Yash Bharati Award is the highest civilian award of the
Government of Uttar Pradesh
The Government of Uttar Pradesh (International Organization for Standardization, ISO: ''Uttara Pradēśa Sarakāra''; often abbreviated as GoUP) is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with the governor as its appoin ...
. Instituted in 1994, it is awarded to those personalities whose contribution is remarkable in the field of literature, social work, medicine, film, science, journalism, handicrafts, culture, education, music, drama, sports, industry and astrology.
Yash Bharati Award
These awards were first given in 1994. The winners were given a commendation letter, a shawl and
Rs 1
lakh
A lakh (; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 105). In the Indian 2, 2, 3 convention of digit grouping, it is written as 1,00,000. F ...
. In 2005–06, the U.P. Government increased the cash award amount to Rs 5 lakh. The awards were stopped between 1995 and 2003 and again from 2007 to 2012. Since 2012, the recipient is awarded a commendation letter, a shawl and Rs 11 lakh, along with a pension of Rs 50,000 per month, on demand.
Many eminent persons in the field of Literature, Social work, Handicrafts, Culture, Music, Drama, Sports, Industry, Cinema, etc. have been awarded with Yash Bharti Samman, however, it has also drawn some flak from media and the public for arbitrary distribution and wastage of tax payers money.
The list of awardees
1994
#Pradip Mehta: literature
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Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan (; 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema. He is often considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema.*
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Jaya Bachchan
Jaya Bachchan (''née'' Bhaduri; born 9 April 1948) is an Indian actress and politician.
She is regarded as one of the greatest actresses of Hindi cinema. She is serving as member of the parliament in the Rajya Sabha from the Samajwadi Party ...
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Baleshwar Yadav:
2006
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Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan (; born 5 February 1976) is an Indian actor and film producer known for his work in Hindi films. Part of the Bachchan family, he is the son of actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. From 2012 to 2016, Bachchan appeared in ...
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Viveki Rai: writing
#Vijay Kumar: journalism
2007
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Urmilesh Shankhdhar: literature
2013
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Rajendra Yadav
Rajendra Yadav (28 August 1929 – 28 October 2013) was a Hindi fiction writer, and a pioneer of the 'Nayi Kahani' movement of Hindi literature.
He edited the literary magazine ''HANS'', which was founded by Munshi Premchand in 1930 but cease ...
: literature
2015
#Lodi Mohammad Safi Khan alias 'Bekal Utsahi': literature
#Devi Prasad Pandey "Adig": literature
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Khushbir Singh Shaad: literature
#DR.
Gyan Chaturvedi: literature
#DR. Vishnu Saxena: literature
#Hamid Ullah 'Hamid hadee': literature
#Pandit Rajan and Sajan Mishra: classical vocal
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Anup Jalota
Anup Jalota, (born 29 July 1953) is an Indian singer, musician and actor, best known for his contributions to the bhajan and ghazal genre of Indian music. He is popularly known as the ''Bhajan Samraat'' ().[Shubha Mudgal
Shubha Mudgal (born 1 January 1959) is an Indian singer, and composer, known for her works in Hindustani classical music, Indian pop, and Tamil cinema. Her repertoire includes the genres of khyal, thumri, and dadra. She has received the Padma S ...]
: classical vocal
#Ravindra Jain: music
#Pandit
Vikash Maharaj
Pandit Vikash Maharaj (born 1 July 1957) is an Indian sarod player. In his childhood, he initially learnt to play the tabla and then discovered and studied the sarod as his preferred instrument.
Early life and background
Vikash was born in Va ...
: sarod
#Rekha Bhardwaj: light music
#Pro. Rita Gaguli: singing Upshastriy
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Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher (born 7 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, live performer, and composer. He sings songs with a music style influenced by Indian folk music and Sufi music. He was inspired by the classical musicians Kumar Gandharva, Hrida ...
: singing
#Rahat Ali Khan Sabri: Ghazals, Sufi songs and singing
#Hira Lal Yadav: Lokgayn
#Bansh Gopal Yadav: singing Alhaa
#Vishnu Yadav: singing Birha
#Pro. Jaikrishna Agarwal: painting
#Raj Kumar Varma: painting, Micro-painting
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Krishn Kanhai &
Govind Kanhai: gold-painting
#Iftakhar Nadime Khan: wood art
#DR.
Jagdish Gandhi: education
#Pro. Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi 'Wagish Shastri': education
#DR. Kumkum Dhar: Kathak
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Geetanjali Sharma: Kathak and Braj Folk Dance
#Sheetala Pandey 'Samir': film lyricist
#Yogesh Gaur: songwriting
#DR. Urmil Kumar Thapliyal: public theatre
#Ashok Kumar Singh: hockey
#Bachan Lal Yadav: wrestling
#Munawar Anjar: judo
#DR. RP Singh: hockey
#Dharmendra Yadav: boxing
#Bhagat Singh: wrestling
#Vijay Pal Yadav: wrestling
#Rajesh Kumar Yadav: sailing
#Shweta Priyadarshini: chess
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Avinash Yadav: sports
#Alka Tomar: female wrestling
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Punam Yadav: weightlifting
#Raj Kumar: wrestling
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Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
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: Greek medicine (
Yunani medicine)
#Buddhi Prakash: yoga and naturopathy
#DR. CS Yadav: medicine
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Dr. Rakesh Yadav: medicine
#TP Trivedi: astrology
#Vinod Mehta: journalism
#Jasjit Singh Gill alias Jimmy Shergill: film acting
#Nawazuddin Siddiqui: film acting
#Girdhar Lal Mishra Ramanandacharya Jagadguru Swami Bhadracharya: philanthropy
#Darshan Singh Yadav: philanthropy
#Ramesh Bhaiya: philanthropy
#Captain
Yogendra Singh Yadav: military service
2016
(Given in March 2016)
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Irfan Habib
Irfan Habib (born 10 August 1931) is an Indian historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of Marxist historiography in his contributions to economic history. He is known for his strong stance against Hindutva. He has au ...
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Dr.Naresh Trehan: medicine
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Prof. (Dr.) Ravi Kant: medicine
#Ustaad Ghulam Mustafa Khan: vocal music
#Ustaad Gulshan Bharti: vocal music
#Surabhi Ranjan: vocal music
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Sudhir Mishra
Sudhir Mishra (born 22 January 1959) is an Indian filmmaker. His most notable films include '' Dharavi'' (1992), '' Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi'' (2003), '' Chameli'' (2004), and '' Serious Men'' (2020). His work has been recognised with three nat ...
: film direction
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Vishal Bhardwaj
Vishal Bhardwaj (born 4 August 1965) is an Indian filmmaker, music composer, and playback singer. He is known for his work in Hindi cinema, and is the recipient of nine National Film Awards and a Filmfare Award.
Bhardwaj made his debut as a mu ...
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Anurag Kashyap
Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian filmmaker and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is the recipient of four Filmfare Awards. For his contributions to films, the Government of France made him a Knight of the Ordre ...
: film direction
#Ashok Chakradhar: literature
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Arunima Sinha
Arunima Sinha is an Indian mountaineer and sportswoman. She is India's first female amputee and world's second female amputee to scale Mount Everest (Asia), Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mount Elbrus (Europe), Mount Kosciuszko (Australia), Acon ...
: mountaineering
#Aparna Kumar: mountaineering
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Dr. (Brig.) T. Prabhakar: medicine
#Sthavi Asthana: horse riding
#Raju Srivastava: comedy
#Hemant Sharma: journalism
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R. P. Singh: cricket
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Anwar Jalalpuri: literature
#Nahid Abidi: literature
#Seema Punia: athletics
#Jagbir Singh: hockey
#Major AK Singh: rowing
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Kamla Srivastava: folk music
#Abhin Shyam Gupta: badminton
#Sunil Jogi: literature
#Gopal Chaturvedi: literature
#Girja Shankar: literature
#Sunil Kumar Rana: sports
#Vijay Singh Chauhan: athletics
#Anuj Chowdhary: sports
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Nawaz Deobandi: education
#Wazir Ahmad Khan: chess
#Chakesh Kumar Jain: art
#Narendra Singh Rana: powerlifting
#Iqbal Ahmad Siddiqui: ghazal
#Kum Kum Adarsh: Kathak
#Lalji Yadav: wrestling
#Imran Khan: poetry
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Ankit Tiwari
Ankit Tiwari is an Indian people, Indian playback singer, live performer, music director, composer. His career began upon meeting Pradeep Sarkar where he got a chance to work on jingles and started composing background music for television pro ...
: singing
#Madhukar Trivedi: journalism
#Sudha Singh: athletics
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Dinesh Lal Yadav
Dinesh Lal Yadav (born 2 February 1979), popularly known as Nirahua, is an Indian actor, singer, producer and politician who works in Bhojpuri-language films. He is among the most successful Bhojpuri actors, with successive five box office succ ...
"Nirahua": acting
#Manu Kumari Pal: athletics
#Alim Ullah siddiqui: painting
#Servesh Yadav: shooting
#Subhash Gupta: medicine
2016-17
(Given in October 2016)
#Rahul Kumar: cricket
#Jeetu sharma: cricket
#Umakant Tomar: literature
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Mohammad Imran Pratapgarhi: Urdu Poetry
#Amir Shabbir: editing
#Ustaad gulfam: classical music
#Sony Chaurasia: Kathak
#Kashinath Yadav Birha:
#Aftab Sabri, Hashim Sabri: Qawwali
#Mo. Aslam Warsi: Sufi singing
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Gyanendra Pandey: cricket
#Bhuvneshwar Kumar: cricket
#Praveen Kumar: cricket
#Chawla: cricket
#Santosh Anand: songwriting
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Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian actor. He was notable in Indian parallel cinema and has starred in various international productions. He has won numerous awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfa ...
: acting
#Saurabh Shukla: directing
#Anubhav Sinha: directing
#Sumona Chakravarti: acting
#Swaroop Kumar Kumar Bakshi: literature
#Anil Rastogi: theatre work
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Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah: sports and arts
#Suman Yadav: game
#Mo. Bashir Badar: literature
#Venkat Changavli: philanthropy
#Farooq Ahmed: philanthropy
#Dr Sabiha Anwar: education
#Dr. Rakesh Kapoor: medicine
#Syed Mohd. Hssna: Greek medicine
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Yogesh Mishra: journalism
#Kamar Rahman: education & science
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Manoj Muntashir
Manoj Shukla (born 27 February 1976), better known by his stage name Manoj Muntashir Shukla, is an Indian lyricist, poet, dialogue writer, screenwriter & Co founder oT-Series Prarthana The Sound of Sanatan He wrote several Hindi songs for films ...
: lyricist
#Begum Habibullah: social service
#Pandit Vishwanath: classical music
#DR. Ratish Agarwal: medicine
#Raj Krishna Mishra: literature
#Rajendra Singh: water harvesting
#Manendra Kumar Mishra: writing
#Gen Anil Chait: military service
#Maheshwar Tiwari: literature
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Sarvesh Asthana: literature
#Oma The akk: literature
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Deepraj Rana
Deepraj Rana (also Deepraz Rana or Deep Raj Rana) is an Indian film and television actor.
Early life
He was born and brought up in Prayagraj. Now he lives in Mumbai. He is married to TV actress Natasha Rana known for the role of Chhoti Maa in ...
: film direction
#Ravi Kapoor: photography
#Dr. Deepak Agrawal: medicine
#DR. Ramratan Raina: medicine
#DR. Shivani Matnhelia: classical music
#Ashok Nigam: journalism
#Arjun Bajpai: hiking
#Vijay Shekhar Sharma: mobile banking
#Gargi Yadav: wrestling
#Ram Milan Yadav: wrestling
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Ramakant Yadav: medicine
#Atam Prakash Mishra: television
#Gaur Das Chowdhury: medicine
# Dr Ram Singh Yadav : Literature
#Dhananjay Rai: sports
#Noor Alassaba: artist & portraitist
#Chakresh Kumar Jain: handicraft
#Archana Satish: anchor
#Shikha Dwivedi: anchor
#Varun Kumar: paralympics
References
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Civil awards and decorations of Uttar Pradesh