Who among the following received the Padma Shri Award in 2025 for social work from Uttarakhand?
- (a)Dr. Yashwant Singh Katoch
- (b)Dr. Madhuri Barthwal
- (c)Smt. Radha Bahin Bhatt
- (d)Shri Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumously)
Correct — C, Smt. Radha Bahin Bhatt.
The stem sets three filters at once: the year 2025, the field of social work, and the state Uttarakhand. Radha Bahin Bhatt is the name among the four that satisfies all three.
She is a Gandhian worker long associated with the Lakshmi Ashram at Kausani in the Kumaon hills, an institution founded by Sarala Behn. Her work has run through women's education, the Chipko movement, and campaigns against liquor in the hill districts.
The transferable point: a Padma question is settled by matching the year and the discipline together, not by recognising a famous name. One state can have several awardees in the same year in different disciplines.
- (a)Dr. Yashwant Singh Katoch — He is on the same 2025 Padma Shri list from Uttarakhand, which makes this the closest miss on the paper's own terms.
His award, though, is recorded under Literature and Education — the same label the Gantzer duo carries. He is one of two 2025 Padma Shri entries from Uttarakhand under that discipline.
So a Literature-and-Education question about Uttarakhand in 2025 has to be narrowed further, by 'historian' or 'writing duo'.
- (b)Dr. Madhuri Barthwal — Her Padma Shri belongs to an earlier year, 2022, and to the field of Art, for Garhwali folk music.
The year filter in the stem rules her out before the field does. She is the right answer to which Uttarakhand folk singer received the Padma Shri for Art in 2022.
- (d)Shri Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumously) — The duo does appear on the 2025 Padma Shri list from Uttarakhand, so the option is drawn from the real list rather than invented.
What decides it is the discipline, not the parenthetical: their award is recorded under Literature and Education, for journalism. They are the right answer to which Uttarakhand writing duo received the 2025 Padma Shri for journalism.
The Padma Awards are India's civilian honours in three tiers — Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, in that descending order of precedence, with the Bharat Ratna standing above all three.
Every entry on a Padma list is recorded against two labels besides the name: the discipline the award was given in, and the recipient's state or country. Social work is one such discipline label.
A Padma list is published as a table — name, discipline, state. That structure is what a question like this leans on, because it can filter on any one column or on two at once.
For Uttarakhand, the 2025 list carries names in more than one discipline. Naming the state and the year therefore does not narrow the field to a single person.
Here it is the 'social work' label that does the last step, because one entry carries it. The Literature and Education label is shared by two of the 2025 Uttarakhand entries, so it would not have finished the job.
- Radha Bahin Bhatt received the Padma Shri in 2025 in the field of social work, listed from Uttarakhand.
- The Lakshmi Ashram at Kausani, where Radha Bhatt's Gandhian work is centred, was founded by Sarala Behn.
- Yashwant Singh Katoch received the 2025 Padma Shri from Uttarakhand under Literature and Education.
- Hugh and Colleen Gantzer were honoured with the 2025 Padma Shri from Uttarakhand as a duo, under Literature and Education (journalism).
- Madhuri Barthwal received the Padma Shri in 2022 in the field of Art, from Uttarakhand.
- Padma Awards are announced on the eve of Republic Day and conferred by the President of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
- In the Padma order of precedence, Padma Shri sits below Padma Bhushan, which sits below Padma Vibhushan.
Each of the four is an Uttarakhand name on a Padma Shri list; the highlighted row is the one matching both the 2025 year and the social work discipline the stem asks for.
- The stem carries three filters — 2025, social work, Uttarakhand. An option can clear the state and the award year and still fail on the discipline, which is exactly how option (a) is built.
- Familiarity is not a filter: Madhuri Barthwal is a genuine Uttarakhand Padma Shri, but from 2022, so an answer picked on how well the name is known misses the year.
- A marker such as '(Posthumously)' records the circumstance of the award, not its discipline, so it carries nothing that bears on the field the stem asks for.
- 'Social work' here is a formal Padma discipline label, not a loose description of a life. Someone whose career reads like public service may still be listed under Literature and Education.
- State papers can place two awardees of the same year and the same state in the option set, so a half-remembered 'someone from Uttarakhand got one in 2025' does not resolve the item.
The idea arrives in three forms: a filter puzzle fixing year, discipline and state; a match-the-list code pairing awardee names with discipline labels; and a negative item asking which name was NOT a recipient in a stated year.
This stem is the filter form. The options are real awardees, and the wrong ones clear some of the three filters but not all, which is why the discipline column is what settles it.
UPPSC_2025_PRE_GSI_Q962025Same 2025 Padma cycle and the same core skill — pairing an awardee with the discipline the award was given in. It differs in tier and format: Padma Vibhushan rather than Padma Shri, national figures with no state filter, and a four-pair matching code rather than one name to pick.
CDS_GK_2023_II_Q1102023The same discipline-label logic, with 'Social Work' appearing among the categories to be matched. It differs in year and tier — 2023 Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan names — and it wants a complete set of four pairings, not a single state-and-field lookup.
MPPSC_2025_PRE_PaperI_Q442025Also a year-anchored Padma recall item asked in a 2025 prelims paper. It runs in the opposite direction and at a higher tier: it asks which name was NOT a 2024 Padma Vibhushan recipient, so it is answered by confirming three awardees rather than by matching a discipline and a state.
UPSC_2002_GS1_Q482002Shares the award itself — the Padma Shri — and the task of picking one recipient from four names. It differs in everything the UKPSC stem turns on: it seeks a historical 'first' in cinema, with no year, discipline or state to filter on.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Radha Bahin Bhatt, awarded the Padma Shri in 2025 for social work, has been associated with which institution?
- (a)Lakshmi Ashram, Kausani
- (b)Anandwan, Warora
- (c)Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad
- (d)Sevagram Ashram, Wardha
Answera — The Lakshmi Ashram at Kausani, in Uttarakhand's Kumaon region and founded by Sarala Behn, is where Radha Bhatt's Gandhian work is centred.Anandwan at Warora is Baba Amte's community in Maharashtra. Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad and Sevagram near Wardha are Gandhi's own ashrams, in Gujarat and Maharashtra respectively, and neither lies in Uttarakhand.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Madhuri Barthwal of Uttarakhand received the Padma Shri in which year?
- (a)2020
- (b)2022
- (c)2024
- (d)2025
Answerb — Her Padma Shri, in the field of Art for Garhwali folk music, was announced in 2022.2020 and 2024 are decoy years drawn from nearby award cycles. 2025 is the year fixed by the UKPSC stem and the year of Radha Bahin Bhatt's Padma Shri for social work, which is what makes it the tempting wrong pick here.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Hugh and Colleen Gantzer, recipients of the Padma Shri in 2025, were recognised in which field?
- (a)Literature and Education
- (b)Social Work
- (c)Art
- (d)Trade and Industry
Answera — Their Padma Shri is recorded under Literature and Education, for journalism.Social Work is the discipline under which Radha Bahin Bhatt was honoured in the same year. Art is the field of Madhuri Barthwal's 2022 Padma Shri. Trade and Industry is a separate Padma discipline and does not describe the Gantzers' writing career.
- practice — not a real PYQ
In the order of precedence of the Padma Awards, the Padma Shri comes immediately after which award?
- (a)Padma Bhushan
- (b)Padma Vibhushan
- (c)Bharat Ratna
- (d)Ashoka Chakra
Answera — The three Padma tiers run Padma Vibhushan, then Padma Bhushan, then Padma Shri, so the award immediately above the Padma Shri is the Padma Bhushan.Padma Vibhushan is the highest of the three and stands two places above. The Bharat Ratna ranks above the Padma awards altogether. The Ashoka Chakra is a gallantry decoration and sits outside this civilian-honours sequence.