Yash Bharati Award is the highest civilian award of the

Government of Uttar Pradesh The Government of Uttar Pradesh (ISO: Uttar Pradesh Sarkār; often abbreviated as GoUP) is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with the governor as its appointed constitutional head of the state by the President of I ...

. 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. 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. 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.

The list of awardees

1994

#Pradip Mehta: Literature. #

Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan (; born as Amitabh Shrivastav; 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor, film producer, television host, occasional playback singer and former politician known for his work in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of the most succe ...

: acting. #

Jaya Bachchan Jaya Bachchan (''Birth name, née'' Bhaduri; born 9 April 1948) is an Indian actress and politician. She is a member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from the Samajwadi Party, serving four terms since 2004. Known primarily for her work in Hindi ...

: acting. # Baleshwar Yadav.

2006

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 and the grandson of poet Harivansh Rai Bach ...

: acting. #

Viveki Rai Viveki Rai (19 November 1924 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian writer who penned over fifty books. He was a famous literary figure of Hindi and Bhojpuri literature. He belonged to Bhumihar Brahmin community of Sonwani village in Ghazipur. He ...

: Indian Writer

2007

* Urmilesh Shankhdhar: Literature.

2013

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 ceased ...

: Literature And others

2015

#Lodi Mohammad Safi Khan alias 'Bekal Utsahi': Literature #Devi Prasad Pandey "Adig": Literature # Khushbir Singh Shaad: Literature #DR. Gyan Chaturvedi: Literature #DR. Vishnu Saxena: Literature #Hamid Ullah 'Hamid hadee': Literature #Pandit Rajan and Sajan Mishra: Classical Vocal #

Anup Jalota Anup Jalota, (born 29 July 1953) is an Indian singer, musician and actor, best known for his contributions to the Bhajan genre of Indian Music. He is popularly known as the "Bhajan Samraat" (Emperor of Bhajans).Shubha Mudgal Shubha Mudgal (born 1 January 1959) is an Indian singer of Hindustani classical music. Her repertoire includes the genres of khyal, thumri, dadra, and Indian pop. She has received the Padma Shri in 2000. Early life Shubha was born in Allahabad ...

: 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 #

Kailash Kher Kailash Kher (born 7 July 1973) is an Indian music composer and singer. He sings songs with a music style influenced by Indian folk music and Sufi music. He was inspired by the classical musicians' Pandit Kumar Gandharva, Pandit Hridaynath Ma ...

: 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: painter #Raj Kumar Varma: Painter, Micro-painting # Krishn Kanhai & Govind Kanhai Gold-painter #Iftakhar Nadime Khan: Wood-Art #DR.

Jagdish Gandhi Dr. Jagdish Gandhi (born 10 November 1936) is an Indian politician and Educationist who founded the City Montessori School with his wife Bharti Gandhi. He had served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Sikandra Rao c ...

: Education #Pro. Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi 'Wagish Shastri': Education #DR. Kumkum Dhar: Kathak #

Geetanjali Sharma Geetanjali Sharma (born 3 September 1984) is an Indian Folk exponent and a Kathak dancer. She is the disciple of Uma Dogra, the senior disciple of Pt. Durga Lal who was the Kathak maestro from Jaipur Gharana. She has been performing dance in Ind ...

: Charkula dance #Sheetala Pandey 'Samir': film lyricist #Yogesh Gaur: Songwriter #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 # Avinash Yadav: Sports #Alka Tomar: Female Wrestling #

Punam Yadav Punam Yadav (9 July 1995) is an Indian weightlifter who won Bronze medal in the women's 63 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, where the gold medal was won by Olauwatoyin Adesanmi of Nigeria. She also won a gold me ...

: Weight lifting #Raj Kumar: Wrestling #

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman is an Indian scholar of Unani medicine. He founded Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000. He had earlier served as Professor and chairman, Department of Ilmul Advia at the Ajmal Khan Tibbiya Colleg ...

, Greek Medicine (

Yunani medicine Unani or Yunani medicine (Urdu: ''tibb yūnānī'') is Perso-Arabic traditional medicine as practiced in Muslim culture in South Asia and modern day Central Asia. Unani medicine is pseudoscientific. The Indian Medical Association describes Un ...

) #Buddhi Prakash: Yoga and Naturopathy #DR. CS Yadav: Medical # Dr. Rakesh Yadav: Medical #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) #

Irfan Habib Irfan Habib (born August 10, 1931) is an Indian historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of Marxist historiography in his contributions to economic history. He identifies as a Marxist and is well known for his strong ...

: education # Dr.Naresh Trehan: medicine # Prof. (Dr.) Ravi Kant: medicine #Ustaad Ghulam Mustafa Khan: vocal music #Ustaad Gulshan Bharti: vocal music #Surabhi Ranjan: vocal music #

Sudhir Mishra Sudhir Mishra (born 22 January 1959) is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for directing the films ''Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi'', ''Dharavi (film), Dharavi'' and ''Chameli (film), Chameli''. Mishra has had a 30-year career, with his ...

: film direction #

Vishal Bhardwaj Vishal Bhardwaj (born 4 August 1965) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer. He is known for his work in Hindi cinema, and is the recipient of seven National Film Awards and a Filmfare Award. Bha ...

: film direction #

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 several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards. For his contributions to film, the Government of France a ...

: film direction #Ashok Chakradhar: literature #

Arunima Sinha Arunima Sinha is an Indian mountaineer and sportswoman. She is the world's first female amputee to scale Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Mount Elbrus (Russia), Mount Kosciusko (Australia), Mount Aconcagua (South America), Mount Den ...

: mountaineering #Aparna Kumar: mountaineering # Dr. (Brig.) T. Prabhakar: medicine #Sthavi Asthana: horse riding #Raju Srivastava: comedy #Hemant Sharma: journalism #

R. P. Singh Rudra Pratap Singh (born 17 December 2007) is an Indian former cricketer, who played for the India national cricket team in Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as a left arm fast-medium bowler. In September 2018, he ...

: Cricket #

Anwar Jalalpuri Anwar Jalalpuri (6 July 1947 – 2 January 2018) was an Indian Urdu poet from Jalalpur, Uttar Pradesh, known for translating the Bhagavad Gita from Sanskrit to Urdu. He received the Padma Shri posthumously from the President of India, and ...

:literature #Nahid Abidi: literature #Seema Punia: athletics #Jagbir Singh: hockey #Major AK Singh: rowing # 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 #

Nawaz Deobandi Mohammad Nawaz Khan (commonly known as Nawaz Deobandi; born 16 June 1956) is an Indian Urdu language poet. He is also a Ghazal writer some of them are sung by famous Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh. He wrote the lyrics for the Ghazal album ''Amaanat ...

: 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 #

Ankit Tiwari Ankit Tiwari is an Indian playback singer, live perfomer ,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 programmes. Subsequ ...

: singing #Madhukar Trivedi: journalism #Sudha Singh: athletics #

Dinesh Lal Yadav Dinesh Lal Yadav (born 2 February 1979), popularly known as Nirahua, is an Indian actor, singer, producer and politician associated with Bhojpuri-language films. He is among the most successful Bhojpuri actors, with successive five box office su ...

"Nirahua": acting #Manu Kumari Pal: athletics #Alim Ullah siddiqui: painting #Servesh Yadav: shooting #Subhash Gupta: medicine

2016-17

(To given in October, 2016) #Rahul Kumar: Cricket #Jeetu sharma: Cricket #Umakant Tomar: Literature # Mohammad Imran Pratapgarhi: Urdu Poetry #Amir Shabbir : Editor #Ustaad gulfam: classical music #Sony Chaurasia: Kathak #Kashinath Yadav Birha #Aftab Sabri, Hashim Sabri: Qawwali #Mo. Aslam Warsi: Sufi singing #

Gyanendra Pandey Gyanendra Kedarnath Pandey (born 12 August 1972) is a former Indian cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each compr ...

: Cricket #Bhuvneshwar Kumar: Cricket #Praveen Kumar: Cricket #Chawla: Cricket #Santosh Anand: Songwriter #

Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian actor. He is notable in Indian parallel cinema. He has also starred in international productions. He has won numerous awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfare A ...

: acting #Saurabh Shukla: Director #Anubhav Sinha: Director #Sumona Chakravarti : TV actress #Swaroop Kumar Kumar Bakshi: Literature #Anil Rastogi: Theatre personnel #Nawab Mir Jafar Abdullah: Sports #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 Medical # Yogesh Mishra: Journalism #Kamar Rahman: Education & Science #

Manoj Muntashir Manoj Shukla (born 27 February 1976), better known by his stage name Manoj Shukla ‛Muntashir’, is an Indian lyricist, poet and screenwriter. He wrote several successful Hindi songs for films. These have included "Teri Mitti", "Galliyan", "Te ...

: lyricist #Begum Habibullah: Social Service #Pandit Vishwanath: Classical Music #DR. Ratish Agarwal Medical #Raj Krishna Mishra: Literature #Rajendra Singh: Water Harvesting #Manendra Kumar Mishra: Writing #Gen Anil Chait: Military service #Maheshwar Tiwari: Literature # Sarvesh Asthana: Literature #Oma The akk: Literature #

Deepraj Rana Deepraj Rana (also Deepraz Rana or Deep Raj Rana) is an Indian and Nepali film and television actor. Early life He was born and brought up in Allahabad. Now he lives in Mumbai. He is married to TV actress Natasha Rana known for the role of Chh ...

: Film Direction #Ravi Kapoor: Photography #Dr. Deepak Agrawal Medical #DR. Ramratan Raina Medical #DR. Shivani Matnhelia: Classical Music #Ashok Nigam: Journalism #Arjun Bajpai: Hiking #Vijay Shekhar Sharma: Mobile Banking #Gargi Yadav: Wrestling #Ram Milan Yadav: Wrestling # Ramakant Yadav: Medical #Atam Prakash Mishra: Television #Gaur Das Chowdhury: Medical #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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