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Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The 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; ‘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. These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has approved conferment of 127 Padma Awards including one duo case (counted as one) as per the list below. The list comprises of 2 Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 101 Padma Shri Awardees. 27 of the Awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and Posthumous Awardees.
Padma Vibhushan
Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar Science and Engineering Maharashtra 2. Shri B.K.S. Iyengar Others-Yoga Maharashtra
Padma Bhushan
Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile
1. Prof. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Art - Painting Gujarat 2. Begum Parveen Sultana Art - Classical Singing Maharashtra 3. Shri T.H. Vinayakram Art - Ghatam Artist Tamil Nadu 4. Shri Kamala Haasan Art-Cinema Tamil Nadu 5. Justice Dalveer Bhandari Public Affairs Delhi 6. Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram Science and Engineering Karnataka 7. Prof. Jyeshtharaj Joshi Science and Engineering Maharashtra 8. Dr. Madappa Mahadevappa Science and Engineering Karnataka 9. Dr. Thirumalachari Ramasami Science and Engineering Delhi 10. Dr. Vinod Prakash Sharma Science and Engineering Delhi 11. Dr. Radhakrishnan Koppillil Science and Engineering Karnataka 12. Dr. Mrityunjay Athreya Literature and Education Delhi 13. Ms. Anita Desai Literature and Education Delhi 14. Dr. Dhirubhai Thaker Literature and Education Gujarat 15. Shri Vairamuthu Ramasamy Thevar Literature and Education Tamil Nadu 16. Shri Ruskin Bond Literature and Education Uttarakhand 17. Shri Pullela Gopichand Sports - Badminton Andhra Pradesh 18. Shri Leander Paes Sports - Tennis Maharashtra 19. Shri Vijayendra Nath Kaul Civil Service Delhi 20. Late Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh # Andhra Pradesh 21. Late Dr. Anumolu Ramakrishna Science and Engineering # 22. Prof. Anisuzzaman Literature and Education Bangladesh* Prof. Lloyd I. Rudolph Literature and Education USA*$ 23. Prof. Susanne H. Rudolph Literature and Education USA*$ 24. Dr. (Smt.) Neelam Kler Medicine - Neonatology Delhi
Padma Shri
Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile
1. Shri Mohammad Ali Baig Art - Theatre Andhra Pradesh 2. Ms. Nayana Apte Joshi Art - Maharashtra 3. Art - Instrumental Music - Himachal Shri Musafir Ram Bhardwaj Pauna Manjha Pradesh 4. Ms. Sabitri Chatterjee Art - Film West Bengal 5. Prof. Biman Bihari Das Art - Sculptor Delhi 6. Shri Sunil Das Art - Painting West Bengal 7. Smt. Elam Endira Devi Art - Manipuri Dance Manipur 8. Shri Vijay Ghate Art - Instrumental Music - Tabla Maharashtra 9. Smt Rani Karnaa Art - Kathak West Bengal 10. Jammu & Shri Bansi Kaul Art - Theatre Kashmir 11. Art - Instrumental Music- Ustad Moinuddin Khan Rajasthan Sarangi Player 12. Ms. Geeta Mahalik Art - Odishi Dance Delhi 13. Shri Paresh Maity Art - Painting Delhi 14. Shri Ram Mohan Art - Film Animation Maharashtra 15. Shri Sudarsan Pattnaik Art - Sand Artist Orissa 16. Shri Paresh Rawal Art - Cinema and Theatre Maharashtra 17. Shri Wendell Augustine Rodricks Art - Fashion Designing Goa 18. Prof. Kalamandalam Sathyabhama Art – Mohini Attam Kerala 19. Shri Anuj (Ramanuj) Sharma Art - Performing Art Chhattisgarh 20. Shri Santosh Sivan Art - Film Tamil Nadu 21. Ms. Supriya Devi Art-Bengali Cinema West Bengal 22. Ms. Sooni Taraporevala Art- Script Writing Maharashtra 23. Ms. Vidya Balan Art-Cinema Maharashtra 24. Smt. Durga Jain Social Work Maharashtra 25. Dr. Rama Rao Anumolu Social Work Andhra Pradesh 26. Dr. Brahm Dutt Social Work Haryana 27. Shri Mukul Chandra Goswami Social Work Assam 28. Shri J.L. Kaul Social Work Delhi 29. Shri Mathurbhai Madhabhai Savani Social Work Gujarat 30. Jammu and Shri Tashi Tondup Public Affairs Kashmir 31. Dr. Hasmukh Chamanlal Shah Public Affairs Gujarat 32. Shri Sekhar Basu Science and Engineering Maharashtra 33. Shri Madhavan Chandradathan Science and Engineering Kerala 34. Prof. Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta Science and Engineering West Bengal 35. Dr. Ravi Bhushan Grover Science and Engineering Maharashtra 36. Prof. Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis Science and Engineering Karnataka 37. Shri Ramkrishna V. Hosur Science and Engineering Maharashtra 38. Dr. Ajay Kumar Parida Science and Engineering Tamil Nadu 39. Dr. Malapaka Yajneswara Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh Satyanarayana Prasad 40. Shri Kiran Kumar Alur Seelin Science and Engineering Gujarat 41. Dr. Brahma Singh Science and Engineering Delhi 42. Prof. Vinod Kumar Singh Science and Engineering Madhya Pradesh 43. Dr. Govindan Sundararajan Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh 44. Ramaswamy R. Iyer Science and Engineering Delhi 45. Dr. Jayanta Kumar Ghosh Science and Engineering West Bengal 46. Shri Ravi Kumar Narra Trade and Industry Andhra Pradesh 47. Shri Rajesh Saraiya Trade and Industry Maharashtra 48. Ms. Mallika Srinivasan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 49. Shri Pratap Govindrao Pawar Trade and Industry Maharashtra 50. Dr. Kiritkumar Mansukhlal Acharya Medicine - Dermatology Gujarat 51. Dr. Balram Bhargava Medicine - Cardiology Uttar Pradesh 52. Prof. (Dr.) Indra Chakravarty Medicine - Health & Hygiene West Bengal 53. Dr. Ramakant Krishnaji Deshpande Medicine - Oncology Maharashtra 54. Prof. (Dr.) Pawan Raj Goyal Medicine - Chest Disease Haryana 55. Prof. Amod Gupta Medicine - Opthalmology Haryana 56. Prof. (Dr.) Daya Kishore Hazra Medicine Uttar Pradesh 57. Prof. (Dr.) Thenumgal Poulose Jacob Medicine - Vascular Surgery Tamil Nadu 58. Prof. (Dr.) Shashank R. Joshi Medicine - Endocrinology Maharashtra 59. Prof. Hakim Syed Khaleefathullah Medicine - Unani Medicine Tamil Nadu 60. Dr. Milind Vasant Kirtane Medicine - ENT Surgeory Maharashtra 61. Dr. Lalit Kumar Medicine - oncology Delhi 62. Dr. Mohan Mishra Medicine Bihar 63. Dr. M. Subhadra Nair Medicine - Gyneacology Kerala 64. Dr. Ashok Panagariya Medicine - Neurology Rajasthan 65. Dr. Narendra Kumar Pandey Medicine - Surgery Haryana 66. Dr. Sunil Pradhan Medicine - Neurology Uttar Pradesh 67. Dr. Ashok Rajgopal Medicine - Orthopaedics Delhi Medicine - Reproductive 68. Dr. Kamini A. Rao Karnataka Medicine 69. Dr. Sarbeswar Sahariah Medicine - Surgery Andhra Pradesh 70. Prof. Om Prakash Upadhyaya Medicine - Punjab 71. Prof. (Dr.) Mahesh Verma Medicine - Dental Science Delhi 72. Dr. J.S. Titiyal Medicine- Opthalmology Delhi 73. Dr. Nitish Naik Medicine- Cardiology Delhi 74. Dr. Surbrat Kumar Acharya Medicine- Gastroentrology Delhi 75. Dr. Rajesh Kumar Grover Medicine-Oncology Delhi 76. Dr. Naheed Abidi Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 77. Prof. Ashok Chakradhar Literature and Education Delhi 78. Shri Chhakchhuak Chhuanvawra Literature and Education Mizoram 79. Shri Keki N. Daruwalla Literature and Education Delhi 80. Prof. Ganesh Narayandas Devi Literature and Education Gujarat 81. Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh 82. Jammu and Prof. (Dr.) Ved Kumari Ghai Literature and Education Kashmir 83. Smt. Manorama Jafa Literature and Education Delhi 84. Prof. Rehana Khatoon Literature and Education Delhi 85. Dr. Waikhom Gojen Meeitei Literature and Education Manipur 86. Shri Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri Literature and Education Kerala 87. Prof. Dinesh Singh Literature and Education Delhi 88. Dr. (Mrs.) P. Kilemsungla Literature and Education Nagaland 89. Ms. Anjum Chopra Sports - Cricket Delhi 90. Ms. Sunil Dabas Sports - Kabbadi Haryana 91. Shri Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu Sports - Mountaineering Delhi 92. Ms. Dipika Rebecca Pallikal Sports - Squash Tamil Nadu 93. Shri H. Boniface Prabhu Sports - Wheelchair Tennis Karnataka 94. Shri Yuvraj Singh Sports - Cricket Haryana 95. Smt. Mamta Sodha Sports - Mountaineering Haryana 96. Ms Parveen Talha Civil Service Uttar Pradesh 97. Late Dr. Narendra Achyut Dabholkar Social Work Maharashtra# 98. Shri Ashok Kumar Mago Trade and Industry USA* 99. Dr. Siddharth Mukherjee Medicine-Oncology USA* 100. Dr. Vamsi Mootha Medicine - Biomedical Research USA* 101. Dr. Sengaku Mayeda Literature and Education Japan*
Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs. # indicates awardees in the posthumous category. $ indicates one duo case. (treated as one award.)