Recent Awards and Recognitions in India 2022: List of Important Awards |

Recent in News updated on 30th December 2022

Prabhu Chandra Mishra has been awarded Atal Samman Award for his excellence in field of science & research.

The Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards, also known as “Oscar of Education” gave significant recognition to the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M)

Noted Cuban social worker and human rights advocate, Aleida Guevara has been selected for the first KR Gouri Amma national award.

Indian cyclist Swasti Singh has been honoured with the prestigious 30th Ekalabya Puraskar for the year 2022. The award is instituted by IMFA’s charitable wing, IMPaCT.

Kura Pokkhir Shunye Ura (The Golden Wings of Watercocks) of Bangladesh and Upon Entry of Spain won the Best Film Award at the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival.

Beth Mead has been awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2022 as she was the player of the tournament and top scorer at Euro 2022.

Professor Thalappil Pradeep, Indian Scientist, India Institute of Technology, Madras received VinFuture special Prize in Hanoi.

NHPC Limited has been awarded as the winner of the ‘Best Globally Competitive Power Company of India-Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sector’ at PRAKASHmay.

Sudeep & Shobhana won Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has won the prestigious GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award 2022, a top national level Green Building Award.

Rohini Nayyar prize: Sethrichem Sangtam, who helped triple the incomes of 1,200 marginalised farmers in Eastern Nagaland, was awarded the first Rohini Nayyar prize.

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”. Under Smart Cities Mission.

National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) won the coveted IEI (Institution of Engineers, India) Industry Excellence Award 2022 in Chennai.

PETA India’s 2022: Bollywood actress, Sonakshi Sinha has been awarded PETA India’s 2022 Person of the Year title.

Mrs World 2022: India’s Sargam Koushal created history as she finally won the Mrs World 2022 title after 21 years while competing for India in the pageant.

SS Rajamouli-directed period movie ‘RRR’ has been nominated in two categories at the Golden Globe Awards to be held in January 2023. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has nominated ‘RRR’ in the Best Picture: Non-English language and Best Original Song Naatu Naatu.

SpiceJet has been awarded the ‘Safety Performer of the Year’ award by GMR Delhi Airport Awards.

In various competitive exams like Bank Po, Bank Clerk, Regulatory bodies: RBI Grade B, SEBI Grade A, SSC CGL, State PCS exam; recent awards and recognitions are asked. This article is regularly updated so that students can have all the awards at one place. Bookmark it for revision purposes.

Recent Awards and Recognitions in India 2022: List of Important Awards in Hindi

Awards list

Awardee	Award	Given by	Important facts
December 2022
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras	Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards		Another name :Oscars for Education silver prize in the ‘Best Online Program NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), a joint initiative of IITs and IISc, won the Gold in the ‘Lifelong Learning category.’
Aleida Guevara	KR Gouri Amma national award	KR Gouri Foundation	Cuban Human Right activist
Swasti Singh	30th Ekalabya Puraskar	IMFA’s charitable wing: Impact
Kura Pokkhir Shunye Ura (The Golden Wings of Watercocks) of Bangladesh and Upon Entry of Spain	Best Film Award	28th Kolkata International Film Festival.
Beth Mead	BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2022	BBC Sports	Footballer
Professor Thalappil Pradeep	VinFuture special Prize	VinFuture Foundation	IIT Madras professor
UIDAI Building	GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award 2022
Sudeep and Shobhna	Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22.		Sudeep Sen for his genre and formbender Anthropocene : Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books & Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun collection ‘A Sky Full of Bucket Lists’ (Red River, 2021
DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data(MoHUA)	Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022	Ministry of Communication
NHPC Limited			Best Globally Competitive Power Company of India-Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sector at Prakashmay
Sonakshi Sinha	PETA India’s 2022 Person of the Year title.	PETA
National Mineral Development Corporation	IEI (Institution of Engineers, India) Industry Excellence Award 2022
Spice jet	Safety Performer of the Year’ award	GMR Delhi Airport Awards.
Sethrichem Sangtam,	Rohini Nayyar prize:		1st edition
Sargam Koushal	Mrs world 2022		From India
Prabhu Chandra Mishra	Atal Samman Award		For science and research
Venkaiah Naidu	25th Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award (SIES)	Award by SIES instituted in 1998 in memory of late seer of Kanchi, Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi	Other Awardees in various categories: Public Leadership: Arif Mohammed Khan Governor of Kerala Community Leadership: Ratan Tata, an eminent industrialist Science and Technology: Dr Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valianathan, renowned cardiologist and Padma Vibhushan awardee Science and Technology: Prof Ajay Kumar Sood, Scientific Advisor to the Government of India Spiritual Leadership: Vishakha Hari Harikatha artiste
Jammu Kashmir	Ayushman Bharat health account ID generation	Ministry of Health	2nd prize in the category for Teleconsultation.
Krishna Vavilala	Presidential Lifetime Achievement (PLA) Award	USA Government
President Volodymyr Zelensky	2022 person of the year	Times Magazine
4 awardees	Jamnalal Bajaj Award	Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation	Constructive Works: Nilesh Desai Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development: Mansukhbhai Prajapati Development and Welfare of Women and Children: Sophia Saik International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values outside India: Dr Ogirat Younan and Dr Walid Slyabi of Lebanon
Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)	Local Adaptation Champions Awards	Global Center on Adaptation (GCA)	at the COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.Maharashtra based organization
Veena Nair	Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching	Australian Government	She is ViewBank College’s Head of Technology and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths,) project leader.
Goblin Mode	Oxford dictionaries word 2022		“slang term” means “a type of behaviour which is unapologetically selfindulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy
C.N. Manjunath, Krishnappa G. and S. Shadakshari	Nadoja Award	Kannada University in Hampi.
To honour diplomats- 5 Awardees	Diwali- Power of One’/ ‘Oscars of Diplomacy	Diwali Foundation USA Inc.	Names of the winner Former Permanent Representative of Georgia to the UN Kaha Imnadze, Former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the UN Keisha McGuire, Former Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the UN Georgi Velikov Panayotov, Former Permanent Representative of Benin to the UN Jean-Claude do Rego, Former Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives Eliot Lance Engel.
Canara Bank	‘Banker’s Bank of the Year Award 2022’	The Banker Magazine, Financial Times Group, United Kingdom	Banker’s Bank of the Year Award 2022’’ for India segment at the Global Banking Summit held in London.
Greenhouse-in-a-box ( Eco Oscars)	Earthshot Prize 2022, 2nd edition: prize : one million pounds	Founded by Prince William	5 winners Mukuru Clean Stoves tackles clean air in Kenya Kheyti is protecting and restoring nature in India The Queensland Indigenous Women Rangers Network is helping revive Australia’s oceans Notpla’s circular solution to waste in the U.K. The 44.01 Project in Oman is turning CO2 into rock
SS Rajamouli	Best Director Award for RRR at the New York Film Critics Circle 2022	New York Film Critics Circle	Todd Field’s Tar :Best Picture of the year, Best Actress : Cate Blanchett’s Colin Farrell won Best Actor
South Korea’s Mina Sue Choi	Miss Earth 2022	Based in Philippines	22nd Edition, She inherited from Destiny Wagner of Belize. The current Elemental Queens are: Sheridan Mortlock: Miss Earth Air from Australia Nadeen Ayoub: Miss Earth Water from Palestine Andrea Aguilera: Miss Earth Fire from Colombia
Avani Lekhara	Para Sports Person	FICCI
Sarkar Talwar	Lifetime Achievement of the Year award	FICCI	India sporta and Turf Awards
November 2022
Iranian film Nargesi	ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal	IFFI	Payam Eskandari is the Director
128 artist	Sangeet Natak Akademi Award	Sangeet Natak Akademi	cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, Akademi fellows will get Rs 3 lakh each and both will also receive a tamrapatra and angavastram
Agantuk Movie	’Prasad DI award	IFFI Goa
	National Gopal Ratna Award	Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, and Dairying	on milk day
e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project of Ministry of Panchayati Raj	GOLD Award, National Awards for e-Governance	DAR&PG	under the category “Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering for Digital Transformation” of the National Awards for e-Governance
Ms. Naina Dhakad	Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2021: Land Adventure	Ministry of Youth
Shri Shubham Dhananjay Vanmali	Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2021: Water Adventure	Ministry of Youth
Group Captain Kunwar Bhawani Singh Samyal	Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2021: Lifetime Achievement	Ministry of Youth
Ravi Kumar Sagar	Dr. Abdul Kalam Seva Puraskar	Vande Bharat Foundation and LeadIndia Foundation	CEO of RK’S INNO group
Matrix Business Services India Pvt. Ltd.	Partner of the Year 2022	by one of the world’s most valuable companies, Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Purnima Devi Barman	Champions of the Earth	UNEP	The other honourees include Arcenciel (Lebanon); Constantino (Tino) Aucca Chutas (Peru); Sir Partha Dasgupta of the United Kingdom and Cecile Bibiane Ndjebet (Cameroon)
Danish Manzoor Bhat	Jaipur Foot USA’s first Global Humanitarian Award
39 Schools	Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar	Ministry of Education	Rs.60,000 cash prize