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GOVERNMENT OF MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1506

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 15TH MARCH, 2017/ PHALGUNA 24, 1938 (SAKA)

NORM FOR CONFERRING AND OTHER AWARDS

†1506. SHRI SANJAY SETH:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state :

(a) whether Government has fixed any norm for conferring Padma Vibhushan and other awards;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) the names of the social workers, great luminaries and eminent persons honoured with these awards by Central Government during last three years till date, year-wise;

(d) whether the attention of Government has been drawn towards conferring with Padma Vibhushan award to Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav along with some other great social workers; and

(e) if so, the details thereof and the steps taken by Government in this regard?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI KIREN RIJIJU)

(a & b) The Padma Awards are given in various 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; ‘’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma

Shri’ for distinguished service.

(c) Year wise details of the Padma Awardees for the year 2014, 2015,

2016 and 2017 are enclosed in Annexure-I, II, III and IV respectively.

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(d ) & (e) The matter relating to conferment of Padma Vibhushan to Shri

Mulayam Singh Yadav was raised in the Rajya Sabha on 06.02.2017 and also appeared in the Media on 08.02.2017. The recommendations for Padma

Awards are invited from 1st May to 15th September every year, from all

State/UT Governments, Ministries/Departments of the ,

Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan awardees and selected Institutes of

Excellence. Recommendations are also received from several other sources like Governors, Chief Ministers of States, Central/State Ministers, MPs,

MLAs and various other organizations/bodies/ private individuals etc. All nominations/recommendations so received for the Padma Awards are placed before the Padma Awards Committee which makes its recommendations, from amongst the nominations/recommendations received, or of those whom the Committee may identify on its own, to the

President of India.

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Annexure-I

Padma Awards-2014

Padma Vibhushan

Sl. No. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field

Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar Science and Engineering 1. Shri B.K.S. Iyengar Others 2.

Padma Bhushan

Sl. No. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field

Prof. Art 1. Begum Art 2. Shri T.H. Vinayakram Art 3. Shri Kamala Haasan Art 4. Justice Public Affairs 5. Prof. Science and Engineering 6. Prof. Science and Engineering 7. Dr. Madappa Mahadevappa Science and Engineering 8. Dr. Science and Engineering 9. Dr. Science and Engineering 10. Dr. Radhakrishnan Koppillil Science and Engineering 11. Dr. Literature and Education 12. Ms. Literature and Education 13. Dr. Dhirubhai Thaker Literature and Education 14. Shri Ramasamy Thevar Literature and Education 15. Shri Literature and Education 16. Shri Sports 17. Shri Sports 18. Shri Vijayendra Kaul Civil Service 19. Late Dr. Anumolu Science and Engineering 20. Prof. Literature and Education 21. Prof. Lloyd I. Rudolph Literature and Education 22. Prof. Susanne H. Rudolph Literature and Education

Dr. (Smt.) Medicine 23.

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Padma Shri

Sl. No. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field

Shri Art 1. Ms. Nayana Apte Joshi Art 2. Shri Art 3. Ms. Art 4. Prof. Art 5. Shri Art 6. Smt. Art 7. Shri Art 8. Smt Art 9. Shri Art 10. Ustad Moinuddin Khan Art 11. Ms. Art 12. Shri Art 13. Shri Art 14. Shri Art 15. Shri Art 16. Shri Wendell Augustine Rodricks Art 17. Prof. Kalamandalam Sathyabhama Art 18. Shri Anuj (Ramanuj) Sharma Art 19. Shri Art 20. Ms. Art 21. Ms. Art 22. Ms. Balan Art 23. Smt. Durga Jain Social Work 24. Dr. Rao Anumolu Social Work 25. Dr. Brahm Dutt Social Work 26. Shri Social Work 27. Shri J.L. Kaul Social Work 28. Shri Mathurbhai Madhabhai Savani Social Work 29. Shri Tashi Tondup Public Affairs 30.

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Sl. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field No. Dr. Hasmukh Chamanlal Shah Public Affairs 31. Shri Science and Engineering 32. Shri Madhavan Chandradathan Science and Engineering 33. Dr. Bhushan Grover Science and Engineering 34. Prof. Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis Science and Engineering 35. Shri Ramkrishna V. Hosur Science and Engineering 36. Dr. Science and Engineering 37. Dr. Malapaka Yajneswara Science and Engineering 38. Satyanarayana Prasad

Shri Kiran Kumar Alur Seelin Science and Engineering 39. Dr. Singh Science and Engineering 40. Prof. Vinod Kumar Singh Science and Engineering 41. Dr. Science and Engineering 42. Ramaswamy R. Iyer Science and Engineering 43. Dr. Science and Engineering 44. Shri Ravi Kumar Narra Trade and Industry 45. Shri Rajesh Saraiya Trade and Industry 46. Ms. Mallika Srinivasan Trade and Industry 47. Shri Pratap Govindrao Pawar Trade and Industry 48. Dr. Kiritkumar Mansukhlal Medicine 49. Dr. Medicine 50. Prof. (Dr.) Indra Chakravarty Medicine 51. Dr. Ramakant Krishnaji Deshpande Medicine 52. Prof. (Dr.) Medicine 53. Prof. Medicine 54. Prof. (Dr.) Daya Kishore Hazra Medicine 55. Prof. (Dr.) Thenumgal Poulose Jacob Medicine 56. Prof. (Dr.) Shashank R. Joshi Medicine 57. Prof. Hakim Syed Khaleefathullah Medicine 58. Dr. Medicine 59. Dr. Medicine 60. Dr. Medicine 61.

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Sl. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field No. Dr. M. Subhadra Nair Medicine 62. Dr. Medicine 63. Dr. Medicine 64. Dr. Medicine 65. Dr. Medicine 66. Dr. Kamini A. Rao Medicine 67. Dr. Medicine 68. Prof. Prakash Upadhyaya Medicine 69. Prof. (Dr.) Medicine 70. Dr. J.S. Titiyal Medicine 71. Dr. Medicine 72. Dr. Surbrat Kumar Acharya Medicine 73. Dr. Medicine 74. Dr. Naheed Abidi Literature and Education 75. Prof. Literature and Education 76. Shri Chhakchhuak Chhuanvawra Literature and Education 77. Shri Keki N. Daruwalla Literature and Education 78. Prof. Ganesh Narayandas Devi Literature and Education 79. Prof. Literature and Education 80. Prof. (Dr.) Literature and Education 81. Smt. Jafa Literature and Education 82. Prof. Literature and Education 83. Dr. Waikhom Gojen Meeitei Literature and Education 84. Shri Narayanan Namboothiri Literature and Education 85. Prof. Literature and Education 86. Dr. (Mrs.) P. Kilemsungla Literature and Education 87. Ms. Sports 88. Ms. Sports 89. Shri Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu Sports 90. Ms. Dipika Rebecca Pallikal Sports 91. Shri H. Boniface Prabhu Sports 92.

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Sl. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field No. Shri Sports 93. Smt. Sports 94. Ms Parveen Talha Civil Service 95. Late Dr. Narendra Achyut Dabholkar Social Work 96. Shri Mago Trade and Industry 97. Dr. Siddharth Mukherjee Medicine 98. Dr. Medicine 99. Dr. Literature and Education 100. -----

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Annexure-II Padma Awards-2015

Padma Vibhushan

Sl. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field No. 1. Shri L. K. Advani Public Affairs 2. Shri Art 3. Shri Badal Public Affairs 4. Dr. D. Social Work Shri Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias 5. Art Shri Jagadguru Ramanandacharya 6. Others Swami Prof. Malur Ramaswamy 7. Science and Engineering Srinivasan Shri Kottayan K. Venugopal 8. Public Affairs

Shri Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan 9. Trade and Industry (Foreigner)

Padma Bhushan

Sl. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field No. 1. Shri Art

2. Dr. Vijay Bhatkar Science and Engineering

3. Shri Literature and Education

4. Giri Others

5. Shri N. Gopalaswami Civil Service

6. Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap Public Affairs

7. Dr. (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj Art

8. Dr. Medicine

9. Smt. Art

10. Shri Public Affairs

11. Dr. Medicine

12. Shri Literature and Education

13. Shri Satpal Sports

14. Shri Others

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S. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field No. 15. Dr. Kharag Singh Valdiya Science and Engineering

Prof. 16. Science and Engineering (NRI/PIO) Shri () 17. Others (Foreigner) Shri 18. Social Work (Foreigner) Ms. Melinda Gates 19. Social Work (Foreigner) Shri Saichiro Misumi 20. Others (Foreigner)

Padma Shri

S. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field No. 1. Dr. Medicine 2. Shri S. Arunan Science and Engineering 3. Ms. Kanyakumari Avasarala Art 4. Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer Literature and Education 5. Shri Art 6. Shri Social Work 7. Shri Art 8. Dr. Literature and Education 9. Dr. Literature and Education 10. Prof. (Dr.) Medicine 11. Smt. Jayakumari Chikkala Medicine 12. Shri Literature and Education 13. Dr. Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi Medicine 14. Dr. Public Affairs 15. Dr. Medicine 16. Dr. K. P. Haridas Medicine 17. Shri Art 18. Shri Art 19. Dr. Literature and Education 20. Shri Art 21. Dr. Art 22. Ms. Saba Anjum Sports 23. Smt. Ushakiran Khan Literature and Education 24. Dr. Medicine 25. Prof. Medicine 26. Dr. Medicine Shri Narayana Purushothama 27. Literature and Education Mallaya 28. Shri Literature and Education 29. Dr. (Mrs.) Janak Palta McGilligan Social Work 30. Shri Social Work

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S. No. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field 31. Shri Tarak Mehta Art 32. Shri Neil Herbert Nongkynrih Art 33. Shri Chewang Norphel Others 34. Shri T. V. Mohandas Pai Trade and Industry 35. Dr. Medicine 36. Shri Jadav Molai Peyang Others 37. Smt. Other 38. Dr. N. Prabhakar Science and Engineering 39. Dr. Prahalada Science and Engineering 40. Dr. Narendra Prasad Medicine 41. Shri Literature and Education 42. Ms. Sports 43. Shri P. V. Rajaraman Civil Service 44. Prof. J. S. Rajput Literature and Education 45. Shri Art 46. Prof. Bimal Roy Literature and Education 47. Shri Art 48. Shri Literature and Education 49. Shri (Bhaiji) Literature and Education 50. Shri Manu Sharma Literature and Education 51. Prof. Medicine 52. Shri Vasant Shastri Science and Engineering 53. Shri S. K. Shivkumar Science and Engineering 54. Ms. P. V. Sindhu Sports 55. Shri Sports 56. Ms. Sports 57. Shri Mahesh Raj Soni Art 58. Dr. Medicine 59. Shri H. Thegtse Rinpoche Social Work 60. Dr.Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi Medicine Shri Huang Baosheng 61. Others (Foreigner) Prof. 62. Science and Engineering (Foreigner) Shri Jean-Claude Carriere 63. Literature and Education (Foreigner) Dr. Nandrajan “Raj” Chetty 64. Trade and Industry (NRI/PIO) Shri George L. Hart 65. Others (Foreigner) Jagat Amrta Suryananda 66. Others Maha Raja (NRI/PIO) Late Shri 67. Social Work (Posthumous) Ms. 68. Art (NRI/PIO) Dr. 69. Medicine (NRI/PIO) Dr. Raghu Rama Pillarisetti 70. Medicine (NRI/PIO)

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S. No Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field Dr. 71. Medicine (NRI/PIO) Prof. 72. Literature and Education (Foreigner) Late Shri alias 73. Art Pran (Posthumous) Late Shri R. Vasudevan 74. Civil Service (Posthumous) ------

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Annexure-III

Padma Awards-2016

Padma Vibhushan

S. No Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field 1. Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi Art 2. Shri Art 3. Smt. Art 4. Shri Literature & Education 5. Dr. Viswanathan Shanta Medicine 6. Shri Shri Others 7. Shri Public Affairs 8. Dr.Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre Science & Engineering Shri 9. Literature & Education (Foreigner) Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani 10. Trade & Industry (Posthumous)

Padma Bhushan

S. No. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field 1. Shri Art 2. Shri Jha Art 3. Shri Ram V. Sutar Art 4. Shri Art 5. Shri Civil Service 6. Dr. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Literature & Education 7. Prof. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya Literature & Education 8. Dr. Literature & Education 9. Prof. D. Nageshwar Reddy Medicine 10. Swami Other 11. Shri Others 12. Shri Ravindra Chandra Bhargava Public Affairs 13. Dr.Venkata Rama Rao Alla Science & Engineering 14. Ms. Sports 15. Ms. Sports 16. Ms. Trade & Industry Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati 17. Others (Posthumous) Shri 18. Public Affairs (Foreigner) 19. Shri Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (NRI/PIO) Trade & Industry

Padma Shri

S. No Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field 1. Smt. Prathibha Prahlad Art 2. Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi Art 3. Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar Art 4. Shri Art 5. Ms. Priyanka Chopra Art 6. Pt. Borkar Art 7. Dr. Ghosh Art

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S. No Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field

8. Shri Art 9. Shri S.S. Rajamouli Art 10. Shri Art 11. Prof. M. Art 12. Ms. Gulabi Sapera Art 13. Smt. Art 14. Ms. Art 15. Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal Art 16. Shri K. Art 17. Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe Art 18. Shri Naresh Chander Lal Art 19. Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah Literature & Education 20. Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa Literature & Education 21. Dr.Ravindra Nagar Literature & Education 22. Shri Dahyabhai Shastri Literature & Education 23. Dr.Santeshivara Bhyrappa Literature & Education 24. Shri Haldar Nag Literature & Education 25. Shri Kameshwaram Brahma Literature & Education 26. Prof. Literature & Education 27. Shri Jawaharlal Kaul Literature & Education 28. Shri Literature &Education 29. Dr.Mannam Gopi Chand Medicine 30. Prof. Medicine 31. Prof. Medicine 32. Prof. Medicine 33. Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar Medicine 34. Dr. Alla Gopala Gokhale Medicine 35. Prof. T.K. Lahiri Medicine 36. Dr. Medicine 37. Prof. (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir Medicine 38. Dr.Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva Medicine 39. Dr. (Mrs.) Medicine 40. Prof. M.V. Padma Srivastava Medicine

41. Dr. Sudhir V. Shah Medicine 42. Dr. M. M. Joshi Medicine 43. Prof. (Dr) Medicine 44. Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda Medicine 45. Shri Simon Oraon Other 46. Shri Imitiaz Qureshi Other 47. Shri Piyush Pandey Others 48. Shri Subhash Palekar Others 49. Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha Others 50. Dr. H.R. Nagendra Others 51. Shri M. C. Mehta Public Affairs 52. Shri M. N. Krishna Mani Public Affairs

53. Shri Ujjwal Nikam Public Affairs 54. Shri Tokheho Sema Public Affairs 55. Dr. Science & Engineering 56. Dr. Science & Engineering 57. Prof. Science & Engineering 58. Prof.(Dr.) Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav Science & Engineering

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S. No Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field 59. Smt. (Prof.) Science & Engineering 60. Shri Science and Engineering 61. Ms. Sunita Krishnan Social Work 62. Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta Social Work 63. Shri M. Pandit Dasa Social Work 64. Shri P. P. Gopinathan Nair Social Work 65. Smt. Madeleine Herman de Blic Social Work 66. Shri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai Social work 67. Shri Sudhakar Olwe Social Work 68. Dr. T.V. Narayana Social Work 69. Shri Arunachalam Murugantham Social Work 70. Ms. Sports 71. Shri Sports 72. Shri Mahesh Sharma Trade & Industry 73. Shri Saurabh Srivastava Trade & Industry 74. Sh Dilip Sanghvi Trade & Industry 75. Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda Trade & Industry 76. Late Shri Art (Posthumous) 77. Late Shri Art (NRI/PIO/Posthumous) 78. Shri Art (Foreigner) 79. Shri Salman Amin (NRI/PIO) Literature & Education 80. Smt. Hui Lan Zhang Others (Foreigner) 81. Shri Predrag K. Nikic Others (Foreigner) 82. Dr. Sundar A. Menon Social Work (NRI/PIO) 83. Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga (NRI/PIO) Trade & Industry ------

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Annexure-IV

Padma Awards-for conferment in 2017

Padma Vibhushan

S. No Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field 1. Shri K J Yesudas Art 2. Sadhguru Others

3. Shri Public Affairs 4. Shri Public Affairs 5. Prof. Udipi Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering Late Shri 6. Public Affairs (Posthumous) Late Shri PA Sangma 7. Public Affairs (Posthumous)

Padma Bhushan

S. No. Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field 1. Shri Art 2. Prof. (Dr.) Devi Prasad Dwivedi Literature & Education 3. Shri Tehemton Udwadia Medicine 4. Shri Ratna Sundar Maharaj Others 5. Swami Niranjana Nanda Others 6. H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Literature & Education (Foreigner) 7. Late Shri Literature & Education (Posthumous)

Padma Shri

S. No Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field 1. Smt. Art 2. Shri Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair Art 3. Smt. Art 4. Smt. Bharathi Vishnuvardhan Art 5. Shri Meher Art 6. Shri T K Murthy Art 7. Shri Laishram Birendrakumar Singh Art 8. Shri Krishna Ram Chaudhary Art 9. Smt. Baoa Devi Art 10. Shri Tilak Gitai Art 11. Dr. Prof. Aekka Yadagiri Rao Art 12. Shri Art 13. Shri Art 14. Smt. Parassala B Ponnammal Art 15. Smt. Sukri Bommagowda Art 16. Shri Art 17. Shri Purushottam Upadhyay Art 18. Smt. Art 19. Shri Wareppa Naba Nil Art 20. Shri Tripuraneni Chowdary Civil Service

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S. No Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field 21. Shri T.K. Viswanathan Civil Service 22. Shri Kanwal Sibal Civil Service 23. Shri Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla Literature & Education 24. Smt. Literature & Education 25. Dr. Literature & Education 26. Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah Literature & Education 27. Shri Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri Literature & Education 28. Shri Kashi Nath Pandita Literature & Education 29. Shri Literature & Education 30. Shri Harihar Kripalu Tripathi Literature & Education 31. Shri Literature & Education 32. Shri Literature & Education 33. Shri VG Patel Literature & Education 34. Smt. V Koteswaramma Literature & Education 35. Shri Balbir Dutt Literature & Education 36. Smt. Literature & Education 37. Shri Literature & Education 38. Dr. Subroto Das Medicine 39. Dr. (Smt.) Yadav Medicine 40. Dr. Mohammed Abdul Waheed Medicine 41. Dr. Madan Madhav Godbole Medicine 42. Dr. Devendra Dayabhai Patel Medicine 43. Prof. Medicine 44. Dr. Mukut Minz Medicine 45. Shri Others 46. Shri Sanjeev Kapoor Others 47. Smt. Meenakshi Amma Others 48. Shri Genabhai Dargabhai Patel Others 49. Shri Chandrakant Pithawa Science & Engineering 50. Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray Science & Engineering 51. Shri Science & Engineering 52. Shri Science & Engineering 53. Shri Daripalli Ramaiah Social Work 54. Shri Girish Bhardwaj Social Work 55. Shri Karimul Hak Social Work 56. Shri Bipin Ganatra Social Work 57. Smt. Nivedita Raghunath Bhide Social work 58. Shri Social Work 59. Baba Social Work 60. Shri Sports 61. Shri Shekar Naik Sports 62. Shri Vikasa Gowda Sports 63. Smt. Sports 64. Shri Sports 65. Smt. Sports 66. Shri P R Shreejesh Sports 67. Smt. Malik Sports Shri Mohan Reddy Venkatrama 68. Trade & Industry Bodanapu Shri 69. Literature & Education (NRI/PIO)

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S. No Name of the Awardee Discipline/Field Shri H.R. Shah Literature & Education 70. (NRI/PIO) Late (Smt.) 71. Medicine (Posthumous) Shri Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya Others 72. (Posthumous) Dr. Mapuskar 73. Social Work (Posthumous) 74. Smt. (Foreigner) Social Work

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