Yash Bharati Award is the highest civilian award of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. 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.[1]

Yash Bharati Award

These awards were first given in 1994. The winners were given a commendation letter, a shawl and Rs 1 Lakh. 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. From the year 2012, the recipient is awarded a commendation letter, a Shawl and Rs 11 Lakh along with a pension Rs. 50,000 per month, on demand.[2] Many eminent persons in the field of Literature, Social work, Handicrafts, Culture, Music, Drama, Sports, Industry, Cinema etc. have been awarded wish Yash Bharti Samman, However, it has, also drawn some flak from media and public for arbitrary distribution and wastage of tax payers money.[3][4]

The list of awardees

1994

  1. Pradip Mehta: Literature.[5]
  2. Amitabh Bachchan: acting.[5]
  3. Jaya Bachchan: acting.[5]
  4. Baleshwar Yadav.

2006

  1. Abhishek Bachchan: acting.[5]
  2. Viveki Rai: Indian Writer
  3. Vijay Kumar: Journalist

2007

2013

Rajendra Yadav: Literature And others

2015

  1. Lodi Mohammad Safi Khan alias 'Bekal Utsahi': Literature
  2. Devi Prasad Pandey "Adig": Literature
  3. Khushbir Singh Shaad: Literature
  4. DR.Gyan Chaturvedi: Literature
  5. DR. Vishnu Saxena: Literature
  6. Hamid Ullah 'Hamid hadee': Literature
  7. Pandit Rajan and Sajan Mishra: Classical Vocal
  8. Anup Jalota: choral singing
  9. Shubha Mudgal: Classical Vocal
  10. Ravindra Jain: Music
  11. Pandit Vikash Maharaj: sarod
  12. Rekha Bhardwaj: light music
  13. Pro. Rita Gaguli: singing Upshastriy
  14. Kailash Kher: singing
  15. Rahat Ali Khan Sabri: Ghazals, Sufi songs and singing
  16. Hira Lal Yadav :Lokgayn
  17. Bansh Gopal Yadav : singing Alhaa
  18. Vishnu Yadav singing Birha
  19. Pro. Jaikrishna Agarwal: painter
  20. Raj Kumar Varma: Painter, Micro-painting
  21. Krishn Kanhai & Govind Kanhai Gold-painter
  22. Iftakhar Nadime Khan: Wood-Art
  23. DR. Jagdish Gandhi: Education
  24. Pro. Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi 'Wagish Shastri': Education
  25. DR. Kumkum Dhar: Kathak
  26. Geetanjali Sharma: Charkula dance
  27. Sheetala Pandey 'Samir': film lyricist
  28. Yogesh Gaur: Songwriter
  29. DR. Urmil Kumar Thapliyal: Public Theatre
  30. Ashok Kumar Singh: Hockey
  31. Bachan Lal Yadav: Wrestling
  32. Munawar Anjar: Judo
  33. DR. RP Singh: Hockey
  34. Dharmendra Yadav: Boxing
  35. Bhagat Singh: Wrestling
  36. Vijay Pal Yadav: Wrestling
  37. Rajesh Kumar Yadav: Sailing
  38. Shweta Priyadarshini: Chess
  39. Avinash Yadav: Sports
  40. Alka Tomar: Female Wrestling
  41. Punam Yadav: Weight lifting
  42. Raj Kumar: Wrestling
  43. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Greek Medicine (Yunani medicine)
  44. Buddhi Prakash: Yoga and Naturopathy
  45. DR. CS Yadav: Medical
  46. Dr. Rakesh Yadav: Medical
  47. TP Trivedi: Astrology
  48. Vinod Mehta: Journalism
  49. Jasjit Singh Gill alias Jimmy Shergill: film acting
  50. Nawazuddin Siddiqui: film acting
  51. Girdhar Lal Mishra Ramanandacharya Jagadguru Swami Bhadracharya: philanthropy
  52. Darshan Singh Yadav: philanthropy
  53. Ramesh Bhaiya: philanthropy
  54. Captain Yogendra Singh Yadav: Military service[7]

2016

(Given in March, 2016)

  1. Irfan Habib: education
  2. Dr.Naresh Trehan: medicine
  3. Prof. (Dr.) Ravi Kant: medicine
  4. Ustaad Ghulam Mustafa Khan: vocal music
  5. Ustaad Gulshan Bharti: vocal music
  6. Surabhi Ranjan: vocal music
  7. Sudhir Mishra: film direction
  8. Vishal Bhardwaj: film direction
  9. Anurag Kashyap: film direction
  10. Ashok Chakradhar: literature
  11. Arunima Sinha: mountaineering
  12. Aparna Kumar: mountaineering
  13. Dr. (Brig.) T. Prabhakar: medicine
  14. Sthavi Asthana: horse riding
  15. Raju Srivastava: comedy
  16. Hemant Sharma: journalism
  17. R. P. Singh: Cricket
  18. Anwar Jalalpuri:literature
  19. Nahid Abidi: literature
  20. Seema Punia: athletics
  21. Jagbir Singh: hockey
  22. Major AK Singh: rowing
  23. Kamla Srivastava: folk music
  24. Abhin Shyam Gupta: badminton
  25. Sunil Jogi: literature
  26. Gopal Chaturvedi: literature
  27. Girja Shankar: literature
  28. Sunil Kumar Rana: sports
  29. Vijay Singh Chauhan: athletics
  30. Anuj Chowdhary: sports
  31. Nawaz Deobandi: education
  32. Wazir Ahmad Khan: Chess
  33. Chakesh Kumar Jain: art
  34. Narendra Singh Rana: Powerlifting
  35. Iqbal Ahmad Siddiqui: ghazal
  36. Kum Kum Adarsh: Kathak
  37. Lalji Yadav: wrestling
  38. Imran Khan: poetry
  39. Ankit Tiwari: singing
  40. Madhukar Trivedi: journalism
  41. Sudha Singh: athletics
  42. Dinesh Lal Yadav "Nirahua": acting
  43. Manu Kumari Pal: athletics
  44. Alim Ullah siddiqui: painting
  45. Servesh Yadav: shooting
  46. Subhash Gupta: medicine[8][9]

2016-17

(To given in October, 2016)

  1. Rahul Kumar: Cricket
  2. Jeetu sharma: Cricket
  3. Umakant Tomar: Literature
  4. Mohammad Imran Pratapgarhi: Urdu Poetry
  5. Amir Shabbir : Editor
  6. Ustaad gulfam: classical music
  7. Sony Chaurasia: Kathak
  8. Kashinath Yadav Birha
  9. Aftab Sabri, Hashim Sabri: Qawwali
  10. Mo. Aslam Warsi: Sufi singing
  11. Gyanendra Pandey: Cricket
  12. Bhuvneshwar Kumar: Cricket
  13. Praveen Kumar: Cricket
  14. Chawla: Cricket
  15. Santosh Anand: Songwriter
  16. Naseeruddin Shah: acting
  17. Saurabh Shukla: Director
  18. Anubhav Sinha: Director
  19. Sumona Chakravarti : TV actress
  20. Swaroop Kumar Kumar Bakshi: Literature
  21. Anil Rastogi: Theatre personnel
  22. Nawab Mir Jafar Abdullah: Sports
  23. Suman Yadav: game
  24. Mo. Bashir Badar: Literature
  25. Venkat Changavli: philanthropy
  26. Farooq Ahmed: philanthropy
  27. Dr Sabiha Anwar: Education
  28. Dr. Rakesh Kapoor: Medicine
  29. Syed Mohd. Hssna: Greek Medical
  30. Yogesh Mishra: Journalism
  31. Kamar Rahman: Education & Science
  32. Manoj Muntashir: lyricist
  33. Begum Habibullah: Social Service
  34. Pandit Vishwanath: Classical Music
  35. DR. Ratish Agarwal Medical
  36. Raj Krishna Mishra: Literature
  37. Rajendra Singh: Water Harvesting
  38. Manendra Kumar Mishra: Writing
  39. Gen Anil Chait: Military service
  40. Maheshwar Tiwari: Literature
  41. Sarvesh Asthana: Literature
  42. Oma The akk: Literature
  43. Deepraj Rana: Film Direction
  44. Ravi Kapoor: Photography
  45. Dr. Deepak Agrawal Medical
  46. DR. Ramratan Raina Medical
  47. DR. Shivani Matnhelia: Classical Music
  48. Ashok Nigam: Journalism
  49. Arjun Bajpai: Hiking
  50. Vijay Shekhar Sharma: Mobile Banking
  51. Gargi Yadav: Wrestling
  52. Ram Milan Yadav: Wrestling
  53. Ramakant Yadav: Medical
  54. Atam Prakash Mishra: Television
  55. Gaur Das Chowdhury: Medical
  56. Dhananjay Rai: Sports
  57. Noor Alassaba: Artist & Portraitist
  58. Chakresh Kumar Jain: Handicraft
  59. Archana Satish: Anchor[10]
  60. Shikha Dwivedi: Anchor
  61. Varun Kumar: Paralympics[2][11]

References

  1. ↑ "यश भारती सम्मान से सम्मानित हुईं कई बड़ी हस्तियां, कार्यक्रम में नहीं आए मुलायम" (in Hindi). abpnews.abplive.in. 27 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Yash Bharati Honour For 73 Prominent Personalities From UP Government Today".
  3. ↑ Subhash Mishra (4 December 2006). "Yash Bharati award to Abhishek Bachchan draws flack". m.indiatoday.in. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "HC seeks reply on arbitrary Yash Bharati awards – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Big B, Jaya, Abhishek request UP to give their Rs 50k monthly pensions to "the poor and the needy"". The Times of India. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "मेरी कोशिश है मेरा हर लहजा, खास होकर भी आम हो जाए" (in Hindi). Amar Ujala. 16 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "यश भारती सम्मान से 56 हस्तियां अलंकृत 12063610" (in Hindi). jagran.com.
  8. ↑ "CM PRESENTED YASH BHARATI AWARDS". dailypioneer.com.
  9. ↑ "इन चार डॉक्टरों को भी मिला यश भारती, जानिये मेडिकल क्षेत्र में इनका अचीवमेंट" (in Hindi). patrika.com.
  10. ↑ "12 eminent personalities bestowed with Yash Bharti Awards 2016". Jagran Prakashan Ltd.
  11. ↑ "इन 71 विभूतियों को अखिलेश ने यश भारती से किया सम्मानित" (in Hindi). hindi.pradesh18.com.
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