Yash Bharati


Yash Bharati Award is the highest Award of 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.

Yash Bharati Award

The recipient is awarded a commendation letter, shawl and rupees 11 lacs and pension Rs. 50,000 per month on demand. However, it has drawn considerable flak from media and public for arbitrary distribution and wastage of tax payers money.

The list of awardees

1994

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

    2006

  5. Abhishek Bachchan: acting.
  6. Viveki Rai: Indian Writer

    2015

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

    2016

  62. Irfan Habib: education
  63. Dr.Naresh Trehan: medicine
  64. Prof. Ravi Kant: medicine
  65. Ustaad Ghulam Mustafa Khan: vocal music
  66. Ustaad Gulshan Bharti: vocal music
  67. Surabhi Ranjan: vocal music
  68. Sudhir Mishra: film direction
  69. Vishal Bhardwaj: film direction
  70. Anurag Kashyap: film direction
  71. Ashok Chakradhar: literature
  72. Arunima Sinha: mountaineering
  73. Aparna Kumar: mountaineering
  74. Dr. T. Prabhakar: medicine
  75. Sthavi Asthana: horse riding
  76. Raju Srivastava: comedy
  77. Hemant Sharma: journalism
  78. R. P. Singh: Cricket
  79. Anwar Jalalpuri:literature
  80. Nahid Abidi: literature
  81. Seema Punia: athletics
  82. Jagbir Singh: hockey
  83. Major AK Singh: rowing
  84. Kamla Srivastava: folk music
  85. Abhin Shyam Gupta: badminton
  86. Sunil Jogi: literature
  87. Gopal Chaturvedi: literature
  88. Girja Shankar: literature
  89. Sunil Kumar Rana: sports
  90. Vijay Singh Chauhan: athletics
  91. Anuj Chowdhary: sports
  92. Nawaz Deobandi: education
  93. Wazir Ahmad Khan: Chess
  94. Chakesh Kumar Jain: art
  95. Narendra Singh Rana: Powerlifting
  96. Iqbal Ahmad Siddiqui: ghazal
  97. Kum Kum Adarsh: Kathak
  98. Lalji Yadav: wrestling
  99. Imran Khan: poetry
  100. Ankit Tiwari: singing
  101. Madhukar Trivedi: journalism
  102. Sudha Singh: athletics
  103. Dinesh Lal Yadav "Nirahua": acting
  104. Manu Kumari Pal: athletics
  105. Alim Ullah siddiqui: painting
  106. Servesh Yadav: shooting
  107. Subhash Gupta: medicine

    2016-17

  108. Rahul Kumar: Cricket
  109. Jeetu sharma: Cricket
  110. Umakant Tomar: Literature
  111. Imran Pratapgarhi: Urdu Poetry
  112. Amir Shabbir : Editor
  113. Ustaad gulfam: classical music
  114. Sony Chaurasia: Kathak
  115. Kashinath Yadav Birha
  116. Aftab Sabri, Hashim Sabri: Qawwali
  117. Mo. Aslam Warsi: Sufi singing
  118. Gyanendra Pandey: Cricket
  119. Bhuvneshwar Kumar: Cricket
  120. Praveen Kumar: Cricket
  121. Chawla: Cricket
  122. Santosh Anand: Songwriter
  123. Naseeruddin Shah: acting
  124. Saurabh Shukla: Director
  125. Anubhav Sinha: Director
  126. Sumona Chakravarti : TV actress
  127. Swaroop Kumar Kumar Bakshi: Literature
  128. Anil Rastogi: Theatre personnel
  129. Nawab Mir Jafar Abdullah: Sports
  130. Suman Yadav: game
  131. Mo. Bashir Badar: Literature
  132. Venkat Changavli: philanthropy
  133. Farooq Ahmed: philanthropy
  134. Dr Sabiha Anwar: Education
  135. Dr. Rakesh Kapoor: Medicine
  136. Syed Mohd. Hssna: Greek Medical
  137. Yogesh Mishra: Journalism
  138. Kamar Rahman: Education & Science
  139. Manoj Muntashir: lyricist
  140. Begum Habibullah: Social Service
  141. Pandit Vishwanath: Classical Music
  142. DR. Ratish Agarwal Medical
  143. Raj Krishna Mishra: Literature
  144. Rajendra Singh: Water Harvesting
  145. Manendra Kumar Mishra: Writing
  146. Gen Anil Chait: Military service
  147. Maheshwar Tiwari: Literature
  148. Sarvesh Asthana: Literature
  149. Oma The akk: Literature
  150. Deepraj Rana: Film Direction
  151. Ravi Kapoor: Photography
  152. Dr. Deepak Agrawal Medical
  153. DR. Ramratan Raina Medical
  154. DR. Shivani Matnhelia: Classical Music
  155. Ashok Nigam: Journalism
  156. Arjun Bajpai: Hiking
  157. Vijay Shekhar Sharma: Mobile Banking
  158. Gargi Yadav: Wrestling
  159. Ram Milan Yadav: Wrestling
  160. Ramakant Yadav: Medical
  161. Atam Prakash Mishra: Television
  162. Gaur Das Chowdhury: Medical
  163. Dhananjay Rai: Sports
  164. Noor Alassaba: Artist & Portraitist
  165. Chakresh Kumar Jain: Handicraft
  166. Varun Kumar: Paralympics