India

Bharat Ratna

For exceptional service or performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavour. A maximum of three awards a year. Recipients receive a Sanad signed by the President and a medal.¹

Country

India

Established

1954¹

Conferred by

The President of India, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister^1,2

How announced

Notified by the President's Secretariat in the Gazette of India, for example notification No. 22-Pres/2024 of 30 March 2024.³

Revocation

No revocation procedure was confirmed from sources read.

Grades

• Single class

Notable holders on this record

• Chaudhary Charan Singh PosthumousBharat Ratna 30 March 2024
• C. N. R. Rao HeldBharat Ratna 4 February 2014
• Karpoori Thakur PosthumousBharat Ratna 30 March 2024
• L. K. Advani HeldBharat Ratna 31 March 2024
• M. S. Swaminathan PosthumousBharat Ratna 30 March 2024
• P. V. Narasimha Rao PosthumousBharat Ratna 30 March 2024
• Sachin Tendulkar HeldBharat Ratna 4 February 2014

Official page: padmaawards.gov.in/

Sources

1. Factly, Explainer: All about the Bharat Ratna and Padma awards
2. Scroll.in, President confers Bharat Ratna on ex-PMs PV Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh, two others posthumously (30 March 2024)
3. President's Secretariat, Government of India (Padma Awards portal), Bharat Ratna notifications No. 22-Pres/2024 and No. 23-Pres/2024 (30 March 2024)