Bharat Ratna National Award

Bharat Ratna : A National Award

• Bharat Ratna is India's highest Civilian Award. It was first awarded in 1954.
• The design of award is like the shape of a Ficus (Peepal) leaf with Bharat Ratna inscribed in Devanagari script in the Sun Figure.
• Satyameva Jayte has been written in Hindi with an inscription of state emblem.
• The emblem, the sun and the rim are of platinum. The inscription are in burnished bronze.

Winners of Bharat Ratna

2015

Sh. Madan Moham Malaviya

Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee 

2014

Sh. Sachin Tendulkar

Sh. CNR Rao 

2008

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi 

2001

Lata Mangeshkar 

Ustad Bismillah Khan 

1999

Professor Amartya Sen 

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi

Loknayak Jayparkash Narayan

Pandit Ravi Shankar 

1998

Chidambaram Subramaniam

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi

1997

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Azad

Sh.Aruna Asaf Ali

Sh. Gulzari Lal Nanda

1992

Sh. JRD Tata

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Sh.Satyajit Ray

1991

Sh. Morarji Desai

Sh. Rajiv Gandhi

Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

1990

Dr. B R Ambedkar

Dr. Nalson Mandela

1988

Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran

1987

Khan Abdul Gafar Khan

1983

Acharya Vinoba Bhave

1980

Mother Teresa

1976

Kumaraswamy Kamraj

1975

Varahagiri Venkata Giri

1971

Indira Gandhi

1966

Lal Bahadur Shastri

1963

Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane 

Dr. Zakir Hussain

1962

Dr. Rajender Parsad

1961

Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy

Purushottam Das Tandon

1958

Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve

1957

Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant

1955

Dr. Bhagwan Das

Jawahar Lal Nehru

Dr. Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya

1954

Chakravarti Rajgopalachari

Dr. Chandersekhar Venkata Raman

Dr. Sarvapalli Radha Krishnan