President Pranab Mukerjee awarded the Bharat Ratna to -
Sachin Tendulkar(40) is the first sportsman to be given the honour and also the youngest to receive
Dr C N R Rao(79)is a former director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and currently works at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore
Dr C N R Rao is the fourth recipient of the Bharat Ratna from the field of science
Note
Until 2011, the official criteria for awarding the Bharat Ratna stipulated it was to be conferred "for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as "recognition of public service of the highest order."
In December 2011, the Govt of India modified the criteria to allow sportspersons to receive the award; since then, the award may be conferred "for performance of highest order in any field of human endeavour."
The recommendations for an award of the "Bharat Ratna" are made by the Prime Minister of India to the President of India; a maximum of three awards may be made in a given year
The order to establish the award was given by Rajendra Prasad,President of India on Jan 02,1955
The original statutes of January 1954 did not make allowance for posthumous awards
Posthumous awards provision was added in the January 1966 statute and subsequently, there have been 12 posthumous awards,including the award to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in 1992, which was later withdrawn due to a legal technicality, the only case of an award being withdrawn
There is no formal provision that recipients of the Bharat Ratna should be Indian citizens
Bharat Ratna has been awarded to -
Mother Theresa iin 1980 -a naturalised Indian citizen and
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan in 1987 -non-Indians
Nelson Mandela in 1990 - non-Indians
The award was briefly suspended from 13 July 1977 to 26 January 1980
- Sachin Tendulkar and
- C N R Rao
Sachin Tendulkar(40) is the first sportsman to be given the honour and also the youngest to receive
Dr C N R Rao(79)is a former director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and currently works at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore
Dr C N R Rao is the fourth recipient of the Bharat Ratna from the field of science
Note
Until 2011, the official criteria for awarding the Bharat Ratna stipulated it was to be conferred "for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as "recognition of public service of the highest order."
In December 2011, the Govt of India modified the criteria to allow sportspersons to receive the award; since then, the award may be conferred "for performance of highest order in any field of human endeavour."
The recommendations for an award of the "Bharat Ratna" are made by the Prime Minister of India to the President of India; a maximum of three awards may be made in a given year
The order to establish the award was given by Rajendra Prasad,President of India on Jan 02,1955
The original statutes of January 1954 did not make allowance for posthumous awards
Posthumous awards provision was added in the January 1966 statute and subsequently, there have been 12 posthumous awards,including the award to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in 1992, which was later withdrawn due to a legal technicality, the only case of an award being withdrawn
There is no formal provision that recipients of the Bharat Ratna should be Indian citizens
Bharat Ratna has been awarded to -
Mother Theresa iin 1980 -a naturalised Indian citizen and
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan in 1987 -non-Indians
Nelson Mandela in 1990 - non-Indians
The award was briefly suspended from 13 July 1977 to 26 January 1980
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