page_title: List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)
section_title: Recipients
hierarchical_section_title: List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959) / Recipients
caption_attribution_description: English: Edmund Hillary &amp; Sherpa Tenzing 1 B&amp;W photo print, copy Beside aircraft shaking hands in greeting or farewell. Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”
context_page_description: The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service of a high order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The recipients receive a Sanad, a certificate signed by the President of India and a circular-shaped medallion with no monetary association. The recipients are announced every year on Republic Day and registered in The Gazette of India—a publication used for official government notices and released weekly by the Department of Publication, under the Ministry of Urban Development. The conferral of the award is not considered official without its publication in the Gazette. The name of recipient, whose award have been revoked or restored, both of which require the authority of the President, is archived and they are required to surrender their medal when their name is struck from the register; none of the conferments of Padma Bhushan during 1954–1959 have been revoked or restored.
caption: Tenzing Norgay (right, awarded in 1959) was one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary (left) on 29 May 1953.[15]
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