Procedure for choosing Bharat Ratna
The Bharat Ratna award selection procedure differs from the Padma award procedure. In this, the President of India is recommended a candidate for Bharat Ratna by the Prime Minister of India. For Bharat Ratna, no official recommendation is necessary. Without regard to a person's gender, caste, occupation, or rank, they are all eligible for this prize. Every year, only three Bharat Ratnas are awarded. Furthermore, the Bharat Ratna award does not have to be granted annually. There have been 48 recipients of the Bharat Ratna award thus far. The most recent time this accolade was bestowed was in 2019. 2019 saw the posthumous Bharat Ratnas granted to Dr Bhupen Hazarika in the arts, former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee in the field of social service, and Nanaji Deshmukh in the field of public service.

What is given to awardees of Bharat Ratna?
The Indian government awards Bharat Ratna awardees with a medal and a certificate. This distinction carries no financial reward. Facilities are provided to recipients by government departments. For instance, the Railways provide free travel amenities to Bharat Ratna recipients. Recipients of Bharat Ratna are invited to take part in significant government initiatives. He is granted a position in the Warrant of Presidency by the government. Following the President, Vice President, Prime Minister, Governor, Former President, Deputy Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Cabinet Minister, Chief Minister, Former Prime Minister, and Leader of the Opposition in both Houses of Parliament are those who receive the Bharat Ratna in the protocol. The President's Warrant is used to provide privileges in government initiatives. Bharat Ratna recipients are provided with facilities in their states by state governments. It is not possible to add this accolade before or after your name. On the other hand, awardees may write "Bharat Ratna Recipient" or "Awarded Bharat Ratna by the President" on their visiting card, biodata, or letterhead.
 

Bharat Ratna Award Winners List From 1954 to 2024

Year	Recipients	About
Bharat Ratna 1954	C. Rajagopalachari	Activist, statesman, and lawyer
	Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan	India’s first Vice-President and second President
	C. V. Raman	Physicists, mathematicians, and scientists
Bharat Ratna 1955	Bhagwan Das	Activist, philosopher, and educationist
	M. Visvesvaraya	Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore
	Jawaharlal Nehru	Activist and author served as the Prime Minister of India
Bharat Ratna 1957	Govind Ballabh Pant	Activist and first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Bharat Ratna 1958	Dhondo Keshav Karve	Social reformer and educator
Bharat Ratna 1961	Bidhan Chandra Roy	Physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker
	Purushottam Das Tandon	Activist and speaker of the United Provinces Legislative Assembly
Bharat Ratna 1962	Rajendra Prasad	Activist, lawyer, statesman, and scholar
Bharat Ratna 1963	Zakir Husain	Activist, economist, and education philosopher served as a Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and the Governor of Bihar
	Pandurang Vaman Kane	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, known for his five-volume literary work
Bharat Ratna 1966	Lal Bahadur Shastri	Activist and served as the second Prime Minister of India
Bharat Ratna 1971	Indira Gandhi	First women Prime Minister of India
Bharat Ratna 1975	V. V. Giri	Trade Unionist
Bharat Ratna 1976	K. Kamaraj	Independence activist and statesman, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
Bharat Ratna 1980	Mother Teresa	Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
1983	Vinoba Bhave	Activist, social reformer, and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi
Bharat Ratna 1987	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	First noncitizen, independence activist
Bharat Ratna 1988	M. G. Ramachandran	Actor turned politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
Bharat Ratna 1990	B.R. Ambedkar	Social reformer and leader of the Dalits
	Nelson Mandela	Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa, President of South Africa
Bharat Ratna 1991	Rajiv Gandhi	Gandhi was the ninth Prime Minister of India serving from 1984 to 1989.
	Vallabhbhai Patel	Activist and first Deputy Prime Minister of India
	Morarji Desai	Activist, and Prime Minister of India
Bharat Ratna 1992	Abul Kalam Azad	Activist and first Minister of education
	J. R. D. Tata	Industrialist, philanthropist, and aviation pioneer
	Satyajit Ray	Director, filmmaker, writer, novelist
Bharat Ratna 1997	Gulzarilal Nanda	Activist, and interim Prime Minister of India.
	Aruna Asaf Ali	Activist
	A.P.J Abdul Kalam	Aerospace and defense scientist
Bharat Ratna 1998	M. S. Subbulakshmi	Carnatic classical vocalist
	Chidambaram Subramaniam	Activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India
Bharat Ratna 1999	Jayaprakash Narayan	Activist, and social reformer
	Amartya Sen	Economist
	Gopinath Bordoloi	Activist
	Ravi Shankar	Musician, sitar player
Bharat Ratna 2001	Lata Mangeshkar	Singer
	Bismillah Khan	Hindustani classical shehnai player
Bharat Ratna 2009	Bhimsen Joshi	Hindustani classical vocalist
Bharat Ratna 2014	C. N. R. Rao	Chemist and professor, author
	Sachin Tendulkar	Cricketer
Bharat Ratna 2015	Madan Mohan Malaviya	Scholar and educational reformer.
	Atal Bihari Bajpayee	Elected nine times to the Lok Sabha, twice to the Rajya Sabha, and served as the Prime Minister of India for three terms.
Bharat Ratna 2019	Pranab Mukherjee	Indian politician, and senior leader in the Indian National Congress.
	Nanaji Deshmukh	A social activist from India, education, health, and rural self-reliance.
	Bhupen Hazarika	Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet, and filmmaker from Assam.
Bharat Ratna 2024 (Posthumously)	Karpoori Thakur	A renowned socialist leader and former Chief Minister of Bihar
Bharat Ratna 2024	Lal Krishna Advani	A Veteran Bhartiya Janta Party Leader
Bharat Ratna 2024	PV Narsimha Rao	Former Prime Minister
Bharat Ratna 2024	Chaudhary Charan Singh	A former Prime Minister who supported the agricultural sector and upheld the rights of the farmers.
Bharat Ratna 2024	MS Swaminathan	Father of Green Revolution

Information on the Bharat Ratna Award

Bharat Ratna is awarded both in living and in death. The decision to award the Bharat Ratna for the greatest achievement or contribution in the sports world was made for the first time in 2013. Cricket player Sachin Tendulkar received this distinction in 2014. Non-Indians may also receive this honour. In 1980, Mother Teresa received the Bharat Ratna. Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, and freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who was born in India before to independence and later moved to Pakistan, have also received this accolade. In any given year, no more than three Bharat Ratnas may be awarded. All that is awarded for this accolade is a medal and a certificate. There is no money exchanged. 1956, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968–70, 1972–74, 1977–79, 1981, 1982, 1984–86, 1993–96, 2000, 2002–08, 2010–13, 2020–22 There was no Bharat Ratna. The Bharat Ratna award was twice suspended. The awards were then given again.