 laureate in the Engineering and Computer Science category. Her studies are specifically within the regions of evolutionary computation, sample recognition, system learning, and bioinformatics.

Tara Jauhar, named for Padma Shri Award: She wrote an ebook called 'Growing Up With My Mother'.

Being one of the 6 siblings, she gained life skillls in her early life, and she spent her complete life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram, She has finished plenty of paintings for Aurobindo Ashram and dedicated her complete life to that ashram, the reason being that Tara was very close to her mom and her whole early life was spent around her mom, so she wrote an ebook 'Growing Up with My Mother'. 

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Tara Jauhar was conferred with Padma Shri for her paintings in the subject of literature and education.

All Padma awardees are an inspiration for everyone. They belong to diverse fields yet they have excelled and achieved major milestones in various wals of life. We are proud of each one of them specially all 34 women who inspire us in many ways!