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PADMA AWARDEES – 2018 MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

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

2. These awards are conferred by the President of at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the has approved conferment of 84 Padma Awards including two duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 72 Padma Shri Awards. 14 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 16 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 4 Posthumous awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

Sl. No Name Field State 1. Shri Art-Music Tamil Nadu

2. Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan Art-Music Maharashtra

3. Shri P. Parameswaran Literature and Education

Padma Bhushan

Sl. No Name Field State 4. Shri Pankaj Advani Sports-Billiards/Snooker

5. Most Rev. Dr. Philipose Mar Others-Spiritualism Kerala Chrysostom Mar Thoma Valiya Metropolitan

6. Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni Sports-Cricket

7. His Excellency Alexander Public Affairs Russian Federation Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous) 8. Dr. Ramachandran Nagaswamy Others-Archaeology Tamil Nadu 9. Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda Literature and Education USA (OCI) 10. Shri Art-Painting Goa

11. Pandit Art-Music Maharashtra

12. Dr. Art-Music

Padma Shri

Sl. No Name Field State 13. Shri Abhay Bang (Duo) Medicine Maharashtra

Ms. Rani Bang (Duo) Medicine Maharashtra 14. Shri Damodar Ganesh Bapat Social Work Chhattisgarh 15. Shri Literature and Education- Assam Journalism 16. Shri Mohan Swaroop Bhatia Art-Folk Music Uttar Pradesh 17. Shri Sudhanshu Biswas Social Work 18. Ms. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu Sports-Weightlifting 19. Pandit Literature and Education- Chhattisgarh Journalism 20. Shri Jose Ma Joey Concepcion Trade and Industry (Foreigner) 21. Smt. Langpoklakpam Subadani Art-Weaving Manipur Devi 22. Shri Somdev Kishore Sports-Tennis Tripura Devvarman 23. Dr. Yeshi Dhonden Medicine Himachal Pradesh 24. Shri Literature and Education Assam 25. Dr. Dodda Range Gowda Art-Lyrics Karnataka 26. Shri Arvind Kumar Gupta Literature and Education Maharashtra 27. Prof. Literature and Education Jharkhand 28. Shri Datuk Ramli Ibrahim Art-Dance (Foreigner) 29. Shri Anwar Ahmad (Anwar Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh Jalalpuri) (Posthumous) 30. Shri M. Piyongtemjen Jamir Literature and Education Nagaland 31. Smt. Sitavva Dundappa Jodatti Social Work Karnataka

32. Smt. Malti Joshi Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh 33. Shri Manoj Navneet Joshi Art-Acting Maharashtra 34. Shri Rameshwarlal Kabra Trade and Industry Maharashtra 35. Shri Kishore Kaul Art Jammu and Kashmir 36. Shri Bounlap Keokangna Others-Architecture (Foreigner) 37. Shri Vijay Kumar Kichlu Art-Music West Bengal 38. Prof. Tommy Koh Public Affairs (Foreigner) 39. Smt. Lekshmikutty Medicine-Traditional Kerala 40. Ms. Joyshree Goswami Literature and Education Assam Mahanta 41. Shri Narayan Das Maharaj Others-Spiritualism Rajasthan 42. Shri Pravakar Maharana Art-Sculpture 43. His Excellency Hun Many Public Affairs (Foreigner) 44. Ms. Nouf Marwaai Others- Yoga Saudi Arabia (Foreigner) 45. Shri Zaverilal Dalpatram Mehta Literature and Education- Gujarat Journalism 46. Dr. Bihari Mishra Literature and Education West Bengal 47. Shri Sissir Purushottam Mishra Art-Cinema Maharashtra 48. Smt. Subasini Mistry Social Work West Bengal 49. Prof. Literature and Education (Foreigner) 50. His Holiness Somdet Phra Others-Spiritualism Ariyawongsakhottayan Somdet Phra Sangharaja Sakalamahasangha Parinayaka (Foreigner) 51. Dr. Keshav Rao Sadashiv Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh Shastri Musalgaonkar 52. Dr Thant Myint – U Public Affairs (Foreigner) 53. Ms. V Nanammal Others-Yoga Tamil Nadu 54. Dr. Sulagitti Narasamma Social Work Karnataka 55. Ms. Vijayalakshmi Art-Folk Music Tamil Nadu Navaneethakrishnan 56. Shri I Nyoman Nuarta Art- Sculpture (Foreigner) 57. Shri Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Social Work Brunei Darussalam Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner) 58. Shri Art-Weaving Odisha 59. Shri Bhabani Charan Pattanaik Public Affairs Odisha 60. Shri Murlikant Rajaram Petkar Sports-Swimming Maharashtra 61. Prof. Habibullo Rajabov Literature and Education Tajikistan (Foreigner) 62. Dr. M R Rajagopal Medicine-Palliative Care Kerala 63. Shri Sampat Tukaram Ramteke Social Work Maharashtra (Posthumous) 64. Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath Literature and Education Odisha (Posthumous) 65. Shri Satyanarayansingh Civil Service Gujarat Shivsinghji Rathore 66. Shri Science and Engineering West Bengal 67. Shri Sanduk Ruit Medicine- (Foreigner) 68. Shri R Sathyanarayana Art-Music Karnataka 69. Dr. Pankaj Manubhai Shah Medicine-Oncology Gujarat 70. Shri Art-Painting Madhya Pradesh 71. Shri Maharao Raghuveer Singh Literature and Education Rajasthan Sirohi 72. Shri Kidambi Srikanth Sports-Badminton Andhra Pradesh 73. Shri Ibrahim Nabisaheb Sutar Art-Music Karnataka 74. Ms. Lentina Ao Thakkar Social Work Nagaland 75. Dr. Science and Engineering Uttarakhand 76. Dr. Rudrapatnam Art-Music Karnataka Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo) Shri Rudrapatnam Art-Music Karnataka Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo) 77. Most Venerable Thicn Due Others-Spiritualism Vietnam Thien (Foreigner) 78. Prof. Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh ‘Vagish Shastri’ 79. Prof. Science and Engineering Tamil Nadu 80. Shri Manas Bihari Verma Science and Engineering Bihar 81. Shri Panatawane Gangadhar Literature and Education Maharashtra Vithobaji 82. Shri Romulus Whitaker Others-Wildlife Tamil Nadu Conservation 83. Shri Yogendra Art Madhya Pradesh 84. Shri A Zakia Literature and Education Mizoram ---