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S.NO. CATEGORY PAGE NO

1. DANCE 02

2. FOLK 38

3. THEATRE & PUPPETRY 79

4. CARNATIC MUSIC 105

5. HINDUSTANI MUSIC 131

6. MODERN DANCE & MUSIC 172

INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS EMPANELMEMT SECTION

REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR DANCE - AS ON 26/09/2012

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1. BHARATANATYAM 3 – 11

2. CHHAU 12 – 13

3. KATHAK 14 – 19

4. KATHAKALI 20 – 21

5. KRISHNANATTAM 22

6. KUCHIPUDI 23 – 25

7. KUDIYATTAM 26

8. MANIPURI 27 – 28

9. MOHINIATTAM 29 – 30

10. ODISSI 31 – 35

11. SATTRIYA 36

12. YAKSHAGANA 37

REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR DANCE AS ON 26/09/2012 BHARATANATYAM OUTSTANDING

1. Ananda Shankar Jayant (Also Kuchipudi) (Up) 2007 2. Bali Vyjayantimala 3. Bhide Sucheta 4. Chandershekar C.V. 03.05.1998 5. Chandran Geeta (NCR) 28.10.1994 (Up) August 2005 6. Devi Rita 7. Dhananjayan V.P. & Shanta 8. Eshwar Jayalakshmi (Up) 28.10.1994 9. Govind (Gopalan) Priyadarshini 03.05.1998 10. Kamala (Migrated) 11. Krishnamurthy Yamini 12. Malini Hema 13. Mansingh Sonal (Also Odissi) 14. Narasimhachari & Vasanthalakshmi 03.05.1998 15. Narayanan Kalanidhi 16. Pratibha Prahlad (Approved by D.G March 2004) Bangaluru 17. Raghupathy Sudharani 18. Samson Leela 19. Sarabhai Mallika (Up) 28.10.1994 20. Sarabhai Mrinalini 21. Saroja M K 22. Sarukkai Malavika 23. Sathyanarayanan Urmila (Chennai) 28.10.94 (Up)3.05.1998 24. Sehgal Kiran (Also Odissi) 25. Srinivasan Kanaka 26. Subramanyam Padma 27. Vaidyanathan Rama (NCR) 16.12.99 (Up) August 2005 28. Valli Alarmel (Spe.) (Up) 28.10.1994 29. Viswanathan Lakshmi 30. Visweswaran Chitra

BHARATANATYAM ESTABLISHED

1. Anjana Anand (Chennai) 28.05.2004 2. Ashok Purnima (Bangaluru) 1994 (Up) 2012 3. Arekar Vaibhav S. (Mumbai) 13.02.1996 (Up) 2007 4. Balasubramaniam Ramesh Uma (Chennai) 1987 ( Up) 2009 5. Barman Khagendra Nath (Guru)(Kolkata) 28.02.1992 (Up) 2008 6. Bharath Srekala (Chennai) 13.02.1996 (Up) 2008 7. Cama Rohinton (Not Dancing) 8. Chandrasekhar Chitra (Baroda) 03.05.1998 9. Chander Shekar Ragini (NCR) 03.05.1998 10. Chitharanjan Meenakshi Sabanayagam (Chennai) 16.12.99 - 28.10.94 11. Chidambaram Srinidhi (Rangarajan) (Up) 2008 12. Devayani (NCR) 2009 13. Dorairajan Padmini (Not Dancing) 14. Doraiswamy Vasundhara (Mysore) 15. Ganapathy Vani P. (Bangaluru) 28.02.92 16. Govindarajan Hema (Nairobi) 28.02.92 17. Ghantasala Parvathi Ravi (Chennai) March 90 (Up) 2008 18. Gopalaswamy Lakshmi (Up) 2008 19. Harishankar Ramya (California) 16.12.99 20. Johar Navtej Singh - 13.02.1996 (Up) 2007 21. Kannan Roja (Chennai) 15.01.2003 (Up) 2008 22. Kadambi Indira (Bangaluru) 28.10.1994 (Up)3.05.98 23. Khanna Rasika (NCR) 13.02.96 24. Kumar P. Praveen (Bangaluru) 16.05.1997(Up) 2008 25. Lakshmi P.A. (Mumbai) 28.05.2004 26. Lakshmmanaswamy A (Chennai) 2004 (Up) 2012 27. Manjari Chandrasekhar (Chennai) (Up) 2007 28. Marar Radha & Menon Jayashankar (NCR) 28.02.92 29. Mallick Anita (Kolkata) 1989 ( Up) 2008 30. Murthy J. Surya Narayana (Chennai) 16.12.99 31. N Panchpakesan (Chennai) 28.05.2004 32. Pasha Syed Sallauddin (Bangaluru) 13.02.1996 (Up) August 2005 33. Prabhu Mitra (Hyderabad) 28.10.92 34. Priya Venkataraman (Gurgoan) 03.05.1998 (Up) 2007 35. Raghvan Deepa (Faridabad) 13.02.1996 ( Up) 2009 36. Ramachandran Revathi 03.05.98 37. Ravi Padmini 38. Ramachandran Anandi (Mumbai) 16.12.1999 (Up) 2008 39. Ramaswamy Lakshmi (Chennai 16.12.1999 (Up)2008 40. Ramya Ramnarayan Tirumalai (USA) 2010 41. Sadagopan Sukshma Roopa (Chennai) (Up) 28.10.92 42. Sadhana S. (Secundrabad) 28.02.1992 (Up) 2008 43. Sainath Rajeshwari (Secundrabad) 28.10.1994 (Up) 2008 44. Sathyanarayana Raju ( Bangalore ) 2011 45. Seshadri Meenakshi (Taxes, USA) 16.12.99 46. Shobha Chandrakumar (Chennai) 15.01.2003 (Up) 2007 4

47. Shobana Bhalchandra (Chennai) 2008 48. Shridhar & Anuradha Shridhar (Bangaluru) 15.01.2003 (Up) 2007 49. Sreelatha Vinod (Chennai) 2010 50. Sridhar Vasant (Nee Sastri) 03.05.98 51. Srinivasan Sujatha, (USA) (Up) 2008 52. Subramanyam Kiran/Sandhya Kiran Bangaluru 15.01.2003 (Up) 2007 53. Suresh Padmaja (Rajan) (Bangaluru) 16.12.1999 (Up) 2008 54. Swaranamukhi B (Not Dancing) 55. Thampi Ganga (Chennai) 15.01.2003 (Up) 2007 56. Venkataraman Anuradha (NCR) 16.12.99 57. Viswanathan Sreelatha 03.05.98

BHARATANATYAM PROFICIENT

1. Ashok Kumar A (Bangaluru) 28.10.1994 2. Akmaral Kainazarova (Kazakhstan) 2008 3. Aparna D S (Bangaluru) 2008 4. Aditi Rao (NCR) 28.05.2004 5. Aishwarya Narayanswamy (Chennai) 2007 6. Aishwarya Venkatesh (Mumbai) 2010 7. Ananth Lavanya (Chennai) 15.01.2003 8. Anupriya Guha (New Delhi) 2008 9. Anjana Rajan (NCR) 28.05.2004 10. Ambili Chidangil (Kerala) 2008 11. Aparna Ramaswamy (USA) 2012 12. Aranyani Bhargav (NCR) 2009 13. Archana Narayanamurthy (Chennai 28.05.2004 14. Asian Sisters (Vanamala & Sathyavathi) (Bangaluru) 28.10.1994 15. Balasubramaniam Srividya 16. Banhisikha Sinha (Kolkata) 2008 17. Bhargavi GP (Chennai) 2007 18. Bhaskaran Snehlatha (Also Kuchipudi) 1992 19. Bolar Shubharani (Bangaluru) 28.10.1994 20. Chatterjee Madhuboni (Kolkata) 16.12.1999 21. Chikkanahalli Seshadri Veena (Haryana) 28.05.2004 22. Chowdhary Alankrita (NCR) 16.05.1997 23. Das Anwesha (Chennai) August 2005 24. Dakshina Vaidyanathan ( Delhi) 2012 25. Doddamani Sanjay, (USA) 28.02.1992 26. Deepika Gupta (NCR) 28.05.2004 27. Divya Kasturi (Chennai) 2007 28. Ganeshan Ranjani (NCR) 28.02.1992 29. Ganga Grace (Chennai) 28.05.2004 30. Ganga Grace (Croatian) (NCR) 2007 31. Ganju Radhika (NCR) 32. G Ratheesh Babu (Durg, Chattisgarh) 2009 33. Ganna Srimova (NCR) 28.05.2004 34. Gauri Nagesh Bhade (Mumbai) 28.05.2004 5

35. Gautam Rajasree (Chennai) 28.02.1992 36. Gayathri S. (Chennai) 16.05.1997 37. H B Sahana ( Delhi) 2012 38. Hemalatha K. (Chennai) 16.05.1997 39. Indulekha P (Chennai) 28.10.1994 40. J Chandrapradha Jayaram (Bangaluru) 28.05.2004 41. Janaki Rangarajan (Chennai) 2008 42. Jacob Neerada (NCR) 16.12.99 43. Jangannathan Anuradha (Singapore) 44. Janani Murali (Bangaluru) 2007 45. Jayadev Anjali 46. Jyotsna Jagannathan (Chennai) 2008 47. Jhaveri Parul (Shastri) 48. Kamath Vatsala 49. K. Bhavya Shreelakshmi (Bhilai) 2007 50. Kangal S.P. Ramanarasimha (Bangaluru) 28.10.1994 51. Kapil Sharma (NCR) 28.05.2004 52. Kasar Mythali (NCR) 53. Kasar Sisters (Maithali, Radhika & Anuradha) (NCR) 28.10.1994 54. Kinra Vivek (New Zealand) 28.10.1994 55. Kirti Ramgopal P (Bangaluru) 2007 56. Krishna Nandini (Mumbai) (E) 16.05.1997 57. Krishnan Vinita (NCR) 03.05.1998 58. Kulkarni Sinduri (Chennai) 28.10.1994 59. Lavanya & Mrinalini (Chennai) 28.05.2004 60. Madhumita Paul (Kolkata) 2007 61. Maheswari Sudha (Varshaa) (Chennai) 28.10.1994 62. Majumdar Debjani (Kolkata) 63. Malabika Sen (Kolkata) 2007 64. Mallika Ayesha Bhargava ( Delhi) 2012 65. Manjula Ramaswamy (Andhra Pradesh) 28.05.2004 66. Maria-Kiran Filipuzzi (France) 2007 67. Marie Elangovan (Delhi) 2012 68. Mathura Viswanathan (Chennai) 2007 69. Medha Hari ( Chennai) 2012 70. Mehta Susheela (Bangaluru) 1989 71. Mitra Suchitra (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 72. Milan Adhikary (Kolkata) 2007 73. Mubina Bandukwala (Mumbai) 2007 74. Murali Revathi (Secunderabad) 13.02.1996 75. Muralidharan R. & Manimekalai R. (Chennai) 28.10.1994 76. Muralidhar Thriveni (Bangaluru) 28.10.1994 77. Muthanna K. Yamini (Bangaluru) 16.12.1999 78. Mythili Prakash (Chennai) 2007 79. Nagraj Depikka 28.10.1994 80. Nagraj Sudha (Bangaluru) 28.02.1992 81. Nambiar Shijit (Thiruvanniyur) August 2005 82. Nanavathy Vrunda Prakash (Bangaluru) 16.05.1997 83. Narain Ketaki (NCR) 03.05.1998

84. Narasimhaiah Shobha (Bangaluru) 28.02.1992 85. Narasimhan Srikala (Chennai) 1989 86. Narthaki Nataraj (Mylapore) 2007 87. Navia Natarajan (Bangaluru) 2007 88. Natarajan Shoba (Chennai) 15.01.2003 89. Natarajan Srividya (Canada) 90. Natarajan Uma (Vadapalani) 1989 91. Neeta Bala (Gurgoan) 28.05.2004 92. Neha Bhatnagar ( Delhi) 2012 93. Nehi Chaudhary (Gurgoan) 28.05.2004 94. Nilesh Singha (Maharashtra) 28.05.2004 95. Nityananda Aishwarya (Bangaluru) August 2005 96. Nivedita Parthasarthy (Chennai) 28.05.2004 97. Pallavi Saran Mathur (NCR) 2009 98. Pallavi Sriram ( Chennai) 2012 99. Pande Mahesh R. (Mumbai) 15.01.2003 100. Pandya Parul (NCR) 28.02.1992 101. Parimal Phadke (Mumbai) 28.05.2004 102. Parimala Hansoge Pavankumar ( Mumbai) 2012 103. Pavitra K S (Shimoga) 2008 104. Patel Nisha (Ahemdabad) 28.02.1992 105. Priya Murle (Chennai) 2007 106. Priya Srinivasan ( Delhi) 2012 107. Priyadarshini Swetha (Karnataka) 28.02.1992 108. Prema Sridhar (Banglore) 2008 109. Purkait Liza (West Bengal) 1992 110. Purvadhanshree (NCR) August 2005 111. Ragini Krishnan (NCR) 03.05.98 112. Raghunath Manet (Pondicherry) 2012 113. Rajagopal Roopa (Bangaluru) 28.02.1992 114. Rajagopalan Jayashree (Mumbai) 28.02.1992 115. Rajaram Jayanatasri (Stop dancing USA) 16.11.1989 116. Rajashree Rajasekhara Warrier (Kerala) 2010 117. Rajashree Das (Chattisgarh) 2012 118. Rajmohan Kalaivani (NCR) 13.02.1996 119. Ramachandran Kanya (Bangaluru) 28.10.1994 120. Ramaiah Priyabala 121. Ramu Kavitha (Chennai) 16.12.1999 122. Rangashree (Bangaluru) 1989 123. Rashmi Aggarwal (Delhi) 2012 124. Raul D’Souza (Mumbai) 28.05.2004 125. Ravi Ayyavu (Chennai) 28.05.2004 126. Reddy Yanamala Vanitha (NCR) 28.02.1992 127. Rekha Raju (Bangaluru) 2008 128. Renuka Iyer ( Delhi) 2012 129. Rukmini Chatterjee (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 130. Rukmini Vijayakumar & P S Upadhye (Bangalore) 2010 Duet 131. Rukmini Vijayakumar ( Karnataka) 2012

132. Rumya Ramanathan (Mumbai) 28.05.2004 133. R. Vasudev (Bangaluru) 2007 134. S Sathvikaa ( Chennai) 2012 135. Sangeeta Isvaran (Chennai) 2008 136. Savitha Sastry ( NCR ) 2011 137. Seshadri Iyengar ( Bangalore ) 2011 138. Seshadri Padmini (Bangaluru) 1992 139. Seshadri Swapna (NCR) August 2005 140. Shankar Aarthi (NCR) August 2005 141. Shanmuganathan Anita (Chennai) 13.02.1996 142. Sharma Meenakshi (Lucknow) 1992 143. Sharanya Chandran ( Delhi) 2012 144. Shekhar Savitha (Bangaluru) 28.02.1992 145. Shetty Reshma Shekar (Mumbai) 15.01.2003 146. Shetty Seema Shivaji (Mumbai) 13.02.1996 147. Shilpi Baruri (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 148. Shivangee Yashesh Anantani (Ahmedabad) 2009 149. Shourie Jyotsna (NCR) 150. Shwetha Lakshman (Bangaluru) 2007 151. Shweta Suryakant Prachande (Pune) 2009 152. Shubha Patvardhan (NCR) 2007 153. Singh Lata (Bhopal) 28.10.1994 154. Smitha Madhav (Hyderabad) 2007 155. Sneha Devanandan (Bangalore) 2009 156. Sneha Chakradhar (NCR) 2007 157. Snigdha Venkataramani (N Delhi) 2008 158. Somalya Monisha 28.10.1994 159. Sreenivasan Lekha (Senior) (Trivandrum) 1992 160. Sreedhara A.R. Dr., (USA) 03.05.1998 161. Sridevi S. Kumar 162. Srinivas K (Bangaluru) 28.02.1992 163. Srinivasan Meenakshi (Bangaluru) August 2005 164. Srinivasan Pavithra (Chennai) 28.10.1994 165. Srinivasan Ramya (USA) 166. Srinivasan Shailaja (NCR) 28.10.1994 167. Sriram Pooja (NCR) 168. Srivathsa Singari (Bangaluru) 13.02.1996 169. Srividya 28.10.1994 170. Subramaniam Anusha (NCR) 28.02.1992 171. Subramaniam Jayanthi (Bangaluru) 15.01.2003 172. Subramaniam Ramaa (Chennai) 28.02.1992 173. Sulakshana Jayaram (Chennai) 28.05.2004 174. Sundaresan Priya (Chennai) 175. Sukumar Vidya (NCR) August 2005 176. Suresh Shreelata Dr. (Chennai) 03.05.1998 177. Swarnamalya Ganesh (Chennai) 2007 178. Swathi Shankar (NCR) 28.05.2004 179. Tagore Souraja (Kolkata) August 2005 180. Tanvir Vehnival (NCR) 2007

181. The Trio Sisters (Radhika, Gayatri & Shobana) 28.10.1994 (Chennai) 182. Thomas Suhasini (Tiruvanmiyur) August 2005 183. Tracy Mandeera (Mumbai) 16.05.1997 184. Uma Govind ( Kerala) 2012 185. Upadhyay Padmini S. (Bangaluru) August 2005 186. Uthappa Shilpa (Bangaluru) August 2005 187. Uttara Rao (NCR) 28.05.2004 188. Vaidyanathan Aparna (Bangaluru) 16.05.1997 189. Vaidyanathan Nirupama 190. Varsha Suresh (Chennai) 2007 191. Vasanth Subhashini (Bangaluru) 16.12.1999 192. Vasudevan S. (NCR) August 2005 193. Venkataraman Deepa (NCR) 28.02.1992 194. Vidyamol T.P (Kerala) 2009 195. Vijayalakshmi (Also Mohiniattam) 196. Vijayalakshmi Ch. (Hyderabad) 197. Vidhya Subramanian (USA) 2012 198. Vijna Rani Vasudevan (Chennai) 2007 199. Viraja Arvind Mandhre & P U Shyamjith Kiran (Pune) 2012 200. Viswanath Manjula (Bangaluru) 16.12.99 201. Veena Basavarajaiah (Bangaluru) 2008

BHARATANATYAM GROUPS

1. Abhinaya School of Dance – Jayalakshmi Eshwar 28.05.2004 (NCR) 2. Academy of Arts of India - Lakshmi Viswanathan 16.12.99 (Chennai) 3. Bharata Kalanjali - V.P. Dhananjayan & Shanta Dhananjayan (Chennai) 4. Bharatanjali- Ms. Balakrishnan Bhanumati 2007 (Bangaluru) 5. Chidambara Academy of Performing Arts - Chitra Visweswaran (Chennai) 6. Cultural Centre – Chandralekha (Chennai) 7. Chithkala School of Dance - P Praveen Kumar ( 2012 Karnataka) 8. Darpana Academy - Mrinalini Sarabhai (Ahmedabad) 9. Ellora Centre for Performing Arts - Rama Shrikant 16.12.99 (Vadodara) 10. Ganesh Natyalaya -Saroja Vaidyanathan. (NCR) 16.12.99 11. Jodhpur Park Saraswat Sanskriti Kendra, Anita 2011 Mallick (Specially for Rabindranath Tagore) 12. Kalakshetra, Adyar (Chennai) 13. Kalakshetram - Guru Khagendra Nath Barma (Kolkata)

14. Natyavriksha- Geeta Chandran (NCR) 2010 15. Kalamandalam Group—Ms. Thankamani Kutty August 2005 (Kolkata) 16. Kalasadan - Natrajgopal Mani (Mumbai) 2009 17. Koothambalam Cultural Associa-Abhoy Pal 2008 (Kolkata) 18. M.S. University - Prof. C.V. Chandrasekhar (Baroda) 28.10.1994 19. Natya Sankalpaa - Urmila Sathyanarayanan 2012 (Chennai) 20. Nrityodaya - Padma Subramanyam (Chennai) 21. Natyanjali - Ashok Kumar A (Bangaluru) 16.12.99 22. Nrithyaranjani – Kanaka Srinivasan (NCR) 28.05.2004 23. Ponaiah Lalithakala Academy - Smt. Padmini Rao 13.02.1996 (Bangaluru) 24. Prasiddha Dance Repertory, Ms Prathibha Prahlad ( 2011 NCR ) 25. Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir - Guru Kalyanasundar (Mumbai) 26. Ranee Ramaswamy - Ragamala Dance (USA) 2012 27. Samarthanam Trust For The Disabled - Mahantesh 2012 G Kivadasannavar (Karnataka) 28. Shivakami Dance Troupe - Revathi Narasimhan 28.10.94 (Bangaluru) 29. Spanda - Leela Samson (NCR) 16.12.99 30. Sri Lalithakala Academy Foundation Trust 16.12.99 (Traditional Group) - Uma Rao (Mysore) 31. Sri Saraswathi Gana Nilayam,Ranganayaki 2009 Jayaraman (Chennai) 32. Thrayee School of Bharatanatyam - Radhika 2012 Shurajit (Chennai)

BHARATANATYAM LECTURE DEMONSTRATION

1. Barboze Peter Francis (Mumbai) 28.10.1994 2. Chandrasekhar C.V. 1989 3. Deepak Mazumdar (Mumbai) 28.05.2004 4. Jyolsana Menon (Chennai) 2007 5. Mansingh Sonal (Delhi) 6. Mitra Suchitra (Kolkata) 28.12.1992 7. Narayanan Kalanidhi (Chennai) 8. Raghupathy Sudharani (Chennai) 9. Ramanathan Leela 10. Santanu Chakraborty (NCR) 28.05.2004 11. Shashikala Ravi (Pune) 28.05.2004 12. Subramaniam Aruna (NCR) 28.10.1994 13. Subramanyam Padma (Chennai) 14. Vaidyanathan Saroja (Delhi) 15. Varadan Komala (Delhi)

16. Venkateswaran Usha (Bangaluru) 17. Viswanathan Lakshmi (Chennai) SANKARA (SATRIYA) BHARATANATYAM

1. Pushpa Bhuyan (Guwahati) 13.02.1996

SERRAIKELA CHHAU CHHAU OUTSTANDING

1. Acharya Shashadhar (NCR) 15.01.2003

SEERAIKELA CHHAU PROFICIENT 1. Malay Kumar Sahu (Jharkhand) August 2005

SEERAIKELA CHHAU GROUPS 1. Acharya Chhau Nritya Bichitra of Bihar led by Guru 16.05.1997 Lingaraj Acharya 2. Gopal Prasad Dubey (Jharkhand) 16.12.1999 3. Govt. Chhau Dance Centre led by Shri Tapan 16.05.1997 Kumar Pattanayak (Bihar) 4. Guru Shyama Charan Pati & Troup - Guru Shyama Charan Pati (Jharkhand) 5. Kalebar Memorial Chhau Dance (West Bengal) 28.05.2004 6. Kedar Nath Sahoo & Party 13.02.1996 7. Monoranjan Chhau Dance Party (West Bengal) 28.10.1994 8. Pradeep Kumar Memorial Trust (Jharkhand) Bihar 28.10.1994 led by Shri Ashish Kumar Kar 9. SKL Chhau Artists Association - Sunil Kumar Dubey 2009 (Jharkhand) PURULIA CHHAU PURULIA CHHAU PROFICIENT 1. Mahato Prabhat Kumar (Jharkhand) 15.01.2003 2. Mahato Niranjan (Purulia) 28.05.2004 3. Paul Madumita (Kolkota) 28.05.2004 PURULIA CHHAU GROUPS 1. Adibashi Chhau Dance Party - Shri Kartik Singh 2010 Mura (West Bengal) 2. Adibasi Manbhum Chhau Nritya Kala Kendra - 2009 Kartik Mohato (Jharkhand) 3. Bandwan Adibasi Chhou Dance Party - Shri 2010 Bangshidhar Mahato (West Bengal) 4. Binapani Rupchand Chhau Academi, Dilip Chandra 2011 Mahato 5. Durga Charan Mohato Group (West Bengal) 16.12.1999

6. Hullong Adibasi Chhau Nritya Party - Ashoke Kumar 2009 Mahato (Purulia, West Bengal 12

7. Matkuma Shiva Durga Chhau Academy - Bhagwan August 2005 Das Kumar (Purulia) 8. Milan Sangha Chhau Nirtya Party -Shraban Chandra 2012 Mahato 9. Narayani Chhau Nritya Sanga, Bishnu Mahato ( 2011 Purulia ) 10. Nimdiha T S Chhau Nritya Party, Haradhan Mudi 2011 11. Royal Chhau Academy (West Bengal) 03.05.1998 12. Satyananda Chhau Nritya Sansthan - Shri 2010 Dinabandhu Kumar (West Bengal) 13. Shiva Shakti Chhau Nritya Party - Shri Pravash 15.01.2003 Mahato (Purulia) 14. Shivshakti Chhou Dance Academy - Shri Jodharam 2010 Kumar (Purulia) 15. Sitalpur Ganesh Chhau Dance Party - Shri Chinibas August 2005 Mahto (West Bengal) 16. Tilabani Paharia Ganesh Chhou Nritya Party – Shri 28.05.2004 Kandan Chandra Mahato

MAYUR BHANJ CHHAU MAYUR BHANJ CHHAU ESTABLISHED 1. Bhargava Manisha (NCR) 15.01.2003 2. Santosh Nair (NCR) August 2005 (Up) 2008

MAYUR BHANJ CHHAU PROFICIENT 1. Anil Panchal (NCR) August 2005 2. Pulkit Gupta (NCR) 2010

MAYUR BHANJ CHHAU GROUPS 1. Bibhuti Mohanta & Party - Shri Bibhuti Bhusan 2010 Mohanta (Orissa) 2. Dakshina Sahi Chhau Nritya Mandir - Shri 2007 Kartikeshwer Rana (Orissa) 3. Mayur Art Centre (Bhubaneshwar) 03.05.1998 4. Rakesh Sai Babu ( Delhi) 2012

KATHAK KATHAK OUTSTANDING 1. Arya Durga (Not in India) 2. Azan Veronique (Foreign National) Not in India 3. Bhattacharya Ashim Bandhu (Kolkata) 28.10.94 (Up) 15.1.2003 4. Chatterjee Manjushree 5. Devi Sitara 6. Dhar Kum Kum (Lucknow) 03.05.98 7. Gangani Rajendra Kumar 8. Hazarilal Sunayana 9. Karna Rani (Also Odissi) 10. Kastuar Jayant (NCR) 2008 11. Khanam Rani (NCR) (Up) 15.01.2003 12. Kumari Roshan 13. Lakhia Kumudini 14. Lal Geetanjali 03.05.98 15. Roy Madhumita (Kolkata) Up 2008 16. Maharaj Birju 17. Mangaldas Aditi 03.05.98 18. Mishra Arjun 19. Mishra Vaswati & Krishna Mohan 03.05.98 20. Mitra Malavika 03.05.98 21. Mohan Ram 22. Nagar Urmila 23. Narayan Shovana (Up) 28.10.1994 24. Parikh Ishira 25. Pawar Pratap (Settled abroad) 26. Pawar Priya (Settled abroad) 27. Prerna Shrimali 1989 28. Sood Pragati (NCR) 96 (Up) 1998 (Up) 2008 29. Rawat Malati 15.01.2003 30. Sen Saswati 1992 31. Shah Maulik 32. Sharma Uma 33. Sharma Kajal 34. Singh Nandini 35. Trivedi Vaishali 13.2.1996 (Up) 15.1.2003

KATHAK ESTABLISHED 1. Azim Neelima 2. Aditi Mukund Bhagwat (Bandra) 28.05.2004 3. Batra Neera 4. Bassi Renu 5. Bhate Shama Samat (Pune) 13.02.96 (Up) 15.1.2003 6. Bhattacharya Uma (Singapore) 28.10.1994 14

7. Bhatt Mangala (NCR) 28.10.1994 (Up) 2007 8. Chakravarty Kalyani 9. Chanda Keya (West Bengal) 03.05.98 10. Chattarjee Santosh Kumar (Kolkata) 16.05.1997 ( Up) 2008 11. Chinoy Richa (Ahmedabad) 28.05.2004 12. Desai Shubha & Darshini 13. Diwakar Gauri (NCR) August 2005 (Up) 2008 14. Dogra Uma (Mumbai) 28.10.1994 15. Dutta Parawati (NCR) 28.10.94 (Up) 03.5.1998 16. Gangani Harish (NCR) 28.10.94 (Up) 15.1.2003 17. Gangani Parveen 15.01.2003 18. Gautam Bireshawar “Biru” (Mumbai) 28.05.2004 19. Ghosh Nayanika (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 20. Ghosh Sushmita (NCR) 1992 21. Guha Alokparna (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 22. Jafa Navina (NCR) (Up) 1992 23. Joglekar Archana Anant (Mumbai) 16.12.1999 24. Kumari Gauri (NCR) 28.05.2004 25. Lal Abhimanyu 15.01.2003 26. Lal Vidha 15.01.2003 (Up) 2008 27. Luna Poddar (Kolkata) 2007 28. Maharaj Deepak 15.01.2003 29. Maharaj Jai Kishan 30. Manjari Chaturvedi (Lucknow) 1999 (Up) August 2005 31. Mala Sharma (Delhi) 2008 32. Mehta Shila 03.05.98 33. Mishra Anuj 28.05.2004 34. Mishra Abhay Shankar 15.01.2003 35. Mishra Kajal 36. Mishra Mata Prasad (Varanasi) 15.01.2003 37. Mishra Ravi Shankar 16.12.1999 (Up) 15.1.2003 38. Mukherjee Brojen 39. Mukherjee Jayanti (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 40. Mukherjee Sharmistha 996 (Up) August 2005 41. Nalini & Kamalini (NCR) 13.02.1996 42. Nandita Puri (Bandra) 1994 (Up) August 2005 43. Naresh Shukla Purva (Lucknow) 28.05.2004 44. Nayak Monisha (NCR) 03.05.1998 (Up)2008 45. Nayak Moumala (NCR) 16.12.1999 (Up) 2008 46. Rajendra T.D. & Rajendra Nirupama 15.01.2003 47. Rawat Harish 1992 48. Roy Molly (Kolkata) 1992 (Up)2008 49. Sarkar Malabika 50. Sharma Urmila (Allahabad 15.01.2003 51. Shah Salomi (Ahmedabad) 28.05.2004 52. Shah Prachee Sudhir (Mumbai) 16.12.1999 (Up) 2008 53. Shah Prashant (Ahmedabad) 15.01.2003 (Up)2008 54. Shah Radhikha (NCR) August 2005 (Up) 2010

55. Srivastava Akansha (Lucknow) 28.05.2004 56. Tripathi Gauri Sharma (London) 16.05.1997 57. Tanni Choudhary (Kolkota) 28.05.2004 58. Vajpeyi Alpana Shukla (Bhopal) August 2005 (Up) 2008

KATHAK PROFICIENT 1. Acharya Jayshree (NCR) 28.10.1994 2. Anand Madhukar (Patna) 28.10.1994 3. Anindita Acharjee ( Delhi) 2012 4. Archana Tiwari (Lucknow) 2007 5. Arpita Bhowmik (Kolkata) 2007 6. Arpita Banerjee (Bangalore) 2010 7. Ashavari Majumdar (New Delhi) 2008 8. Banerjee Susmita (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 9. Bhattacharya Debashree (Kolkata) August 2005 10. Bhattasali Aditi (NCR) August 2005 11. Bhatt Raghav Raj (NCR) 28.10.1994 12. Chakraborty Souvik (Kolkata) August 2005 13. Chandra Pali 1994 14. Chattopadhyay Nibedita 28.05.2004 15. Chaudhary Vijayshree (NCR) 13.02.1996 16. Chauhan Kiran (NCR) 28.10.1994 17. Chetana Jyotishi Beohar (Chatishgarh) 2010 18. Dabral Mansi (NCR) August 2005 19. Dasgupta Alaknanda (NCR) 28.10.1994 20. Debasmita Mukherjee (Hooghly) 2007 21. Dipanwita Singha Roy (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 22. De Pallabi (West Bengal) 15.01.2003 23. Deshpande Prerana (Pune) 16.12.1999 24. Eshwarputhi Jayanthi M.(Bangaluru) August 2005 25. Eunjung Kim (NCR) 2010 26. Freddy Daniel (NCR) 03.05.1998 27. Gandhi Yogini (Pune) 13.02.1996 28. Gangani Jagdish Sunder Lal (Vadodara) 28.10.1994 29. Ghosh Emelee (Hooghly) 28.05.2004 30. Ghosh Jhuma (Kolkata) August 2005 31. Godbole Astha (Indore) 28.05.2004 32. Gosain Poonam (NCR) 16.12.1999 33. Gupta Bharati (NCR) 28.10.1994 34. Gupta Nilanjana Sen (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 35. Gupta Sonia (NCR) August 2005 36. Gupta Pooja (Lucknow) August 2005 37. Isabelle Anna Filipuzzi (French) (NCR) 2007 38. Ivanova Natalia (NCR) 28.05.2004 39. Iyengar Vikram (Kolkata) August 2005 40. Jayanti Mala (Mumbai) 2010 41. Jha Anjana (NCR) August 2005

42. Jyoti Manral (NCR) 2007 43. Kalita Hemant Kumar & Moumala Nayak (NCR) 15.01.2003 44. Kanjilal Mohananda (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 45. Kankana Bhattacharya ( Kolkata ) 2011 46. Karmahe Swapnil (Chhatisgarh) August 2005 47. Karvlkar Manjiri Makarand (Maharashtra) August 2005 48. Kaul Vandana (NCR) 13.02.1996 49. Kavita Thakur (NCR) 2007 50. Khare Ruchi (Lucknow) 28.05.2004 51. Khare Shikha 03.05.1998 52. Lahiri Anuradha (Kolkata) 1992 53. Leena Malakar (Faridabad) 2008 54. Madhurima Goswami (Kolkata) 2010 55. Maharaj Mamta (NCR) 15.01.2003 56. Maitra Parmita (Kolkata) 15.01.2003 57. Mallick Sandip (West Bengal) 15.01.2003 58. Manisha Mishra (Lucknow) 2007 59. Maradan Kanchan (NCR) 28.05.2004 60. Marami Medhi (Guwahati) 2007 61. Manojaay Dbral (NCR) 2008 62. Manisha Gulyani (Jaipur) 2008 63. Maulik Sudeshna (NCR) 15.01.2003 64. Meghranjani Medhi ( Assam) 2012 65. Misra Mukta (NCR) 66. Mishra Shweta (Lucknow) August 2005 67. Mitul Sengupta (Kolkata) 2009 68. Mulla Afsar Jafar (NCR) 2010 69. Nadgauda Rekha Satish (Nasik) 28.10.1994 70. Nagar Vidhi (Lucknow) August 2005 71. Nagpal Rajee B (NCR) 13.02.1996 72. Namrata Pamnani (NCR) 2007 73. Nishant Gupta (NCR) 2008 74. Nooper Performing Art Center - Shri Haranath 2007 Dande, Hari & Chethana (Bangaluru) Duet 75. Parihar Devanand (NCR) 13.02.1996 76. Pasha Syed Sallauddin (Bangaluru) 15.01.2003 77. Pawar Asavari (NCR) August 2005 78. Poulomi Basu (Kolkata) 2009 79. Pranaame Bhagawati & Jayanta Bhagawati (Hisar) 2008 Duet 80. Petrova Eleonora (foreign national) (NCR) 16.12.1999 81. Phatak Madhura Sharadchandra (NCR) 13.02.1996 82. Preeti Prakash Sathe (Vadodra) 2008 83. Punita Sharma (NCR) 2010 84. Quincy Kendell Charles ( Delhi) 2012 85. Rahalkar Asavari Anand (Pune) 28.05.2004 86. Rahul Pawar (NCR) 2009 87. Radhika Prasad Phanse (Mumbai) 2008 88. Rajashree Siddharth Shirke (Mumbai) 2010

89. Rekha Moni Mahanta (Guwahati) 2009 90. Richa Jain (NCR) 2009 91. Ritusri Chaudhuri (Kolkata) 2007 92. Ritwika Some Choudhary (Kolkata) 2007 93. Ramakant Ina Shah (Vadodara) 16.05.1997 94. Roy Purnima (NCR) August 2005 95. Rukmini Jaiswal (Lucknow) 2007 96. Rujuta Soman ( Pune ) 2011 97. Rupa Rani Das Borah ( Guwahati ) 2011 98. Sarkar Ranjana (NCR) 15.01.2003 99. Sandip Bose (Jamshedpur) 2008 100. Sangita Chatterjee (NCR) 2009 101. Sanjukta Sinha (Lucknow) 2008 102. Shailja Nalwade (NCR) 2010 103. Shalini Sharma ( Faridabad) 2012 104. Shankar Mahua (NCR) August 2005 105. Sharmila Sharma (NCR) 2010 106. Sen Soma (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 107. Sharma Sonali (NCR) 16.12.1999 108. Sharma Pratishtha (Saharanpur) August 2005 109. Sharma Samiksha (Gawalior) August 2005 110. Sharma Vaishali (NCR) 16.12.1999 111. Shivani Salhotra (NCR) 2008 112. Singh Parul (NCR) 28.10.1994 113. Sinha Nandini (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 114. Sinha Swati (NCR) 15.01.2003 115. Smriti Raj (Pune) 2008 116. Sohini Debnath (Kolkata) 2008 117. Sourav Roy (Kolkata) 2009 118. Smitha Srinivasan (Bangaluru) 2008 119. Srivastava Pooja (NCR) 15.01.2003 120. Surabhi Singh (Lucknow) 2007 121. Sujata Pakrashi (Kolkata) 2008 122. Sucharita Datta (Kolkata) 2008 123. Susmita Chatterjee (Kolkata) 2009 124. Swati Wangnoo Tiwari (NCR) 28.05.2004 125. Tanvi Anil Palav ( Mumbai) 2012 126. Tatiana Nazarova (Russian) (NCR) 2007 127. Thakur Anuradha Suman (NCR) 15.01.2003 128. Uppal Rashmi (NCR) August 2005 129. Upreti Divya & Diksha (Duet) (NCR) August 2005 130. Vaze Shambhavi (Pune) 28.05.2004 131. Verma Anurag (NCR) 16.05.1997 132. Wadke Apoorva (NCR) 16.05.1997 133. Walia Rupali (Bhopal) 15.01.2003

KATHAK GROUPS 1. Aamad Kathak Dance Group - Rani Khanam ( Delhi) 2012 2. ANART - Ms.Ishira Parikh Maulik Shah (Ahmedabad) 15.01.2003 3. Ashim Bandhu Ballet Troupe - Ashim Bandhu 15.01.2003 Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) 4. Bhartiya Sangeet Sadan - Smt. Uma Sharma (NCR) August 2005 (Est.) 5. Birju Maharaj Parampara -Pt. Jai Kishan Maharaj 2007 (NCR) 6. Devi Durga - Smt. Geetanjali Lal (NCR) 15.01.2003 7. Dhawani - Smt. Vaswati Mishra (NCR) 03.05.98 8. Drishtikon Dance Foundation - Smt. Aditi Mangaldas August 2005 (Est.) (NCR) 9. Ghungroo Dance Academy - Ms. Madhumita Roy 2009 (Kolkata) 10. Kadamb - Kumudini Lakhia (Ahmedabad) 11. Kalashrram - Birju Maharaj (NCR) August 2005 (Est) 12. Kathak Kendra (NCR) 13. Munna Lal Shukla & Group - Shri Munna Lal Shukla 15.01.2003 (NCR) 14. Naad Roop - Mrs. Shama Bhate (Maharashtra) 13.02.1996 15. Nadam, Nandini K Mehta ( Bangalore ) 2011 16. Nritya Bharati- Rohini Bhate (Pune) 17. Nrityabharati’s Mahaswee Group - Sharvari Ashok 2007 Jamenis (Pune) 18. Padatik Group (Kolkata) 19. Rekha Mehra & Group (NCR)-Ms. Rekha Mehra 2007 20. Samved Society – Mrs. Uma Dogra (Mumbai) August 2005 21. Trirang (Kolkata) 28.05.2004

KATHAK LECTURE DEMONSTRATION

1. Bhate Rohini 2. Datye Roshan Chittaranjan (Pune) 16.05.1997 3. Jalan Chetna 4. Karna Rani 5. Lakhia Kumudini 6. Narayan Shovana 7. Nisha Mahajan 8. Sankhala Shashi (Rajasthan) 13.02.1996 9. Sharma Uma (NCR) August 2005

KATHAKALI KATHAKALI OUTSTANDING 1. Kalamandalam Gopi (SNA Awardee) 15.01.2003 2. Raman Kutti Nair 3. Sadanam P.V. Balakrishnan (Chennai) (SNA 2009 Awardee) 4. C.M. Balasubramanian (Palaghat, Kerala) 2004 (Up) 2007

KATHAKALI ESTABLISHED 1. M. Krishan Kumar (Thrissur) 2005 (Up) 2012 2. Madhava Kurup Rajasekharan (Thrissur) 28.05.2004 3. S Rajendran Pillai ( NCR ) 2011

KATHAKALI PROFICIENT 1. Balakrishnan Nair Jagadeesan (NCR) 2009 2. Guru Radhamohanan (NCR) 28.05.2004 3. Haripriya Nambudiri ( Kerala ) 2012 4. K.M.Nandakumaran Nair (Kerala) 15.01.2003 5. Memana Neelakandhan Harikumar, (NCR) 2009 6. N. Raman Kutty (Delhi) 16.12.99 7. P K Rajumohan ( Kerala ) 2012 8. Sreenathan (NCR) 2007 9. Venkitt Kalamandalam (Kolkata) 1992

KATHAKALI GROUPS OUTSTANDING 1. Kerala Kalamandalam Group 15.01.2003 2. Margi Group 15.01.2003 3. P S V Natyasangham of Kattakkai (P. V. 1996 (Up) 15.01.2003 Chandrasekharan) 4. International Centre for Kathakali (Up) 15.01.2003 5. Satvikam Kalasadanam - Shri Sadanam Harikumar 2003 (Up) 15.01.2007 (Kerala)

KATHAKALI GROUPS ESTABLISHED 1. Kolari Kalan Padmanabhan & Group

KATHAKALI GROUPS PROFICIENT 1. Kathakali School Society - M Gopalakrishnan Nair 2012 (Kerala) 2. K. N. Unnikrishnan (Trichur) 28.05.2004 3. Vedika Thrissur - Shri Kalamandalam Gopi 2007 (Thrissur)

KATHAKALI INSTITUTIONS 1. Gandhi Seva Sadan

KRISHNANATTAM 1. Krishnanattam Group of Guruvayur Temple

KUCHIPUDI KUCHIPUDI OUTSTANDING 1. Ananda Shankar Jayant (Hyderabad) 28/10/1994(Up)2000 2. Kashi Vyjayanthi (Bangaluru) 1998 (Up) 2012 3. Kaushalya Sumati (Bangaluru) (Up) 28.10.1994 4. Krishna Kala (Hyderabad) 1987 5. Krishnamurthy Yamini (Delhi) 6. Naidu Shobha (Hyderabad) 7. Punjala Alekhya Nivedita (Hyderabad) August 2005 (Up) 2008 8. Reddy Raja & Radha (Delhi) 9. Rao Jayrama and Vanashree (Delhi) 03.05.98 10. Sarma Vedantam Satyanarayana (Kuchipudi Village) 11. Sundari Swapna (Delhi)

KUCHIPUDI ESTABLISHED 1. Bala 2. Barghavee Manju (Bangaluru) 1992 3. Chalpati VenkataVedantham (Hyderabad) 03.05.1998 (Up) 2007 4. Deepika Reddy (Hyderabad) 28.05.2004 5. Jonnalagadda Anuradha 03.05.1998 6. Kaushalya (Delhi) 7. Kumari Sarala (Hyderabad) 8. Kumar Arunima (NCR) 16.12.1999 9. Maddali Usha Gayathri 1994 (Up) 2008 10. Menon Padma (Neetherland) 11. Madhvimala Sarvepally (Hyderabad) 16.12.1999 (Up) 2008 12. Manju Hemamalini (Gurgaon) 2008 13. Madhuri Majumdar (Kolkata) 2007 (Up) 2008 14. Mishra Shanta Rate (Mumbai) August 2005 (Up) 2008 15. Murthy M.V.N. (Chennai) 28.10.1994 (Up) 2008 16. Muralikrishna Uma (Chennai) 15.01.2003 (Up) 2008 17. Nehru Anuradha (USA) 28.10.1994 (Up) 2007 18. Shastri Smita (Up) 2008 19. Sailaja N (Chennai) 15.01.2003 (Up) 2007 20. Somanath Swathy (Secundrabad) 28.10.1994 (Up) August2005 21. Shankar Ravi (Chennai) 03.05.1998 22. Shashikala (USA) 23. Thakur Meenu (NCR) 13.2.1996 (Up) August 2005 24. Thyagarajan Kalpalthika (Chennai) 03.05.1998

KUCHIPUDI PROFICIENT 1. Abhinandana MK (Hyderabad) 15.01.2003 2. Arcot Suman 3. Bhaskaran Snehlatha (Chennai) 28.10.1994 4. Balivada Hima Bindu (Andhra Pradesh) 2008 5. Boby Chakraborty (Tripura) 2007 6. Chaudhury Hema (Bangaluru) 1992 7. D Geetamadhuri (Hyderabad) 2008 8. Jwala Srikala Mulugu (Andhra Pradesh) 2012 9. Krishna Sabitha Radha (Hyderabad) 10. Lahiri Amrita (NCR) 16.12.99 11. Malabika Sen (Kolkata) 2007 12. Murty G Vidya (Visakhapatnam) 16.12.1999 13. Natarajan Shoba (Chennai) 15.01.2003 14. Nivedita Avikara Pulliyeri (Secundrabad) August 2005 15. Payal Ramchandani (New Delhi) 2008 16. Prateeksha Kashi ( Karnataka) 2012 17. Pullari Shashilatha Krishna (Visakhapatnam) 2008 18. Rajeshwari P. (Hyderabad) 28.10.1994 19. Rao C. Yasoda S. (Hyderabad) 13.02.1996 20. Sadhana S. (Secundrabad) 1992 21. Sanjay V.S. (Hyderabad) 28.02.1992 22. Sanjay Shantaram & Smt. Shama Seetharamaiah August 2005 (Bangaluru) 23. Sarvani Yadavalli ( Malaysia) 2012 24. Shallu Jindal (NCR) 2007 25. Shambu Sunil 26. Shobha Korambil Ayyappan ( Chennai) 2012 27. Siva Chandra Kumara Sundaram (Hyderabad) 2010 28. Sundari B.Balathripura (Chennai) 15.01.2003 29. Tirumalasetti Reddi Lakshmi ( Delhi) 2012 30. Uday Vanaja (Hyderabad) 13.02.1996 31. Uma Kallakuri (Hyderabad) 16.12.1999 32. Vaidialingam Rashmi 16.05.1997 33. Vijayalakshmi V. Kanaka (Vijaywada) 16.05.1997 34. Viswanath Seema 35. Vithal Manika Bharati (NCR) 16.05.1997 36. Vithal Pasumarthy (NCR) 16.05.1997 37. Yamini Reddy (NCR) 2007

KUCHIPUDI GROUPS 1. Deepanjali - Deepika Reddy (Hyderabad) 2009 2. Gaddam Padmaja Reddy (Hyderabad) 2009 3. Kuchipudi Dance Academy - Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam 4. Kuchipudi Dance Academy - Guru Jayarama Rao 28.05.2004

5. Korada Narasimha Rao Group 6. Nataraja Ram Krishna`s Troupe 7. Siddendra Kala Peetam-Kanchanapally Ratnasree 2008 (Hyderabad) 8. Uma Rama Rao`s Group (Hyderabad) 9. Vedantam - Satyanarayana Sarma`s Group 10. Vedantam - Prahlad Sarma`s Group

KUCHIPUDI LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. Manro Chirala Vedanta

KUDIYATTAM KUDIYATTAM OUTSTANDING 1. Chakklyar Ammanur Madhewa 03.05.98 2. Devi P.S.Sathi Alias Margi Sathi 15.01.2003 (Up) 2008 (Thiruvananthapuram) 3. Kalamandalam Kerala (Kerala) 03.05.98 4. Madhu Margi (Kerala) 03.05.08 5. Kalamandalam Sivan (Kerala) 2008

KUDIYATTAM GROUP 1. Natanakairali-Nangiarkoothu, Kapila Venu ( Kerala ) 2011 E

MANIPURI MANIPURI OUTSTANDING

1. Akhan Lakshmi Devi (Imphal) 2. Banerjee Sruti, (Kolkata) 3. Devi Kalavati (Kolkata) 1992 4. Jhaveri Darshana (Mumbai) 5. Mathur Charu Sija (NCR) 15.01.2003 6. Patel Priti (Kolkata) 03.05.98 7. Singh Guru Babu (Kolkata) 8. Singh Guru Singhajit (Delhi) 9. Wangkhem Lokendrajit Singh & Akhan Lakshmi 15.01.2003 Devi (Imphal)

MANIPURI ESTABLISHED 1. Chatterjee Poushali (Kolkata) 03.05.98 2. Devi Bimbavati (Kolkata) 2003 (Up) 2012 3. Devi Rina Up 2008 4. Devi Nimita 03.05.98 5. Nongthombam Amusana Devi (Imphal) 2007 6. Sana Lata 03.05.98 7. Soibam Nandita Devi (Delhi) 2008

MANIPURI PROFICIENT 1. Aribam Raseswori Devi ( Manipur) 2012 2. Sarkar Baisali (Howrah) 15.01.2003 3. Devi H Vijayantimala (NCR) 13.02.1996 4. Debanjali Biswas ( West Bengal) 2012 5. Debajana Roy (Kolkata) 2008 6. Khangembam Khoni ( Manipur) 2012 7. Laisram Bina Devi (New Delhi) 2008 8. Maisnam Hemolata Devi ( Manipur ) 2011 9. Narayan Singh Narayana Nrityalaya (NCR) 28.05.2004 10. Sarawgi Suman (Kolkata) 15.01.2003 11. Shrobana Mitra (Kolkata) 2009 12. Singh Jaichandra 13. Sinam Basu Singh ( Manipur) 2012 14. Swapna Singha ( Tripura ) 2011 15. Thokchom Ibemubi Devi ( Manipur) 2012

MANIPURI GROUPS 1. Anjika Centre for Manipuri Dance - Smt Priti Patel 16.12.99 (Kolkata) 2. Meitei Traditional Dance- Elam Indira Devi (Imphal) 2008 3. Jagoi Marup Troupe (Imphal) 4. Jawaharlal Nehru Manipuri Dance Akademy Imphal 14.04.87 5. Manipuri Nartanalaya - Ms. Kalavati Devi (Kolkata) 6. Ranganiketan - Mr. L. Joychandra Singh (Manipur) 28.10.1994 7. Singh N. Ibohanbi & Group (Imphal) 28.02.1992 8. Guru Singhajit Singh & Charu Mathur (New Delhi) 9. Performing Artistes Centre, Nameirakpam 2011 Umakanta 10. Premjit Manipuri Dance Group-Keisham Premjit 2012 Singh (Delhi)

MOHINIATTAM MOHINIATTAM OUTSTANDING 1. Kshemavati Kalamandalam 2. Leelamma Kalamandalam (Trissur) 15.01.2003 (Up) 2007 3. Deepti Omcherry Bhalla (NCR) 4. Rele Kanak 5. Shivaji Bharati

MOHINIATTAM ESTABLISHED 1. Ayswaria Wariar (Gujarat) 2010 2. Chatterjee Mom 28.10.1994 3. Gopika Verma (Chennai) 2007 (Up) 2008 4. Jayaprabha Menon 28.05.2004 (Up) 2007 5. Krishnan Pallavi (Trichur) 1997 (Up) 15.01.2003 6. Nair Sunanda Anand (Mumbai) 13.02.96 (Up) 03.5.1998 7. Natankairali 28.05.2004 8. Prasad Neena (Kerala) 15.01.2003 9. Radhakrishna Geeta 10. Sujatha Ramachandran (Chennai) 2009 11. Trivedi Mandakini (Up) 2007 12. Vijayalakshmi (NCR) (Up) 2007

MOHINIATTAM PROFICIENT 1. Aparna B. Marar (Thrissur) 2009 2. Bhalla Vani 3. Brigitte Chataignier ( France) 2012 4. Deepa Chakravarthy ( Chennai) 2012 5. Ghosh Priyadarshini (Shome) (Bangaluru) 28.02.1994 6. Indulekha P. (Chennai) 28.10.1994 7. Kalamandalam Hema Latha (Thrissur) 28.05.2004 8. Krishna Kumar P N (Kerala) 2008 9. Madhavi Chandran ( Kerala) 2012 10. Manjula Murthy (New Delhi) 2010 11. Methil Devika Rajagopalan (Kerala) 28.05.2004 12. Miti Desai ( Mumbai) 2012 13. Mukherjee Mahua (Dr.) (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 14. Patil Madhuri Raghunath (Thane) 13.02.1996 15. Peethambaran Sudha (Kerala) August 2005 16. Priyamvada 17. Rajathesh Saraswati (Bangaluru) August 2005 18. Subramaniam Shobha (NCR) 1990 19. Sowmya Balagopal (Kerala) 2009 20. Vanajaranjan 21. Vinitha Nedungadi (Kerala) 2007 29

MOHINIATTAM LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. Mudkur Jayshree 2. Rele Kanak 3. Surendran Shyamala (Kerala) 16.05.97

MOHINIATTAM GROUPS 1. Centres for Mohiniattam (NCR) - Smt Bharati Shivaji 16.12.99 2. International Academy of Mohiniattam, Jayaprabha 2011 Menon 3. Kerala Kalamandiram - Kalamandalam 2009 Kshemavathy (Trissur) 4. Mohiniattam Group - Neena Prasad (Kerala) 2009 5. Nalanda Dance Research Academy - Dr. Kanak Rele 16.12.99 (Mumbai) 6. Nrityagram Hessaraghatta - Ms. Lynne Fernandez 16.05.97 (Bangaluru) 7. Trikalaa Gurukulam, Dr. Deepti Omchery Bhalla ( 2011 NCR )

ODISSI ODISSI OUTSTANDING 1. Behera Hare Krishna (NCR) 28.10.1994 2. Biswas Sharmila (Kolkata) 15.01.2003 3. Datta Gupta Sutapa 15.01.2003 4. Das Sangeeta (Pondicherry) 15.01.2003 5. Dwibedi Kavita (NCR) 16.12.1999 (Up) 2008 6. Gauhar Ranjana (Delhi) 7. Dr.Ileana Citaristi (Bhubaneshwar) (Foreign (Up) 2007 National) 8. Jana Rina (Kolkata) 03.05.1998 (Up) 2008 9. Jena Ramani Ranjan (Delhi) 10. Kanungo Aloka (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 11. Karna Rani (Kolkata) 12. Mahalik Geeta (NCR) 15.01.2003 (Up) 2010 13. Mansingh Sonal (Delhi) (Up) 28.10.1994 14. Mohanty Aruna (Bhubaneshwar) 15.01.2003 15. Mohanty Kum Kum (Orissa) 28.10.1994 16. Mohanty Sujata (Now Mohapatra) (Bhubaneshwar) 19 99 (Up) August 2005 17. Mudgal Madhavi (Delhi) 28.10.1994 18. Pradhan Gangadhar (Bhubaneshwar) 19. Ranbir Durgacharan (Bhubaneshwar) 20. Raut Mayadhar (Delhi) 21. Satpathy Bijayini (Bangaluru) 03.05.1998 (Up) 2008 22. Sehgal Kiran (NCR) 28.10.1994 23. Sen Sarupa (Bangaluru) 03.05.1998 (Up) 2008

ODISSI ESTABLISHED 1. Arushi Mudgal (NCR) 2005 (Up) 2012 2. Acharya Rahul (Bhubaneshwar) 15.01.2003 (Up) 2008 3. Aparna Fating (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 4. Bhutani Shagun (NCR) 16.12.1999 5. Chintak Rajashree Behera (Delhi) (Up) August 2005 6. Das Meera (Gunjan Dance Academy) (Kolkata) Solo 16.05.1997 7. Dipti Routray (Orissa) 28.05.2004 (Up) 2009 8. Giri Bharat Charan (Bhubaneshwar) 16.12.1999 9. Ghosal Nandini (Kolkata) 16.12.1999 (Up) 2008 10. Janabi Behera ( Orissa ) 2012 11. Jena Ramesh Chandra (Bhubaneshwar) 16.12.1999 12. Jena Pratibha (Delhi) Up 2008 13. Juneja Bindu (Bhopal) 28.10.94 (P) Up3.5.1998 14. Kaustavi Sarkar (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 15. Lowen Sharon (Foreign National) (NCR) 16. Mohanty Leena (Bhubaneshwar) 16.05.1997 (Up) 2008 17. Manoranjan Pradhan & Minati Pradhan 2007 (Bhubaneswar) 31

18. Mishra Sujata 19. Mohanty Madhusmita (Bhubaneshwar) 16.12.99 (Up) 15.1.2003 20. Mohapatra Rati Kanta (Bhubaneshwar) 15.01.2003 21. Mukerjee Sharmila (Paul) (USA) 22. Paniker Ambika (NCR) 03.05.98 23. Paranjape Jhelum Avinash (Mumbai) 16.12.99 24. Ramachandran Anandi (Mumbai) 16.12.1999 25. Ray Priyambada (Bangaluru) 15.01.2003 26. Rekha Tandon (UK) 1992 (Up) 2007 27. Hota Reela (Delhi) 13.02.1996 (Up) 2008 28. Samantray Sneha Prava (Bhubaneshwar) 16.12.1999 29. Sonali Mohapatra (Orissa) 28.05.2004 30. Srivastava Jyoti (NCR) 28.10.1994 (Up) 03.05.1998 31. Swati Sharma & Sudarshan Sahoo ( Delhi) Duet 2012

ODISSI PROFICIENT 1. Aadya Kaktikar (NCR) 2008 2. Abhijit Deb (Agartala) 2009 3. Aditi Anil Mirvankar ( Mumbai ) 2012 4. Amrita Pattasani (Bhubaneshwar) 2009 5. Anjana Moyee Saikia (Guwahati) 2008 6. Anu Narayan (Mumbai) 2008 7. Arvind Smruti (Bhubaneshwar) 28.10.1994 8. Ayona Bhaduri (Kolkata) 2010 9. Babu Anita (Delhi) 28.10.1994 10. Banerjee Nupur (NCR) 28.02.1992 11. Banerjee Paushali 12. Basu Nandita (NCR) 28.10.1994 13. Behera Sarbeswar (Bhubaneshwar) (Vision Odisha) August 2005 14. Bhattacharya Rajib (Kolkata) August 2005 15. Bhattacharya Sumelika (NCR) August 2005 16. Biswas Gopa (Bhubaneshwar) 28.10.1994 17. Bose Kakali (Kolkata) August 2005 18. Chandana Raul (NCR) 28.05.2004 19. Chatterjee Ananya (Kolkata) 20. Chatterji Jayati (NCR) 28.10.1994 21. Dandavate Rohini 22. Das Enakshi (Kolkata) August 2005 23. Dash Lipsa (Orissa) 16.12.1999 24. Diya Sen ( Delhi) 2012 25. De Piyali (NCR) 03.05.1998 26. Debarati Goswami (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 27. Debamitra Sengupta (Kolkata) 2010 28. Dutta Parwati (NCR) 16.12.1999 29. Ghoshal Ashok Kr. (Bhubaneshwar) August 2005 30. Ghosh Monalisa (Kolkata) 30.01.89

31. Ghosh Moumita (NCR) August 2005 32. Goswami Ratna (Roy) (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 33. Gupta Sanjari (NCR) 28.02.1992 34. Gupta Usha (NCR) 28.02.1992 35. Hejmadi Ahalya 36. Itishree Devi (Bhubaneshwar) 28.05.2004 37. Jena Itishree (NCR) August 2005 38. Jena Rashmi Ranjan (NCR) 28.10.1994 39. Khurana Raninder (Mumbai) 15.01.2003 40. Kunjalata Mishra (U.P.) 2011 41. Leesa Mohanty (Mumbai) 2010 42. Mahapatra Mamata (NCR) 1992 43. Manoranjan Nayak (Orissa) 2008 44. Masako Ono (Japanese) (NCR) 2007 45. Maya Bhattacharya Kundu (Kolkata) August 2005 46. Meena Kumari Sahoo (Cuttack) 2007 47. Mitali D’Souza (Mumbai) 28.05.2004 48. Misra Sujata 49. Mitra Barnali 50. Mitra Sharbani (Cuttack) 28.10.1994 51. Mohapatra Nibedita (NCR) 16.12.1999 52. Mou Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 53. Mubayi Yamminey (NCR) 54. Nayak Alpana (Ghaziabad) August 2005 55. Panda Sasmita (Cuttack) 15.01.2003 56. Paramguru Kakali (Bhubaneshwar) 15.01.2003 57. Paride Sheilalipi (after marriage) Mohini Shilalipi 1989 (Orissa ) 58. Paromita Mahapatra ( West Bengal) 2012 59. Pattanaik Kasturi (Bhubaneshwar) August 2005 60. Paul Anuradha (NCR) 28.10.1994 61. Prachi Shubhang Mehta (Mumbai) 2007 62. Pompi Paul (Kolkatta) 2008 63. Puspita Kumari Mishra ( Orissa ) 2011 64. Rajamani Parvati (NCR) 28.02.1992 65. Radhika Jha (New Delhi) 2008 66. Radhika Samson ( Delhi) 2012 67. Raseswari Mohanti (Orissa) 2008 68. Rajnita Banerjee (Kolkata) 2008 69. Rajesh Shubhada 28.10.1994 70. Raut Madhumita (NCR) 13.02.1996 71. Ray Bani (NCR) 16.05.1997 72. Roy Arundhati 73. Sagnya Sucharita (Orissa) 2008 74. Swayampragnya Sahoo ( Orissa) 2012 75. Sanchita Rawat (New Delhi) 2008 76. Sarbani Nandy (Agartala) 2007 77. Shankar Chitra (Jagadeesan) 78. Shatabdi Mallik (Kolkata) 2010

79. Shivani Wazir Pasrich (NCR) 2007 80. Sen Sharbari 81. Singh Utkalika Pahad (Cuttack) 15.01.2003 82. Sinha Swapna Rani (Orissa) August 2005 83. Sri Pravata Kumar Swain ( Orissa ) 2012 84. Sudha Mallik (Ghaziabad) 2008 85. Supriya Nayak (New Delhi) 2008 86. Suresh Kumar Khuntia ( Orissa) 2012 87. Swain Swapna Sarita (Bhubaneshwar) August 2005 88. Uday Kumar Shetty & Soumya Uday Kumar 28.05.2004 (Bangaluru) 89. Utapala Bibhusita Sahoo (Orrisa) 2008 90. Vani Madhav (Gurgaon) 2010 91. Vyshnavie (Secunderabad) 2010 92. Yadav Malvika (NCR) 28.10.1994

ODISSI GROUPS 1. Abartta Group (Bhuvaneswar) - Shri Naba Kishore 2007 Mishra 2. Bhanja Kala Kendra (Rourkela) - Shri Bibekananda 16.12.1999 Parida 3. Dona Ganguly and Group - Ms. Dona Ganguly 2009 (Kolkata) 4. Gunjan Das Academy - Meera Das (Cuttack) August 2005 (Prof.) 5. Guru Durgacharan Ranbir`s Group 6. Guru Pitambar Biswal’s Group (Bhubaneshwar) August 2005 (Prof.) 7. Kalajyoti Group (Kolkata) - Monalisa Ghosh 2007 8. Kaishiki Dance Academy - Ms Daksha Mashruwala ( 2012 (Est.) Mumbai) 9. Madhya Kolkata Sanskritik Moncha (Kolkata) 28.05.2004 10. Madhavi Mudgal’s Group (NCR) - Madhavi Mudgal August 2005 (Est.) 11. Orissa Dance Academy 12. Odissi Research Centre Kum Kum Mohanty 13. Odissi Vision of Movement Centre - Ms Sharmila 16.12.1999 Biswas (Kolkata) 14. Pallavi Odissi Nritya Sangeet Vidhyalaya - Kiran August 2005 (Est.) Sehgal NCR) 15. Ranjana Gauhar & Group - Smt. Ranjana Gauhar August 2005 (Est.) (NCR) 16. Rudrakshya Group (Bhubaneshwar) - Mr. 2007 Bichitrananda Swain 17. Samooha Pratidhwani - Smt. Ipsita Behrooa August 2005 (Prof.) (Bhubaneshwar) 18. Sankalp Group- Kasturi Pattanaik (NCR) August 2005 (Prof.) 19. Shinjan Nrityalaya Group (Kolkata) - Ms. Alok Prava 2007 Kanungo 20. Soor Mandir Dance Academy - Ms Jyotsna Rani 2010

Sahoo (Orissa) 21. Sutapa Talukdar (Kolkata) - Gurukul Creatives 28.05.2004 Group 22. The Odissi Dance Ensemble of Bangaluru - Protima 16.05.1997 Gouri Bedi 23. Vashali Kala Kendra - Ms Jyoti Shrivastava (Noida, 2012 (Prof.) U.P.)

ODISSI LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. Behera Shankar Chhanchan (Mumbai) 16.05.1997 2. Gauhar Ranjana (NCR) Outstanding Up August 2005 3. Lal Kum Kum 4. Misra Minoti 5. Mohanty Priyamvada 6. Mudgal Madhavi 7. Pannikar Aloka - also for teaching workshop etc.

SATTRIYA (ASSAM) SATTRIYA OUTSTANDING 1. Indira P P Bora 1992 (Up) 2008 2. Sharodi Saikia (Guwahati) 2008

SATTRIYA ESTABLISHED 1. Bhabananda Barbayan ( Jorhat) 2011 2. Ramkrishna Talukdar (Guwahati) 2007

SATTRIYA PROFICIENT 1. Anita Sharma (Guwahati) 2007 2. Anwesa Mahanta (Assam) 2008 3. Barthakur Meernanda (Guwahati) August 2005 4. Dreamly Gogoi ( Guwahati ) 2011 5. Gayatri Baruah Sarma (Guwahati) 2010 6. Mridusmita Das ( Assam) 2012 7. Mallika Kandali (Guwahati) 2010 8. Menaka P.P.Bora (Chennai) 15.01.2003 9. Prateesha Suresh (Guwahati) Solo (Prof) 2007 10. Pushpa Bhuyan & Group (Guwahati) 13.02.1996 11. Rumi Talukdar ( Assam) 2012 12. Sangeeta Phukon ( Guwahati) 2011 13. Tarali Das (Guwahati) 2010 14. Usha Rani Baishya ( Assam ) 2012 15. Vedajyoti Ozah (Guwahati) 2009

SATTRIYA GROUP 1. Abhinaya Dance Academy, Anita Sharma ( 2011 Guwahati ) 2. Kalabhumi Majuli Association - Mridul Boruah ( 2012 Assam) 3. Nartan Kala Niketan - Shri Ramkrishna Talukdar 2007 (Ghuwahati) 4. Sangit Sattra – Ms.Ranjumoni Saikia (Assam) 2008 5. Sattriya Kala Kendra - Sri Ghanakanta Bora - 15.01.2003 Barbayan of Assam 6. Sattriya Akademi - Shri Jatin Goswami (Guwahati) 2007 7. Satraranga - Shri Bhabananda Barbayan (Assam) 2010

YAKSHAGANA YAKSHAGANA ESTABLISHED 1. H Krishna Bhat (Karnataka) 28.05.2004

YAKSHAGANA PROFICIENT 1. Sanjeeva Suvarna (Karnataka) 28.05.2004 2. Yaksha Manjusha - Vidya Kolyur (Mangalore) August 2005

YAKSHAGANA GROUP 1. Shabara (R) Sonda - Mr. Nagaraj Ramachandra 2007 Joshi (Karnataka) 2. Suryanarayan Panjaje & Party - Shri Suryanarayan 15.01.2003 Panjaje of Bangaluru 3. Sri Idagunji Mahaganapati Yakshagana Mandali - 2012 Keremane Shivanand Hegde ( Karnataka) 4. Yakshadegula - K Mohan ( Karnataka) 2012

INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS EMPANELMENT SECTION REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR FOLK AND OTHER TRADITIONAL FORMS OF DANCE AND MUSIC AS ON 26/09/2012 S.NO NAME OF STATE PAGE NO 1. ANDHRA PRADESH 39 2. ARUNACHAL PRADESH 40 3. ASSAM 41 4. BIHAR 42 5. CHHATISGARH 43 6. DELHI 44 7. GOA 45 8. GUJARAT 46 – 47 9. HARYANA 48 10. HIMACHAL PRADESH 49 11. JAMMU & KASHMIR 50 12. JHARKHAND 51 13. KARNATAKA 52 14. KERALA 53 15. MADHYA PRADESH 54 16. MAHARASHTRA 55 17. MANIPUR 56 18. MEGHALAYA 57 19. MIZORAM 58 20. NAGALAND 59 21. ORISSA 60 22. PUNJAB 61 – 62 23. RAJASTHAN 63 – 66 24. SIKKIM 67 25. TAMILNADU 68 26. TRIPURA 69 27. UTTAR PRADESH 70 28. UTTRAKHAND 71 29. WEST BENGAL 72 30. BAUL & BENGALI FOLK MUSIC 73 – 74 31. BHOJPURI 75 32. BRIJ 76 33. MALVI 77 34. MAGICIANS 78

REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR FOLK AND OTHER TRADITIONAL FORMS OF DANCE AND MUSIC AS ON 26/09/2012 ANDHRA PRADESH 1. Bharat Folk Arts Academy - Shri Raghav Raj Bhatt 2010 Folk Dance (Andhra Pradesh) 2. Kalanjali Academy - Shri D. Keshavanath 15.01.2003 Tribal Folk 3. Kondeti Ravi Kumar Group - Shri Kondeti Ravi 2010 Kumar (Perini Sivatandavam) (Andhra Pradesh) 4. V. Mutyalarao Janapada Kalabrundam - Shri. 2009 Veeranala Mutyalarao (Folk Dance) 5. Chalapathi Rao P V (Folk Singer) (Hyderabad) 28/10/94

ANDHRA PRADESH FOLK MUSIC 1. Vaddepalli Sriniwas 13.02.96 (Up) 2007

ARUNACHAL PRADESH 1. Aji Lhamu - Shri. Tsering Dorjee Megeji, 2009 Folk Dance (Arunachal Pradesh) 2. Tawang Snow Lion - Tsering 2012

ASSAM 1. Alonkar Gosti - Bihu Dance 28.10.94 2. Aimoni Gogoi Bihu Babul Barah - Aimoni Gogoi Folk August 2005 Dance (Assam) 3. Aimoni Gogoi Bihu Dal - Someswar Taran (Bihu 16.05.97 Dance) 4. Asom Sanskritic Mancha - Dip Jyoti Hazarika (Bihu 15.01.2003 Dance) 5. Asom Sanskritik Silpi Sanmilan - Bhabesh Kalita 2007 (Guwahati) 6. Asom Jyoti Sanskritik Gosthi - Shri Siva Prasad Das 2007 (Guwahati) 7. Bhanu Deka - Bihu Dance (Folk Assam) August 2005 8. Charaidev Sanskritic Gosthi - Utpal Jyoti Borah 16.12.99 9. Dakshyini Sanaskritic Gosthi - Monimala Borah 2009 (Guwahati) 10. Guru Madhurima Choudhury & Group – Madhurima 2010 Choudhury (Guwahati) 11. Natraj Gosthi - Mukut Bora (Bihu, Jhumar - Satriya, 16.12.99 Bodo) 12. Hengerabari Assam Kala Kendra Bihu Dance-Nila 13.02.96 Kantha Dutta 13. Panchasur, Probin Kumar Saikia ( Guwahati ) 2011 14. Pragjyoti Sangha, Shruti Mala Medhi ( Guwahati ) 2011 15. Ranjit Gogoi & Party - Ranjit Kumar Gogoi 2008 Group(Guwahati) 16. Ramdhenu- Jina Rajkumari 2012 17. Rooptara Kala Kendra - Ms. Moushumi Phukan 2009 (Guwahati) 18. Shri Abastab Gosthi Association - Hitesh Deka 15.01.2003 19. Samannay Kshetra - Smriti Rekha Saikia 2012 20. Santi Sanskriti - Samiran Deka Bihu (Assam) 2010 21. Satsori Sanskritik Samaj - Kabita Duarah(Guwhati) 2010 22. Suravi Kala Kendra - Dilip Phukan, Bihu 16.12.99

ASSAMESE FOLK MUSIC

1. Ms. Pahari Das 16.05.97 2. Bina Das Borthakur - (Guwahati) Folk Song 2008 3. Jyoti Rekha Bhattacharya ( Guwahati ) Solo 2011 4. Ramdhenu - Jina Rajkumari (Group) 2012

BIHAR

1. Apurva Kala Lok - Sapna Roy 15.01.2003 2. Bhartiya Kala Mandir - Hari Uppal 28.10.94 3. Kunjban Folk Dances of Bihar - Mukund Nayak 28.10.94 4. Prangan - Abhay Sinha 15.01.2003 5. Santal Cultural Troupe - Peter Marandi 13.02.96 6. Surangama Kala Kendra - Pushpa Prasad 15.01.2003 7. Surangan - Bishwa Bandhu 15.01.2003

CHHATISGARH 1. Bastar Band - Anup Ranjan Pandey 2012 2. Gayan Deep Panthi Dal - Khemchand Bharti 2012 3. Jai satnam Panthi Dance Group - Sukdev Das 2008 Banjare (Chhatishgarh) 4. Panthi Dance Troup Jarway - Milap Das Banjare 2009 (Durg) 5. CG Loak Nirtiya Panthi Party - Amol Das Tandan 2008 (Chattisgarh)

CHATTISGARH FOLK MUSIC 1. Satyam Pandavani Party - Shanti Bai Chelak 2012 2. Seema Kaushik (Folk Singer) 5.01.2003

DELHI (NCR) 1. Folk Dances Group Song & Drama Division Ministry August 2005 of I & B (Folk Dances)

GOA 1. Goenchim Noketram - Marianela P Mascarenhas 2009 Edias (Goa) 2. Kala Academy Goa - Goan Dance 28.10.1994 3. Kepemchim Kirnnam - Folk, Goan Pop 28.05.2004 4. Pioneers of Quepem - Celina Azavedo, Goan Dance 2008 (Goa)

GUJARAT 1. Aavishkar - Gujarati Dance 13.02.1996 2. Adivasi Sidi Dhamal Goma Party - Mohd. Hanif Bhai, August 2005 H. Majgul (Gujarati Dance Kalbeliya) 3. Ambawadi Kalabrinda Beda Raas - Shri Nakum 2010 Dayabhai Nathalal (Gujarat Folk Dance) 4. Bharvad Maldhari Rass Mandal - Rameshbhai 2012 Mandanbhai 5. Bharat Gangani - Shri Bharat Gangani, Gujarat Folk 2010 Dance 6. Female Male Siddi Dhamal - Vanrajsinh 2012 Chandrasinh Jadeja 7. Gordhan L. Rajpara & Heena, Tali Raas 28.05.2004 8. Halar Lok Kala Kendra - Gujarati Dance 16.05.1997 9. Joraversinh Jadav - Bhavi, Bahrupi, Acrobatics 28.05.2004 10. Jay Shakti Maldhari Ras Mandal 2007 11. Kankan Group - Sagathia Sonalben Hansdevbhai 2010 (Folk Dance Gujarat) 12. Kedar Art Research Centre - Ashok Pandit 15.01.2003 13. Mewasi Dance Group - Vasava Bachubhai 2010 Somabhai 14. Natraj Kala Mandir - Shri Vinod F. Jaroli, Dandia 15.01.2003 15. Police Raas Mandal - Gujarati Dance 28.10.1994 16. Rang Bahar - Dhwani Dave, Gujarati Folk Dance 03.05.1998 17. Rangashree Group - Pandit Avani Shrenik, Gujarati August 2005 Folk 18. Samanvay – Jaywant Sujata Nitin & Ms. Veerbala 16.05.1997 L.Rishi 19. Saptak Folk Dance Group - Chetan Chandrakant 2012 Jethava 20. Siddi Goma Group -Siddi Roomanaben Chotubhai August 2005 21. Siddi Dhamal - Siddi Imran Akbar, Folk Dance 2009 (Bharuch) 22. Sindhav Karnabhai Bhayabhi - Dandiaras 28.05.2004 23. Shri Bharatiya Tipani Loknrutya - Shri Vadher 2010 Pravinbhai Dayabhai (Gujarati Folk & Music) 24. Shri Patel Raas Mandali - Mahendra Karsanbhai 16.12.99 Andani 25. Shree Avad Ras Mandal - Lakhanshi Malde Odedara 2010 26. Shree Vasuki Sanskrutik Group - Kumar Pal Rana 2008 (Gujrat) 27. Panghat Performing Art - Chetan Pravinchandra 2008 Dave (Folk Dance) (Ahmedabad) 28. Maher Das Mandal - Ranabhai Aalabhai Sida 2008 (Porbandar)

29. Sidi Dhamaal Sidi Goma - Saiyad Akbarmiya 2008 Gulamali Kadari (Folk Dance For Festival Only) Jam Nagar 30. Sanskruti Dance Academy - Anjana Dev Prasad 2008 Agravat (Folk Dance) Rajkot 31. Saurashtra Lok Kala Kendra - Amardeepsinh J. 2008 Jadeja (Folk Dance ) Jam Nagar 32. Yuvak Mandal Gadhavi - Shri Bhoye Shivaji 2009 Kaprubhai (Dang)

GUJRATI FOLK MUSIC

1. Shrimali Shivram Virabhai 28.10.94 2. Shri Suresh Kumar Shivram Ratnottar 2010

HARYANA 1. Banchari Nagada Party - Shri Jagram, Folk Dances 15.01.2003

2. Devender Singh Soorout - Folk Dances 28.05.2004 3. Friends Kala Sangam - Shri Ramesh Kumar, Folk 15.01.2003 Dances 4. Lok Kala Parishad Banchari - Ranjeet Singh Sarot 15.01.2003 (Folk Dances) 5. Nagada Party Haryana - Shri Dharam Veer, 2007 (Faridabad) 6. Pali Nath Been Party Group - Pali Nath ( Been & 2012 Tumba) 7. Raghubir Singh and Party - Shri Raghubir Singh 28.10.94 Haryanavi

HIMACHAL PRADESH 1. Asara - Ms. Hem Lata 2007 2. Chureshwar Lok Nritya Sanskritik Mandal - August 2005 Joginder S. Habbi (Folk H.P) 3. Mandavya Kala Manch - Shri Kuldeep Guleria, 2007 (Mandi) 4. Sanskritic Dal Baunal - Himchali Sirmouri Mohasubi 15.01.2003 Gidha 5. Sanskritik Dal Ranjana Bhoj - Prithvi Singh Chauhan 16.12.99 6. Saraswati Kala Manch Rajgarh - Sushil Kumar 2008 Bhrigu 7. Sutradhar Kala Sangam - Shri Dinesh Sen, Folk 15.01.2003 Dances 8. Shiva Sanskritic Dal Bhumteer-Ram Narayan (Folk 2010 Dance) 9. Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts - Tsering 28.10.94 Wangyal (H.P.) 10. The Director Language and Cultural Deptt, H.P. 28.10.94 Dances 11. Yogendra Kapila, Folk Dances 28.05.2004 12. Piyush Raj (Proficient), Chamba Folk Music (Solo) 2008

JAMMU & KASHMIR

1. Northern Arts & Culture Society - Shri Tsering 2007 Sonam Sopari (Leh Ladakh)

JAMMU & KASHMIR FOLK MUSIC

1. Abdul Hamid Bhat 2012

JAMMU & KASHMIR FOLK MUSIC GROUP 1. Abdul Rashid Hafiz & Group - Abdul Rashid Hafiz 2007 2. The Kashmir Music Club Cooperative Ltd - Waheed 2012 Jeelani

JHARKHAND 1. Brajendra Kumar Pattnayak - Chhau Dance 28.05.2004 2. National Institute of Chhau and Folk Dances, Chhau 28.05.2004 Dance

KARNATAKA 1. Appagera Thimmaraju - Janapada Kala Kendra 28.10.94 2. Janmma Bhoomi Janapada Kala Sangha - Shri K P 2010 Devaraju (Folk Karnataka) 3. Karnataka Kaladarshini Yakshagana Group - Shri August 2005 Srinivas Sansthan (Folk Karnataka) 4. Kalari Gurukulam - Ranjan Mullaratt ( Martial Art) 2012 5. Karnataka Mahila Yakshagana - Gowri K., Folk August 2005 Karnataka 6. Kodaku Folk Dance Troupe - Mrs Thara Aiyamma 28.10.94 7. Maithri Mahila Mandali - K M Sujatha Murthy, Folk 2008 Karnataka (Bangaluru) (For Festival Only) 8. Ranga Mancha Kagodu - Shri Kagodu Annappa, 16.12.99 Gee Gee Pada 9. Rudrappa K.P. - Puppet & Folk 28.05.2004 10. Sangappa Huger & Party - Shri Sangappa 28.10.94 Fakeerappa Hugar 11. Sneha Sagara Swa-Sahaya Mahila Mandali (R.) - 2010 Smt. Choodamani Ramachandra (Dollu Kunita) 12. Takappa B - Dollu Kunitha 28.05.2004 13. Yakshaloka - Shri Gopala N, Folk Karnataka 2009 (Bangaluru) 14. Yakshagana Kendra - Shri Krishna Bhat H, 2010 Yakshagana

KERALA 1. Agasthyar Sidha Marma Kalari Sanghom - Gilston Prakash C.C 2012 2. Anandasylam Pulluva Arts Society, Panmana Aravindakshan 2011 3. Anushtana Kendra Koval - Shri Chandu Panickar T, (Thaiyyam) 2007 4. Bodhi Dharma Institute of Martial Arts - Shri Hariprathapan. T 2009 (Group) (Thiruvananthapuram) 5. C M Marma Thirumu Kalari Sangom - Shri C Mohanan (Group) 2009 (Thiruvananthapuram) 6. C V N Kalari Nada Kkavu Calicut - K Narayanan Gurukkal 03.05.98 (Martial Art Folk) 7. C V N Kalari Sangham - Sathyanarayanan G 2007 (Thiruvananthapuram) 8. Devivilasam Kalalayam, D Sureshkumar ( Kerala ) 2011 9. Folk Land - Shri V. Jayarajan, Group (Kerala) 2009 10. Hindustan Kalari Sangam - Shri Rameshan M Alias, Martial Art 15.01.2003 11. J.B.R Marma Kalari Sanghom - Shri Joseph Baburaj Gurukkal 15.01.2003 (Kalaripatu) 12. Kadathanad Kalari Sangam - Shri Mukundan Teruvath, 2010 (Kalarippayattu & Martial Art) 13. Kairali Marmma Kalari Sangham - Mr K Raghuvaran 28.10.94 14. Kalari Kendram - Shinto Mathew ( Delhi) 2012 15. Kerala Kolarippayt Academy - Mr. C. Mohd. Sherif 28.10.94 16. Kolacheri Chendavadya Sangham, Renjeesh Kumar A P 2011 (Theyyam Group) 17. Madhava Madam CVN Kalari - Kalaripattu (Northern) 28.05.2004 18. Malabar Theyyam Samskarka - Shri Prajish R M, Folk Theyyam 2010 19. Mass Cultural Form, Aneesh M V ( Kerala ) Theyyam 2011 20. Shri Makkoramveettil Balan Vinond - Kalaripattu August 2005 21. T V Ratna Kumar & Party - Shri T V Ratnakumar, Folk Dance 2009 (Traditional) Group 22. Mohanraj H.V. - Maipayattu 28.05.2004 23. Maruthi Marma Chikilsa & Kalari Sangom - Shri T.Ajit Kumar 16.12.99 24. PKB Kalari Sangam - P.K. Balan Gurukkal 2007 25. Siva Marma Kalari Sanghom - B. Rajendran Nair, Group 2008 (Thiruvananthapuram) 26. Sri Nagaraja Kalavedi Karipuzha, K Gopinathan (Kerala) 2011 27. Ulakudaperumal Marma Thirumu Kalari Sangham - Shri G. 2010 Viswanathan (Kalarippayattu Southern Style Martial Art) (Thiruvananthapuram) 28. Vayali Folklore Group, Vinod Nambiar ( Kerala ) 2011 29. Nithya Chaithanya Kalari - Kalarippayattu 28.05.2004

KERALA FOLK MUSIC 1. Shri M S Ananthakrishnan - Thayambaka 2010

MADHYA PRADESH 1. Akhada Marshal Art Sagar - Shri Bhagwan Das 13.02.96 Raikwar 2. Bhagoriya Nrata Dal - Shri Govind Gehalot 2007 3. Bundeli Kala Parishad - Shri Santosh Kumar 2010 Panday, Bhadhai, Norta, Rai 4. Dharam Singh Kulaste - Traditional Group Dance 28.05.2004 5. Folk Arts Academy - Shri Vishnu Narayan Pathak, 2007 (Sagar) 6. Madhukali Vrind Bhopal - Vrindgana 28.05.2004 7. Meena Sahu - Pandavani Music 28.05.2004 8. Natraj Bundelinatya Lok Kala - Dr. Shivani 2007 Tamrakar 9. Navrang Lokkala Academy - Umesh Kumar Namdeo 2012 10. Nepanagar Jagrity Kala Kendra - Mukesh Darbar 2008 Group (Burhanpur) 11. Panthi Nritya Mandal Jarway - Dukalram Dahariya 16.12.99 (Panthi Nritya) 12. Ramsahay Pandey & Party - Ram Sahay Pandey 28.10.94 (Raie Dance) 13. Sri Krishna Lok S. V. Sansthan, Manish Yadav 2011 14. Shree Krushna Lok Kala - Babu Lal Bhola Patel, 16.12.99 Folk Dances

MADHYA PRADESH FOLK MUSIC 1. Smt. Vibha Sharma ( Group ) Madhya Pradesh, 2011 Gangur

MAHARASHTRA 1. Adiwasi Nritya Ghosali - Maruti Tuka Ram Shinde 2008 Group (Mumbai) 2. Chandrakant Ramachandra 13.02.96 3. Dhangari Gaja - Shri. Pandurang Appa Kolekar, Folk 2009 Dance Group (Sangli) 4. Jay Ganesh Lok Kala Munch - Rajendra Keshav 2012 Badge 5. Jay Bhavani Kala Manch - Dhongade Narayanji 2008 Govindrao (Folk Dance Group) Hingoli 6. Shri Jay Ganesh Lok Kala - Lavani 15.01.2003 7. Kalika Kala Kendra-Group - Rajeshri Kale Nagarkar August 2005 (Lavani) 8. Mudra Creation, Sugandha V Dhulap 2011 9. Rang Puhar- Ms. Shubhra Mehdiretta, Folk Dance & 28.05.2004 Music 10. Rupal R Barot - Folk Dance & Music 28.05.2004 11. Tanpura Vijay Sakharaw - Shivagarjana Shahiri 16.05.97 Party

MANIPUR 1. Forward Artistes Centre - Shri R K Khogendra 2007 Singh (Imphal) 2. Huyen Lallong Manipur Thang Ta Cultural 2012 Association - Mutum Ibomcha Singh 3. Lianda Folk & Classical Academy - Soram Sharat 2012 Singh 4. Luwang-Leishem-Jagoi, Maisnam Ibochouba Singh 2011 5. Manipuri Cultural Troupe - Shyam Singh 2012 6. Narmada Cultural Organization - Khumanthem 2012 Narmada Devi 7. Panthoibi Thangta Jagoi Sindam Shanglen- August 2005 Laishram Raju Singh 8. Performing Atrtistes Centre - Laisram Tondon Singh 2007 (Imphal) 9. Thoibi Manipuri Dance and Cultural Research 2008 Institute - Raj Kumar Rattankumar Singh (Folk Dance) (Imphal)

MEGHALAYA 1. Directorate Arts And Culture -Deilinia Syiem ( Folk 2010 Dances) 2. Dokaku Art & Cultural Association - Daniel M Marak 2012 3. Tyngkai Cultural & Welfare Organization-Genevieve 2012 Khongjee

MIZORAM 1. Hindi School Cultural Troupe - Pahlira Hanhulh, Folk 16.12.99 Dances 2. IMFA Performing Troupe - F Lalthanmawia, Folk 2010 Dances 3. Lily Veng Cultural & Drama Club - H. 2010 Lalhmachhuana 4. Mizo Cultural Organisation - C. Lalrintlaka, Group August 2005 Folk

MIZORAM FOLK MUSIC 1. Shri H Vanlalhlana - Folk Music 2010

NAGALAND 1. Rognmar Production - Rongsenla Marsosang 15.01.2003 2. Tetseo Sisters - Mutsevelu 2012

ORISSA 1. Abhiram Pala Sansad (Group) Musical – Pala Folk 28.05.2004 Theatre 2. Baba Gorekhnath Gotipua Dance Association - 2010 Chandramani Pradhan (Gotipua) 3. Balaram Reddy D (Group) Folk Dance 28.05.2004 4. Bharati Ghumra Party - Bharat Bhusan Chalan 08.10.94 5. Biswajananani Kalapari Shad - Santanu Kumar 2007 (Ganjam) 6. Chandra S Gotipua Kalasansad - Shri Satyapira 2007 Palai (Puri) 7. Creative Art Forum - Shri Surya Narayan Rath, 15.01.2003 Gotipua & Folk 8. Dayal Welfare Organisation - Gopal Chandra 2009 Mohapatra (Folk Dances) Balasore 9. Ganeswar Jugal Sankha Badya Lokanrutya Kala 2007 Anustan - Sarat Chandra Mahapatra (Folk Dances) Ganjam 10. Girdhar Gomang & Group Folk Dance August 2005 11. Guru Sri Keshab Chandra Music Group 28.05.2004 12. Jayant Kumar Behera (Group) Kalahandi 28.05.2004 13. Maa Anlei Paika Akhada - Dinabandhu Biswal (Dist. 2007 Khordha) 14. Maa Mangala Lokanrutya Kala Kendra, Pabitra 2011 Kumar Mahapatro 15. Narendrapur Kalavikash Kendra - Kishore Kumar 15.01.2003 Sahu 16. Prativa Group - Dhyananda Panda, (Kalahandi) 2007 17. Sangeet Kala Sansad Folk Dance & Dummy Horse 16.12.1999 18. Sambalpuri Folk Academy - Rabi Ratan Sahu, 2008 (Bhubenaswar) 19. Shaheed Kunjal Singh Club - Dolamani Patel, 2010 Sambalpuri Folk Dance 20. Subhasri Sankha Dhwani - Rajendra Mohapatra 2010 21. Sri Balunkeswar Jagalasankha Dhwani - Mochiram 15.01.2003 Muni (Zodi Sankha) 22. Upendra Bhanja Lokanrutya Parishad - Narayan 15.01.2003 Maharana (Animal Dance) 23. Ukia - Shri Ranjan Kumar Sahoo (Sambalpur) 2007 24. Vision Odisha - Shri Sarbeswar Behra , Folk Dance 28.05.2004

ORISSA FOLK MUSIC 1. Ramahari Das

PUNJAB 1. Asian Punjabi Folk Dance Club - Ashwani Kumar 15.01.2003 (Bhangra) Ludhiana 2. Bhola Panchhi Bhangra Group - Parvinder Singh 2007 Folk Dances (Ganganagar Rajasthan) 3. CGH Police Cultural Club - Atamjeet Singh, 16.05.97 Folk Dances ( Chandigarh) 4. Gagandeep Singh & Group - Gagandeep Singh 15.01.2003 Bhangra (Mohali) 5. H S Bajwa & Group - H.S. Bajwa, Bhangra( 28.10.94 Ludhiana) 6. International Cultural Group - Daljit Singh 15.01.2003 Bhangra & Giddha ( Sangrur) 7. Jugni Cultural and Youth - Davinder Singh, Punjabi 2008 Folk Dance & Music (Mohali) 8. Nachda Punjab Youth Club - Kulwant Singh, 2008 (Ludhiana) 9. Kanwarpreet Singh Bhangra Party, Bhangra ( Delhi) 28.05.2004 10. Kalehri Art & Culture Academy - Tarsem Chand 2009 Kalehri (Folk Dances) Mansa 11. Kuljeet Singh & Party- Group - Kuljeet Singh, August 2005 Punjabi Folk Dance & Music (Amritsar) 12. Ludhiana Folk Dance & Folk Music - Swaran Singh 15.01.2003 Randhawa (Bhangra) (Ludhiana) 13. Nachda Punjab Cultural Mirror - Ms. Shelly Sharma, 15.01.2003 Bhangra & Giddha (Ludhiana) 14. Naksh Virsa Punjab Da Bhangra Group - Sandeep 2009 Sharma (Bhangra & Giddha) (New Delhi) 15. Preeti & Party – Preeti ( Delhi) 2012 16. Punjabi Cultural Society - Ravinder Kaur, Folk August 2005 Dances ( Delhi ) 17. Punjab Cultural Society Regd.- Ravinder Singh 2007 Ranguwal (Folk Dances) Ludhiana 18. Punjabi Lok Kala Academy - Major Singh, Bhangra 16.12.99 & Giddha (Sangrur) 19. Punjabi Shabayachar Kender - Rajinder Tonk , August 2005 Folk Dance ( Delhi) 20. Punjabi Lok Rang Cultural Club-Group - Sandeep August 2005 Kr. Kheeva (Bhangra & Giddha) Ludhiana 21. Punjab Police Cultural Troupe - K.L. Likhi, Bhangra 15.01.2003 (Patiala) 22. Punjabi Academy Delhi - Folk Dance Music (As 28.05.2004 Institution) ( Delhi) 23. Punjabi Cultural Youth Club - Kundan Kumar 2012 24. Rangla Punjab - Shri Ajay Kumar, Bhangra ( 03.05.98 61

Ludhiana) 25. Rangla Punjab Cultural Youth Club - Tehal Singh 16.12.99 Kheeva (Folk Dance & Music) Ludhiana 26. Rising Star Disable Youth Club - Harinder Pal Singh 2012 27. Surjeet Singh & Party - Surjeet Singh ( Delhi) 2012 28. Shaheed Babadeep Singh, Gattaka Team (Mohali) 13.02.96 29. Sukhvinder Singh & Party - Folk Dance( Delhi) 28.05.2004 30. The Folk Promoters - Shri Ashwani K Tony, Bhangra 28.10.94 31. Viraast Entertainer International - Gurminder Paul 15.01.2003 Singh Ahluwalia (Bhangra& Giddha) 32. Virasat Kala Kendra Patiala - Pritpal Singh Bhangra 16.12.99 & Giddha ( Patiala)

PUNJABI FOLK MUSIC 1. Madanbala Sindhu ( Delhi) (Up) 16.05.1997 2. Gurmeet Bawa (Amritsar) 15.01.2003 3. Paramjit Singh Sidhu & Party 28.10.94 (Up) 2007 4. Pushpa Rani & Party (Delhi) 1992 (Up) 2007 5. Sahib Singh (Delhi) 28.10.94 6. Deepinder Kaur Alias Dollie Narang (Delhi) 2007 7. Jageer Singh (Nawanshehar) 2010 8. Narender Sharma (Delhi) 28.05.2004 9. Sanjeev Sharma & Group (Delhi) (L.M-Punjabi) August 2005 10. Subhash Goyal / Anju Goyal & Party (Punjabi Folk 28.05.2004 Music) (Delhi) 11. Surinder Jena 12. Surinder Sagar & Party - Surinder Sagar (Delhi) 15.01.2003

RAJASTHAN

1. Aditi Sharma & Party - Bhavai Dance 15.01.2003 2. Angiger - Shri Rajendra Singh Silor, Folk Dance 2009 (Barmer) 3. Apar Nath Kalbeliya Group - Apar Nath, Folk 2008 Dance(Jodhpur) 4. Atta Mohammed Langa Group - Atta Mohammed 2008 Langa (Folk Music Only) Jodhpur 5. Bachu Kha & Party Langa - Bachu Kha, Dance August 2005 Drama(Rajasthani) 6. Basir Mohammad Langa & Party - Basir Mohammad 2012 7. Bhartiya Lok Kala Mandal - Dinesh Chander Bansal 28.10.94 (Rajasthani Dances) 8. Bhugra Khan Manganiar & Party - Bhugra Khan 2008 Folk Music only (Barmer) 9. Bhutte Khan Magnihar & Party -Bhutte Khan August 2005 Magnihar (Folk Dance) (Rajasthan) 10. Bundu Khan Langa Group - Bundu Khan Langa 2012 11. Chari Dance Kishangarh - Mohan Singh Goar 2007 Folk Dance(Ajmer) 12. Champa Sapera & Party - Champa Sapera, Folk 2007 Dance (Jaipur) 13. Chela Mama Malan Loksangeet Sansthan Janra - 2012 Thane Khan 14. Fakira Khan Vishala Party - Fakira Khan, Folk 2008 Dance(Barmer) 15. Shri Dhene Khan Langa, Folk Dance (Jodhpur) 2007 16. Ganga Bai Teratali Party - Smt. Ganga Bai Kamad, 16.12.99 Teratali 17. Gangaur Ghommer Dance Troupe - Smt Goverdhan 13.02.96 Kumar 18. Geeta Sapera & Party - Geeta Sapera, (Kalbelia & 15.01.2003 Folk Dance) 19. Gulabi Sapera Party 13.02.96 20. Hanif Khan Langa & Party - Hanif Khan Langa 2012 21. Hayat Mohammed Langa & Group - Hayat 2009 Mohammed Langa (Folk Dances Group) (Jodhpur) 22. Iqbal Khan Langa Group - Iqbal Khan Langa 2012 23. Iqlas Khan Langa Group - Iqlas Khan Langa 2012 24. Kalbeliya Suva Devi & Group - Suva Devi 2012 25. Kalu Nath Kalbelia - Pungi, Khanjari, Manjeera, Lok 03.05.98 Geet 26. Kamli Sapera & Party, Kalbelia Dance August 2005 27. Kasim Khan Langa, Folk Rajasthan Dance August 2005 28. Kohinoor Langa & Party - Kohinoor Langa, Lok 03.05.98 Geet, Khartal, Sarangi, Dhol 29. Living Arts - Madan Lal, Rajasthani Dances(Delhi) 28.10.94 63

30. Lok Kala’s Sabrang - Karun Goyal (Jodhpur) 2007 31. Lom Nath Kalbeliya & Party - Lom Nath Kalbeliya August 2005 (Folk Rajsthan Kalbeliya) 32. Mangi Bai W/o Bherdas, Tera Tali 13.02.96 33. Mehruddin Langa & Party - Mehruddin, Folk Dances 15.01.2003

34. Mohd. Rafiq Langa & Party - Mohd. Rafiq Langa Folk August 2005

35. Mohini Roopnath Kalbeliya - Mohini Roopnath 2007 Folk Dances(Jodhpur) 36. Motaram Sundesha & Party - Motaram Sundesha 2012 37. Moru Sapera and Party - Ms Moru Sapera, Kalbilya 2010 Dance, Banjara Dance, Bhawi Dance, Chari Dance, Ghumar Dance 38. Nek Langa & Party - Nek Mohammad Folk Dances 2007 (Jodhpur) 39. Prakash Kala Prashikashan Sansthan - Puran Nath 2012 Kalbelia 40. Prem Kumar And Party - Prem Kumar Gahlot 2010 Folk Dances(Barmer) 41. Rajki Puran Nath Sapera & Party Sapera 03.05.98 42. Raj Folk & Classical Group - Rajkumari Panwar 2010 Folk Rajasthan Music & Dance 43. Rajasthan Strings - Khete Khan 2010 Folk Rajasthan Music & Dance 44. Rajasthani Dance Group - Bhikhe Khan Langa 2012 45. Rakhi Sapera and Party -Rakhi Sapera, 2007 Folk Dances(Jaipur) 46. Roop Das Kamad Terahtali Folk, Roop Das Kamad 2011 47. Rhythm of Rajasthan - Nitin Nath Harsh 2010 For Folk Dance Only (Jodhpur) 48. R K Cultural Rajasthani Folk Dance - Mukesh Bhat 2010 (Puppet & Acrobat) 49. Sadiq Khan Langa & Party - Sadiq Khan Langa August 2005 Folk Rajasthan Music & Dance 50. Sadiq Khan Langa Party - Sadiq Khan Langa 2012 51. Safi Mohd. Langa & Party, Folk Rajasthan Music & August 2005 Dance 52. Salim Khan Langa Group - Shri Salim Khan Langa 2007 Folk Dances (Jodhpur) 53. Salim Khan Nagarchi & Party - Salim Khan Nagarchi 2012 54. Sampravaahi Foundation Lok Rang Parishad - 16.12.99 Samandar Manganiar(Folk Dances) (Jaipur) 55. Samunder Khan Langa & Party - Samunder Khan 16.12.99 Langa (Folk Music) 56. Sargam Sangeet Sansthan - Hanuman Sahay 2012 Sharma 57. Senu Sapera Group of Rajasthan – Supki 2012

58. Shamla Kalbelia Group - Ms. Shamla Kalbelia, 15.01.2003 Sapera 59. Sikanderwaldatta Langa Party, Langa Group 16.05.97 60. Sikander Langa Group - Sikander Langa 2012 61. Suraj Lal And Party - Suraj Lal, Folk Dance (Bara) 2009 62. Suramnath Kalbeliya Group - Suramnath Kalbeliya 2012 63. Swaroop Khan & Party - Swaroop Khan 2012 64. Taj Mohammad Langa Group - Taj Mohammad 2012 Langa 65. Talab Khan Party Payala Group - Talab Khan 2010 For Instrumental Music only 66. Teratal Party - Nirmla Devi, Folk Dance (Dist. Pali) 2008 67. Umrao Khan Langa, Folk Dances 16.12.99 68. Vinod Nath Sapera & Party - Vinod Nath Sapera 2009 Folk Dance (Jaipur) 69. Babu Jee Ki Phar -Harji Lal Bhopa, Folk Dances 16.12.1999

70. Shri Harji Lal Bhopa 71. Kala Baaz Group - Ajeet Bhatt, Acrobat, Juggling 28.05.2004 72. Shisha Nath Sapera Been Party - Shisha Nath 2009 Folk Music, Been and Tumba

RAJASTHANI FOLK MUSIC 1. Afroz Begum (Up) 2007 2. Gazi Khan (Up) 2007 3. Bunda Khan 4. Gannam Khan 5. Jaipu Khan 6. Mutan Khan 7. Mehardin Langa 28.10.94 8. Neku Khan 9. Ramzaz Khan 10. Rahmat Khan 11. Samdar Khan 12. Sardar Khan 13. Sadiq Khan 14. Anwar Khan Langa & Party - Folk Dance Songs 28.05.2004 15. Babu Khan - Folk Dance 28.05.2004 16. Eask Khan - Algoze, Murali Morchanj 15.01.2003 17. Hanif Khan Langa Party – Kalbelia 28.05.2004 18. Jaipu Khan Langa Group - Folk Dance & Songs 28.05.2004 19. Jawar Nath - Folk Dance 28.05.2004 20. Kalukha Bawara and Party - Folk Music 28.05.2004 21. Mangniar Gafoor Khan 28.10.1994 22. Radha Sapera & Party - Dance & Music 28.05.2004 23. Yar Mohd. Langa & Group – Teratali 28.05.2004

RAJASTHANI FOLK MUSIC GROUP

1. Dilip Khan & Party - Shri Dilip Khan, Folk Music 2010 2. Mustak Folk Music Group – Mustak 2012 3. Ridmal Khan and Party Bhadasar - Ridmal Khan 2009 Folk Music (Jaisalmer) 4. Sujas The Dessert Gipsy Group - Shri Iliyas Khan 2010 Folk Music (Jaipur) 5. Tane Raj Singh Sodha, Folk Music(Udaipur) 2009 6. Mewati Jogi - Shri Umer Farukh ( Alwar) 2011

SIKKIM 1. Bhurung Puratan Sanskritik Awam Dharohar 2012 Sanrakshan Sangha - Chandra Kala Dangal 2. Bhurung Puratan Sanskritik Awam Dharohar 2012 Sanrakshan Sangha - Kishor Dahal 3. Jan Chattna Pariwar - Sujani Rai 2012

SIKKIM FOLK MUSIC GROUP 1. Bhurung Puratan Sanskritik Awam Dharohar 2012 Sanrakshan Sangha - Tula Ram Khanal

TAMIL NADU 1. Indian Cultural Academy Group - K. Suresh, Folk August 2005 2. Kargham group (CRPF), Kargham Dance (Chennai) 03.05.98 3. Kavin Kalai Kuzhu - Ilangovan M, Folk Dance (Dist 2008 Trichy) 4. Kalaimani Kalai Kuzhu - K Madhuri Muthu 2008 Folk Dance Tanjore Style (Chennai) 5. Mariamman Therukkuthu Troupe - Mr V 28.10.94 Dakshinamurthy 6. Kargam Kavadi Dance Group – Ms.N Kamatchi Devi 15.01.2003 7. Tamil Nadu Kottaikkuttu Kalai Valarchi - Shri P 15.01.2003 Rajagopal 8. Dummy Horse Dance - T.A.R. Nadirao, Folk 03.05.98 9. T.N.Shivaji Rao Karagam Kavadi Kavadi - Shri 16.12.99 T.N.Shivaji Rao (Karagam Peacock Folk) 10. Tamilnadu Martial Arts Troup - V M Selvaraj 2008 Folk Martial Art (Chennai) 11. V.R. Devika - The Aseema Trust, Tamil Group 15.01.2003

TRIPURA 1. Baludhum Garia Hokomu Bodol, Rajendra 2011 Debbarma 2. Bardhaman Thakur Para Team, Subodh Debbarma 2011 3. Nabincherra Biju Team, Chitramallika Chakma 2011 4. Paharpur Hajagiri Dance Troup, Dhirendra Malsai 2011 Reang 5. Sepoy Para Loka Ranjan Shakha, Sukandrai 2011 Debbarma

UTTAR PRADESH 1. Birha Samrat Ram Kailash Party - Ram Kailash 16.12.99 Yadav (Folk Dances) 2. Brij Lok Kala Manch Bahaj - Ramesh Chand Sharma 15.01.2003 (Folk Dances) 3. Brij Lok Manch - Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Folk Dance 16.12.99 4. Charkula Nritya & Brijlok Geet Manch - Madan Lal 16.12.99 Sharma (Charkula) 5. Charkula Nritya Avam Brij Lok Geet Manch - Murari 28.10.94 Lal Sharma (Charkula Dance) 6. Geetanjali International Folk Tang - Geetanjali 2008 Sharma (Folk Dance of Braj Style) (Mathura) 7. Pratibha Kala Kendra - Ms. Pratibha Tiwari, U.P August 2005 (Haryana) 8. S.G.K. Sanskratik Kala Samitee - Shri. Murari Lal 2009 Tiwari (Folk Dances ) (Mathura) 9. Shri Naad Sangit Kala Kendra - Smt. Ruchi Anurag 16.12.99 Tailong (Charkula, Lathamaar, Jeher) 10. Sri Krishna Lila Sansthan - Swami Ramswaroop 15.01.2003 Sharma (Devotional) 11. Sri Radha Kripa Raslila Sansthan - Shri Radha 16.12.99 Krishna Bhawan (Swami Fareh Krishna Sharma) 12. Brij Lok Manch & Jagriti Mandal - Ashok Kumar 2008 Sharma (Brij Folk Dance) (Bharatpur) 13. Shri Radhe Biraj Lok Kala Samiti - Shri Mohan Singh August 2005 Fouji (Folk Brij Lok Geet & Nritya)

UTTAR PRADESH FOLK MUSIC

1. Archana Bhargava 15.01.2003 2. Bhargava Sisters - Smt. Asha & Smt. Krishna 2007 Bhargava (NCR) 3. Madhuri Sharma & Party, Brij Folk 28.05.2004 4. Manjula Diwakar & Party, Kajri, Awadhi & Chaiti 15.01.2003 5. Prateeksha Sharma, U.P. Folk August 2005 6. Prem Lata & Party 15.01.2003 7. Rakesh Upadhyay & Party, Folk Song Bhojpuri 28.05.2004 8. Ram Sharma & Party, Raslila Mandal 28.05.2004 9. Sargam led by Mrs. Ajeeta Srivastava 03.05.98 10. Smt. Urmila Srivastva - Solo only (Mirzapur) 2007

UTTRAKHAND FOLK MUSIC

1. Basanti Bisth 2012

WEST BENGAL 1. Abhay Mitra Juggler - Shri Abhay Mitra, Juggler 13.02.96 2. Hemlata Panchatattwa Sangstha - Shri Swapan 2009 Kumar Roy (Folk Dances) (Medinipur) 3. Indian Mime Theatre - Shri Niranjan Goswami 16.12.99 Pantomime 4. Koch Rabha Kristi Party-Group - Sushil Kr. Rabha August 2005 Folk Dance 5. Konapara Harijan Unnayan Sangha - Sri Sahis 15.01.2003 Traditional Circus (Acrobatic) 6. Lok Chhanda Cultural Unit - Ms Maitreeyee Pahari 13.02.96 7. Sarabhuj - Shri Tarun Pradhan, Folk Dances 16.05.97 8. Saraswati Chakraborty & Party - Saraswati August 2005 Chakraborty (Folk Dances ) (W.Bengal) 9. Srijani - Mrs. Banani Bose, Folk Dances (24 2007 Parganas N) 10. Sukla Chakraborty, Folk Dances Gambhira Maldha 2008 (Kolkata)

WEST BENGAL FOLK MUSIC

1. Asraf Khan Fakir 2012 2. Amanat Fakir 2012 3. Chinmoy Adak 2012 4. Durga Roy 2012 5. Mohan Tati 2011 6. Santosh Kumar Barman 2012

WEST BENGAL FOLK MUSIC GROUP 1. Dohar - Kalikaprasad Bhattacharjee 2012 2. Ganesh Kabigaan Troup - Ganesh Bhattacharyya 2012

BAUL & BENGALI FOLK MUSIC OUTSTANDING 1. Baul Purandas – Baul 16.05.97 2. Swapan Mukherjee (Folk Music) Kolkata August 2005 (Up 2009)

ESTABLISHED 1. Baul Sadanand – Baul 2. Brahmachari Prahlad 28.10.94 3. Paul Amar 28.10.94 4. Paban Das Baul – Baul 03.05.98 (Up) 2007 5. Sambiti Poddar - Baul Palligeeti 15.01.2003 (Up) 2007

PROFICIENT 1. Adhar Kshyapa Baul – Baul 15.01.2003 2. Amitava Mukherjee - Folk 28.10.94 3. Shri Amit Guha - Folk Music 2010 4. Bimal Chandra Paul - Baul 15.01.2003 5. Bishwanath Adhikary - Folk Music 28.05.2004 6. Buddhadev Roy & Party 16.05.97 7. Dipti Roy - Folk Songs 15.01.2003 8. Jay Guru Baul Samproday - Folk Baul 28.05.2004 9. Jay Jayanti Baul Group - Folk Baul 28.05.2004 10. Krishna Majumdar - Nazrual Geeti, (Kolkata) 16.05.97 11. Madhusudan Baul Group - Baul Badshah, Baul 28.10.94 Bengal 12. Mahua Mukherjee - Folk Dance Traditional 28.05.2004 13. Mahaprabhu Sampraday - Nemmai Das Baul 03.05.98 (Murshidabad, WB) 14. Malay Ghosh - Folk Music 16.12.99 15. Pranesh Som - Bengali Folk 28.05.2004 16. Priti Bagh (Howrah) 16.05.97 17. Rabi Adhikari – Baul 15.01.2003 18. Ramesh Chandra Sarkar 28.10.94 19. Rana Pratap Mukherjee 16.05.97 20. Ranjit Kumar Das - Folk songs 15.01.2003 21. Sasti Das Baul - Folk Music 28.05.2004 22. Shaoni Mitra - Bengali Music 28.05.2004 23. Soumen Biswas (Group) West Bengal 13.02.96 24. Sri Aurbindo – Anusilan Society - Folk Music 28.05.2004 25. Shri Sudipta Ghosh - Folk Music (Kolkata) 2010 26. Tapan Kumar Roy 28.10.94 27. Ms Tulika Hazra Mondal – Baul (Nadia) 2010

BAUL GROUP

1. Nemai Das Baul - Folk Music (Murshidabad) 2009 2. Ranga Matir Baul Group, Debdas Baul ( Group ) 2011

FOLK MUSIC BHOJPURI OUTSTANDING 1. Deepmala Mohan (NCR) 96 (Up) 2009(Up) 2010 2. Sharda Sinha 15.01.2003 3. Shailesh Srivastava ( Mumbai) 94 (Up) 2005 (Up) 2012

ESTABLISHED 1. Mrityunjay Kumar Singh, Folk Music Bhojpuri 28.05.2004 (Up) 2010 2. Rakesh Upadhayay (U.P) (Up) 2012

PROFICIENT 1. Bharati Singh 2. Bhola Pandey (Noida, U.P.) 2012 3. Cheta Pun - Folk Music 2010 4. Kalpana Patowary (Mumbai) 2008 5. Pushpa Prasad 15.01.2003 6. Rajesh Pandey ( Delhi) 2012 7. Rakesh Chandra Srivastava (U.P.) 2012 8. Ramdarash Sharma - Folk Music (Gorakhpur) 2008 9. Sapna Roy 10. Usha Gupta (U.P) 2012 11. Vijay Bharti 15.01.2003

GROUP 1. Lal Kala Sanskritic Manch - Seema Tiwari, Bhojpuri 2008 Folk Music (New Delhi) 2. Sharmila Pandey, Folk Music 28.05.2004

BRIJ GROUP 1. Shri Ji Brij Mewat Lok Kala Manch Deeg - Jeetendra 2012 Parashar (Rajasthan)

BRIJ 1. Dayal Ram

MALVI FOLK MUSIC 1. Prahalad Singh Tipanyaa & Party 28.10.94

MAGICIANS

1. Anjaan & Group - Sujan Chowdhury ( Delhi) 2012 2. B. Kamesh 15.01.2003 3. Gili Gili Magic - Tajaswi Alias Jr. Shankar 1994 (Karnataka) 4. Gopinath Muthukad (Thiruvananthapuram) 2007 5. Kruti Parekh 28.05.2004 6. K S Ramesh 28.10.94 7. Madan Kundu 28.10.94 8. Magic & Beyond - Nabendu Saha (Ghaziabad) 2008 9. N.C. Sorcar 15.01.2003 10. P.C. Sorcar, Junior 16.12.99 11. Sahil Abra Ka Dabra Entertainment - Sahil Ahemad 2012 (Delhi) 12. Uday Magic World - Uday Jadugar 13.02.96

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1. ANDHRA PRADESH 80 2. ASSAM 81 3. BIHAR 82 4. CHANDIGARH / PUNJAB 83 5. DELHI 84 – 85 6. GOA 86 7. GUJARAT 87 8. HARYANA 88 9. HIMACHAL PRADESH 89 10. JAMMU & KASHMIR 90 11. KARNATAKA 91 12. KERALA 92 13. MADHYA PRADESH 93 14. MAHARASHTRA 94 15. MANIPUR 95 16. ORISSA 96 17. PONDICHERRY 97 18. RAJASTHAN 98 19. SIKKIM 99 20. TAMILNADU 100 21. UTTAR PRADESH 101 22. WEST BENGAL 102 23. PUPPETRY 103 - 104

REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR THEATRE & PUPPETRY (TRADITIONAL & CONTEMPORARY) AS ON 26/09/2012

ANDHRA PRADESH 1. Denchanaria Sreenivasa Director 2. Moin Ali Baig Director

ASSAM 1. Badungduppa, Sukracharjya Rabha ( Group ) 2011 2. Bhaghirathi and Bahul Islam - Seagull Rang Theatre 3. Niranjan Bhuiyan - Asom Rang Katha 4. Moinul Haque - Mime Solo (Guwahati) 2008

BIHAR 1. Sanjay Upadhyay - Nirman Kala Munch Director and Music Director

CHANDIGARH / PUNJAB 1. Gursharan Singh - Amritsar Natak Kala Kendra Director / Actor 2. Kumar Verma Director 3. Mohan Maharishi Director/Actor 4. Neelam Mansingh Chowdhary - The Company Director /Actor

DELHI (NCR) 1. Amal Allana - Theatre & TV Director 2. Anamika Haksar - Nirakar Director 3. Anuradha Kapur – Vivadi Director 4. Arvind Gaud 5. Asghar Wajahat Playwright 6. Ashok Yatin - Zoom in Presentation, Ramayana 2008 (Ram Lila) Theatre Group 7. Avijit Dutt Director 8. Averee Chaurey ( Actress ) 2011 9. Barry John – Tag Director 10. Bharati Sharma 28.05.2004 11. Bhumikeshwar Singh - Pratibha Sanskritik Sansthan 2007 12. C.D.Siddhu Playwright 13. Divya Arora (Physically Challenged), 2007 Director/Actress/Playwright (NCR) 14. D.R.Ankur – Sambhav Director 15. E.Alkazi Director 16. G. P.Deshpande Playwright 17. H.S.Shivaprakash Playwright 18. Indian Peoples Theatre Association - Aziz Quraishi ( Theatre Group 2012 Delhi) 19. J.P.Das Playwright, Poet 20. Jaidev Taneja Critic 21. Joy Michael Director 22. Kavita Nagpal Critic 23. Kirti Jain – Aaranjan Director 24. Lushin Dubey - Theatre World Director 25. Maya Krishna Rao 16.12.1999 26. M.K.Raina – Prayog Director/Actor 27. M.L.Waradpande Critic 28. Molashri Hashmi - Janam Manch Director/Actress 29. M. Sayeed Alam - Pierrot’s Troupe Director(August 2005) 30. N.K.Sharma - Act One Director 31. Nibha Joshi Scholar/Sanskrit Theatre 32. Panna Bharat Ram - Shri Ram Centre for 16.12.1999 Performing Arts 33. R.K.Dhingra Lighting Designer 34. Rajinder Nath – Abhiyan Director 35. Robin Das Director& Designer 36. Pt. Ram Dayal Sharma - Brij Lok Madhuri Nautanki Director(August 2005) 37. Ram Gopal Bajaj Director/Actor 38. Rameshwar Prem Playwright 39. Rati Batholomew Critic 40. Reoti Sharan Sharma - Delhi Natya Sangh Playwright 41. Roysten Abel Director 42. Romesh Chander Critic

43. Satish Anand - Kala Sangam Director 44. Rang Saptak - Surinder Kumar Sharma Director 2010 (Delhi) 45. Sohaila Kapur Charnalia – Director (Delhi) 2010 46. Syed Sallauddin Pasha – Theatre 28/05/2004 47. Tripurari Sharma Director/ Playwright 48. Torit Mitra – Sansaptak (NCR) 2007 49. Zohra Sehgal Actress

GOA 1. Vasant Josalkar - Kala Academy Director/Actor

GUJARAT 1. Darpana Academy Of performing Arts Group 2. Markand Bhatt – Triveni Director

HARYANA 1. Ashok Sagar Bhagat Stage/light & Designer 2. Kamal Tiwari Actor/Director

HIMACHAL PRADESH 1. Suresh Sharma (Mandi) Director / Actor

JAMMU AND KASHMIR 1. Balwant Thakur – Natrang Director/Actor 2. M.L.Kemmu Playwright 3. Mipham Otsal - Ladakh Theatre Organisation, 16.12.1999 (Ladakh) 4. Mushtaq Kak Theatre

KARNATAKA 1. Arjun Sajnani - Theatre Arts English Choreographer 2. Arundhati Nag Actress 3. Basavalingaiah - Nataka Karnataka Director 4. Bangalore Little Theatre, Vijay Padaki 2011 Director/Playwright 5. B.Jayashree – Spandana Director/Actress 6. Bimba Art Foundation - Deepika Dorai ( Karnataka) 2012 7. Chandra Jain 8. Chandrasekhar Kambar Director/Playwright 9. Girish Karnad Director/Actor/ Playwright 10. K.V.Akashara Director 11. Laxmi Chandrashekar Street Theatre 12. Mahesh Dattani Playwright 13. P.Lankesh Playwright 14. Raghunandan (Sri Rangaputhali Raghunandan) 15. S.Siddalingaiya – Samudaya Playwright 16. V.Ramamurthy Lighting Designer

KERALA 1. Ammannur Chakkyar Madhom - Gopal Venu Director 2. D Reghootham – Abhinaya Contemporary Style 2007 (Chennai) 3. Kavalam Narayana Panikar – Sopanam 2007 (Trivandrum) 4. K.C.Manavendranath (Trichur) Director 5. K Kaladharan Nair Peroorkada - Rasika Art & 2007 Culture Society (Trivandrum) 6. Lokadharmi - A A Chandradasan Theatre Group 2012 7. Vayala Vasudevan Pillai - Theatre Department Director Calicut University

MADHYA PRADESH 1. Alakhnandan – Natbundele Director/ Playwright 2. Bansi Kaul – Rangavidushak Director/Actor/ Stage Designer

MAHARASHTRA 1. Alyque Padamsee Director/Actor/English Theatre Musicals 2. Atul Kumar – Theatre Director 3. A. Rajan Director/Actor/Playwright 4. Stage Two Theatre Society - Avaan Patel, Director 2010 (Mumbai) 5. Bhakti Barve-Inamdar Actress 6. Chander Nath Kulkarni 7. Dinesh Thakur – Ank Director/Actor 8. Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni Critic 9. Dr. Mohan Agashe - Maharashtra Cultural Centre (Pune) 2007 10. Jabbar Patel - Theatre Academy Director 11. Kamalakar Sontakke Director/Actor 12. Kanchan Sontakke - Children Theatre 13. K.K. Raina, Ila Arun – Surnai, Director/Actor/Writer/ August 2005 Co - Director/Actress /Playwright 14. Lillette Dubey - Prime Time 16.12.1999 15. M.S.Sathyu Director/ Playwright 16. Mahesh Elkunchwar Playwright 17. Mohan Agashe - Theatre Academy Actor 18. Markand Sathe Playwright & Critic 19. Nadira Zaheer Babbar – Ekjut Director/ Playwright 20. Naseeruddin Shah – Motley Director /Actor 21. No License Yet - Shivani Tibrewala, 2009 Playwright/Director(Mumbai) 22. Rage Production - Rajit Kapur, Theatre Group (Mumbai) 2010 23. Rajiv Naik Playwright, Director& Critic 24. Ranjit Kapoor Director / Actor 25. Ratnakar Matkari - Tamasha Kala Kalwant Mandir New Director / Actor/ Hanuman Theatre Playwright 26. Pratibha Matkari - Tamasha Kala Kalawant Mandir Playwright 27. Salim Ghouse – Solo Actor 2008 28. Sarita Joshi - Parveen Josi Theatre Actress 29. Satish Alekar - Theatre Academy Playwright 30. Satya Dev Dube - Theatre Unit Director 31. Shama Zaidi Director/Actress 32. Shanta Gokhale Critic 33. Sanjana Kapoor - Prithvi Theatre Director/Actress 34. Sudha Karmakar – Sutradhar (Children’s Theatre) Director 35. Sulbha Deshpande – Aavishkar (Children’s Theatre) Director/ Actor 36. Sunila Pradhan - Theatre Unit 16.12.1999 37. Surendra Verma Playwright 38. Uttara Baokar Actress 39. Vijay Mehta Director/ Actress 40. Waman Kendre Rao Playwright & Director

MANIPUR 1. Arambam Lokendra - Forum for Laboratory Theatre Director (August 2005) 2. H.Thomba – Kalakshetra 3. Kanhailal Singh – Kalakshetram Director / Playwright 4. L.Damodar Singh Critic 5. Lourembam Kishworjit - Paradise Theatre (Imphal) 2007 6. Ningthouja Deepak - NT Theatre (Manipur) (Imphal) 2008 7. Rattan Thiyam - Chorus Repertory Theatre Director/ Playwright 8. S.Savithri Kanhailal – Kalakshetra Actress/Director 9. Sougrakpam Hemanth Singh - Sanaleipak Nachom Director (August 2005) Artists 10. Y. Sadananda Singh – Mime 28/05/2004

ORISSA 1. Anant Mohapatra Director/Critic 2. Manana Satya Sanstha - Manoj Pattanayak Direcor 3. Subodh Pattnaik - Natya Chetana Theatre 2007 (Bhubaneswar) 4. Susanta Kumar Pani – Godmecor 2008

PONDICHERRY 1. Indira Parthasarathy Playwright/Scholar 2. R.Raju 3. Veena Pani Chawla

RAJASTHAN 1. Bhanu Bharati Director with Traditional Bhil 2. Nand Kishore Acharya Playwright & Scholar 3. Ranbir Singh Critic/Playwright

SIKKIM 1. Srijana Sewa Samiti - Bipin Kumar ,Theatre 2010 Director (Sikkim)

TAMILNADU 1. A.V.Dhanushkoti B - Koothu-p-Pattarai Director 2. Kalairani Actress 3. Komal Swaminathan Director 4. N.Muthuswamy - Koothu-P-Pattarai Playwright 5. S.Ramanujam Director

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UTTAR PRADESH 1. Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi Scholar 2. Mridula Bhardwaj - Nipa Rangmandli, Classical 2007 Sanskrit & Modern Theatre (Lucknow) 3. Mudra Rakshas Playwright 4. Mukesh Sharma - Brijwasi Rangmandal, 2007 Folk/Traditional Theatre, Nautanki (Mathura) 5. Raj Bisaria - Theatre Arts Workshop Director 6. Swarg Repertory - Atul Yadvanshi ( U.P) Nautanki 2012 7. Urmil Kumar Thaparliyal Director 8. Vinod Rastogi Playwright

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WEST BENGAL 1. Aparna Sen Actress 2. Arun Mukherjee - Chetana Theatre Group Director/Actor 3. Ashoke Mukhopadhyay - Theatre Workshop Director/Actor 4. Ashoke Pramanick - Shyambazar Blind Opera 28/05/2004 5. Badal Sarkar - Shatabdi Director/Actor 6. Bibhash Chakraborty - Anya Theatre Director 7. Classic Mime Art (Duet) - Shyamal Roy & Dipak 2009 Kumar Mustafi (Mime) (Nadia, W.B) 8. Deb Kumar Paul – Mime 9. Debasish Majumdar – Shudrak Director/ Playwright 10. Dharni Ghosh Drama/Critic 11. Gautam Halder Director/Actor 12. Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed, 2011 Sanjoy Ganguly ( Theatre Group ) 13. Jogesh Dutta - Jogesh Mime Academy Mime 14. Kanishak Sen Stage/Light/Designer 15. Kalyani Kalamandalam - Santanu Das Director 16. Kalindi Bratyajon - Bratya Basu Theatre Group 2012 17. Koushik Sen - Swapna Sandhani Director/Actor 18. Khaled Choudhury Stage Designer 19. Kumar Roy – Bohurupee Director/Actor 20. Manoj Mitra – Sundaram Director/Actor 21. Mohit Chatterjee Playwright 22. Niranjan Goswami - Indian Mime Theatre ( Group) Mime 1999 23. Pratibha Agarwal 24. Probir Guha - The Living Theatre Kolkata Director 25. Pronob Krishna Mitra – Gandhar 26. Rudra Prasad Sengupta – Nandikar Director 27. Samik Bandyopadhyay Drama Critic 28. Sanjay Ganguly – Janasanskriti Director 29. Saoli Mitra Director/Actress 30. Shyamanand Jalan – Padatik Director 31. Sima Mukhopadhyay – Rangroop Director/Actor/Playwright (August 2005) 32. Soumitra Chatterjee Actor 33. Sova Sen - People’s Little Theatre Actress 34. Soumitra Mitra - Purba Paschim Theatre 2008 35. Thakurnagar Mime Academy of Culture - Chandra 2009 Kanta Sirali (Mime) 36. Theatre Unit Kolkata Modern Theatre 37. Usha Ganguly - Rangakarmee/Rudali Director/Actress 38. Vikram Iyengar – Ranan (Kolkata) 2010 39. Zarin Choudhury - Deaf Theatre

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PUPPETRY 1. Aakar Puppet Group - Shri Puran Bhatt (NCR) 15.01.2003 2. Ajit Ayancheri - Puppet Theatre, (Kerala) (P) 28.05.2004 3. Anil Bhatt (NCR) (P) 28.05.2004 4. Anurupa Roy - Puppet Theatre Contemporary 2007 (NCR) 5. Anupama Hoskere - String Puppetry (Karnataka) 2010 6. Babu Lal Bhatt (NCR) 13.02.96 7. Bakhan Creations - Madhu Singh ( Delhi) 2012 8. Sri Ganesha Yakshagana Gombeyata Mandali - 28.05.2004 Bhaskar Kogga Kamath (Karnataka) (O) 9. Belagallu Veranna, (Karnataka) (E) 28.05.2004 10. Basanti Rajasthani Folk Art (P) 28.05.2004 11. Chitarakari - Dalavai Kullayappa ( Andhra 2012 Pradesh) 12. Kolkata Puppet Theatre - Shri Suresh Dutta 28.10.94 13. Shri Gananathar Bommai Nataga Sabha - Shri A S 28.10.94 Manickavsagam 14. Harji Bhatt & Party - Shri Harji Bhatt (Jaipur) 16.12.99 15. Hathi Singh Mohan Lal & Party - Hathi Singh Mohal 15.01.2003 Lal(NCR) 16. Hyderabad Puppet Theatre (Andhara Pradesh) 13.02.96 17. Kathputli - Shri. Suresh Bhat (Rajasthan) 2009 18. Sri Gopalakrishna Yakshagana Bombeyata 2010 Sangha (R) - Kasaragod V Ramesh, (String Puppetry) (Karnataka) 19. Samanwaya Pavanataka Sanghom -T.P 28.05.2004 Kunhiraman (Kerala) 20. Little Puppet Theatre India (Kolkata) 03.05.98 21. Lok Kala Nidhi - Shri M K Pal 28.10.94 22. Mahipat Kavi (Group), (Ahemdabad) (E) 28.05.2004 23. Meher The Troupe - Mansinh Bahecharsing Zala 2010 Puppetry Contemporary (Ahmedabad) 24. Mayur Puppet Theatre - Pradeep Nath Tripathi 15.01.2003 (Lucknow) 25. Mohan Bhatt & Party - Shri Mohan Bhatt Nanu 28.10.94 (NCR) 26. Mohan Lal Puppeteer - Shri Mohan Lal 15.01.2003 27. Natanakairali, (Kerala) (O) 28.05.2004 28. Naurang Lal (NCR) (P) 28.05.2004 29. Nori Art & Puppetry Centre - Ms. Ratnamala Nori 15.01.2003 Modern Gloves Educational (Agartala) 30. Pappu Bhatt & Party (NCR) 03.05.98 31. People’s Puppet Theatre - Hiren Bhattacharaya 28.10.94 (Kolkata) 32. Prabal Pramanik - Shadow Puppet (E) (Punjab) 28.05.2004 33. Prakash Bhatt Group Anarkali - Prakash Bhatt ( 2012 Rajasthan)

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34. Puppeteer Babulal Mohan (NCR) 03.05.98 35. Puthali Kalarangaa - Shri Dattatrey Aralikatte 13.02.96 Ramrao (Karnataka) 36. Rahales Little Theatre - Smt. Rachael Mac-Bean 15.01.2003 (Kolkata) 37. Raj Kumar Bhatt & Puppet Party 28.10.1994 38. Rangaputhali Puppeteers - Karnataka Traditional 28.10.1994 Puppets (Bangaluru) 39. Sri Rangaputhali Raghunandan Puppetry - M.G. 2007 Raghunandan (Rod Puppet Traditional) ( Bangaluru) 40. Ranjeet Bhaat Puppet - Ranjeet Bhaat - Group 2010 (Delhi) 41. Ravan Chhaya Natya Sansad (Orissa) 03.05.1998 42. Ravindra Kala Bharati - Shri D.Nagendra Prasad 16.12.1999 Rao 43. Ramdas Padhye (Mumbai) 28.10.1994 44. Shailpik Communication Art, (W.B) (E) 28.05.2004 45. Santosh Devi (NCR) (P) 28.05.2004 46. Shahukaru Srinivasu Puppet Leather(Chennai) (P) 28.05.2004 47. Shanukaru Seethalakshmi - Andhra Shadow 15.01.2003 Puppet (Chennai) 48. Shri Sudip Gupta - Dolls Theatre (Kolkata) 1994 49. Shree Rameswara Soothragombe - Shri 15.01.2003 H.C.Thammannahar (Mela Karnataka Puppet) (Karnataka) 50. Sri Kali Kambaprasanna - Shri Thimmappacharya 16.12.1999 Puthali Bom (Karnataka) 51. Tripura Puppet Theatre - Shri Prabhitangsu Das 28.10.1994 (Tripura) 52. Tolpavakkothu Sangham - K L Krishnan Kutty 28.10.94 Pulavar (Kerala) 53. Tolpavakoothu & Puppet Center - Shri. K K 2009 Ramachandran Pulavar (Shadow Puppet) (Kerala) 54. Vinod Bhatt & Party (Rajasthan) 15.01.2003 55. Yakshagana Sutaadagombe Sangha - Shri 16.05.97 Veeranagouda H Jeevanagouda

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1. CLARIONET 106 2. DEVOTIONAL 107 3. FLUTE 108 4. FUSION 109 5. GHATAM/GUITAR 110 6. GOTTUVADYAM 111 7. HARMONIUM 112 8. IDAKKA 113 9. JALTARANG 114 10. KANJIRA 115 11. MANDOLIN 116 12. MRIDANGAM 117 13. NADASWARAM 118 14. PANCHVADYAM 119 15. PERCUSSION 120 16. SAXOPHONE 121 17. TALAVADIYA & KONAKOL 122 18. TAVIL 123 19. VEENA 124 20. VICHITRA VEENA 125 21. VIOLIN 126 22. CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 127 23. CARNATIC VOCAL 128 - 130

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CARNATIC – CLARIONET OUTSTANDING 1. Natarajan A K C

PROFICIENT 1. Kota Atchi Babu (Hyderabad) 2008

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DEVOTIONAL ESTABLISHED 1. Rajagopalan B R (Chennai) 03/05/98

PROFICIENT 1. Govindan E. (NCR) 15/01/2003 2. Rao Vedavathi Prabhakar 28/10/94 3. P S S Ravichandran ( Chennai ) 2011

DEVOTIONAL LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. T M Nagnath (Chennai) 2007

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FLUTE OUTSTANDING 1. Gopalakrishnan K S 16/05/97 2. Prapancham Sitaram 3. Ramani N 4. Shashank S (Master) 15/01/2003 5. Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar (Chennai) 03/05/98 6. Sikkil Sister: V Kunjamani and Neela

ESTABLISHED 1. Balasai B.V. (Chennai) 15/01/2003 2. Bhaskaran K 3. Prakash A V 4. Rajan G S (Sahibabad) 16/05/97 5. Ramanujan K.V (Mylapore) 16/05/97 6. Srinivasan N (Hyderabad) 7. Thiagarajan T R 8. Vijayagopal B. (Tamilnadu) August 2005

PROFICIENT 1. Ananthram B.K. (Bangaluru) 15/01/2003 2. Balakrishna Tantri, P (Mangalore) 28/10/94 3. Ganesh R & Gopinath R 4. Janardanan Krishna Iyer (Trivandrum) 28/05/2004 5. Mysore A Chandan Kumar ( Mysore ) 2011 6. Niranjan Jagannath Damle ( Pune) 2012 7. Prapancham Balachander 28/10/94 8. Ravi & Raghu (Chennai Brothers) 9. Ravichandra Kulur (Bangaluru) 2007 10. Raghuraman, Govindarajan (NCR) 28/10/94 11. Shashidhar S A 12. Smitha Srikiran (Mysore) 2007 13. Srinath T R 14. Srinivasan R.K.(Hindustani & Carnatic) (Varanasi) 16/05/97 15. Vijay Venkateshwar Inala (Thiruvanmyur) August 2005

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FUSION 1. Pranavanaadham, V.L.V Sudharsan ( Chennai ) 2011 Group (P)

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GHATAM OUTSTANDING 2. Ranganathan S 3. Subhashchandran T A 4. Sukanya Ramgopal (Bangaluru) 13/02/96 5. Vaikom Gopalkrishnan 6. Vinayakram T.H 7. Vasan T V 15/01/2003

ESTABLISHED 1. H Sivaramakrishnan (Bangaluru) 03/05/98 2. Krishnamurthy M A 15/01/2003 3. Rajagopal R A 15/01/2003 4. Ramesh Purushottam (a.k.a. Ramesh Shottam) 28/10/94

PROFICIENT 1. Krishnan K 2. Som Nath Roy (Howrah) August 2005 3. Trichy K Murali ( Chennai ) accompanist only 2012 4. Tripunithura N Radhakrishnan (Ernakulam) 2007

GUITAR ESTABLISHED 1. Shri Prasanna Ramaswamy 28/05/2005

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GOTTUVADYAM (CHITRAVEENA) OUTSTANDING 1. A Durga Prasad 16/12/99 2. Ravikiran N

ESTABLISHED 1. Avudayarkovil Subramanyam (Gethuvadyam)

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HARMONIUM PROFICIENT 1. C. Ramadas (Bangaluru) 15/01/2003

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IDAKKA PROFICIENT 1. P Nandakumar (Thrissur) 2007

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JALTARANG ESTABLISHED 1. Anayampatti Ganeshan S

PROFICIENT 1. Nemani Somayajulu (Hyderabad) 2008 2. Tulankar Milind, Pune 28/05/2007

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KANJIRA OUTSTANDING 1. Selva Ganesh 15/01/2003

ESTABLISHED 1. Ramesh Purushottam

PROFICIENT 1. Krishna V 2. M. Nagarajan 3. Vijaypal Punakar 1989

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MANDOLIN OUTSTANDING 1. Srinivas U

ESTABLISHED 1. Rajesh U 15/01/2003

PROFICIENT 1. Raju U P (Chennai) 16/12/99

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MRIDANGAM OUTSTANDING 1. Eswaran Mannargudi 28/10/94 2. Guruvayur Dorai 3. Gopalakirshnan T V 4. Karaikudi Mani R 5. Kamalakar Rao V 6. Madras Kannan A (Up) August 2005 7. Murthy T K (Thiruvanmiyur) 16/05/97 8. Palaghat Raghu 9. Ramamohan Rao D 10. Sundaresan T R (Chennai) 1992 (Up) August 2005 11. Trichur Narendran 16/12/99 12. Tiruchi Sankaran A 13. Tiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam 15/01/2003 14. Umayalpuram Sivaraman 15. Vellore Ramambhadran 16/05/97 16. Yella Venkateswara Rao 16/12/99 ESTABLISHED 1. Anantakrishna Sharma 2. Arunachalam Prem Kumar (NCR) 28/05/2004 3. Kumar A (NCR) 15/01/2003 4. Mani T A S 5. Peraveli Jaya Bhaskar (Group) (Hyderabad) 28/05/2004 6. Sumati Dandamudi 7. Srivatsa N 8. Trivandrum V. Surendran (Thiruvananthapuram) 2007 9. Umayalpuram Mali 10. Vijay Siva PROFICIENT 1. K H Vineeth ( Chennai ) accompanist only 2012 2. Paraveli Jaya Bhaskar (Hyderabad) 28/05/2004 3. Rama Krishnan N 4. Ravi V 5. R. Kesavan (Thanjavur) August 2005 6. Tiruvidaimarudur Sankaran 7. Tiruvidamarudur Radhakrishnan Chennai) 2012 accompanist only

LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. Venkatasubramaniam T K (NCR) Accompaniment 28/10/94

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NADASWARAM OUTSTANDING

1. Kaleeshabi Mahaboob & Sheikh Mahaboob 28/10/94 Subhani (Tamilnadu) 2. Kodandaram M 16/12/99 3. Tiruvila Jaishankar 16/12/99

ESTABLISHED

1. Kasim S (Tamilnadu) 28/05/2004 2. Nagaraju C S 3. Nadhaswaram & Party - B.K.Govindasamy August 2005 (Pondicherry) 4. Sembanarkoil Brothers (Up) August 2005 5. Seshampati Sivalingam T 1992 6. Sheikh Hassan Saheb 7. Tiruppamabaram Brothers (Up) August 2005

PROFICIENT

1. Ravi Shankar T.A.P. (Chennai) 16/05/97 2. T K S Swaminathan Brothers 3. Vijay Karthikeyan A, Chidambaram Cudddalore 2008 (Tamil Nadu)

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PANCHVADYAM (GROUP) ESTABLISHED 1. Ballusseri Kotta Pancha Vadya Sangham - 94 (Up) August 2005 Kirshnadas Balussery (Kerala)

PROFICIENT 1. Delhi Panchavadya Sangham - Cheruthazham 28/10/94 Kunhiraman 2. Kalamandalam Sreekumar & Group - Shri 2007 Kalamandalam Sreekumar (NCR) 3. Karayadam Chandramarar – Group (Kerala) 2007 4. Kongadvijayan Devi Sadanam Group (Kerala) 16/05/97 5. Moosad Panchavadyam - A V Krishna Moosad 16/12/99 (Trivandrum)

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PERCUSSION OUTSTANDING 1. Ganesh Vadyalaya - Vinayak Ram 2. Karaikudi Mani Talavadya Ensemble (Sruthielaya)

ESTABLISHED 1. Dhandapany T R 2. Mahila Talavadya Kacheri 3. Tala Tarangini Karnataka College of Percussion - T A S Mani 4. TSN Percussive Arts Centre - T.S. Nandkumar 2007 (Mumbai)

PROFICIENT 1. Amrit N - Group (Bangalore) 2007 2. Laya Vidya Pratishtana - Shri H L Shivashankara 2010 Swamy (Instrument Ensemble) (Group)

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SAXOPHONE OUTSTANDING 1. Kadri Gopalnath 16/05/97

PROFICIENT 1. Gopalakrishnan Ramanathan (Chennai) 2010 2. Mangalore K.Ananthram (Mangalore) 16/05/97 3. Mysore Sainatha Lavanya (Karnataka) 28/05/2004

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TALAVADIYA & KONAKOL 1. T K Murthy School of Music - T K Murthy ( 2012 Chennai)

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TAVIL OUTSTANDING 1. Denkanikottai Muniratnam 2. Haridwaramangalam Palanivel 3. Thiruvalaputhu Kaliya Murthy 4. Valayapatti Subramaniam A R 16/05/97

ESTABLISHED 1. Thavil Krishnan A 2. Thiruvallikeni K Sekar ( Chennai ) 2011

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VEENA OUTSTANDING 1. Bhagyalakshmi C (Bangaluru) (Up) August 2005 2. Gayatri E 16/12/99 3. Jayanthi Kumaresh Ravikiran (Bangaluru) 03/05/98 4. Rajeswari Padmanathan 5. Saraswati Rajagopalan 16/12/99 6. Visweswaran R 16/12/99

ESTABLISHED 1. Chitra Lingam 2. Emani Kalyani Lakshminarayana (Up) August 2005 3. Muthulakshmi Ranganathan 16/05/97 4. Rajalakshmi Tirunarayanan (Bangaluru) 03/05/98 5. S. Sundar (Chennai) August 2005 6. Shanti Rao 7. Suma Sudhindra (Up) August 2005 8. Venkatraman S 9. Venkatachalam Visalam (NCR) 28/10/94

PROFICIENT 1. A.G.S. Sujata (Chennai) 1992 2. Alamelu E P (Bangaluru) 28/10/1994 3. Arvind Jayashree (Mumbai) 15/01/2003 4. Balakrishna D 5. Bonala Sankara Prakash ( Chennai ) 2011 6. Dhulipala Srinivas (Hyderabad) 28/05/2004 7. J Yoga Vandana (Bangaluru) 2009 8. M R Sashi Kanth 28/10/96 9. N. Vijayalakshmi (Chennai) 2009 10. Nirmala Jankiraman 11. Revathy Krishna (Chennai) 16/12/99 12. Sekhar Jayalakshmi (Chennai) 15/01/2003 13. Shanthi K. Rao (Bangaluru) 28/05/2004 14. Shubha Santhosh ( Bangalore) 2012 15. Shyamala Sajnani ( Mumbai) 2012 16. Taramohan (Bangaluru) 1992 17. Tummala Padmini (Visakhapatnam) 03/05/98 18. Venkataraman B (Kannan)

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VICHITRA VEENA PROFICIENT 1. Vijay V. Inala (Chennai) 15/01/2003

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VIOLIN OUTSTANDING 1. Annavarapu Ramaswamy 03/05/98 2. Chandrasekharan M 3. Dr. M. Narmada (Mylapore) 28/05/2004 (Up) 2007 4. Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao 15/01/2003 5. Ganesh R & Kumaresh R (Chennai) Up 2004 6. Gopalakrishnan M S 7. Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan 8. Kanya Kumari A 03/05/98 9. Krishnan T N 10. Krishnan Viji 16/05/97 (Up) 2007 11. Lalgudi G J R Krishnan 16/12/99 12. Lalgudi Jayaraman 13. Mysore M Manjunath & Mysore M Nagaraj (Duet) 15/01/2003 14. Nagai Muralidharan 15/01/2003 15. Peri Sriramamurthy 28/10/94(Up) August 2005 16. Rukmini T 15/01/2003 17. Dr. L Subramaniam 18. Subramaniam V V 03/05/98 19. Vijayalakshmi J. Lalgudi 15/01/2003 ESTABLISHED 1. Anuradha B 2. Dwaram Satyanarayana Rao 3. Lalgudi Srimathi & Party, Lalgudi Srimathi ( 2011 Chennai ) 4. Lakshminarayana Ambi Subramaniam ( Bangalore 2011 ) 5. M Subramaniam Sharma 6. Mallikarjun Sarma A 7. M.Lalitha & M.Nandini (Duet) (Chennai) 16/05/97(Up) August 2005 8. Poosarla Manorama (Dwaram Family) 9. Raghavendra & Venkatram H K 16/12/99 10. V V Ravi (Chennai) 2008 PROFICIENT 1. Krishnan Siram 2. L Athira Krishna (Chennai) 2010 3. Muthuri S M Murthy (Visakhapatnam) 13/02/96 4. Narayan Radha 5. Parampara V. K. V.S (Group) Chennai 28/10/94 6. Raaga Sudha Rasa-T R Venkataramani (Tiruppur) 2012 Jugalbandi 7. Ranjani & Gayatri (Mylapore) 15/01/2003 8. Sridhar R. (NCR) 28/05/2004 9. Subbarathnam Kanchana V (Karnataka) 15/01/2003 10. Thyagarajan T G 11. Usha Rajagopalan (Chennai) 2008 126

CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 1. Sankara Ensemble Instrumental - T H Subash 2012 Chandran (Chennai) 2. Madras String Quartet - V S Narasimhan ( 2012 Chennai)

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CARNATIC VOCAL OUTSTANDING 1. Aruna Sayeeram 2. Balamurali Krishna M 28/10/94 3. Govinda Rao T.K 16/05/97 4. Jesudas K.J 16/05/97 5. Lalitha C & Saroja C 16/12/99 6. Nagamani Srinath G N 7. Narayanaswamy P S (Chennai), Stopped 15/01/2003 Performing 8. Nedunuri Krishnamurthy 16/05/1997 9. Nithyasree Mahadevan ( Chennai ) 2012 10. Pattamal D K 11. Radha & Jayalakshmi 16/05/97 12. Ragunathan Sudha (Chennai) 28.10.94 (Up) 16/12/99 13. R.K. Srikantan (Bangaluru) 2007 14. Ramnath Bombay Jayashri (Tiruvanmiyur) 15/01/2003 15. Sankaranarayanan T.V 16/05/97 16. Satyanarayana Nookala Chinna 16/12/99 17. Seshagopalan T.N 16/05/97 18. Sheela M.S. 15/01/2003 19. Sowmya S (Chennai) 13/02/96 (Est.) 20. Subramaniam T.R. 15/01/2003 21. Subramanyam Sanjay 15/01/2003 22. Suguna Purushottamam (Chennai) 15/01/2003 23. Trichur Ramachandran V (Chennai) 16/12/99 24. Krishna T.M. (Chennai) 15/01/2003 (Up) 2008 25. Unnikrishnan P 15/1/2003(Up)August2005 26. Vageesh K 16/12/99 27. Vaidyanathan O.S (Alias O.S. Aurn) (Chennai) (Up) 2012 28. Vedavalli R 16/05/97

ESTABLISHED 1. Alamuri Sudharani 16/05/97 2. Carnatica Brothers - P Ganesh & K N Shashikiran 2012 ( Chennai) 3. Charumathi Ramachandran 16/05/97 4. Chidambaram Sirakazhi G Siva 28/10/94 5. Gayatri S 15/01/2003 6. Gopalanathan M 7. Geeta Raja 28/10/94 8. Geetha Rajashekar (Chennai) 13/02/96 9. Haripriya & Lalitha 15/01/2003 10. Janaki Subramaniam 13/02/96 11. Jayashri S (Mylapore) 28/10/94 12. K Omanakutty Amma (Trivandrum) 03/05/98 128

13. M K Sankaran Namboothiri (Kerala) 13/02/96(Up) August 2005 14. Malladi Ravi Kumar & Malladi Sreerama Prasad 2012 (A.P.) 15. Mani G S 16. Mahajanam C Ramamurthi 17. Meera Nathan 18. Nirmala Sundararajan 19. Dr .N.C.Indira Devi (NCR) 16/05/97 20. Palai Ramachandran C K (Calicut) 28/10/94(Up) August 2005 21. Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Chennai) 13/02/96 22. Ramakanth Rudrapatnam S (Bangaluru) 28/10/94 23. Rama Ravi (NCR) 24. Ramamani R A 25. S Hariharan Nair (Aluva) 28/10/94 26. Shankar S 27. Sankaran Gayatri (Chennai) 15/01/2003 (Up) 2010 28. Santhanagopalan Neyveli R (Chennai) 28/10/94 (Up) 16/12/99 29. Sukanya Prabhakar 16/12/99 30. Tulasi Veluri Laxmi (Rajahmundry) August 2005 31. Visalam Venkatachalam 32. Venkataraman A 33. Vijayaaraghaavan B S

PROFICIENT 1. Akhila Seshadri (Mumbai) 28/05/2004 2. Alamelu K S & Chitra K S 1989 (P) 3. Anuradha Suresh Krishnamurthy (Chennai) 16/05/97 4. Ayamkudy Mony (Thiruvananthapuram) 2007 5. Bala Kunnakkudy (Chennai) 28/10/94 6. Balaji Shankar 7. Chandramana Sreekumaran Sajeev (Trivendrum) 2008 8. Devie Neithiyar ( Chennai ) 2011 9. Dr. B. Arundhati (Trivandrum) 2007 10. Durgalakshmi V Bala Kunnakkudy 1992 11. Govindrajan Elangovan (Carnatic) 28/10/94 12. Gayathri Venkatesan ( Chennai) 2012 13. Jayashri Shankar (Trivanderpuram) 2007 14. Kavitha & Triveni Saralaya (Bangaluru) 28/10/94 15. Lahari Kolachela (Visakhapatnam) 2010 16. Lakshmi Rangarajan (Chennai) 16/12/99 17. Nisha Rajagopalan (Chennai) 2010 18. Nagaavalli Nagaraj 19. Maharajpuram Ramachandran 20. Mahalakshmi C. (Tamilnadu) August 2005 21. Madras Sisters (Chennai) 1989 22. Manasi Prasad (Bangaluru) 2008 23. Mathangi Sathyamoorthy (Kerala) 2010

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24. N J Nandini ( Kerala) 2012 25. Nityanand Visalakshi 15/01/2003 26. Pantula Rama (Andhra Pradesh) 2009 27. Prema Hariharan (Chennai) 28. Raghuraman Sudha (NCR) 15/01/2003 29. Ranjani & Gayatri (also in Violin) (Aylapore) 15/01/2003 30. Rajeswari A 31. Radha Venkatachalam 32. R S Nandkumar (Karnataka) 16/12/99 33. Sukumari Narendra Menon 34. S R Veeraraghavan (Chennai) 2010 35. Satyavati T S 36. S. Mathangi (Pondicherry) 28/05/2004 37. Sisters Matunga (Lakshmi & Kalyani) (Mumbai) 1992 38. Sankaranarayanan V (Chennai) 2010 39. Sakuntla Narsimhan 1989 40. Sivachidambaaram S G 41. Sathyanarayanan S (NCR) 28/10/94 42. Srinivasan Padmaja (NCR) 28/10/94 43. Subhashini Parthasarathy (Chennai) 16/12/99 44. T V Ramprasad (Chennai) 16/12/99 45. T V Manikandan (Delhi) 2008 46. V R Dileepkumar ( Kerala) 2012 47. V Subramaniam (Chennai) 16/12/99 48. Vasundhra Rajagopal (Chennai) 2010 49. Vasumathi Badrinathan (Mumbai) 1992 50. Vidya Harikrishna ( Maharashtra) 2012 51. Vijayalakshmi Muraleedharan ( Kerala) 2012

LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. Desikan G N 28/10/94 2. Leela Omcherry 15/01/2003 3. Navile Lalitha (Bangaluru) 28/10/94 4. Rajam Iyer B (S) 16/05/97 5. Rajan Ritha (Chennai) 28/10/94 6. Dr.Salem Jayalakshmi S 7. Sreelatha R N (Mysore) 28/10/94 8. Srinivasarghavan A (Chennai) 13/02/96

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1. Clarionet 132 2. DiIruba 133 3. Dotara 134 4. Esraj 135 5. Flute 136 6. Guitar 137 7. Harmonium 138 8. Jaltarang 139 9. Kanjira 140 10. Mandolin 141 11. Musicologist 142 12. Pakhawaj 143 13. Sreekhole 144 14. Rudra Veena 145 15. Rabab 146 16. Santoor 147 17. Sarangi 148 18. Sarasvani 149 19. Sarod 150 - 151 20. Shehnai 152 21. Side Rhythem (Manjeera/Ghungroo) 153 22. Sur Bahar 154 23. Sitar 155 – 157 24. Sundari Wadan 158 25. Synthsizer 159 26. Tabla 160 – 162 27. Vichitra Veena 163 28. Violin 164 29. Hindustani Vocal 165 - 171

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HINDUSTANI MUSIC CLARIONET ESTABLISHED 1. Solarpurkar M V Bandopant 16/05/97

PROFICIENT 1. Abdul Salam Naushad (Indore) 16/05/97 2. Mobarak Karim August 2005 3. Narasimhalu Vadavati 03/05/98

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DILRUBA PROFICIENT 1. Shubhada Pendharkar (Nagpur) 13/02/96

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DOTARA PROFICIENT 1. Prasenjit Phangchoo (Guwahati) 2009

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ESRAJ ESTABLISHED 1. Allauddin Khan 16/05/97 2. S Kumar Mishra (Lucknow) 16/12/99

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FLUTE OUTSTANDING 1. Amarnath (Pt.) 16/05/97(Up) August 2005 2. Hari Prasad Chaurasia 3. Nityanand N Haldipur (Mumbai) 28.10.94 (Up) 16/12/99 4. Raghunath Seth 16/05/97 5. Rajendra Prasanna 16/05/97 6. Ronu Majumdar 16/05/97 7. Vijaya Raghava Rao 16/05/97

ESTABLISHED 1. K.L.Ginde (Poona) 16/05/97 2. Krishna Bhandari (Pune) 28/05/2004 (Up) 2008 3. Prashad Varman (NCR) 16/05/97 4. Purohit S N (Jodhpur) 1992 5. Prakash Saxena 6. Pashupati Nath Arya (Bihar) 28/10/94 7. Rajendra Kulkarni Up 2008 8. Rohit Anand 28/5/2004(Up)August2005 9. Rupak Kulkarni (Borivilli) 15/01/2003 10. Sudip Kumar Chattopadhyay (West Bengal) 1992

PROFICIENT 1. Ainoddin Faqroddin Warsi 2010 2. Babulal Sharma 28.10.94 (Up) 13/02/96 3. Chetan Kumar Joshi 28/10/94 4. Hari Mohan Srivastava (Bhopal) 1992 5. Kailash Chand Sharma (NCR) 1992 6. Mahavir Prasad 28/10/94 7. Mohini Mohan Patnaik 8. Naresh S Kumta (Mumbai) 03/05/98 9. Niranjan Prasad (Lucknow) 16/12/99 10. Om Prakash (Varanasi) 28/10/94 11. Pradeep Marjani (Baroda) 1992 12. Rajesh Prasanna & Rishab Prasanna (Delhi) 2009 13. Srinibas Satapathy (Orissa ) 2012 14. Sunder Lal Gandharv (Uttar Pradesh) 15/01/2003 15. Sunil Kant Gupta (Mumbai) 16/12/99 16. Sunil Bhagwan Avachat (Pune) 2007

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GUITAR OUTSTANDING 1. Brij Bhusan Kabra 16/05/97 2. Debashish Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) 16/05/97 (Up) 2008 3. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt 16/05/97

ESTABLISHED 1. Anup Dasgupta (Kolkata) 13.2.96 (Up) 16/05/97 2. Barun Kumar Pal (Kolkata) 3. Kamala S (Varanasi) 28/10/94 4. Prasanna Ramaswamy (Chennai) 28/05/2004

PROFICIENT 1. B.P. Mukhopadhyay (Hooghly) 15/01/2003 2. Chaudhury Dipen Vallabh 3. Debashish Chakraborty (Howrah) 16/12/99 4. Neel Ranjan Mukherjee (Delhi) 2008 5. Rhitom Sarkar (Kolkata) 2009 6. Dr. Sunil Pavgi ( Lucknow ) 2012

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HARMONIUM OUTSTANDING 1. Appa Jalgaonkar 15/01/2003

ESTABLISHED 1. Jayaram Potdar (NCR) 1992 (Up) 2007 2. Mehmood Dhaulpuri (NCR) 2010 3. Pt. Sohan Lal Sharma (Kolkata) 16/05/97

PROFICIENT 1. Ahmed Jaan Raaz 28/10/94 2. Paromita Mukherjee (NCR) 2010 3. Prakash Dutt Chitnis (Thane) August 2005 4. Sanatan Goswami (Kolkata) 2010 5. Sudhanshu R Kulkarni (Belgaum) 15/01/2003 6. Suvendu Banerjee (Kolkata) 2010 7. Suyog Subhash Kundalkar ( Pune ) 2012

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PROFICIENT 1. Manish Sharma ( Delhi ) 2012

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KANJIRA PROFICIENT 1. Vijaypal Punakar (Maharashtra) 28/10/94

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MANDOLIN PROFICIENT 1. Nasir Ahmed Quereshi (Mumbai) 16/12/99

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MUSICOLOGISTS OUTSTANDING 1. Ashok Ranade 2. Durga S A K 3. Gautam M R 4. Gomti Viswanathan 5. Krishna Bisht 6. Mukund Lath 7. Parthasarathi T S 8. Ramanathan N 9. Subhadra Chaudhury 10. Satyanarayan R 11. Seeta S

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PAKHAWAJ OUTSTANDING 1. Bal Krishna Sharma 15/01/2003 2. Bapu Rao Shinde 16/05/97 3. Bhavani Shankar (Borivali) 28/05/2004 (Up) 2008 4. Dal Chand Sharma (Delhi) 15/01/2003 5. Pannalal Upadhyay 15/01/2003 6. Ramashish Pathak (Solo) 16/05/97 7. Ramji Upadhyay 15/01/2003 8. Ramji Lal Sharma (Lucknow) 13.2.96 (Up) 15/01/2003

ESTABLISHED 1. Laxmi Narayan Pawar 2. Mohan Shyam Sharma (NCR) 28/05/2004 3. Shankar Das 4. Sita Ram Sharma (for accompaniment only)

PROFICIENT 1. Anil Chaudhary (NCR) 28/05/2004 2. Arun Kumar (Punjab) 2009 3. Chitrangana Agle Reshwal ( Madhya Pradesh ) 2012 4. Chitranjan Dev Shukl (Rampur) 28/10/94 5. Harish Chandra Pati (NCR) 28/10/94 6. Prithveeraj Kumar (Chhattisgarh) 2007 7. Ram Pathak (Lucknow) 2007 8. Ravi S. Upadhyay (Allahabad) 15/01/2003 9. Shashi Kant Pathak (Lucknow) August 2005

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SREEKHOLE PROFICIENT 1. Anupam Pramanik (Nadia) 2009

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RUDRA VEENA OUTSTANDING 1. Asad Ali Khan

ESTABLISHED 1. Bahauddin Dagar (Mumbai) 16/12/99

PROFICIENT 1. Asit Kumar Banerjee (Kolkata) 1989 2. Jayanta Kumar Das (Bangaluru) 16/05/97 3. Jyoti G Hegde (Dharwad) 16/12/99 4. Zahid Khan (NCR) 2007

MOHAN VEENA ESTABLISHED 1. Salil V. Bhatt (Jaipur) 15/1/2003(Up)August2005

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RABAB (INSTRUMENTAL) PROFICIENT 1. Shri Imran Khan (NCR) August 2005

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SANTOOR OUTSTANDING 1. Bhajan lal Sopori (Delhi) 16/05/97 2. Om Prakash Chaurasia 16/05/97 3. Satish Chintaman Vyas 16/05/97 4. Shiv Kumar Sharma (Pt.) 5. Tarun Bhattacharya 16/05/97 6. Ulhas Bapat (Mumbai) 16/05/97

ESTABLISHED 1. Abhay Rustam Sapori (NCR) 28/05/2004 (Up) 2009 2. Kankan Ghosal (Howrah) 28/05/2004 3. Nandkishore Mulye 16/05/97 4. Rahul Shivkumar Sharma (Mumbai) 2007 5. Visweswaran R

PROFICIENT 1. Bipul Kumar Ray ( New Delhi ) 2011 2. Dhananjay Daithankar (Kothrud) 28/10/94 3. Harinder Pal Singh 4. Surendra Naryekar (Mumbai) 03/02/96 5. Sandeep Chatterjee (Howrah) 16/12/99 6. Dr. Varsha Agrawal ( Ujjain ) 2012

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SARANGI OUTSTANDING 1. Hamid Khan 16/05/97 2. Inder Lal 3. Mohinuddin Khan (Indore) 15/01/2003 4. Ram Narayan 5. Ramesh Mishra (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 6. Sabri Khan 28/10/94 7. Sultan Khan

ESTABLISHED 1. Aruna Narayana Kale 16/05/97 2. Bharat Bhushan Goswami 16/05/97 3. Chote Sabri Khan 16/05/97 4. Dhruba Ghosh 16/05/97 5. Farooqi Latif Khan (Indore) August 2005 6. Iqbal Khan 7. Kamaal Sarwar Sabri 28/10/94 (Up) 2010 8. Murad Ali (Delhi) 2007 (Up) 2010 9. Naseer Khan (Lucknow) 2010 10. Santosh Kumar Misra 16/05/97 11. Sarwar Hussain (Bhopal) 28/05/2004

PROFICIENT 1. Fakurddin Dholpuri (Delhi) 2007 2. Faiz Khan (Kolkata) 1992 3. Gouri Banerjee (Delhi) 28/05/2004 4. Mohd. Nasir Khan (Delhi) 2007 5. Murad Ali & Fateh Ali ( Delhi ) Jugalbandi Sitar & 2012 Sarangi

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SARASVANI PROFICIENT 1. Subhash Chandra Ghosh (Chandigarh) 2010

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SAROD OUTSTANDING 1. Amjad Ali Khan 2. Ashish Khan 16/05/97 3. Buddhadev Das Gupta 16/05/97 4. Rajeev Taranath 15/01/2003 5. Sunil Mukherjee 16/05/97 6. Zarin Sharma 16/05/97

ESTABLISHED 1. Aman Ali Bangash (Delhi) 03/05/98(Up)August 2005 2. Abhik Sarkar 16/12/99 3. Abhisek Lahiri (Howrah) 28/05/2004 (Up) 2008 4. Ayaan Ali Bangash (Delhi) 03/05/98(Up) August 2005 5. Brij Narain 16/05/97 6. Biswajit Roy Choudhury 16/05/97 7. Irfan Mohammed Khan (Kolkata) 1992 8. Joydeep Ghosh (Kolkata) 16/05/97 9. Mukesh Sharma (Lucknow) 28/05/2004 10. Narendra N Dhar 16/05/97 11. Parthasarathy Choudhury 16/05/97 12. Prattyush Banerjee 16/12/99 13. Ranajit Sengupta (West Bengal) 15/01/2003 14. Shree Gangopadhyay (Kolkata) 16/05/97 15. Suran Ranjan (Hooghly) 16/05/97 16. Stuti Dey (Kolkata) 28.10.1994 (Up) 16/05/97 17. Vidyut Khan 18. Vikash Maharaj (Varanasi) 03/05/98 19. Basant Kabra 16/12/99

PROFICIENT 1. Abdul Sami Khan (Delhi) 2009 2. Abhijit Roy Choudhury (Lucknow) 1992 3. Abhijit Roy Choudhury 28/10/94 4. Amit Bhattacharya (Varanasi) 16/12/99 5. Apratim Majumdar ( Kolkata ) 2012 6. Arnab Chakrabarty (Gurgaon) 2010 7. Atish Mukhopadhyay (Kolkata) 2010 8. Avijit Ghosh (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 9. Danish Aslam Khan (Meerut) 28/05/2004 10. Deboiyoti Bose (Kolkata) 28/10/94 11. Debanjan Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) 2008 12. Gurudev Singh 13. Gulfam Ahmed (Delhi) 16/12/99 150

14. Jatinder Pal Singh 16/05/97 15. Prabhat Kumar (Delhi) 03/05/98 16. Rajeeb Chakraborty 17. Rakesh Prasanna (Delhi) 16/05/97 18. Sachin Patwardhan (Indore) 2010 19. Sayak Barua (Kolkata) 2010 20. Shekhar Dinanath Borkar (Puna) 13/02/96 21. Smit Tewari (Uttrakhand) 2012 22. Sougata Ganguli (Kolkata) 2008 23. Srikumar Banerjee 24. Sunatno Mukherjee (Kolkata) 03/05/98 25. Susim Kr. Malik (Lucknow) 15/01/2003 26. Tanusree Chatterjee (Kolkata) 16/12/99 27. Vir Bhadra Bhardwaj (Gurgaon) 2010

LECTURE – DEMONSTRATION 1. Rajeev Taranath 15/01/2003

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SHEHNAI OUTSTANDING 1. Ali Hussain Khan 16/05/97 2. Anant Lal 16/05/97 3. Ali Ahmed Hussain 16/05/97 4. Babu Rao Kaladkar 15/01/2003 (Up) 2008 5. Daya Shankar (Up) 28.05.2004 6. Prabhashankar Kaladkar 7. Rajendra Prasanna 1997 (Up) 2012

ESTABLISHED 1. Ashok Kumar & Party (Chennai) 1992 2. Nayyar Hussain & Party (Varanasi) 1992 3. Suryakant Kaladkar 4. Satish Prakash Qamar (NCR) 16/05/97 5. Shailesh Bhagwat and Party (Thane) 28/05/2004 6. Vishnu Prasanna

PROFICIENT 1. Ashok Kumar Chaurasia (NCR) 03/05/98 2. Bageshwari Qamar & Party (NCR) 13/02/96 3. Bayeswar Kamat 4. Guaher Ali Khan (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 5. Krishna Raichaudhury 6. Lokesh Anand Shehnai (Group) 2007 Lokesh Anand (NCR) 7. Pramod P Gaikwad (Pune) 16/12/99 8. Rama Shankar (Varanasi) 16/05/97 9. Sanjeev Shankar & Ashwani Shankar ( Delhi) 2012 Jugalbandi 10. Vikas Babu (NCR) 2010

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SURBAHAR PROFICIENT 1. Jagdeep Singh Bedi (NCR) 16/05/97

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SITAR OUTSTANDING 1. Abdul Halim Jafar Khan (Mumbai) 16/05/97 2. Anupama Bhagwat (Chhatisgarh) 15/01/2003 3. Arvind Parikh 16/05/97 4. Budhaditya Mukherjee 16/05/97 5. Debu Choudhuri 16/05/97 6. Ghulam Khan Dastgir 28/10/94 7. Imrat Hussain Khan 8. Joya Biswas 16/05/97 9. Kartick Kumar (Mumbai) 15/01/2003 10. Manilal Nag 16/05/97 11. Niladri Kumar (Mumbai) 15/01/2003 12. Nishat Khan 16/05/97 (Up) 2008 13. Purbayan Chatterjee 15/01/2003 (Up) 2008 14. Rajendra Varman (Mumbai) 28/05/2004 15. Ravi Shankar (Pt.) 16. Shamim Ahmed 16/05/97 17. Shahid Parvez 16/12/99 18. Shujaat Khan 16/05/97 19. Soumitra Lahiri (Kolkata) 28/10/94 (Up) 2008 20. Uma Shankar Misra 16/05/97

ESTABLISHED

1. Amaljyoti Choudhury (Kolkata) 1992 2. Arup Chatterjee (Hooghly) 16/05/97 3. Ashim Choudhury (Kolkata) 16/05/97 (Up) 2009 4. Asit Kumar Banerjee (Madhya Pradesh) 2010 5. Deepak Choudhury (NCR) 1992 6. Gaurav Mazumdar (NCR) 13.02.96 (Up) 15/01/2003 7. Gopal Shankar Mishra (Varanasi) 16/12/99 8. Hari Shankar Bhattacharya (West Bengal) (Up) August 2005 9. Irshad Khan (also Surbahar) 16/05/97 10. Suneera Kasliwal 28/10/94(Up) August 2005 11. Kirit Khan (NCR) 1992 12. Krishna Chakraborty (Varanasi) 16/12/99 13. Meera Prasad (NCR) 1992 14. Madan Shankar Misra 16/05/97 15. Matloob Hussain Khan (Sitar) August 2005 (Up) 2008 16. N R Rama Rao (Bangaluru) 1992 17. Prateek Chaudhuri (NCR) 16/05/97 18. Pratha Bose (Kolkata) 13/02/96 19. Partho Das 20. Pushpraj Koshti (Mumbai) 2010 155

21. Ravindra Dev (Rohtak) 1992 22. Rash Behari Dutta (Delhi) 28.10.94 (Up)16/05/97 23. Sanjay Bandopadhyay 16/05/97 24. Saeed Zafar 16/05/97 25. Shubhandro Rao (Bangaluru) 28.10.94 (Up) 16/05/97 26. Subroto Roy Choudhury 27. Sardeshmukh Chandrakant Prabhakar (Pune) 1992 28. Sharmistha Sen 29. Taralghatti S H (Dhadwad) 30. Usman Khan (Pune) 1992 31. Vijaykumar Sant G (Vadodara) 1992 32. Zunain Halim Khan (Mumbai) 28/05/2004

PROFICIENT 1. Adip Kumar Ghosh (West Bengal) 03/05/98 2. Agni Kumar Verma (Allahabad) August 2005 3. Amitava Chatterjee ( Delhi) 2012 4. Aggarwal Sisters (Alka & Sapna) (Delhi) 03/05/98 5. Ahmad Ali Khan (Delhi) 16/05/97 6. Ajay Roy 7. Anjan Saha (Kolkata) 2008 8. Aqeel Ahmed (NCR) 28/10/94 9. Avaneendra Sheolikar (Bhilai Nagar) 28/10/94 10. Anupam Mahajan ( New Delhi) 2011 11. Batuk Nath Mishra (Varanasai) 28/05/2004 12. Chirag S Katti (Mumbai) 2009 13. Chote Rehmat Khan 14. Deba Prasad Chakraborty (Kolkata) 1992 15. Deepsankar Bhattacharjee ( Kolkata ) 2012 16. Dhimani Varman (Mumbai) 28/05/2004 17. Dhrubajyoti Chakraborty (West Bengal) 03/05/98 18. Debajit Chakraborty (Kolkata) 03/05/98 19. Fateh Ali ( Delhi ) 2012 20. Ganesh Mohan (Mumbai) 13/02/96 21. Indrajit Banerjee (West Bengal) 1992 22. Jayanta Kumar Das (Bangaluru) 16/05/97 23. Jagdeep Singh Bedi (NCR) Also Surbahar 28.2.96 (Up) 16/05/97 24. Jayashree Chakraborty (West Bengal) 15/01/2003 25. K. Shekhar Suryakant (Pune) 15/01/2003 26. Kajal Chatterjee 16/12/99 27. Lovely Sharma (Uttar Pradesh) 28/05/2004 28. Manu Kumar Seen (Punjab) 2010 29. Mohsin Ali Khan (NCR) 13/02/96 30. Panchanan Sardar (NCR) 13/02/96 31. Pandurang Parate (Chennai) 32. Parimal Manmohan Sadaphal (NCR) 2009 33. Partha Chatterjee

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34. Prabal Choudhury (Kolkata) 28/02/96 35. Pradeep Chattopadhyay August 2005 36. Prabir Bhattacharya ( Guwahati ) 2012 37. Rabindra Narayan Goswami (Varanasi) 2010 38. Rafat Hussain Khan (Mumbai) 16/05/97 39. Rafique Khan (Mangalore) 2008 40. Ravi Sharma (NCR) 1992 41. Rajeev Janardan (Jabalpur) 28/10/94 42. Sandip Banerjee (NCR) 2010 43. Sanchari Bakshi (NCR) 28/05/2004 44. Shakir Shahid Khan (Pune) August 2005 45. Shubhendra & Saskia Rao ( Delhi) Jugalbandi 2012 46. Shyamal Chattopadhyay (Kolkata) 47. Sanjay Guha (Kolkata) 1992 48. Subroto Nag 49. Sudeepta Sharma (NCR) 1992 50. Sugato Nag (Kolkata) 2007 51. Soumyajit Paul ( West Bengal ) 2012 52. Susanta Chowdhury (West Bengal) 28/05/2004 53. Swarup Kumar Bose (Hooghly) 28/10/94 54. Shiva Nath Mishra (Pt.) (Varanasi) 28/10/94 55. Subho Chakraborty (Kolkata) 13/02/96 56. Subrata De (Jameshedpur) 13/02/96 57. Syeed Ahmed Alvi (NCR) 16/05/97 58. Sudhir Pandit (Chhatisgarh) 2008 59. Svetlana Janardan Gatina ( New Delhi ) 2011 60. Vikas Gupta 28/10/94 61. Vikas Bharadwaj ( Rajasthan ) 2012 62. Yogesh Narasing Bode (Amrawati) 2010

LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION 1. Jitendra Pratap (E) 2. Santosh Banerjee (Kolkata) 1992

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SUNDARI WADAN PROFICIENT 1. Chidanand Shidram Jadhav & Party (Sholapur) 15/01/2003 2. Sundari Wadan & Party - Bhimanna Kiraling 2007 Jadhav(Solapur)

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SYNTHSIZER PROFICIENT 1. Vijay Chandra (Allahbad) Accompanist 2009

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TABLA OUTSTANDING 1. Abhijit Banerjee (Howrah) 15/01/2003 (Up) 2010 2. Akram Khan 16/05/97 (Up) 2010 3. Anindo Chatterjee 15/01/2003 4. Faiyaz Khan 15/01/2003 5. Kishan Maharaj 6. Kumar Bose 15/01/2003 7. Man Mohan Singh (Up) 2007 8. Rafiuddin Sabri (Before 1989) (Up) 1996 (Up) 2009 9. Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa (NCR) 03/05/98 (Up) 2010 10. Sabir Khan (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 11. Sadanand Naimpalli (Mumbai) 2008 12. Shankar Ghosh 16/05/97 13. Sandeep Das ( New Delhi ) 2011 14. Suresh Talwarkar 15/01/2003 15. Zakir Hussain

ESTABLISHED 1. Arvind Kumar Azad ( Pune ) 2012 2. Arindam Chakravarty (West Bengal) 28/05/2004 3. Arun Shejwal 16/05/97 4. Arunangshu Chaudhury (West Bengal) 28/05/2004 5. Akhtar Hassain 16/05/97 6. Awadh Singh Thakur 16/05/97 7. Ananda Gopal Banerjee 8. Anuradha Pal (Juhu) 1992 (Up) 2009 9. Bikram Ghosh 15/01/2003 10. Charles Gladwin 11. Chaudhury Arunangshu 28/05/2004 12. Dal Chand Sharma (NCR) 16/05/97 13. Dipak Kumar Chakraborty (Howrah) 28/05/2004 14. Debendra Kanti (Kolkata) Up 2008 15. Gaitonde B. 16. Govinda Bose 17. Govind Chakraborty (Varanasi) 28/10/94 18. Hidayat Khan 19. Jerry Massey (Varanasi) 2008 20. Kiran Deshpande 16/05/97 21. Kishore Banerjee (NCR) 2007 22. Kumar Lal Mishra (Varanasi) 03/05/98 23. Lachhman Singh Seen (Punjab) 2008 24. Manas Chakraborty (West Bengal) 16/05/97 25. Mustafa Raza (NCR) 1992 26. Omkar D. Gulvady (Mumbai) 16/05/97 27. Ram Nath Singh (Madhya Pradesh) 03/05/98 160

28. Ramdas G. Palsule ( Pune ) 2012 29. Samir Chatterjee (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 30. Sandip Banerjee (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 31. Sanjay Mukherjee 32. Subhash Nirwan 33. Sheetala Prasad Mishra (Lucknow) 03/05/98 34. Sudhir Pandey (NCR) 03/05/98 35. Sujit Kumar Saha (Kolkata) Up 2008 36. Sukhwinder Singh 15/01/2003 37. Vinod Gangadhar Lele ( New Delhi ) 2011 38. Zameer Ahmed 39. Zamir Ahmed Khan (NCR) 1992 PROFICIENT 1. Aditya Kalyanpur (Mumbai) 15/01/2003 2. Amjad Ali 3. Ashok Chakraborty 4. Amaan Ali (NCR) 2007 5. Arkendu Mitra ( Kolkata ) 2012 6. Arshad Ali Khan (NCR) 28/05/2004 7. Arun Kumar Bhatt (Lucknow) Dance Accompanist 16/05/97 8. Ansubha Bandopadhyay (Kolkota) 28/10/94 9. Ashok Duta (Kolkata) 28/10/94 10. Amit Chatterjee (Kolkata) 03/05/98 11. Abhijit Ghosh (Kolkata) 03/05/98 12. Ajay Vyankatesh Ashtaputre 15/01/2003 13. Arup Chattopadhyay (Kolkata) 2008 14. Arif Khan ( Kolkata ) 2011 15. Avirbhav Verma ( Chandigarh ) 2012 16. Biswajit Pal (West Bengal) 28/10/94 17. Bimal Kumar Bhattacharya 28/10/94 18. Bivash Sengupta (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 19. Buddha Dev Manna (West Bengal) 2008 20. Chiradip Banerjee (West Bengal) 2008 21. Deepak Mehta (Master)-(Congs) (NCR) Tabla 13/02/96 22. Durjay Bhaumik (NCR) 2007 23. Faraz Ahmed Khan ( Mumbai ) 2012 24. Ganesh Vishwanath Tanwade (Pune) 2010 25. Gopal Mishra (NCR) 16/05/97 26. Gulfam Sarwarr Sabri 28/10/94 27. Gurpreet Singh (Punjab) 2010 28. Idris Khan (Delhi) 2008 29. Jai Shankar Mishra (NCR) August 2005 30. Jaidev ( Patiala ) 2012 31. Kamal Sarwar Shabu 28/10/94 32. Karodilal Bhatt (Madhya Pradesh) 2010 33. Kedarnath (Meerut) 1992 (Up) 28.10.1994 34. Keshab K Chowdhury (NCR) 15/01/2003 35. Khushboo (UP) 2010

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36. Lal Babu Nirala (New Delhi) 2008 37. Madhurjya Ranjan Barthakur (Kolkata) 2008 38. Madhuresh Bhatt (Punjab) 2009 39. Mainak Banerjee ( Kolkata ) 2012 40. Mubarak Khan (NCR) 2010 41. Nakul Mishra(Ahmedabad)Kathak Accompanisment 16/05/97 42. Naviin Babulal Gandharv (Mumbai) 2010 43. Nawab Ali 28/10/94 44. Nirmal Mondal (NCR) 28/05/2004 45. Neetu Chopra (New Delhi) 2008 46. P.K. Bhagwat (Varanasi) 15/01/2003 47. Parimal Chakraborty (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 48. Prasenjit Adhikari (West Bengal) 28/10/94 49. Raghu Nath Nandy ( Kolkata ) 2012 50. Rajaneesh (Uttar Pradesh) 2010 51. Rajnarayan Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 16/05/97 52. Rashid Khan 53. Rinku Adarsh (Patna) August 2005 54. Samir Nandi (Nadia, West Bengal) 2009 55. Sankar Prasad Choudhury (Hooghly) 13/02/96 56. Sandip Ghosh (Kolkata) 2008 57. Shiv Shankar Banerjee (NCR) 28/05/2004 58. Shivendra Pratap Tripathi (Varanasi) 2009 59. Subhen Chatterjee (Kolkata) 1992 60. Sukanta Debnath (West Bengal) 28/05/2004 61. Shabbeer Nisar (Hyderabad) 16/05/97 62. Shridhar Kshirsagar H (Kolkata) 63. Soumya Kanti Mookherjee (Varanasi) 1992 64. Soumitra Paul (Hooghly) 1992 65. Sunil Banerjee (Kolkata) 13/02/96 66. Supreet Deshpande (Pune) 15/01/2003 67. Sandesh Popatkar (Nagpur 28/10/94 68. Saurabh Bose (NCR) August 2005 69. Subhash C. Kamat (Mumbai) 16/05/97 70. Subhajyoti Guha (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 71. Subhir Adhikari (Siliguri) August 2005 72. Subir Kumar Ghosh (Howrah) 28/10/94 73. Subrata Manna (West Bengal) 15/01/2003 74. Somnath Mukherjee 28/10/94 75. Swaraj Bhattacharya 28/10/94 76. Vasi Ahmed Khan (Mumbai) 28/10/94

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VICHITRA VEENA OUTSTANDING 1. Dr. Mustafa Raza (Up) 2007 2. Ramesh Prem

PROFICIENT 1. Ajit Singh (Dehradun) 1989

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VIOLIN OUTSTANDING 1. Datar D K 2. Gopalakrishnan M S Vidwan (Carnatic & Hin) 3. Johar Ali Khan (NCR) 28/05/2004 (Up) 2010 4. Rajam N (Dr.) 5. Ramoo Prasad Shastri (Varanasi) 2009 6. Sisir Kana Dhar Chaudhury 16/05/97 7. Vasant Ranade Up 2010

ESTABLISHED 1. Anupriya Deotale 28/05/2004 2. Balaji V 28/10/94 3. Babulal K Gandharva (Mumbai) 1992 4. Chandrashekhar C N (Chennai) 1992 5. Deb Sankar Roy (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 6. Ishwar Murgeri 7. Kala Ramnath 16/12/99 8. Samarjit Chakravorty 9. Shastri R P 1992 10. Sangeeta Shankar 16/12/99 11. S.L.Kandara (NCR) 13/02/96 12. Dr. Santosh Kumar Nahar ( Delhi ) 2012 13. Vidya Dengle (Pune) 1992 14. Vireshwar Madri

PROFICIENT 1. Ashok Goswami (Lucknow) 28/10/94 2. Asghar Husain (NCR) 2007 3. Himaunshu Vishwaroop ( Lucknow ) 2011 4. Indradeep Ghosh (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 5. Kailash Chandra Patra (NCR) 2009 6. Minoti Khaund (Guwahati) 7. Mashelkar Rajan Krishna ( Mumbai ) 2011 8. Naviin Gandharv (Mumbai) 2008 9. Ramesh Tagde (Indore) 10. Ramakant V Honap (Mumbai) 16/12/99 11. Suresh Kr. Goswami (Jaipur) 13/2/96 12. Saskia Rao De Haas ( Delhi ) 2012 13. Swapna Dattatraya Datar ( Pune ) 2012

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HINDUSTANI VOCAL OUTSTANDING 1. Ajay J Pohankar 16/05/97 (Up) 2010 2. Atul Desai also in Composer/Orchestra/Choral 16/05/97 3. Abhay Narayan Malik 16/05/97 4. Ajay Chakravarty 15/01/2003 5. Arun Bhaduri Up 2008 6. Ashwani Bhide 15/01/2003 7. Dinkar Kaikini 16/05/97 8. Dhondutai G Kulkarani (Mumbai) 16/12/99 9. Fahimuddin Dagar 10. Ghulam Mustafa Khan 16/05/97 11. Ghulam Sadiq Khan Up 2010 12. Girija Devi 13. Gokulotsav Goswami (Indore) 28/05/2004 14. Hari Charan Verma (NCR) 15/1/2003(Up)August2005 15. Iqbal Ahmed Khan (NCR) 16. Jaawad Ali Khan (NCR) 16/12/99(Up) August 2005 17. Kishori Amonkar 18. Krishna Bisht 19. Lakshman Krishna Pandit (NCR) 16/05/97 20. Malini Rajurkar 15/01/2003 21. Mani Prasad (NCR) 15/01/2003 22. Mashkur Ali 15/01/2003 23. Mazhar Ali Khan (13/02/96) (Up) 99 (Up) 2005 24. Niaz Ahmed 16/05/97 25. Padma Talwarkar 15/01/2003 26. Pandit Jasraj 27. Prabha Atre (Dr.) 16/05/97 28. Prabhakar J. Karekar (Mumbai) 15/01/2003 29. Parveen Sultana 16/05/97 30. Phalguni Mitra (Dhrupad) Up 2008 31. Purnima Sen (Kolkata) 16/12/99 (Up) 2008 32. Rajan & Sajan Mishra 16/05/97 33. Rashid Khan 15/01/2003 34. Samaresh Choudhury (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 35. Sarathi Chattopadhyay (Kolkata) 28/10/94 36. Som Datt Battu (Gurgaon) 28/05/2004 37. Sulochana Brahaspati 16/05/97 38. Sumitra Guha (Delhi) (Up) 2012 39. Shanno Khurana 16/05/97 40. Ullas Kashalkar 15/01/2003 41. Umakant & Ramakant Gundecha 15/01/2003 42. Veena Sahasrabuddhe 15/01/2003 43. Vyas Vidyadhar (Mumbai) (Up) 2007

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ESTABLISHED 1. Aniruddha Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 03/05/98 (Up) 2008 2. Anita Goswami (Maharashtra) 2010 3. Anjana Nath (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 (Up) 2008 4. Arati Anklikar 16/05/97 5. Abhisheki Shounak (Pune) 28.10.94 (Up) 15/01/2003 6. Adsule Leelawati 28/05/2004 7. Alka Deo Marulkar 16/05/97 8. Aftab Ahmed Khan (Mumbai) 28.10.94 (Up)16/05/97 9. Aloke Chatterjee 10. Arun N Kashelkar (Mumbai) (Up) 15/01/2003 11. Askaran Sharma (Mumbai) 28/10/94 12. Aslam Khan (Mumbai) 1992 13. Anita Mazumdar (Kolkata) 1992 14. Anita Roy (NCR) 1992 15. Anant Terdal (Karnataka) 1992 16. Aslam Hussain Khan (Mumbai) 15/01/2003 17. Baldev Raj Verma (NCR) 13/02/96 18. Bharati Chakravarty 19. Bhuvanesh Mukul Komkali (classical) August 2005 20. Bakul Chattopadhyay (Kolkata) 28/10/1994 21. Bireshawar Gautam Biru (Mumbai) 28/05/2004 22. Dharampal Barpaga (Lucknow) 16/05/97 23. Deepak Chatterjee (also Lec-Dem) 16/05/97 24. Dinanath Misra (Kolkata) 25. Dipali Nag 26. Falisse Philippe (Belgium) 1992 27. Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar (NCR) 03/05/98 28. Ganapati Bhatt 15/01/2003 29. Ghulam Husain Khan 03/05/98 30. Ghulam Akbar Khan 1992 31. Ganesh Prasad Misra 32. Gurinder Harnam Singh (NCR) 13/02/96 33. H. Sayeeduddin Dagar (Pune) 2007 34. Hubhda Paradkar 15/01/2003 35. Ira Mukherjee 16/05/97 36. Kankana Banerjee 37. Kaberi Kar 28/05/2004 38. Kailash Chand 2010 39. Kale Raja Prabhakar (Dr.) 15/01/2003 40. Kamala Bose (Allahabad) 1992 41. Krishna Hangal 42. Kumud Diwan (NCR) August 2005 (Up) 2010 43. Kavita Saigal (NCR) 1992 44. Koushik Bhattacharya (West Bengal) 03/05/98 (Up) 2008 45. Kailash Pawar Bandhu 28/10/94 46. Kaivalya K.S. Gurav (Dharward) 15/01/2003 47. Kalapini Komkali (Madhya Pradesh) 2007

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48. Kalyani P Deshmukh (Nagpur) 28/10/94 49. Lalit Rao 50. M R Gautam (Dr.) 51. Madhav Gudi (Karnataka) 1992 52. M Venkatesh Kumar 15/01/2003 53. Malini Mukhopadhyay (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 54. Madhuri Dandage 55. Meenakshi Mukherjee (H. L classical vocal) August 2005 56. Meeta Pandit (NCR) 15/01/2003 57. Mustaq Hussain Khan 58. Madhup Mudgal 59. Mallika Banerjee (NCR) 03/05/98 60. Mujahid Hussain Khan 61. Mukul Shivaputra 15/01/2003 62. Neela M Kodli 1992 63. Nihar Ranjan Banerjee (Kolkata) 16/05/97 64. Nirmalaya Dey (NCR) 03/05/98(Up) August 2005 65. Nita Saha Kuthial (Kolkata) 1992 66. Panchakshraswami Mattigitti 67. Parameshwar G. Hegde (Bangaluru) 15/01/2003 68. Prakash Sangeet (Up) August 2005 69. Radhika Chopra (Delhi) 28/5/2004(Up)August2005 70. Ritesh Mishra & Rajnish Mishra (Jugalbandi) Delhi 2012 71. Raka Mukherjee (Kolkata) Up 2009 72. Ram Uddhavrao Kothekar (Natya Sangeet) August 2005 73. Ritwick Sanyal (Dhrupad) 74. Rupan Sarkar August 2005 75. Sanjeev Vishnu Abhyankar (Pune) 15/01/2003 76. Sandipan Samajpati (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 (Up) 2008 77. Satya Bhan Sharma (Dr.) (Dhrupad) August 2005 78. Satyasheel Vaman Deshpande (Mumbai) 2010 79. Subhra Guha 1992 80. Shruti Sadolikar (Mumbai) 81. Shubhada Paradkar 15/01/2003 82. Shantanu Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 83. Suhashini Koratkar 84. Sukhdeo Pawar Badhu (Indore) 28/10/94 85. Satya Narayan Mishra (Mumbai) 1992 86. Shakuntala Narasimhan (Mumbai) 87. Santanu Banerjee (Kolkata) 28.10.94 (Up)15/01/2003 88. Sushila Rani Baburao Patel (Bandra) 1992 89. Suhas Chintaman Vyas (Mumbai) 13/02/96 (Up) 2010 90. Sunanda Patnaik 91. Sunanda Sharma (NCR) 16/12/99 (Up) 2008 92. Surender & Tejpal Singh (Singh Bandhu) 28.10.1994 93. Saryu Kalekar (Dr.) (NCR) 03/05/98 94. Tulika Ghosh 95. Uday Bhawalkar (Maharashtra) (Est.) 28.10.1994(Up)15/01/2003 96. Uma Garg 13/02/96(Up) August 2005

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97. Vasundhara Komakali 98. Vijaya Jadhav 99. Vijay Sardeshmukh 15/01/2003 100. Vinayak Torvi 101. Vishwanath (NCR) 28/10/94 (Up) 2008 102. Warnendu Chattopadhyay 28/05/2004 103. Yash Paul (Chandigarh) 104. Zareena Begam (Lucknow) 2010

PROFICIENT 1. Amjad Ali (Delhi) 2012 2. Arati Suyog Kundalkar (Pune) 2012 3. Arnab Chatterjee (Kolkata) 2010 4. Arvind Nilkanth Apte (Gwalior) 1992 5. Asha Ramchandra (Maharashtra) 28/10/94 6. Anal Chatterjee (Kolkata) 2008 7. Anuradha Y Kuber (Pune) 16/12/99 8. Amir Ahmed Khan (Delhi) 2009 9. Amit Mukherjee (Lucknow) 16/12/99 10. Arshad Ali (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 11. Bharati Banerjee (Nanavati) (Kolkata) 13/02/96 12. Basavi Mukerji Rath 28/10/96 13. Bhola Nath Mishra (NCR) 16/12/99 14. Brij Bhushan Goswami August 2005 15. Chitra Modak (Marathi Natya Sangeet) 28.10.1994 (Up) 28/10/96 16. Chitralekha Vijaykumar Deshmukh 13/02/96 17. Chitta Ranjan Pani August 2005 18. D Kumar Das 19. Debapriya Adhikary (Kolkata) 2010 20. Deepshikha August 2005 21. Devashish Dey (Varanasi) 28/10/94 22. Deepa Ranganathan 03/05/98 23. Dhananjay Hegde (Mumbai) 15/01/2003 24. Dhananjay Moreshwar Joshi (Maharashtra) 2010 25. Falisse Banishree (NCR) 1992 26. Geeta Sadanand Javadekar (Mumbai) 16/05/97 27. Girish Wazalwar (Allahabad) 1992 28. Gouri Roy Chaudhury (Kolkata) 03/05/98 29. Hussain Baksh (Afganistan) (NCR) 1992 30. Hema Shripad Upasani (Maharashtra) 2009 31. Hemant Ganesh Pendre (Pune) 13/02/94 32. Hema Aziz (NCR) 16/12/99 33. Harish Tiwari (NCR) 2011 34. Indu Prakash Trivedi (NCR) 03/05/98 35. Jayant Pandey 1992 36. Jayateerth Mevundi (Hubli) 2008 37. Kalpana Zokarkar (Semi Classical) (Indore) 2007

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38. Kalyan Chattopadhyay (Kolkata) 1992 39. Keshav Raghunath Talegaonker (Agra) 2010 40. Khan Brothers (NCR), Abdul Aziz Khan & Marghob 16/05/97 Hussain Khan 41. Kum Kum Bhattacharya 1992 42. Kumar Roy (Hooghly) 1992 43. K Upendra Bhat 28/10/94 44. Laxmi Kant Madhav Sahakari (Mumbai) 16/05/97 45. Madhu Bhatt Tailong (Dr.) (Dhrupad) (Rajasthan) 16/05/97 46. Madhumita Roy (NCR) 16/05/97 47. Manjiri Abhijit Kelkar (Maharastra) 2008 48. Manjusha Sandeep Patil (Pune) 2008 49. Manjiri Charudatta (Pune) 13/02/96 50. Milind Chittal 28/10/94 51. Mohan Vitthalrao Darekar (Pune) 2009 52. Mohsin Ahmed Shamin Ahmed (Mumbai) 28/10/94 53. Mowna Ramachandra (Bangalore) 2010 54. Maqbool H Khan (Mumbai) 16/12/99 55. Mitreyi Majumdar (NCR) 03/05/98 56. Minakshi Majumder (Howrah) 2011 57. Nadeem Ahmed Khan (NCR) 2010 58. Narayan Rath (Odissi Vocal) August 2005 59. Nandini Chakraborty (Kolkata) 2008 60. Nisha Parasnis (Mumbai) 1992 61. Ojesh Pratap Singh (Delhi) 2008 62. Padmaja Phenani Joglekar (Mumbai) 63. Piu Sarkhel (Rajkot) 15/01/2003 64. Padmini Kishore Rao (Navi Mumbai) 2008 65. Prabhakar Kashyap & Diwakar Kashyap (Duet) 2010 66. Prakash & Deepak Mishra (duet) August 2005 67. Pranab Kumar Biswas (Thane) 28/05/2004 68. Prem Kumar & Ram Kumar Malik 69. Prabir Banerjee (Howrah) 28/10/94 70. Pratima S. Tilak 15/01/2003 71. Priti Bagh (Howrah) 13/02/94 72. Priyadarshini Kulkarni 28/10/94 73. Priyankaa Mathur August 2005 74. Raja Kale 75. Ramakant Suryakant Gaikwad (Pune) 2009 76. Ranjani Ramachandran (Pune) 2008 77. Raghunandan Panshikar (Pune) 2012 78. Rajendra Vasant (Pune) 28/05/2004 79. Rajesh Kelkar 28/10/94 80. Rita Ray (Kolkata) 16/12/99 81. Rajyashree Ghosh 16/12/99 82. Ratna Aich Bhowmick (Karnataka) August 2005 83. Rattan Mohan Sharma (Mumbai) 16/12/99 84. Ruchira Kale (Pune) 2009 85. Ruchira Panda (Kolkata) 2010

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86. Sambuddha Chatterjee (Kolkata) 2009 87. Saniya Dheeraj Patankar (Pune) 2007 88. Sanjay Kumar Mishra (Mumbai) 2012 89. Saptarshi Chakraborty (Kolkata) 2009 90. Sharmila Roychowdhury (Dhrupad) August 2005 91. Shashwati Mandal Paul (Bhopal) 2007 92. Shirin Sengupta (Kolkata) 2009 93. Shobha Sadashiv Joshi (Pune) 2010 94. Shokat Hussain Khan (Ahmedabad) 2010 95. Sohini Mojumdar (Kolkata) 2009 96. Soma Chakraborty 97. Sounak Chatterjee August 2005 98. Shaukat Hussain Khan 99. Shalmalee S. Joshi (Mumbai) 15/01/2003 100. Shaila Piplapure 101. Shrikant Vasant Deshpande (Pune) 28/10/94 102. S.Nafeesuddin Dagar& S.Aneesuddin Dagar Pune 2007 103. Sucharita Gupta August 2005 104. Suchisree Ray- Light Classical(Thumri Dadra) 2007 West Bengal 105. Sudha Mathur 16/05/97 106. Sukhdev Chaturvedi (Mathura) 13/02/96 107. Suprio Dutta (Kolkata) 2010 108. Supriya Dey August 2005 109. Sumanta Sarkar August 2005 110. Sunanda Suresh 16/05/97 111. Surajit Chatterjee (Kolkata) 2007 112. Suvro Kanti Chatterjee (Kolkata) 2009 113. Sanjay Kumar Mallick (NCR) 03/05/98 114. Sangeeta Bandhopadhyay (Kolkata) 03/05/98 115. Subhadra Desai (NCR) 16/12/99 116. Swarnendu Chattopadhyay (West Bengal) 28/05/2004 117. Sarita Pathak Yajurvedi (NCR) 16/12/99 118. Sanjoy Banerjee (Kolkata) 03/05/98 119. Dr. Sushma Bajpai (Semi-Classical) (Kanpur) 2008 120. Shampa Choudhury ( Kolkata ) 2011 121. Tumpa Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) 2010 122. Tripti Mukherjee (Mumbai) 13/02/96 123. Utpala Goswami (Kolkata) 03/05/98 124. Vidya Katgade 125. Vrinda Mundkur (Mumbai) 126. Vinay Bhide 28/10/94 127. Vinod Kumar Dwivedi August 2005 128. Viraj Amar Bhatt (Ahmedabad) 2008 129. Waseem Ahmed Khan (Kolkata) 2010

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LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION OUTSTANDING 1. Athavale V.R 2. Battu Som Dutt (Shimla) 1992 3. Deepali Nag 4. Kumar Mukherjee 5. Shanno Khurana 6. Shakuntala Narasimhan

ESTABLISHED 1. Deepak Chatterjee (NCR) 28/10/94 2. Gomti Vishwanathan 3. Jitendra Pratap 4. Leelavati Adsule (Indore) 28/10/94 5. Neeta Mathur (Dr.) (Delhi) 16/12/99(Up) August 2005 6. Neela Bhagwat (Mumbai) 7. Premlata Puri 8. Ratnakar S Pai (Mumbai) 28/10/94 9. Shyamala G Bhave (Bangaluru) 16/12/99 (Up) 2007 10. Suhasini Koratkar 11. Somnath Murdur (Dharwad) 1992 12. Satyasheel Deshpande 15/01/2003

PROFICIENT 1. Ramesh Chandra Bhatt (Ghaziabad) 16/12/99

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REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR MODERN EXPERIMENTAL WORKS OF DANCE AND MUSIC INCLUDING LIGHT & POPULAR MUSIC AS ON 26/09/2012

S.No Name of the Music / Dance Form Page No.

1. Light Music (Ghazal, Geet, Bhajan & Sufi) 173 - 177 2. Qawwali 178 - 179 3. Devotional 180 - 181 4. Rabindra Sangeet 182 - 183 5. Style Puratani Gaan 184 6. Popular Music/ Bollywood Style/ Rock Band 185 7. Fusion /Sufi Fusion/Percussion/ Hindustani Instrumental/ 186 - 187 Jugalbandi/Talvadhya/Jazz 8. Composer -Orchestra /Choral/Vrindagan 188 - 189 9. Piano 190 10. Whistling 191 11. Nautanki 192 12. Modern Dance /Contemporary/ Choreography/Dance-Drama 193 - 195 13. Rabindrik (Dance Dramas Based on Tagore’s) 196

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REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR MODERN EXPERIMENTAL WORKS OF DANCE AND MUSIC INCLUDING LIGHT & POPULAR MUSIC AS ON 26/09/2012 LIGHT CLASSICAL & LIGHT MUSIC (GEET, GHAZAL, BHAJAN & SUFI MUSIC) OUTSTANDING 1. Ahmed Hussain & Mohd. Hussain 15/01/2003 2. Afroz Begum 16/05/1997 3. Asha Bhonsle (L.M) 16/05/1997 4. Channulal Mishra (Uttar Pradesh) 15/01/2003 5. Dalia Rahut 15/01/2003 6. Girija Devi 7. Hans Raj Hans ( Punjab ) 2011 8. Jwala Prasad (Delhi) 2008 9. Lakshmi Shankar 16/05/1997 10. Malashri Prasad (New Delhi) 16/05/1997 11. Penaaz Masani (L.M) (Mumbai) 1992 (Up) August 2005 12. Rita Ganguli 16/05/1997 13. Raghunath Panigrahi 16/05/1997 14. Satish Babbar (L.M) (NCR) 16/05/97(Up) August 2005 15. Sipra Bose 16/05/1997 16. Savita Devi 16/05/1997 17. Shanti Hiranand 16/05/1997 18. Shubha Mudgal 15/01/2003 19. Vani Jayram (LM) 15/01/2003 20. Vinod Kumar (New Delhi) 2008 21. Zameer Ahmed (NCR) 2007 ( Up) 2012

ESTABLISHED 1. Anjali Banerjee 2. Anjana Chopra (Ghazal) (L.M) 3. Aslam Khan (H.Vocal also) 4. Aneeta Sen (Raipur) 1992 5. Charanjit Soni (New Delhi) 2008 6. Dilraj Kaur (L.M) (Mumbai) 28/10/94 7. Fareed Ahmed Khan (Delhi) 2008 8. Ghulam Akbar Khan (Kolkata) 1992 9. Jamil Ahmad (Uttar Pradesh) 2008 10. K S Vasantha Lakshmi (NCR) 1992 173

11. Kum Kum Bhattacharya 1992 12. Kajal Banerjee (L.M.) (NCR) 1992 13. Khalid Mohammed Abdul 28/10/94 14. Lata N Deo (Semi-classical) (Pune) 16/05/97 15. Meenakshi Pandey (semi-classical) (Mumbai) 16/05/97 16. Mahime Devahuti Casewa 17. Madhu Chandra (L.M) (Mumbai) 1992 18. Malini Awasthi (Noida) 2008 19. Mitali Sengupta (Kolkata) 2007 20. Naim Ali (NCR) 2010 21. Neharika Haider (L.M) (NCR) 1992 22. Nila Sinha Roy (Haryana) 28/05/2004 23. Nina & Rajendra Mehta (L.M) (Mumbai) 1989 24. Neelam Sahni (L.M) (NCR) 28/10/94 25. Purnima Chaudhury 26. Rajkumar & Indrani Rizvi (L.M) (Mumbai) 28/10/94 27. Ravi Nagar (Lucknow) 1992 28. Rekha Surya (L.M) 1992 29. Rajinder Kr. Kachroo 13.02.96 (Up)16/05/97 30. Rashmi Aggarwal (Delhi) 2008 31. Sabir Khan (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 32. Sakhawat Hussain Khan (Uttar Pradesh) 28/05/2004 (Up) 2010 33. Sahib Singh (NCR) 28/10/94 34. Shaoni Mitra (Solo) (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 35. Shadab Hussain (Ghazals) (NCR) August 2005 36. Shekhar Sen (Mumbai) 16/05/97 37. Shevanti Sanyal (NCR) 13.02.96 (Up)16/05/97 38. Shobhana Rao 16/05/97 39. Sadhana Rahatagonkar (Bhilai) 03/05/98 40. Sufi Bawra (Inder Singh Bawra) Sufi Style New 2008 Delhi 41. Suman Devgan (NCR) 2010 42. Triloki Prasad (Mumbai) 2008 43. Uma Garg (NCR) 13.02.96 (Up) 16/05/97 44. Vajahat Hussain Khan (Mumbai) 16/05/97 (Up) 2008 45. Yugantar Sindoor 16/05/97 46. Zila Khan (Sufi) (NCR) 2007

PROFICIENT 1. Aastha Goswami (Uttar Pradesh) 2010 2. Ashok Thawre (Prof.) (Maharashtra) August 2005 3. Avtar Singh (NCR) 28/10/94 4. Anita Jain 28/10/94 5. Anita Singhvi (NCR) 2007 6. Anju Goyal & Subhash Goyal (NCR) (Duet) 2010 7. Antardhwani Group (Devotional) (NCR) 28/05/04 8. Amir Ahmed 28/10/94

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9. Amrish Mishra (Delhi) 03/05/98 10. Ardhendu Sekhar Bandopadhyay (W.B)Concerts 28/10/94 & Lec.Dem. 11. Alka Nigam ( Bhopal ) 2011 12. Abdul Aziz ( New Delhi ) 2011 13. Banasree Chakraborty, (West Bengal) 2007 14. Brijendra Nath Srivastava (LM) (Lucknow) 03/05/98 15. Brinda Roy Choudhury (New Delhi) 2008 16. Bhai Baldeep Singh (NCR) 28/05/2004 17. Bhikali Vinayak Prabhu (Mumbai) Devotional & 28/10/94 Natya Sangeet 18. Charudutta G Aphale (Pune) 16/12/99 19. Chandranath Chattopadhyay (LM) (NCR) 03/05/98 20. Chitra Modak (Marathi Natya Sangeet) 28/10/94 21. Deepinder Kaur Alias Dolly Narang (NCR) 2010 22. D Murali Krishna (Hyderabad) 13/02/96 23. Devajit Banerjee (W.B) Theatre Music Only 1992 24. Dhananjay Kaul (L.M.) (NCR) August 2005 25. “Feels International” (Group), Ashwani Kumar 2008 (Ashoo Punjabi) (Delhi) 26. Gaurav Mishra (Uttar Pradesh) 2008 27. Ghulam Abbas (NCR) 16/12/99 28. Gulfam Sarwar Sabri (NCR) 2010 29. Imran Khan (NCR) 2010 30. Imrat Khan (NCR) 2010 31. Indira Naik (Mumbai) 16/12/99 32. Iqbal Siddiqui (Lucknow) 15/01/2003 33. Jai Kumar Kesharwani ( Delhi) 2012 34. Jameel Hasan (NCR) 15/01/2003 35. Javed Khan (NCR) 2007 36. Javed Hussain (Rajasthan) 2012 37. Jayashri Gupta (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 38. Jitender Singh (Delhi) 03/05/98 39. Jyotsana Dubey (Lucknow) 2010 40. Kailash Joshi (U.P.) 2012 41. Kailas Dattuji Kolhe (Devotional) (Buldana) August 2005 42. Kamal Khan (U.P.) 2012 43. Kanak Chaturvedi (H.L.M) (NCR) August 2005 44. Kavita Seth (Mumbai) Sufi Style 2008 45. Krishna Kant Shukla (Varanasi) 28/05/2004 46. Krishna Nand (Lucknow) 2010 47. Laik Khan (Agra) 2008 48. Madho Prasad (New Delhi) 2008 49. Madhur Lata Bhatanagar (Devotional) (NCR) August 2005 50. Madhumita Bose 28/10/94 51. Madhura Mukund Kulkarni (Maharashtra) 2010 52. Mahua Chatterjee (Devotional) (NCR) 28/05/04 53. Manomay Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 16/05/97 54. Mira Chakraborty (Delhi) 2008

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55. Mahua Mukherjee ( New Delhi ) 2011 56. Mahaendar Pal ( Delhi) 2012 57. Moumita Mitra ( Kolkata ) 2011 58. Mukul Mathur (NCR) 13/02/96 59. Naresh Kumar Malhotra (H.Classical & L.M) (NCR) August 2005 60. Nishi Gupta (Dr.) (Lanka) 16/12/99 61. Dr. Neeta Singh (Noida) 2008 62. Papiha Mallick (NCR) August 2005 63. Parwati Kumari (Mumbai) 2007 64. Pratik Chaudhury (Kolkata) 1992 65. Prateeeksha Sharma (NCR) August 2005 66. Parul Banerjee (NCR) 03/05/98 67. Pooja Gupta (New Delhi) 2008 68. Piyush Raj (New Delhi) 2008 69. Rahat Ali Khan (Uttar Pradesh) 1992 70. Rajab Ali Bharti (Rajasthan) 2007 71. Rajesh Pandey ( Delhi) 2012 72. Ramanuj Dasgupta (Kolkata) Devotional 2012 73. Raza Ali Khan ( Andhra Pradesh) 2012 74. Rolee Aggarwal (H.L.M) (NCR) August 2005 75. Roma Mukherjee (NCR) 15/01/2003 76. Roohani Sisters (Sufi), Jagriti Luthra & Neeta 2009 Pandey (NCR) 77. Roshan Bharati (Dr.) (Kota) 16/12/99 78. Sada Thakur & Masoom Thakur (Gurgaon) (Duet) 2010 79. Sanchaita Chaudhuri (L.M.) (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 80. Sandhya Goswami (NCR) 15/01/2003 81. Sangeeta Arya (Geet-Ghazal-Bhajan) (Ajmer) 28/05/2004 82. Saswati Bagchi (H.L.M. Classical) Kolkata August 2005 83. Seema Uniyal Mishra ( Delhi) 2012 84. Shahaab Khan (NCR) 2007 85. Shahnaz Bano (H.L.M) (Lucknow) August 2005 86. Shaila Hattangadi (Mumbai) 16/12/99 87. Shalini Ved ( New Delhi ) 2011 88. Shashank Thada (Mumbai) 2012 89. Shumona R Biswas (Bhopal) 16/12/99 90. Siza Roy (H.L.M.)(Kolkata) 2007 91. Sonroopa Vishal (U.P.) 2012 92. Srabani Seth (Durgapur) (L.M) 16/05/97 93. Suchisree Ray (Light Classica Thumri & Dadra) 2007 West Bengal 94. Sudeep Banerjee (Mumbai) 2007 95. Sujan Chatterjee (Bihar) 2007 96. Sunita Jhingran (Lucknow) 15/01/2003 97. Suvodeep Mukherjee (Kolkata) August 2005 98. Swarn Vijh (H.L.M.) (NCR) 2007 99. T M S Selvakumar (Chennai) 1992 100. Talat Zamir (NCR) 1992 101. Tapsi Nagraj (Madhya Pradesh) 2010

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102. Tofael Ahmed (NCR) 15/01/2003 103. Ustad Saleem Iqbal (Punj) 16/12/99 104. Vani Babbar (NCR) August 2005 105. Vivek Ranga ( Haryana) 2012 106. Veenu Gupta (NCR) 2010

LIGHT CLASSICAL & LIGHT MUSIC (LECTURE – DEMONSTRATION)

1. Manju Sundaram (H.L.M.) (Varanasi) 2007 2. Ustad Ghulam Siraj Khan (NCR) 2007

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QAWWALI OUTSTANDING

1. Aslam Sabri & Party 15/01/2003 2. Prabha Bharati & Party 16/05/97

ESTABLISHED 1. Ahmed Warsi 16/05/97 2. Chand Afazal Group (Shri Chand Afazal) Delhi August 2005 3. Gulam Sabir & Gulam Waris 16/05/97 4. Gulam Hussain Niazi & Party (Delhi) 28.10.94 (Up) 16/05/97 5. Haider Buksh Warsi (Lucknow) 13.02.96 (Up)16/05/97 6. Haji Mohammed. Idrees & Party (Delhi) 15/01/2003 (Up) 2008 7. Hussain Group (Ahsan Hussain Adil Hussain) August 2005 Hyderabad 8. Iftekhar Ahamed & Party (Moradabad) 13.02.96 (Up) 16/05/97 9. Iqbal Hussain Khan (Hyderabad) 15/01/2003 10. Nazeer Naseer Warsi Brothers (Nazeer Ahmed 2010 Khan & Shri Naseer Ahmed Khan) Hyderabad 11. Niyaz Ahmad Qawwal & Party (Muzzafar Nagar) 16/05/97 12. Nizami Bandhu Qawwal,Ghulam Fareed Nizami August 2005 (NCR ) 13. Qutbi Brothers- Mohd. Ilyas (Delhi) 2007 14. Qadar Niazi Qawwal (Delhi) 15/1/2003(Up)August2005 15. Taj Musical Group, Imran Khan (U.P.) 2011 16. Yusuf Azad & Party 16/05/97 17. Zahir Ahmed Warsi 16/05/97

PROFICIENT

1. Anwar Sabri Brothers (Firozabad) August 2005 2. Ashwani Kumar 3. Abdul Hamid Sabri (NCR) 16/12/99 4. Aftab Hashim Sabri (Group), Aftab Hashim Sabri August 2005 (Mumbai) 5. B.S.Balli (Jalandhar) L.M- Sufi-Kalam August 2005 6. Chanchal Bharati & Party (NCR) 03/05/98 7. Geeta Singh & Party – Geeta Singh (U.P) 2012 8. Javed Majid Qawwal & Party - Javed Ahmed (U.P) 2012 9. Majid Ikhlas Husain Qawwal Group - Majid Husain 2012 (U.P) 10. Mohan Singh Vedi 11. Naushad Shahzad Sabri Qawal -Naushad Shahzd 2012 Sabri (U.P) 12. Nazar Andaz Qawwal & Party (Allahabad) 28/05/2004 13. Neelay Khan Mohdsadeeque & Party, Neelay 2010 Khan Mohdsadeeque (Punjab) 178

14. Nizami Khusro Bandu (NCR) 28/05/2004 15. Nizami Brothers, Tahseen Hussain Khan ( 2011 Hyderabad ) 16. Niazi Nizami Brothers-Haider Niazi & Hasan 2012 Nizami (Delhi) 17. Sahadat Hussain (Lucknow) 15/01/2003 18. Sarfaraz Chishti & Party, Shri Sarfaraz Chisti (U.P) August 2005 19. Shahid Niazi & Party, Shahid Niazi (U.P.) 2011 20. Shahroz Bharti Qawwal & Party - Shahroz Bharti 2012 (U.P) 21. Teena Parveen & Party , Mrs.Teena Parveen 2007 (Lucknow) 22. Wajahat Jaffar Budauni & Party” Wajahat Husain ( 2011 U.P) 23. Yousuf Khan Nizami Group - Yousuf Khan ( Delhi) 2012 24. Zafar Nizami (Group), Mr. M. Zafar Nizami (NCR) August 2005

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DEVOTIONAL (HINDUSTANI VOCAL) OUTSTANDING 1. Rajyasree Bandyopadhyay (Bengali Folk Song) 2008 Kolkata

ESTABLISHED 1. Agnihotri Bandhu (Rakesh & Devesh) Lucknow 03/05/98 (Up) 2007 2. Anjuman Soofiyana Kalaam Group, Shri Ghulam 2007 Nabi Namthalli (J& K) 3. Haveli Sangeet Kirtankar , Pt. Chandra Prakash 03/05/98 (Up) 2007 (Ajmer) 4. Mitali Bhattacharyya De ( Assam ) 2011 5. Piyoosha Kailash Anuj (Devotional) (Duet) NCR 03/05/98 (Up) 28/05/2004 6. Sangita Gosain (Bhubaneswar), Odissi & Bengali 2008 Light Music 7. Sharma Bandhu (Muzaffar Nagar) Devotional 15/01/2003 performance only 8. Vidya Shah (N Delhi) 2008

PROFICIENT 1. Alpana Mehrotra (U.P) 2012 2. Amit & Sandhya Mukerjee (Lucknow) 2010 3. Basabi Datta ( Kolkata ) 2011 4. Debashree Mukherjee (Bengali) (NCR) 15.01.2003 5. Dev Prasad Pandey (U.P) 2012 6. Dinabandhu Chattopadhyay (West Bengal) 2007 7. Harjinder Singh Saieen (Devotional) (Lucknow) August 2005 8. Karabi Manna (Hooghly) 2008 9. Keerti Jayram Shiledar (Pune) 2010 10. M Sunita Devi (New Delhi) 2008 11. Madhavi Singh (U.P) 2012 12. Ranju Singh (Also Bhojpuri Songs) (Jharkand) 2008 13. Shanti Ranjan (Bengali Style) (Kolkata) 2008 14. Sujata Sahai (Devotional) (Lucknow) August 2005 15. Sumana Chakrabarty (Kolkata) 2010 16. Suparna Adhikary (Delhi) 2012 17. Umrao Salodia (Rajasthan) August 2005 18. Vani Babbar (NCR) August 2005

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DEVOTIONAL (GURBANI) ESTABLISHED 1. Ajit singh Paintal (Gurbani) Up 2007

PROFICIENT 1. Avtar Singh (Kapurthle Wale, Gurbani) 03/05/98 2. Bhai Chamanjit Singh Ji Lal (Gurbani) (NCR) 03/05/98

DEVOTIONAL LECTURE DEMONSTRATION GROUP 1. Bharati Bandhu (Chhattisgarh) 15.01.2003

DEVOTIONAL GROUP 1. Sharma Bandhu Ujjain - Rajeev Sharma 2012 2. Su-Samannaya - Gopal Datta (Kolkata) 2012 3. Vashisth Bandhu - Rambhadra Sharma (U.P) 2012

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RABINDRA SANGEET/ NAZRUL GEET RABINDRA SANGEET OUTSTANDING 1. Pramita Mallick (Kolkata) 1992 2. Suchitra Mitra 3. Subinoy Roy

ESTABLISHED 1. Chandrabali Rudra (Devotional) (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 2. Kamal Kanti Gupta (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 3. Mukul Banerjee 4. Malay Sankar Chattopadhyay (West Bengal) 2008 5. Purba Dam 6. Rama Banerjee 7. Sumitra Sen PROFICIENT 1. Agnibha Bandopadhyay (Kolkata) 28/10/94 2. Aparajita Saha Basu (Kolkata) 2010 3. Arnab Basu (Kolkata) 2010 4. Basabi Datta ( Kolkata ) 2011 5. Bidhan Roy (Kolkata) 16/05/97 6. Bishakha Basu ( NCR ) 2011 7. Chitralekha Dutta (Kolkata) (Ms) 16/05/97 8. Gargi Das Bakshi (Kolkata) August 2005 9. Debarati Mitra (West Bengal) 2008 10. Madhurima Bhattacharjee (Tripura) 2007 11. Maitreyee Mazumdar (Smt) (Kolkata) 03/05/98 12. Mali Mitra (Howrah) 16/12/99 13. Mihir Kumar Basu ( NCR ) 2011 14. Mouna Mukher Mukherjee ( West Bengal) 2012 15. Prabudda Raha (Kolkata) 15/01/2003 16. Puranjan Tarafdar (W.Bengal) 16/05/97 17. Ranjana Dey (NCR) August 2005 18. Reba Som (Kolkata) 2009 19. Sahana Mishra (Kolkata) 28/05/2004 20. Sanghmitra Gupta 16/12/99 21. Shikha Basu (Kolkata) 03/05/98 22. Shramana Chattopadhyay ( West Bengal) 2012 23. Sounak Chatterjee (Kolkata) August 2005 24. Srabani Chaterjee (Chattopadhyay) (Kolkata) 28/10/94 25. Sreyashi Mitra (Kolkata) August 2005 26. Sudeshna Basu ( USA ) 2011 27. Suparna Chattopadhyay (Howrah) 2012 28. Swapan Gupta (Kolkata) 16/12/99 182

29. Tanushree Data (Kolkata) (Ms) 16/05/97

RABINDRA SANGEET GROUP 1. Rabindra Bharati

RABINDRA SANGEET (LECTURE – DEMONSTRATION) ESTABLISHED 1. Prafulla Kumar (Kolkata) 28/05/2004

NAZRUL GEET PROFICIENT 1. Ramanuj Dasgupta ( Kolkata) 2012

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STYLE PURATANI GAAN PROFICIENT 1. Debasree Mukhopadhyay (Kolkata) 2010

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POPULAR MUSIC / BOLLYWOOD STYLE/ROCK BAND POPULAR MUSIC 1. Ila Arun (Mumbai) 28/05/2004 2. Lou Wajaw (Meghalaya) 2012 3. Padmini Roy & Party (Mumbai) 03/05/98 4. Shimak Nanabhoy Davar (Mumbai) 28.10.1994 (Up) 16/05/97 5. Sumana Chakrabarty (Kolkata) 2010

BOLLYWOOD STYLE

1. A To Z Hot Dance Group - Sukhvinder Gill ( Delhi) 2012 2. Ankur Gupta ( NCR ) 2011 3. Bollywood Love Story-Musical, Sanjoy K Roy ( 2011 NCR) 4. Bollywood Rockers - Subhash Shabbu ( Delhi) 2012 5. Colours of Bollywood - Asif Ali (Delhi) 2012 6. Dimple Ghosh Hakim (Mumbai) (Solo) 2008 7. Dance Era - Manik Bhatheja ( Delhi) 2012 8. Indiana - Perminder Kaur ( Mumbai) 2012 9. Jasvinder Paras Group, Jasvinder Singh Paras 2008 (Delhi) 10. Karmick Connection, Paramjeet Singh Narula 2010 (Mumbai) 11. Matrix (Bollywood Creative), Suresh Kumar Nair 2009 (Delhi) 12. Mantraarts - Kanika Sharma ( Delhi) 2012 13. Penaz Masani & The Planets, Penaz Masani ( 2011 Mumbai ) 14. Ronica Jacob ( Delhi) Group 2012 15. Sangeet Smriti - Shikha Biswas 2012 16. Shibani Kashyap (NCR) 2010 17. Shipra Goyal (NCR) 2010 18. Shubhra Bollywood Group, Shubhra Anand Mohan 2008 Bhardwaj (Mumbai) 19. Sugar N Spice - Monica Narula ( Mumbai) 2012

ROCK BAND GROUP

1. Boomarang, Hangsing Lalruatliana (Aizawal) 2010 2. Dementia, Inakhu A Ayeh (Nagaland) 2010 3. Parikrama, Subir Malik (New Delhi) 2008 4. Sifar - Amit Yadav ( Delhi) 2012 5. Something Relevant, Tanmay Bhattacherjee 2008 (Mumbai) 6. Soulmate - Rudolph Wallang ( Meghalaya) 2012 185

FUSION/ SUFI FUSION /PERCUSSION/ HINDUSTANI INSTRUMENTAL/JUGALBANDI TALVADHYA/JAZZ/JAZZ FUSION FUSION 1. Abiogenesis (Naga Howey), Moa Subong 2009 (Nagaland) 2. Abhijit Pohankar (Mumbai) Fusion 2005 3. Advaita (Abhishek Mathur) NCR 2010 4. Anuradha Pal’s Recharge, Ms Anuradha Pal 2010 (Mumbai) 5. Aroha Indians - Arindam Choudhury ( Delhi) 2012 6. Banubala Fusion Music Group - Sanjay Najan & 2012 Bharathi Pal 7. Green Ragas (Sandep Srivastav) NCR 2010 8. Gajalla Jaywant Naidu (Hyderabad) 2010 9. Girish And The Chronicles, Girish Pradhan ( 2011 Sikkim )(P) 10. Harmony Fusion Music Band (Uttar Pradesh) 2005 Mohammad Bismil Kureshi, Mathura 11. Hum Ensemble, Sandeep Das ( NCR ) Group (E) 2011 12. Indian Ocean (NCR), Dhruv Jagasia (Fusion) 2007 13. Kaharwa - Umrao Salodia ( Rajasthan) 2012 14. Karnatriix, (John Anthony) Chennai 2010 15. Motherjane (Band Group) Suraj Mani (Bangalore) 2010 16. Naad Brahma - Joseph Alvares ( Mumbai) 2012 17. North East Breeze (Rupam Bhuyan) Guwhati 2010 18. Oatcrpa - Mohini Mohan Patnaik ( Orissa ) 2012 19. Papon N The East India Company - Angaraag 2012 Mahanta 20. Qalandar Sufi Band - Jwala Prasad ( Delhi) 2012 21. Rajat Kakkar “Mrigya” (Cotemporary Music) 2004 22. Ravi Pawar (Solo), Mumbai 2008 23. Rhythms of Manipur - Aribam Laxmirani Devi ( 2012 Manipur) 24. Shwaas Fusion Band (Rajesh Prasanna) NCR 2010 25. SKY - Sovon Kumar Hazra ( Delhi) 2012 26. Soul of India - Kamal Sabri (Delhi) 2008 27. Soul Samvaad - Murad Ali Khan ( Delhi) 2012 28. SARGAM, Shri Johar Ali Kan (NCR) (E) 28/05/2004 (Hindustani Fusion) 29. Taaltantra, Tanmoy Bose ( Kolkata ) Group (E) 2011 30. Taal Yatra -Shekh Mohammad Ibrahim (U.P) 2012 31. The Raghu Dixit Project (Raghu Dixit) Myore 2009 32. The Sufi Gospel Project - Sonam Kalra ( Delhi) 2012 33. Vibgyor (Ratish Sharad Chandra Tagde) Mumbai 2010 34. Vibrations Group - Ronu Majumdar ( Mumbai) 2012

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PERCUSSION 1. DHWANI (Lalgudi R. Sriganesh), NCR (E) 28/05/2004 Ensemble 2. The Bengal Ensemble , Monaranjan Bhattacharjee 28/05/2004 (Kolkata) Tri – Khole, Pakhwaj, Tabla 3. Saurang Ensemble (NCR), Ustad Ghulam Sabir 2007 Khan (Prof.) HINDUSTANI INSTRUMENTAL 1. Stree Shakti (Mumbai), Ms. Anuradha Pal (Prof.) 15/01/2003 2. Amar Nath & Pankaj Nath (NCR) (E), H. 28/05/2004 Instrumental Group 3. Arunangshu Chaudhury (West Bengal) (E), 28/05/2004 Impulse Group 4. Selvaraj R. (Chennai) (E), Instrumental cell Group 28/05/2004 5. Ustad Ghulam Mohd. Saznawaaz (Kashmir), H. 28.05.2004 Instrumental 6. Sujoy Basu (Kolkata), H. Instrumental Group 28/05/2004 7. Tarang Group-Saraswati Rajagopalan (NCR), August 2005 Veena-jugalbandi, H.Instrumental 8. Talash Musical Band (Uttar Pradesh), Ritesh August 2005 Ranjan Sahai 9. Shankar Ghosh & Party (Hindustani) (Est.) JUGALBANDI 1. Mor Mukut Kedia & Manoj Kr Kedia (Jharkhand) 15/01/2003 Sitar & Sarod (Jugalbandi) 2. Laya Shakti Tabla Tarang (NCR), Shri Rashid August 2005 Mustafa Thirakwa , (Jugalbandi) (Group) Tabla & Tarang 3. Prakash Sontakke ( Bangalore ) Jugalbandi (P) 2011 TALVADHYA

1. Babulal Verma, (Dewas) Tal Vadhya (Est.) 03/05/98 JAZZ PROFICIENT

1. Sonam Kalra ( Delhi) 2012 JAZZ FUSION PROFICIENT

1. Bindu Subramaniam ( Bangalore ) 2011 2. Joseph Anthony Alvares ( Mumbai) 2012

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COMPOSER-ORCHESTRA/CHORAL/OPERA OUTSTANDING 1. Anil Biswas 2. Atul Desai 15/01/2003 3. Bhajan Sopori 15/01/2003 4. Bhaskar Chandravarkar 5. Naushad 6. Raghunath Seth 7. Ravi Shankar (Pt.) 8. Satish Bhatia 9. Sheela Bhatia 10. Subramaniam L (Dr.) 11. Satyadev Pawar 12. Shanno Khurana 13. Timirbaran Symphony Orchestra, Ranjani Sarkar 2008 (Kolkata) 14. Vanaraj Bhatia 15. Vijay Raghav Rao

ESTABLISHED 1. Air Warriors Band Flight Lieutenant 28/05/2004 R.K. Jena, Conductor (NCR)

PROFICIENT 1. Gopal Shankar 2. Hussain Khan 3. Udaybhanu K.P (Trivandrum)

ORCHESTRA GROUP

1. The B.S.M Chamber Orchestra - Aruna Sunderlal 2012 ( Bangalore) 2. India National Youth Orchestra - Sonia Khan ( 2012 Delhi)

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CHOIR/ VRINDAGAN 1. Asima - John David James Mott (Devissaro) 2010 (Kerala) 2. Kolkata Youth Choir - Director: Ms Ruma Guha Thakurta 3. Gandhrva Choir, Delhi, Director: Pt Vinay Chandra Maudgalya), Conductor: Madhup Mudgal 4. Madras Youth Choir, Director: Zahida 5. Paranjoti Choir (Kumi Wadia) 6. Saptasur (Nazrul, Bhajan, Folk) 7. Shillong Chamber Choir (Western Choir) Ike Sinha 2010 (NCR) 8. Sugarmix Cooperative – Varnahas, Children's Orchestra, Director: Shri Kulkarni 9. The Stop – Gaps Cultural Academy, Choir 15.01.2003 10. Zohra Lilavati Shaw (Delhi) , Choir, Western, 16/05/97 Harmony (Est.) 11. Viswa Bharati Choir 12. Saptasur Choir Group, C/O Dipali Nag 13. Lipokmar Tzudir (Nagaland) (Proficient) 2007 Chance L-Choir Foundation for Performing Arts

OPERA 1. Neemrana Choir (Situ Singh Buehler) NCR 2009

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PIANO PROFICIENT 1. Vandana Kohli (Delhi) 2007

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WHISTLING ESTABLISHED 1. Komarravolu Siva Prasad (Hyderabad) 28/10/94

PROFICIENT 1. Sreekrishnan N R (Bangaluru) 28/10/94

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NAUTANKI OUTSTANDING 1. Ms. Krishna Kumari (Ferozabad, U.P) 2008

GROUP 1. Mr. Lokendranath Kaushik, Jagriti Kala Sangam 28.10.94

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MODERN DANCE/ CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY/DANCE- DRAMA OUTSTANDING 1. Coorlawala Uttara Asha (Not Performing) 2. Deboo Astad, (Mime/Contemporary Group) Mumbai 3. Seth Daksha 15.01.2003 4. Sharma Bharat 15.01.2003

ESTABLISHED 1. Sharma Sangeeta 15.01.2003 2. Priyadarshini Shome (Contemporary Dance ) 2008 Kolkatta

PROFICIENT 1. Adhana Sudesh (Delhi) August 2005 2. Chitra Arvind ( Bangalore) Contemporary 2012 Choreography 3. Kumar Naresh (Delhi) 03.05.98 4. Maitreyee Pahari ( Delhi) Contemporary 2012 Choreography 5. Shubhro Ghosh (Delhi) 2007 6. Veena Basava Rajaiah(Contemporary Dance) 2008 Karnataka

GROUPS

1. Arangham Dance Theatre (Chennai), Anita 2007 Ratnam 2. Anuradha Majumdar Legrand & Group 16.05.97 (Tamilnadu) 3. Anveshana Dance Theatre (Contemporary 2010 Choreography) Sangeeta Sharma (NCR) 4. Amala Shankar`s Group 5. Attakkalari (Shri P.Jayachandran), Centre for 15.01.2003 Contemporary Performing Arts, Kerala 6. Baruipara Nrityalok (Choreography), Sutapa 2010 Awon Pradhan (Kolkata) 7. Bhoomika - Narendra Sharma 8. Chandralekha`s Group 9. Dancer`s Guild, Jonaki Sarkar (Kolkata) 15.01.2003

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10. Darpana Dance Akademi, Mrinalini & Mallika Sarabhai 11. Delhi Ballet Group (Contemporary Dance-Drama) 2008 Valmiki Bannerjee (New Delhi) 12. Kala Samoh 13. Kant Ratnabali (Delhi) 16.12.99

14. Lacchu Maharaj Ballet Centre , (Kathak Style - 2008 Dance Drama) Kumkum Adarsh Lucknow 15. Maya Rao`s Group 16. Mamta Shankar & Group 17. Natya Ballet Centre 18. Natya Stem Dance Kampni , (Contemporary 2009 Kathak Dance Group), Madhu Nataraj (Bangaluru)

19. Nritarutya Group, Mayuri Upadhyay, (Bangaluru) August 2005 20. Nirtya Sabha (Contemporary Dance Group), Irina 2008 Iskorostenskaia (Moscow) 21. Parvatiya Kala Kendra 22. Padatik Dance Centre, Chetna Jalan (Kolkata) 2007 23. Padmini Chettur (Chennai) 2007 24. Pratibha Pandit`s Troupe 25. Ranan (Choreography), Vikram Iyengar (Kolkata) 2010

26. Rangasri Little Ballet Troupe (Gul Bardhan) 27. Rekha Mehra & Group (Creative & Choreography) 2007 Rekha Mehra (NCR) 28. Rhythmosaic - Shambik Ghose ( Kolkata) 2012 Contemporary 29. Sachin Shankar`s Group 30. Sadhya A Unit of Performing Arts, Santosh Nair 2007 (NCR) 31. Saltlake Navanritya Dance Centre (Contemporary) 2010 Chirantan Bhaduri (Kolkata) 32. Sampravaahi Group - Anurag Verma & Samandar 2012 Manganiar ( Rajasthan) 33. Samudra Performing Arts (Trivandrum) 28.05.2004 34. Shankarananda Kalakshetra (Secunderabad) 35. Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra 36. Kathak Sansthan Nritya Mandal, (Kathak Style 2008 Dance-Drama), Sarita Srivastav, (Lucknow) 37. Sonar Chand & Group 38. Santosh Kumar Nair (Creative Dance) NCR 16.05.1997 39. Taal Chandanam (Contemporary Dance Group) 2008 Satyabrata Roy (Kolkatta) 40. Tanva Creative Dance Ensemble of Delhi, Kishore 3.2.1996 Sharma (NCR) 41. Tanusree Shankar Dance Company (Kolkata) 15.01.2003 42. Tapsaya - Ajay Kumar (U.P) Modern Dance Drama 2012

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43. Tibetan Performing Arts (Dharamsala) 44. Natyalakshana (Dance-Drama Group) 2008 Usha Venkateswaran (Bangaluru) 45. KROSSWINDZ – (Group) Vikramajit Banerjee 2004 (Kolkata) Western Pop Music

CHOREOGRAPHER 1. Kumar Aditi Mangaladas 2. Lakhia Kumudini 3. Maharaj Birju 4. Misra Vaswati 5. Seth Daksha 6. Shankar Vijay 7. Sharma Uma 8. Shukla Munna Lal

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GROUPS PERFORMING TAGORE`S DANCE DRAMA RABINDRIK 1. Ashranik Sangh, Kolkata 2. Geetanjali Group led by Smt. Suvra Mukherjee for Rabindra Sangeet & Dance 3. Rabindra Bharati University`s Dance Department Troupe led by Choreographer Asit Chatterjee 4. Raginee Group based in Kolkata led by Asit Chatterjee 5. The troupe of the Sangeet Bhavan of Vishva Bharati, Shantiniketan

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