Liu Younger is amongst 17 awardees conferred with India’s third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan, on the Republic Day 2024.

Padma Awards 2024: Taiwan-based Foxconn Chairman Younger Liu has been conferred with the distinguished Padma Bhushan–India’s third highest civilian honour– based on the record introduced by the Central authorities on the eve of the seventy fifth Republic Day. Liu is the primary Taiwanese nationwide to be conferred with Padma Bhushan.

Who’s Younger Liu?

Younger Liu, 68, is acknowledged as an progressive enterprise chief who heads the worldwide semiconductor manufacturing big Foxconn as its CEO. Liu, a Taiwanese nationwide, is a confirmed entrepreneur with over 40 years of expertise within the semiconductor business.

Liu first enterprise within the PC manufacturing business got here in 1988 when he based Younger Micro Techniques. In 1995, he established a northbridge and southbridge IC design firm, and later based ITeX– a PC chipset firm– in 1997.

Liu’s Younger Micro Techniques was merged with Foxconn in 1994. For his distinctive work at Foxconn, Younger Liu received the “Digital Transformation Management” by Harvard Enterprise Assessment in 2021.

The Taiwanese businessman holds a M.S. diploma in Laptop Engineering from the College of Southern California and a B.S. diploma in Electrophysics from Taiwan’s Nationwide Chiao Tung College.

Padma Bhushan Awardees

Liu Younger is amongst 17 awardees conferred with India’s third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan, on the Republic Day 2024.  This 12 months’s Padma awardees comprise of 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri Awards. The record consists of 30 girls in addition to eight individuals from the class of Foreigners / NRI / PIO / OCI and 9 Posthumous awardees.

This 12 months’s record of Padma Awardees consists of outstanding names comparable to former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, actors Vyjayantimala Bali and Konidela Chiranjeevi, Sulabh Worldwide founder late Bindeshwar Pathak, first girl choose of Supreme Court docket late M Fathima Beevi and Bombay Samachar proprietor Hormusji N Cama.

Actor Mithun Chakraborty, BJP veteran Ram Naik, actor late Vijaykanth, singer Usha Uthup and philanthropist Kiran Nadar have been additionally awarded the coveted civilian awards on the eve of seventy fifth Republic Day, based on an official assertion.

On Tuesday, it was introduced that the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, might be conferred on two-time Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur posthumously.

Among the many Padma awardees, 34 are unsung heroes together with India’s first girl elephant mahout Parbati Baruah, well-known as “Hasti Kanya”, tribal environmentalist Chami Murmu, social employee Sangthankima who runs Mizoram’s largest orphanage and plastic surgeon Prema Dhanraj.

5 eminent individuals who have been awarded nation’s second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan included Naidu, Bali, Chiranjeevi, Pathak and Bharat Natyam dancer Padma Subrahmanyam.

Padma Bhushan was awarded to 17 outstanding individuals together with Beevi, Cama, Chakraborty, Younger, Vijaykanth, Uthup, Naik, Group Editor and CEO of Gujarati newspaper Janmabhoomi Kundan Vyas, veteran actor and director Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo, former Union well being minister CP Thakur and BJP chief Olanchery Rajagopal.

(With PTI inputs)