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North Block, New Delhi. the 25th January, 2010

Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

2. The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan sometime around March/ April. This year the President has approved 130 awards including 13 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs. These comprise 6 Padma Vibhushan, 43 Padma Bhushan and 81 Padma Shri awards. There are 17 ladies among the awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

Sl.No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Shri Ebrahim Alkazi Art Delhi 2. Shri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Art Tamil Nadu 3. Smt. Zohra Segal Art Delhi 4. Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 5. Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Science and Engineering UK * 6. Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu

Padma Bhushan

Sl.No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Shri Ilaiyaraaja Art Tamil Nadu 2. Shri Aamir Khan Art Maharashtra 3. Shri Akbar Padamsee Art Maharashtra 4. Shri Allah Rakha Rahman Art Tamil Nadu 5. Pandit Chhannulal Mishra Art Uttar Pradesh 6. Smt. Kumudini Lakhia Art Gujarat 7. Shri Kuzhur Narayana Marar Art Kerala 8. Prof. Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky Art Gujarat 9. Ms. Mallika Sarabhai Art Gujarat Page 2 of 4

10. Prof. (Dr.) Nookala Chinna Art Andhra Pradesh Satyanarayana 11. Pandit (Dr.) Puttaraj Gavai Art Karnataka 12. Shri Ram Kumar Art Delhi 13. Shri Shrinivas Vinayak Khale Art Maharashtra 14. Ustad Sultan Khan Art Maharashtra 15. Shri B.K. Chaturvedi Civil Service Delhi 16. Shri Moosa Raza Civil Service Delhi 17. Dr. P.R. Dubhashi Civil Service Maharashtra 18. Shri Fareed Zakaria Journalism USA * 19. Shri Anil Bordia Literature and Education Rajasthan 20. Prof. Bipan Chandra Literature and Education Delhi 21. Shri G.P. Chopra Literature and Education Delhi 22. Prof. Mohammad Amin Literature and Education Delhi 23. Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri Literature and Education Delhi 24. Prof. Tan Chung Literature and Education USA * 25. Prof. Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine Karnataka 26. Shri E.T. Narayanan Mooss Medicine Kerala 27. Dr. Noshir M. Shroff Medicine Delhi 28. Dr. Panniyampilly Krishna Medicine Kerala Warrier 29. Dr. Ramakant Madanmohan Medicine Maharashtra Panda 30. Prof.(Dr.) Satya Paul Agarwal Medicine Delhi 31. Prof. Abhijit Sen Public Affairs Delhi 32. Shri Sailesh Kumar Public Affairs West Bengal Bandyopadhyay 33. Shri Sant Singh Chatwal Public Affairs USA * 34. Prof. Arogyaswami Joseph Science and Engineering USA * Paulraj 35. Prof. Bikash Chandra Sinha Science and Engineering West Bengal 36. Shri Jagdish Chandra Kapur Science and Engineering Delhi 37. Dr. Balagangadharanatha Social Work Karnataka Swamiji 38. Shri Eknath Rao alias Balasaheb Social Work Maharashtra Vikhe Patil 39. Capt. C.P. Krishnan Nair Trade and Industry Maharashtra 40. Dr. Kushal Pal Singh Trade and Industry Delhi 41. Shri Manvinder Singh Banga Trade and Industry UK * alias Vindi Banga 42. Shri Narayanan Vaghul Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 43. Shri S.P. Oswal Trade and Industry Punjab

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Padma Shri

Sl.No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Shri Gulam Mohammed Mir Public Service Jammu and Kashmir 2. Ms. Rekha Art Maharashtra 3. Shri Arjun Prajapati Art Rajasthan 4. Ms. Arundhati Nag Art Karnataka 5. Ms. Carmel Berkson Art Maharashtra 6. Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar Art Delhi 7. Smt. Gul Bardhan Art Madhya Pradesh 8. Smt. Haobam Ongbi Ngangbi Art Manipur Devi 9. Shri Hari Uppal Art Bihar 10. Shri K. Raghavan Art Kerala 11. Guru Mayadhar Raut Art Delhi 12. Shri Mukund Lath Art Rajasthan 13. Shri Nemai Ghosh Art West Bengal 14. Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi Art Orissa 15. Shri Rajkumar Achouba Singh Art Manipur 16. Dr. Ram Dayal Munda Art Jharkhand 17. Shri Resul Pokutty Art Kerala 18. Shri Saif Ali Khan Art Maharashtra 19. Dr. (Smt.) Shobha Raju Art Andhra Pradesh 20. Ms. Sumitra Guha Art Delhi 21. Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar Art West Bengal 22. Shri D.R. Karthikeyan Civil Service Delhi 23. Dr. Ranjit Bhargava Environment Protection Uttarakhand 24. Shri Arun Sarma Literature and Education Assam 25. Prof. Arvind Kumar Literature and Education Maharashtra 26. Ms. Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar Literature and Education Meghalaya 27. Prof. Govind Chandra Pande Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh 28. Prof. Hamidi Kashmiri Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir 29. Prof. (Dr.) Hermann Kulke Literature and Education Germany * 30. Shri Janaki Ballav Shastri Literature and Education Bihar 31. Dr. Jitendra Udhampuri Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir 32. Dr. Lal Bahadur Singh Chauhan Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 33. Shri Lalzuia Colney Literature and Education Mizoram 34. Ms. Maria Aurora Couto Literature and Education Goa 35. Dr.(Smt.) Rajalakshmi Literature and Education Tamil Nadu Parthasarathy alias Y.G. Parthasarathy 36. Prof. Ramaranjan Mukherji Literature and Education West Bengal 37. Dr. Ranganathan Parthasarathy Literature and Education Tamil Nadu 38. Fr. Romuald D’Souza Literature and Education Goa 39. Prof. Sadiq - Ur - Rahman Literature and Education Delhi Kidwai 40. Mr. Sheldon Pollock Literature and Education USA * Page 4 of 4

41. Dr. Surendra Dubey Literature and Education Chhattisgarh 42. Dr. Anil Kumar Bhalla Medicine Delhi 43. Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin Medicine Uttar Pradesh 44. Dr. B. Ramana Rao Medicine Karnataka 45. Dr. Jalakantapuram Ramaswamy Medicine Tamil Nadu Krishnamoorthy 46. Dr. K.K. Aggarwal Medicine Delhi 47. Prof. Kodaganur S. Gopinath Medicine Karnataka 48. Dr. Laxmi Chand Gupta Medicine Delhi 49. Dr. Philip Augustine Medicine Kerala 50. Dr. Rabindra Narain Singh Medicine Bihar 51. Dr. Vikas Mahatme Medicine Maharashtra 52. Dr. Rafael Iruzubieta Fernandez Public Affairs Spain * 53. Prof. M.R. Satyanarayana Rao Science and Engineering Karnataka 54. Prof. (Dr.) Palpu Pushpangadan Science and Engineering Kerala 55. Prof. Ponisseril Somasundaran Science and Engineering USA * 56. Prof. Pucadyil Ittoop John Science and Engineering Gujarat 57. Dr. Vijay Prasad Dimri Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh 58. Dr.(Ms.) Vijaylakshmi Science and Engineering Karnataka Ravindranath 59. Ms. Anu Aga Social Work Maharashtra 60. Shri Ayekpam Tomba Meetei Social Work Manipur 61. Shri Deep Joshi Social Work Delhi 62. Dr. J.R. Gangaramani Social Work UAE * 63. Shri Kranti Shah Social Work Maharashtra 64. Dr. Kurian John Melamparambil Social Work Kerala 65. Baba Sewa Singh Social Work Punjab 66. Ms. Sudha Kaul Social Work West Bengal 67. Dr. Sudhir M. Parikh Social Work USA * 68. Shri Ignace Tirkey Sports Orissa 69. Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan Sports Tamil Nadu 70. Shri Ramakant Vithal Achrekar Sports Maharashtra 71. Ms. Saina Nehwal Sports Andhra Pradesh 72. Shri Vijender Singh Sports Haryana 73. Shri Virendra Sehwag Sports Delhi 74. Dr. Alluri Venkata Satyanarayana Trade and Industry Andhra Pradesh Raju 75. Dr. B. Raveendran Pillai Trade and Industry Bahrain * 76. Shri Deepak Puri Trade and Industry Delhi 77. Shri Irshad Mirza Trade and Industry Uttar Pradesh 78. Brig. Dr. Kapil Mohan Trade and Industry Himachal Pradesh 79. Dr. Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel Trade and Industry Gujarat 80. Shri T.N. Manoharan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 81. Shri Venu Srinivasan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu

Note: * denotes awardees in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs. -----