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INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS EMPANELMENT OF ARTISTES

REVISED REFERENCE LIST AS ON 26/09/2012

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1. DANCE 02

2. FOLK 38

3. THEATRE & PUPPETRY 79

4. 105

5. HINDUSTANI MUSIC 131

6. MODERN DANCE & MUSIC 172

1 INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS EMPANELMEMT SECTION

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

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1. 3 – 11

2. CHHAU 12 – 13

3. 14 – 19

4. 20 – 21

5. KRISHNANATTAM 22

6. 23 – 25

7. KUDIYATTAM 26

8. MANIPURI 27 – 28

9. MOHINIATTAM 29 – 30

10. 31 – 35

11. 36

12. 37

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

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

3 BHARATANATYAM ESTABLISHED

1. Anjana Anand (Chennai) 2. Ashok Purnima (Bangaluru) 3. Arekar Vaibhav S. () 4. Balasubramaniam Ramesh Uma (Chennai) 5. Barman Khagendra Nath ()() 6. Bharath Srekala (Chennai) 7. Cama Rohinton (Not Dancing) 8. Chandrasekhar Chitra (Baroda) 9. Chander Shekar Ragini (NCR) 10. Chitharanjan Meenakshi Sabanayagam (Chennai) 11. Chidambaram Srinidhi (Rangarajan) 12. (NCR) 13. Dorairajan Padmini (Not Dancing) 14. Doraiswamy Vasundhara (Mysore) 15. Ganapathy Vani P. (Bangaluru) 16. Govindarajan Hema (Nairobi) 17. Ghantasala Parvathi (Chennai) 18. Gopalaswamy Lakshmi 19. Harishankar Ramya (California) 20. Johar Navtej Singh - 13.02.1996 21. Kannan Roja (Chennai) 22. Kadambi Indira (Bangaluru) 23. Khanna Rasika (NCR) 24. Kumar P. Praveen (Bangaluru) 25. Lakshmi P.A. (Mumbai) 26. Lakshmmanaswamy A (Chennai) 27. Manjari Chandrasekhar (Chennai) 28. Marar Radha & Menon Jayashankar (NCR) 29. Mallick Anita (Kolkata) 30. Murthy . Surya Narayana (Chennai) 31. N Panchpakesan (Chennai) 32. Pasha Syed Sallauddin (Bangaluru) 33. Prabhu Mitra () 34. Priya Venkataraman (Gurgoan) 35. Raghvan Deepa (Faridabad) 36. Ramachandran Revathi 37. Ravi Padmini 38. Ramachandran Anandi (Mumbai) 39. Ramaswamy Lakshmi (Chennai 40. Ramya Ramnarayan Tirumalai (USA) 41. Sadagopan Sukshma Roopa (Chennai) 42. Sadhana S. (Secundrabad) 43. Sainath Rajeshwari (Secundrabad) 44. Sathyanarayana Raju ( ) 45. Seshadri Meenakshi (Taxes, USA) 46. Shobha Chandrakumar (Chennai) 4 47. Bhalchandra (Chennai) 48. Shridhar & Anuradha Shridhar (Bangaluru) 49. Sreelatha Vinod (Chennai) 50. Sridhar Vasant (Nee Sastri) 51. Srinivasan Sujatha, (USA) 52. Subramanyam Kiran/Sandhya Kiran Bangaluru 53. Suresh Padmaja (Rajan) (Bangaluru) 54. Swaranamukhi (Not Dancing) 55. Thampi Ganga (Chennai) 56. Venkataraman Anuradha (NCR) 57. Viswanathan Sreelatha

BHARATANATYAM PROFICIENT

1. A (Bangaluru) 2. Akmaral Kainazarova (Kazakhstan) 3. Aparna D S (Bangaluru) 4. Aditi Rao (NCR) 5. Aishwarya Narayanswamy (Chennai) 6. Aishwarya Venkatesh (Mumbai) 7. Ananth Lavanya (Chennai) 8. Anupriya Guha (New ) 9. Anjana Rajan (NCR) 10. Ambili Chidangil () 11. Aparna Ramaswamy (USA) 12. Aranyani Bhargav (NCR) 13. Archana Narayanamurthy (Chennai 14. Asian Sisters (Vanamala & Sathyavathi) (Bangaluru) 15. Balasubramaniam Srividya 16. Banhisikha Sinha (Kolkata) 17. Bhargavi GP (Chennai) 18. Bhaskaran Snehlatha (Also Kuchipudi) 19. Bolar Shubharani (Bangaluru) 20. Chatterjee Madhuboni (Kolkata) 21. Chikkanahalli Seshadri (Haryana) 22. Chowdhary Alankrita (NCR) 23. Das Anwesha (Chennai) 24. Dakshina Vaidyanathan ( Delhi) 25. Doddamani Sanjay, (USA) 26. Deepika Gupta (NCR) 27. Divya Kasturi (Chennai) 28. Ganeshan Ranjani (NCR) 29. Ganga Grace (Chennai) 30. Ganga Grace (Croatian) (NCR) 31. Ganju Radhika (NCR) 32. G Ratheesh Babu (Durg, Chattisgarh) 33. Ganna Srimova (NCR) 34. Gauri Nagesh Bhade (Mumbai) 35. Gautam Rajasree (Chennai) 5 36. Gayathri S. (Chennai) 37. B Sahana ( Delhi) 38. Hemalatha K. (Chennai) 39. Indulekha P (Chennai) 40. J Chandrapradha (Bangaluru) 41. Janaki Rangarajan (Chennai) 42. Jacob Neerada (NCR) 43. Jangannathan Anuradha (Singapore) 44. Janani Murali (Bangaluru) 45. Jayadev Anjali 46. Jyotsna Jagannathan (Chennai) 47. Jhaveri Parul (Shastri) 48. Kamath Vatsala 49. K. Bhavya Shreelakshmi (Bhilai) 50. Kangal S.P. Ramanarasimha (Bangaluru) 51. Kapil Sharma (NCR) 52. Kasar Mythali (NCR) 53. Kasar Sisters (Maithali, Radhika & Anuradha) (NCR) 54. Kinra (New Zealand) 55. Kirti Ramgopal P (Bangaluru) 56. Nandini (Mumbai) (E) 57. Krishnan Vinita (NCR) 58. Kulkarni Sinduri (Chennai) 59. Lavanya & Mrinalini (Chennai) 60. Madhumita Paul (Kolkata) 61. Maheswari Sudha (Varshaa) (Chennai) 62. Majumdar Debjani (Kolkata) 63. Malabika Sen (Kolkata) 64. Mallika Ayesha Bhargava ( Delhi) 65. Manjula Ramaswamy () 66. Maria-Kiran Filipuzzi (France) 67. Marie Elangovan (Delhi) 68. Viswanathan (Chennai) 69. Medha Hari ( Chennai) 70. Mehta Susheela (Bangaluru) 71. Mitra Suchitra (Kolkata) 72. Milan Adhikary (Kolkata) 73. Mubina Bandukwala (Mumbai) 74. Murali Revathi (Secunderabad) 75. Muralidharan R. & Manimekalai R. (Chennai) 76. Muralidhar Thriveni (Bangaluru) 77. Muthanna K. Yamini (Bangaluru) 78. Mythili Prakash (Chennai) 79. Nagraj Depikka 80. Nagraj Sudha (Bangaluru) 81. Nambiar Shijit (Thiruvanniyur) 82. Nanavathy Vrunda Prakash (Bangaluru) 83. Narain Ketaki (NCR) 84. Narasimhaiah Shobha (Bangaluru) 85. Narasimhan Srikala (Chennai) 6 86. (Mylapore) 87. Navia Natarajan (Bangaluru) 88. Natarajan Shoba (Chennai) 89. Natarajan Srividya (Canada) 90. Natarajan Uma (Vadapalani) 91. Neeta Bala (Gurgoan) 92. Neha Bhatnagar ( Delhi) 93. Nehi Chaudhary (Gurgoan) 94. Nilesh Singha () 95. Nityananda Aishwarya (Bangaluru) 96. Nivedita Parthasarthy (Chennai) 97. Pallavi Saran Mathur (NCR) 98. Pallavi Sriram ( Chennai) 99. Pande Mahesh R. (Mumbai) 100. Pandya Parul (NCR) 101. Parimal Phadke (Mumbai) 102. Parimala Hansoge Pavankumar ( Mumbai) 103. Pavitra K S (Shimoga) 104. Patel Nisha (Ahemdabad) 105. Priya Murle (Chennai) 106. Priya Srinivasan ( Delhi) 107. Priyadarshini Swetha () 108. Prema Sridhar (Banglore) 109. Purkait Liza (West ) 110. Purvadhanshree (NCR) 111. Ragini Krishnan (NCR) 112. Raghunath Manet (Pondicherry) 113. Rajagopal Roopa (Bangaluru) 114. Rajagopalan Jayashree (Mumbai) 115. Rajaram Jayanatasri (Stop dancing USA) 116. Rajashree Rajasekhara Warrier (Kerala) 117. Rajashree Das (Chattisgarh) 118. Rajmohan Kalaivani (NCR) 119. Ramachandran Kanya (Bangaluru) 120. Ramaiah Priyabala 121. Ramu Kavitha (Chennai) 122. Rangashree (Bangaluru) 123. Rashmi Aggarwal (Delhi) 124. Raul D’Souza (Mumbai) 125. Ravi Ayyavu (Chennai) 126. Reddy Yanamala Vanitha (NCR) 127. Raju (Bangaluru) 128. Renuka Iyer ( Delhi) 129. Rukmini Chatterjee (Kolkata) 130. Rukmini Vijayakumar & P S Upadhye (Bangalore) Duet 131. Rukmini Vijayakumar ( Karnataka) 132. Rumya Ramanathan (Mumbai) 133. R. Vasudev (Bangaluru) 134. S Sathvikaa ( Chennai) 7 135. Sangeeta Isvaran (Chennai) 136. Savitha Sastry ( NCR ) 137. Seshadri Iyengar ( Bangalore ) 138. Seshadri Padmini (Bangaluru) 139. Seshadri Swapna (NCR) 140. Shankar Aarthi (NCR) 141. Shanmuganathan Anita (Chennai) 142. Sharma Meenakshi () 143. Sharanya Chandran ( Delhi) 144. Shekhar Savitha (Bangaluru) 145. Shetty Reshma Shekar (Mumbai) 146. Shetty Seema Shivaji (Mumbai) 147. Shilpi Baruri (Kolkata) 148. Shivangee Yashesh Anantani () 149. Shourie Jyotsna (NCR) 150. Shwetha Lakshman (Bangaluru) 151. Shweta Suryakant Prachande () 152. Shubha Patvardhan (NCR) 153. Singh Lata () 154. Smitha Madhav (Hyderabad) 155. Sneha Devanandan (Bangalore) 156. Sneha Chakradhar (NCR) 157. Snigdha Venkataramani (N Delhi) 158. Somalya Monisha 159. Sreenivasan Lekha (Senior) (Trivandrum) 160. Sreedhara A.R. Dr., (USA) 161. S. Kumar 162. Srinivas K (Bangaluru) 163. Srinivasan Meenakshi (Bangaluru) 164. Srinivasan Pavithra (Chennai) 165. Srinivasan Ramya (USA) 166. Srinivasan Shailaja (NCR) 167. Sriram Pooja (NCR) 168. Srivathsa Singari (Bangaluru) 169. Srividya 170. Subramaniam Anusha (NCR) 171. Subramaniam Jayanthi (Bangaluru) 172. Subramaniam Ramaa (Chennai) 173. Sulakshana Jayaram (Chennai) 174. Sundaresan Priya (Chennai) 175. Sukumar Vidya (NCR) 176. Suresh Shreelata Dr. (Chennai) 177. Swarnamalya Ganesh (Chennai) 178. Swathi Shankar (NCR) 179. Tagore Souraja (Kolkata) 180. Tanvir Vehnival (NCR) 181. The Trio Sisters (Radhika, Gayatri & Shobana) (Chennai) 182. Thomas Suhasini (Tiruvanmiyur) 183. Tracy Mandeera (Mumbai) 8 184. Uma Govind ( Kerala) 185. Upadhyay Padmini S. (Bangaluru) 186. Uthappa Shilpa (Bangaluru) 187. Uttara Rao (NCR) 188. Vaidyanathan Aparna (Bangaluru) 189. Vaidyanathan Nirupama 190. Varsha Suresh (Chennai) 191. Vasanth Subhashini (Bangaluru) 192. Vasudevan S. (NCR) 193. Venkataraman Deepa (NCR) 194. Vidyamol .P (Kerala) 195. Vijayalakshmi (Also Mohiniattam) 196. Vijayalakshmi . (Hyderabad) 197. Vidhya Subramanian (USA) 198. Vijna Rani Vasudevan (Chennai) 199. Viraja Arvind Mandhre & P U Shyamjith Kiran (Pune) 200. Viswanath Manjula (Bangaluru) 201. Veena Basavarajaiah (Bangaluru) BHARATANATYAM GROUPS

1. Abhinaya School of Dance – Jayalakshmi Eshwar (NCR) 2. Academy of Arts of - Lakshmi Viswanathan (Chennai) 3. Bharata Kalanjali - V.P. Dhananjayan & Shanta Dhananjayan (Chennai) 4. Bharatanjali- Ms. Balakrishnan Bhanumati (Bangaluru) 5. Chidambara Academy of Performing Arts - (Chennai) 6. Cultural Centre – (Chennai) 7. Chithkala School of Dance - P Praveen Kumar ( Karnataka) 8. Darpana Academy - (Ahmedabad) 9. Ellora Centre for Performing Arts - Rama Shrikant (Vadodara) 10. Ganesh Natyalaya -. (NCR) 11. Park Saraswat Sanskriti Kendra, Anita Mallick (Specially for ) 12. Kalakshetra, Adyar (Chennai) 13. Kalakshetram - Guru Khagendra Nath Barma (Kolkata) 14. Natyavriksha- (NCR) 15. Kalamandalam Group—Ms. Thankamani Kutty (Kolkata) 16. Kalasadan - Natrajgopal Mani (Mumbai) 17. Koothambalam Cultural Associa-Abhoy Pal (Kolkata) 9 18. M.S. University - Prof. C.V. Chandrasekhar (Baroda) 19. Natya Sankalpaa - Urmila Sathyanarayanan (Chennai) 20. Nrityodaya - Padma Subramanyam (Chennai) 21. Nrityanjali - Ashok Kumar A (Bangaluru) 22. Nrithyaranjani – (NCR) 23. Ponaiah Lalithakala Academy - Smt. Padmini Rao (Bangaluru) 24. Prasiddha Dance Repertory, Ms Prathibha Prahlad ( NCR ) 25. Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir - Guru Kalyanasundar (Mumbai) 26. Ranee Ramaswamy - Ragamala Dance (USA) 27. Samarthanam Trust For The Disabled - Mahantesh G Kivadasannavar (Karnataka) 28. Shivakami Dance Troupe - Revathi Narasimhan (Bangaluru) 29. Spanda - (NCR) 30. Sri Lalithakala Academy Foundation Trust (Traditional Group) - Uma Rao (Mysore) 31. Sri Saraswathi Gana Nilayam,Ranganayaki Jayaraman (Chennai) 32. Thrayee School of Bharatanatyam - Radhika Shurajit (Chennai)

BHARATANATYAM LECTURE DEMONSTRATION

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

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

1. (Guwahati) 10 11 SERRAIKELA CHHAU CHHAU OUTSTANDING

1. Acharya Shashadhar (NCR)

SEERAIKELA CHHAU PROFICIENT 1. Malay Kumar Sahu ()

SEERAIKELA CHHAU GROUPS 1. Acharya Chhau Bichitra of led by Guru Lingaraj Acharya 2. (Jharkhand) 3. Govt. Centre led by Shri Tapan Kumar Pattanayak (Bihar) 4. Guru Shyama Charan Pati & Troup - Guru Shyama Charan Pati (Jharkhand) 5. Kalebar Memorial Chhau Dance () 6. Kedar Nath Sahoo & Party 7. Monoranjan Chhau Dance Party (West Bengal) 8. Pradeep Kumar Memorial Trust (Jharkhand) Bihar led by Shri Ashish Kumar Kar 9. SKL Chhau Artists Association - Sunil Kumar Dubey (Jharkhand) PURULIA CHHAU PURULIA CHHAU PROFICIENT 1. Mahato Prabhat Kumar (Jharkhand) 2. Mahato Niranjan (Purulia) 3. Paul Madumita (Kolkota) PURULIA CHHAU GROUPS 1. Adibashi Chhau Dance Party - Shri Kartik Singh Mura (West Bengal) 2. Adibasi Manbhum Chhau Nritya Kala Kendra - Kartik Mohato (Jharkhand) 3. Bandwan Adibasi Chhou Dance Party - Shri Bangshidhar Mahato (West Bengal) 4. Binapani Rupchand Chhau Academi, Dilip Chandra Mahato 5. Durga Charan Mohato Group (West Bengal) 6. Hullong Adibasi Chhau Nritya Party - Ashoke Kumar Mahato (Purulia, West Bengal 12 7. Matkuma Shiva Durga Chhau Academy - Bhagwan Das Kumar (Purulia) 8. Milan Sangha Chhau Nirtya Party -Shraban Chandra Mahato 9. Narayani Chhau Nritya Sanga, Bishnu Mahato ( Purulia ) 10. Nimdiha T S Chhau Nritya Party, Haradhan Mudi 11. Royal Chhau Academy (West Bengal) 12. Satyananda Chhau Nritya Sansthan - Shri Dinabandhu Kumar (West Bengal) 13. Shiva Shakti Chhau Nritya Party - Shri Pravash Mahato (Purulia) 14. Shivshakti Chhou Dance Academy - Shri Jodharam Kumar (Purulia) 15. Sitalpur Ganesh Chhau Dance Party - Shri Chinibas Mahto (West Bengal) 16. Tilabani Paharia Ganesh Chhou Nritya Party – Shri Kandan Chandra Mahato

MAYUR BHANJ CHHAU MAYUR BHANJ CHHAU ESTABLISHED 1. Bhargava Manisha (NCR) 2. Santosh Nair (NCR)

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

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

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

KATHAK ESTABLISHED 1. Azim Neelima 2. Aditi Mukund Bhagwat (Bandra) 3. Batra Neera 4. Bassi Renu 5. Bhate Shama Samat (Pune) 6. Bhattacharya Uma (Singapore) 7. Bhatt Mangala (NCR) 8. Chakravarty Kalyani 14 9. Chanda Keya (West Bengal) 10. Chattarjee Santosh Kumar (Kolkata) 11. Chinoy Richa (Ahmedabad) 12. Desai Shubha & Darshini 13. Diwakar Gauri (NCR) 14. Dogra Uma (Mumbai) 15. Dutta Parawati (NCR) 16. Gangani Harish (NCR) 17. Gangani Parveen 18. Gautam Bireshawar “Biru” (Mumbai) 19. Ghosh Nayanika (Kolkata) 20. Ghosh Sushmita (NCR) 21. Guha Alokparna (Kolkata) 22. Jafa Navina (NCR) 23. Joglekar Archana Anant (Mumbai) 24. Kumari Gauri (NCR) 25. Lal Abhimanyu 26. Lal Vidha 27. Luna Poddar (Kolkata) 28. Maharaj Deepak 29. Maharaj Jai Kishan 30. Manjari Chaturvedi (Lucknow) 31. Mala Sharma (Delhi) 32. Mehta Shila 33. Mishra Anuj 34. Mishra Abhay Shankar 35. Mishra Kajal 36. Mishra () 37. Mishra 38. Mukherjee Brojen 39. Mukherjee Jayanti (Kolkata) 40. Mukherjee Sharmistha 41. Nalini & Kamalini (NCR) 42. Nandita Puri (Bandra) 43. Naresh Shukla Purva (Lucknow) 44. Nayak Monisha (NCR) 45. Nayak Moumala (NCR) 46. Rajendra T.D. & Rajendra Nirupama 47. Rawat Harish 48. Roy Molly (Kolkata) 49. Sarkar Malabika 50. Sharma Urmila ( 51. Shah Salomi (Ahmedabad) 52. Shah Prachee Sudhir (Mumbai) 53. Shah Prashant (Ahmedabad) 54. Shah Radhikha (NCR) 55. Srivastava Akansha (Lucknow) 56. Tripathi Gauri Sharma (London) 57. Tanni Choudhary (Kolkota) 58. Vajpeyi Alpana Shukla (Bhopal) 15 KATHAK PROFICIENT 1. Acharya Jayshree (NCR) 2. Anand Madhukar (Patna) 3. Anindita Acharjee ( Delhi) 4. Archana Tiwari (Lucknow) 5. Arpita Bhowmik (Kolkata) 6. Arpita Banerjee (Bangalore) 7. Ashavari Majumdar () 8. Banerjee Susmita (Kolkata) 9. Bhattacharya Debashree (Kolkata) 10. Bhattasali Aditi (NCR) 11. Bhatt Raghav Raj (NCR) 12. Chakraborty Souvik (Kolkata) 13. Chandra Pali 14. Chattopadhyay Nibedita 15. Chaudhary Vijayshree (NCR) 16. Chauhan Kiran (NCR) 17. Jyotishi Beohar (Chatishgarh) 18. Dabral Mansi (NCR) 19. Dasgupta Alaknanda (NCR) 20. Debasmita Mukherjee (Hooghly) 21. Dipanwita Singha Roy (Kolkata) 22. De Pallabi (West Bengal) 23. Deshpande Prerana (Pune) 24. Eshwarputhi Jayanthi M.(Bangaluru) 25. Eunjung Kim (NCR) 26. Freddy Daniel (NCR) 27. Gandhi Yogini (Pune) 28. Gangani Jagdish Sunder Lal (Vadodara) 29. Ghosh Emelee (Hooghly) 30. Ghosh Jhuma (Kolkata) 31. Godbole Astha (Indore) 32. Gosain Poonam (NCR) 33. Gupta Bharati (NCR) 34. Gupta Nilanjana Sen (Kolkata) 35. Gupta Sonia (NCR) 36. Gupta Pooja (Lucknow) 37. Isabelle Anna Filipuzzi (French) (NCR) 38. Ivanova Natalia (NCR) 39. Iyengar Vikram (Kolkata) 40. Jayanti Mala (Mumbai) 41. Jha Anjana (NCR) 42. Jyoti Manral (NCR) 43. Kalita Hemant Kumar & Moumala Nayak (NCR) 44. Kanjilal Mohananda (Kolkata) 45. Kankana Bhattacharya ( Kolkata ) 46. Karmahe Swapnil (Chhatisgarh) 47. Karvlkar Manjiri Makarand (Maharashtra)16 48. Kaul Vandana (NCR) 49. Kavita Thakur (NCR) 50. Khare Ruchi (Lucknow) 51. Khare Shikha 52. Lahiri Anuradha (Kolkata) 53. Leena Malakar (Faridabad) 54. Madhurima Goswami (Kolkata) 55. Maharaj Mamta (NCR) 56. Maitra Parmita (Kolkata) 57. Mallick Sandip (West Bengal) 58. Manisha Mishra (Lucknow) 59. Maradan Kanchan (NCR) 60. Marami Medhi (Guwahati) 61. Manojaay Dbral (NCR) 62. Manisha Gulyani () 63. Maulik Sudeshna (NCR) 64. Meghranjani Medhi ( ) 65. Misra Mukta (NCR) 66. Mishra Shweta (Lucknow) 67. Mitul Sengupta (Kolkata) 68. Mulla Afsar Jafar (NCR) 69. Nadgauda Rekha Satish (Nasik) 70. Nagar Vidhi (Lucknow) 71. Nagpal Rajee B (NCR) 72. Namrata Pamnani (NCR) 73. Nishant Gupta (NCR) 74. Nooper Performing Art Center - Shri Haranath Dande, Hari & Chethana (Bangaluru) Duet 75. Parihar Devanand (NCR) 76. Pasha Syed Sallauddin (Bangaluru) 77. Pawar (NCR) 78. Poulomi Basu (Kolkata) 79. Pranaame Bhagawati & Jayanta Bhagawati (Hisar) Duet 80. Petrova Eleonora (foreign national) (NCR) 81. Phatak Madhura Sharadchandra (NCR) 82. Preeti Prakash Sathe (Vadodra) 83. Punita Sharma (NCR) 84. Quincy Kendell Charles ( Delhi) 85. Rahalkar Asavari Anand (Pune) 86. Rahul Pawar (NCR) 87. Radhika Prasad Phanse (Mumbai) 88. Rajashree Siddharth Shirke (Mumbai) 89. Rekha Moni Mahanta (Guwahati) 90. Richa Jain (NCR) 91. Ritusri Chaudhuri (Kolkata) 92. Ritwika Some Choudhary (Kolkata) 93. Ramakant Ina Shah (Vadodara) 94. Roy Purnima (NCR) 95. Rukmini Jaiswal (Lucknow) 17 96. Rujuta Soman ( Pune ) 97. Rupa Rani Das Borah ( Guwahati ) 98. Sarkar Ranjana (NCR) 99. Sandip Bose (Jamshedpur) 100. Chatterjee (NCR) 101. Sanjukta Sinha (Lucknow) 102. Shailja Nalwade (NCR) 103. Shalini Sharma ( Faridabad) 104. Shankar Mahua (NCR) 105. Sharmila Sharma (NCR) 106. Sen Soma (Kolkata) 107. Sharma Sonali (NCR) 108. Sharma Pratishtha (Saharanpur) 109. Sharma Samiksha (Gawalior) 110. Sharma Vaishali (NCR) 111. Shivani Salhotra (NCR) 112. Singh Parul (NCR) 113. Sinha Nandini (Kolkata) 114. Sinha Swati (NCR) 115. Smriti Raj (Pune) 116. Sohini Debnath (Kolkata) 117. Sourav Roy (Kolkata) 118. Smitha Srinivasan (Bangaluru) 119. Srivastava Pooja (NCR) 120. Surabhi Singh (Lucknow) 121. Sujata Pakrashi (Kolkata) 122. Sucharita Datta (Kolkata) 123. Susmita Chatterjee (Kolkata) 124. Swati Wangnoo Tiwari (NCR) 125. Tanvi Anil Palav ( Mumbai) 126. Tatiana Nazarova (Russian) (NCR) 127. Thakur Anuradha Suman (NCR) 128. Uppal Rashmi (NCR) 129. Upreti Divya & Diksha (Duet) (NCR) 130. Vaze Shambhavi (Pune) 131. Verma Anurag (NCR) 132. Wadke Apoorva (NCR) 133. Walia Rupali (Bhopal)

KATHAK GROUPS 1. Aamad Kathak Dance Group - Rani Khanam ( Delhi) 2. ANART - Ms.Ishira Parikh Maulik Shah (Ahmedabad) 3. Ashim Bandhu Ballet Troupe - Ashim Bandhu18 Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) 4. Bhartiya Sangeet Sadan - Smt. (NCR) 5. Parampara -Pt. Jai (NCR) 6. Devi Durga - Smt. Geetanjali Lal (NCR) 7. Dhawani - Smt. Vaswati Mishra (NCR) 8. Drishtikon Dance Foundation - Smt. Aditi Mangaldas (NCR) 9. Dance Academy - Ms. Madhumita Roy (Kolkata) 10. Kadamb - (Ahmedabad) 11. Kalashrram - Birju Maharaj (NCR) 12. Kathak Kendra (NCR) 13. Munna Lal Shukla & Group - Shri Munna Lal Shukla (NCR) 14. Naad Roop - Mrs. Shama Bhate (Maharashtra) 15. Nadam, Nandini K Mehta ( Bangalore ) 16. Nritya Bharati- (Pune) 17. Nrityabharati’s Mahaswee Group - Sharvari Ashok Jamenis (Pune) 18. Padatik Group (Kolkata) 19. Rekha Mehra & Group (NCR)-Ms. Rekha Mehra 20. Samved Society – Mrs. (Mumbai) 21. Trirang (Kolkata)

KATHAK LECTURE DEMONSTRATION

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

19 KATHAKALI KATHAKALI OUTSTANDING 1. (SNA Awardee) 2. Raman Kutti Nair 3. Sadanam P.V. Balakrishnan (Chennai) (SNA Awardee) 4. C.M. Balasubramanian (Palaghat, Kerala)

KATHAKALI ESTABLISHED 1. M. Krishan Kumar (Thrissur) 2. Madhava Kurup Rajasekharan (Thrissur) 3. S Rajendran Pillai ( NCR )

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

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

KATHAKALI GROUPS ESTABLISHED 1. Kolari Kalan Padmanabhan & Group

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

KATHAKALI INSTITUTIONS 1. Gandhi Seva Sadan

21 KRISHNANATTAM 1. Krishnanattam Group of Temple

22 KUCHIPUDI KUCHIPUDI OUTSTANDING 1. (Hyderabad) 2. Kashi Vyjayanthi (Bangaluru) 3. Kaushalya Sumati (Bangaluru) 4. Krishna Kala (Hyderabad) 5. Krishnamurthy Yamini (Delhi) 6. Naidu Shobha (Hyderabad) 7. Punjala Alekhya Nivedita (Hyderabad) 8. Reddy Raja & Radha (Delhi) 9. Rao Jayrama and Vanashree (Delhi) 10. Sarma Vedantam Satyanarayana (Kuchipudi Village) 11. Sundari Swapna (Delhi)

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

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

24 KUCHIPUDI GROUPS 1. Deepanjali - Deepika Reddy (Hyderabad) 2. Gaddam Padmaja Reddy (Hyderabad) 3. Kuchipudi Dance Academy - Guru 4. Kuchipudi Dance Academy - Guru Jayarama Rao 5. Korada Narasimha Rao Group 6. Ram Krishna`s Troupe 7. Siddendra Kala Peetam-Kanchanapally Ratnasree (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

25 KUDIYATTAM KUDIYATTAM OUTSTANDING 1. Chakklyar Ammanur Madhewa 2. Devi P.S.Sathi Alias Margi Sathi (Thiruvananthapuram) 3. Kalamandalam Kerala (Kerala) 4. Margi (Kerala) 5. Kalamandalam Sivan (Kerala)

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

26 MANIPURI MANIPURI OUTSTANDING

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

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

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

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

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

MOHINIATTAM ESTABLISHED 1. Ayswaria Wariar () 2. Chatterjee Mom 3. Gopika Verma (Chennai) 4. Jayaprabha Menon 5. Krishnan Pallavi (Trichur) 6. Nair Sunanda Anand (Mumbai) 7. Natankairali 8. Prasad Neena (Kerala) 9. Radhakrishna Geeta 10. Sujatha Ramachandran (Chennai) 11. Trivedi Mandakini 12. Vijayalakshmi (NCR)

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

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

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

ODISSI ESTABLISHED 1. Arushi Mudgal (NCR) 2. Acharya Rahul (Bhubaneshwar) 3. Aparna Fating (Kolkata) 4. Bhutani Shagun (NCR) 5. Chintak Rajashree Behera (Delhi) 6. Das Meera (Gunjan Dance Academy) (Kolkata) Solo 7. Dipti Routray (Orissa) 8. Giri Bharat Charan (Bhubaneshwar) 9. Ghosal Nandini (Kolkata) 10. Janabi Behera ( Orissa ) 11. Jena Ramesh Chandra (Bhubaneshwar) 12. Jena Pratibha (Delhi) 13. Juneja Bindu (Bhopal) 14. Kaustavi Sarkar (Kolkata) 15. Lowen Sharon (Foreign National) (NCR) 16. Mohanty Leena (Bhubaneshwar) 17. Manoranjan Pradhan & Minati Pradhan () 18. Mishra Sujata 31 19. Mohanty Madhusmita (Bhubaneshwar) 20. Mohapatra Rati Kanta (Bhubaneshwar) 21. Mukerjee Sharmila (Paul) (USA) 22. Paniker Ambika (NCR) 23. Paranjape Jhelum Avinash (Mumbai) 24. Ramachandran Anandi (Mumbai) 25. Ray Priyambada (Bangaluru) 26. Rekha Tandon (UK) 27. Hota Reela (Delhi) 28. Samantray Sneha Prava (Bhubaneshwar) 29. Sonali Mohapatra (Orissa) 30. Srivastava Jyoti (NCR) 31. Swati Sharma & ( Delhi) Duet

ODISSI PROFICIENT 1. Aadya Kaktikar (NCR) 2. Abhijit Deb (Agartala) 3. Aditi Anil Mirvankar ( Mumbai ) 4. Amrita Pattasani (Bhubaneshwar) 5. Anjana Moyee Saikia (Guwahati) 6. Anu Narayan (Mumbai) 7. Arvind Smruti (Bhubaneshwar) 8. Ayona Bhaduri (Kolkata) 9. Babu Anita (Delhi) 10. Banerjee Nupur (NCR) 11. Banerjee Paushali 12. Basu Nandita (NCR) 13. Behera Sarbeswar (Bhubaneshwar) (Vision ) 14. Bhattacharya Rajib (Kolkata) 15. Bhattacharya Sumelika (NCR) 16. Biswas Gopa (Bhubaneshwar) 17. Bose Kakali (Kolkata) 18. Chandana Raul (NCR) 19. Chatterjee Ananya (Kolkata) 20. Chatterji Jayati (NCR) 21. Dandavate Rohini 22. Das Enakshi (Kolkata) 23. Dash Lipsa (Orissa) 24. Diya Sen ( Delhi) 25. De Piyali (NCR) 26. Debarati Goswami (Kolkata) 27. Debamitra Sengupta (Kolkata) 28. Dutta Parwati (NCR) 29. Ghoshal Ashok Kr. (Bhubaneshwar) 30. Ghosh Monalisa (Kolkata) 31. Ghosh Moumita (NCR) 32. Goswami Ratna (Roy) (Kolkata) 33. Gupta Sanjari (NCR) 34. Gupta Usha (NCR) 32 35. Hejmadi Ahalya 36. Itishree Devi (Bhubaneshwar) 37. Jena Itishree (NCR) 38. Jena Rashmi Ranjan (NCR) 39. Khurana Raninder (Mumbai) 40. Kunjalata Mishra (U.P.) 41. Leesa Mohanty (Mumbai) 42. Mahapatra Mamata (NCR) 43. Manoranjan Nayak (Orissa) 44. Masako Ono (Japanese) (NCR) 45. Maya Bhattacharya Kundu (Kolkata) 46. Meena Kumari Sahoo (Cuttack) 47. Mitali D’Souza (Mumbai) 48. Misra Sujata 49. Mitra Barnali 50. Mitra Sharbani (Cuttack) 51. Mohapatra Nibedita (NCR) 52. Mou Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 53. Mubayi Yamminey (NCR) 54. Nayak Alpana (Ghaziabad) 55. Panda Sasmita (Cuttack) 56. Paramguru Kakali (Bhubaneshwar) 57. Paride Sheilalipi (after marriage) Mohini Shilalipi (Orissa ) 58. Paromita Mahapatra ( West Bengal) 59. Pattanaik Kasturi (Bhubaneshwar) 60. Paul Anuradha (NCR) 61. Prachi Shubhang Mehta (Mumbai) 62. Pompi Paul (Kolkatta) 63. Puspita Kumari Mishra ( Orissa ) 64. Rajamani Parvati (NCR) 65. Radhika Jha (New Delhi) 66. Radhika Samson ( Delhi) 67. Raseswari Mohanti (Orissa) 68. Rajnita Banerjee (Kolkata) 69. Rajesh Shubhada 70. Raut Madhumita (NCR) 71. Ray Bani (NCR) 72. Roy Arundhati 73. Sagnya Sucharita (Orissa) 74. Swayampragnya Sahoo ( Orissa) 75. Sanchita Rawat (New Delhi) 76. Sarbani Nandy (Agartala) 77. Shankar Chitra (Jagadeesan) 78. Shatabdi Mallik (Kolkata) 79. Shivani Wazir Pasrich (NCR) 80. Sen Sharbari 81. Singh Utkalika Pahad (Cuttack) 82. Sinha Swapna Rani (Orissa) 83. Sri Pravata Kumar Swain ( Orissa ) 33 84. Sudha Mallik (Ghaziabad) 85. Supriya Nayak (New Delhi) 86. Suresh Kumar Khuntia ( Orissa) 87. Swain Swapna Sarita (Bhubaneshwar) 88. Uday Kumar Shetty & Soumya Uday Kumar (Bangaluru) 89. Utapala Bibhusita Sahoo (Orrisa) 90. Vani Madhav (Gurgaon) 91. Vyshnavie (Secunderabad) 92. Yadav Malvika (NCR)

ODISSI GROUPS 1. Abartta Group (Bhuvaneswar) - Shri Naba Kishore Mishra 2. Bhanja Kala Kendra (Rourkela) - Shri Bibekananda Parida 3. Dona Ganguly and Group - Ms. Dona Ganguly (Kolkata) 4. Gunjan Das Academy - Meera Das (Cuttack) 5. Guru Durgacharan Ranbir`s Group 6. Guru Pitambar Biswal’s Group (Bhubaneshwar) 7. Kalajyoti Group (Kolkata) - Monalisa Ghosh 8. Kaishiki Dance Academy - Ms Daksha Mashruwala ( Mumbai) 9. Madhya Kolkata Sanskritik Moncha (Kolkata) 10. ’s Group (NCR) - Madhavi Mudgal 11. Orissa Dance Academy 12. Odissi Research Centre Kum Kum Mohanty 13. Odissi Vision of Movement Centre - Ms Sharmila Biswas (Kolkata) 14. Pallavi Odissi Nritya Sangeet Vidhyalaya - Kiran Sehgal NCR) 15. & Group - Smt. Ranjana Gauhar (NCR) 16. Rudrakshya Group (Bhubaneshwar) - Mr. Bichitrananda Swain 17. Samooha Pratidhwani - Smt. Ipsita Behrooa (Bhubaneshwar) 18. Sankalp Group- Kasturi Pattanaik (NCR) 19. Shinjan Nrityalaya Group (Kolkata) - Ms. Alok Prava Kanungo 20. Soor Mandir Dance Academy - Ms Jyotsna Rani Sahoo (Orissa) 21. Sutapa Talukdar (Kolkata) - Gurukul Creatives Group 22. The Odissi Dance Ensemble of Bangaluru - Protima Gouri Bedi 23. Vashali Kala Kendra - Ms Jyoti Shrivastava (Noida, U.P.) 34 ODISSI LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. Behera Shankar Chhanchan (Mumbai) 2. Gauhar Ranjana (NCR) Outstanding 3. Lal Kum Kum 4. Misra Minoti 5. Mohanty Priyamvada 6. Mudgal Madhavi 7. Pannikar Aloka - also for teaching workshop etc.

35 SATTRIYA (ASSAM) SATTRIYA OUTSTANDING 1. Indira P P Bora 2. Sharodi Saikia (Guwahati)

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

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

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

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

YAKSHAGANA PROFICIENT 1. Sanjeeva Suvarna (Karnataka) 2. Yaksha Manjusha - Vidya Kolyur ()

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

37 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. & 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. 61 – 62 23. RAJASTHAN 63 – 66 24. SIKKIM 67 25. TAMILNADU 68 26. TRIPURA 69 27. 70 28. UTTRAKHAND 71 29. WEST BENGAL 72 30. & BENGALI 73 – 74 31. BHOJPURI 75 32. BRIJ 76 33. MALVI 77 34. MAGICIANS 78 38 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 (Andhra Pradesh) 2. Kalanjali Academy - Shri D. Keshavanath Tribal Folk 3. Kondeti Ravi Kumar Group - Shri Kondeti Ravi Kumar (Perini Sivatandavam) (Andhra Pradesh) 4. V. Mutyalarao Janapada Kalabrundam - Shri. Veeranala Mutyalarao (Folk Dance) 5. Chalapathi Rao P V (Folk Singer) (Hyderabad)

ANDHRA PRADESH FOLK MUSIC 1. Vaddepalli Sriniwas

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

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

ASSAMESE FOLK MUSIC

1. Ms. Pahari Das 2. Bina Das Borthakur - (Guwahati) Folk Song 3. Jyoti Rekha Bhattacharya ( Guwahati ) Solo 4. Ramdhenu - Jina Rajkumari (Group) 41 BIHAR

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GUJRATI FOLK MUSIC

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

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

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

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

49 JAMMU & KASHMIR

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

JAMMU & KASHMIR FOLK MUSIC

1. Abdul Hamid Bhat

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

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

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

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

53 KERALA FOLK MUSIC 1. Shri M S Ananthakrishnan -

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

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

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

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

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

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

MIZORAM FOLK MUSIC 1. Shri H Vanlalhlana - Folk Music

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

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

60 ORISSA FOLK MUSIC 1. Ramahari Das

PUNJAB 1. Asian Punjabi Folk Dance Club - Ashwani Kumar () Ludhiana 2. Bhola Panchhi Bhangra Group - Parvinder Singh Folk Dances (Ganganagar Rajasthan) 3. CGH Police Cultural Club - Atamjeet Singh, Folk Dances ( ) 4. Gagandeep Singh & Group - Gagandeep Singh Bhangra () 5. H S Bajwa & Group - H.S. Bajwa, Bhangra( Ludhiana) 6. International Cultural Group - Daljit Singh Bhangra & ( Sangrur) 7. Jugni Cultural and - Davinder Singh, Punjabi Folk Dance & Music (Mohali) 8. Nachda Punjab Youth Club - Kulwant Singh, (Ludhiana) 9. Kanwarpreet Singh Bhangra Party, Bhangra ( Delhi) 10. Kalehri Art & Culture Academy - Tarsem Chand Kalehri (Folk Dances) Mansa 11. Kuljeet Singh & Party- Group - Kuljeet Singh, Punjabi Folk Dance & Music () 12. Ludhiana Folk Dance & Folk Music - Randhawa (Bhangra) (Ludhiana) 13. Nachda Punjab Cultural Mirror - Ms. Shelly Sharma, Bhangra & Giddha (Ludhiana) 14. Naksh Virsa Punjab Da Bhangra Group - Sandeep Sharma (Bhangra & Giddha) (New Delhi) 15. Preeti & Party – Preeti ( Delhi) 16. Punjabi Cultural Society - Ravinder Kaur, Folk Dances ( Delhi ) 17. Punjab Cultural Society Regd.- Ravinder Singh Ranguwal (Folk Dances) Ludhiana 18. Punjabi Lok Kala Academy - Major Singh, Bhangra & Giddha (Sangrur) 19. Punjabi Shabayachar Kender - Rajinder Tonk , Folk Dance ( Delhi) 20. Punjabi Lok Rang Cultural Club-Group - Sandeep Kr. Kheeva (Bhangra & Giddha) Ludhiana 21. Punjab Police Cultural Troupe - K.L. Likhi, Bhangra () 22. Punjabi Academy Delhi - Folk Dance Music (As 61 Institution) ( Delhi) 23. Punjabi Cultural Youth Club - Kundan Kumar 24. Rangla Punjab - Shri Ajay Kumar, Bhangra ( Ludhiana) 25. Rangla Punjab Cultural Youth Club - Tehal Singh Kheeva (Folk Dance & Music) Ludhiana 26. Rising Star Disable Youth Club - Harinder Pal Singh 27. Surjeet Singh & Party - Surjeet Singh ( Delhi) 28. Shaheed Babadeep Singh, Gattaka Team (Mohali) 29. Sukhvinder Singh & Party - Folk Dance( Delhi) 30. The Folk Promoters - Shri Ashwani K Tony, Bhangra 31. Viraast Entertainer International - Gurminder Paul Singh Ahluwalia (Bhangra& Giddha) 32. Virasat Kala Kendra Patiala - Pritpal Singh Bhangra & Giddha ( Patiala)

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

62 RAJASTHAN

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

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

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

35. Mohini Roopnath Kalbeliya - Mohini Roopnath Folk Dances(Jodhpur) 36. Motaram Sundesha & Party - Motaram Sundesha 37. Moru Sapera and Party - Ms Moru Sapera, Kalbilya Dance, Banjara Dance, Bhawi Dance, Chari Dance, Ghumar Dance 38. Nek Langa & Party - Nek Mohammad Folk Dances (Jodhpur) 39. Prakash Kala Prashikashan Sansthan - Puran Nath Kalbelia 40. Prem Kumar And Party - Prem Kumar Gahlot Folk Dances(Barmer) 41. Rajki Puran Nath Sapera & Party Sapera 42. Raj Folk & Classical Group - Rajkumari Panwar Folk Rajasthan Music & Dance 43. Rajasthan Strings - Khete Khan Folk Rajasthan Music & Dance 44. Rajasthani Dance Group - Bhikhe Khan Langa 45. Rakhi Sapera and Party -Rakhi Sapera, Folk Dances(Jaipur) 46. Roop Das Kamad Terahtali Folk, Roop Das Kamad 47. Rhythm of Rajasthan - Nitin Nath Harsh For Folk Dance Only (Jodhpur) 48. R K Cultural Rajasthani Folk Dance - Mukesh Bhat (Puppet & Acrobat) 49. Sadiq Khan Langa & Party - Sadiq Khan Langa Folk Rajasthan Music & Dance 50. Sadiq Khan Langa Party - Sadiq Khan Langa 51. Safi Mohd. Langa & Party, Folk Rajasthan Music & Dance 52. Salim Khan Langa Group - Shri Salim Khan Langa Folk Dances (Jodhpur) 53. Salim Khan Nagarchi & Party - Salim Khan Nagarchi 54. Sampravaahi Foundation Lok Rang Parishad - Samandar Manganiar(Folk Dances) (Jaipur) 55. Samunder Khan Langa & Party - Samunder Khan Langa (Folk Music) 56. Sargam Sangeet Sansthan - Hanuman Sahay Sharma 57. Senu Sapera Group of Rajasthan – Supki 58. Shamla Kalbelia Group - Ms. Shamla Kalbelia, 64 Sapera 59. Sikanderwaldatta Langa Party, Langa Group 60. Sikander Langa Group - Sikander Langa 61. Suraj Lal And Party - Suraj Lal, Folk Dance (Bara) 62. Suramnath Kalbeliya Group - Suramnath Kalbeliya 63. Swaroop Khan & Party - Swaroop Khan 64. Taj Mohammad Langa Group - Taj Mohammad Langa 65. Talab Khan Party Payala Group - Talab Khan For Instrumental Music only 66. Teratal Party - Nirmla Devi, Folk Dance (Dist. Pali) 67. Umrao Khan Langa, Folk Dances 68. Vinod Nath Sapera & Party - Vinod Nath Sapera Folk Dance (Jaipur) 69. Babu Jee Ki Phar -Harji Lal Bhopa, Folk Dances

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

RAJASTHANI FOLK MUSIC 1. Afroz Begum 2. Gazi Khan 3. Bunda Khan 4. Gannam Khan 5. Jaipu Khan 6. Mutan Khan 7. Mehardin Langa 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 15. Babu Khan - Folk Dance 16. Eask Khan - Algoze, Murali Morchanj 17. Hanif Khan Langa Party – Kalbelia 18. Jaipu Khan Langa Group - Folk Dance & Songs 19. Jawar Nath - Folk Dance 20. Kalukha Bawara and Party - Folk Music 21. Mangniar Gafoor Khan 22. Radha Sapera & Party - Dance & Music 23. Yar Mohd. Langa & Group – Teratali

65 RAJASTHANI FOLK MUSIC GROUP

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

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

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

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

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

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

UTTAR PRADESH FOLK MUSIC

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

70 UTTRAKHAND FOLK MUSIC

1. Basanti Bisth

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

WEST BENGAL FOLK MUSIC

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

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

72 BAUL & BENGALI FOLK MUSIC OUTSTANDING 1. Baul Purandas – Baul 2. Swapan Mukherjee (Folk Music) Kolkata

ESTABLISHED 1. Baul Sadanand – Baul 2. Brahmachari Prahlad 3. Paul Amar 4. Paban Das Baul – Baul 5. Sambiti Poddar - Baul Palligeeti

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

73 BAUL GROUP

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

74 FOLK MUSIC BHOJPURI OUTSTANDING 1. Deepmala Mohan (NCR) 2. 3. Shailesh Srivastava ( Mumbai)

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

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

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

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

BRIJ 1. Dayal Ram

76 MALVI FOLK MUSIC 1. Prahalad Singh Tipanyaa & Party

77 MAGICIANS

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

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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

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

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

81 BIHAR 1. Sanjay Upadhyay - Nirman Kala Munch

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

83 DELHI (NCR) 1. - Theatre & TV 2. Anamika Haksar - Nirakar 3. Anuradha Kapur – Vivadi 4. Arvind Gaud 5. Asghar Wajahat 6. Ashok Yatin - Zoom in Presentation, Ramayana (Ram Lila) Theatre Group 7. Avijit Dutt 8. Averee Chaurey ( Actress ) 9. Barry John – Tag 10. Bharati Sharma 11. Bhumikeshwar Singh - Pratibha Sanskritik Sansthan 12. C.D.Siddhu 13. Divya Arora (Physically Challenged), Director/Actress/Playwright (NCR) 14. D.R.Ankur – Sambhav 15. E.Alkazi 16. G. P.Deshpande 17. H.S.Shivaprakash 18. Indian Peoples Theatre Association - Aziz Quraishi ( Delhi) 19. J.P.Das 20. Taneja 21. 22. Kavita Nagpal 23. Kirti Jain – Aaranjan 24. Lushin Dubey - Theatre World 25. Maya Krishna Rao 26. M.K.Raina – Prayog 27. M.L.Waradpande 28. Molashri Hashmi - Janam Manch 29. M. Sayeed Alam - Pierrot’s Troupe 30. N.K.Sharma - Act One 31. Nibha Joshi 32. Panna Bharat Ram - Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts 33. R.K.Dhingra 34. Rajinder Nath – Abhiyan 35. Robin Das 36. Pt. Ram Dayal Sharma - Brij Lok Madhuri Nautanki 37. Bajaj 38. Rameshwar Prem 39. Rati Batholomew 84 40. Reoti Sharan Sharma - Delhi Natya Sangh 41. Roysten Abel 42. Romesh Chander 43. Satish Anand - Kala Sangam 44. Rang Saptak - Surinder Kumar Sharma Director (Delhi) 45. Sohaila Kapur Charnalia – Director (Delhi) 46. Syed Sallauddin Pasha – Theatre 47. Tripurari Sharma 48. Torit Mitra – Sansaptak (NCR) 49.

85 GOA 1. Vasant Josalkar - Kala Academy

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

87 HARYANA 1. Ashok Sagar Bhagat 2. Kamal Tiwari

88 HIMACHAL PRADESH 1. Suresh Sharma (Mandi)

89 JAMMU AND KASHMIR 1. – Natrang 2. M.L.Kemmu 3. Mipham Otsal - Ladakh Theatre Organisation, (Ladakh) 4. Mushtaq Kak

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

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

92 MADHYA PRADESH 1. Alakhnandan – Natbundele 2. – Rangavidushak

MAHARASHTRA 93 1. 2. Atul Kumar – Theatre 3. A. Rajan 4. Stage Two Theatre Society - Avaan Patel, Director (Mumbai) 5. Bhakti Barve-Inamdar 6. Chander Nath Kulkarni 7. – Ank 8. Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni 9. Dr. - Maharashtra Cultural Centre (Pune) 10. - Theatre Academy 11. Kamalakar Sontakke 12. Kanchan Sontakke - Children Theatre 13. K.K. Raina, Ila Arun – Surnai, Director/Actor/Writer/ Co - Director/Actress /Playwright 14. Lillette Dubey - Prime Time 15. M.S.Sathyu 16. 17. Mohan Agashe - Theatre Academy 18. Markand Sathe 19. Nadira Zaheer Babbar – Ekjut 20. – Motley 21. No License Yet - Shivani Tibrewala, Playwright/Director(Mumbai) 22. Rage Production - Rajit Kapur, Theatre Group (Mumbai) 23. Rajiv Naik 24. Ranjit Kapoor 25. Ratnakar Matkari - Tamasha Kala Kalwant Mandir New Hanuman Theatre 26. Pratibha Matkari - Tamasha Kala Kalawant Mandir 27. Salim Ghouse – Solo Actor 28. - Parveen Josi Theatre 29. - Theatre Academy 30. Satya Dev Dube - Theatre Unit 31. Shama Zaidi 32. Shanta Gokhale 33. Sanjana Kapoor - Prithvi Theatre 34. Sudha Karmakar – Sutradhar (Children’s Theatre) 35. Sulbha Deshpande – Aavishkar (Children’s Theatre) 36. Sunila Pradhan - Theatre Unit 37. Surendra Verma 38. Uttara Baokar 39. Vijay Mehta 40. Rao

MANIPUR 1. Arambam Lokendra - Forum for Laboratory Theatre 2. H.Thomba – Kalakshetra 3. Kanhailal Singh – Kalakshetram 94 4. L.Damodar Singh 5. Lourembam Kishworjit - Paradise Theatre (Imphal) 6. Ningthouja Deepak - NT Theatre (Manipur) (Imphal) 7. Rattan Thiyam - Chorus Repertory Theatre 8. S.Savithri Kanhailal – Kalakshetra 9. Sougrakpam Hemanth Singh - Sanaleipak Nachom Artists 10. . Sadananda Singh – Mime

ORISSA 1. Anant Mohapatra 2. Manana Satya Sanstha - Manoj Pattanayak 3. Subodh Pattnaik - Natya Chetana Theatre (Bhubaneswar) 95 4. Susanta Kumar Pani – Godmecor

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

96 RAJASTHAN 1. Bhanu Bharati 2. Nand Kishore Acharya 3. Ranbir Singh

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

98 TAMILNADU 1. A.V.Dhanushkoti B - -p-Pattarai 2. Kalairani 3. Komal Swaminathan 4. N.Muthuswamy - Koothu-P-Pattarai 5. S.Ramanujam 99 UTTAR PRADESH 1. 2. Mridula Bhardwaj - Nipa Rangmandli, Classical & Modern Theatre (Lucknow) 3. Mudra Rakshas 4. Mukesh Sharma - Brijwasi Rangmandal, Folk/Traditional Theatre, Nautanki (Mathura) 100 5. - Theatre Arts Workshop 6. Swarg Repertory - Atul Yadvanshi ( U.P) Nautanki 7. Urmil Kumar Thaparliyal 8. Vinod Rastogi

WEST BENGAL 1. 2. - Chetana Theatre Group 3. Ashoke Mukhopadhyay - Theatre Workshop 4. Ashoke Pramanick - Shyambazar Blind Opera 5. - Shatabdi 6. - Anya Theatre 7. Classic Mime Art (Duet) - Shyamal Roy & Dipak Kumar Mustafi (Mime) (Nadia, W.B) 101 8. Deb Kumar Paul – Mime 9. Debasish Majumdar – Shudrak 10. Dharni Ghosh 11. Gautam Halder 12. Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed, Sanjoy Ganguly ( Theatre Group ) 13. Jogesh Dutta - Jogesh Mime Academy 14. Kanishak Sen 15. Kalyani Kalamandalam - Santanu Das 16. Kalindi - 17. Koushik Sen - Swapna Sandhani 18. Khaled Choudhury 19. Kumar Roy – 20. – Sundaram 21. Mohit Chatterjee 22. Niranjan Goswami - Indian Mime Theatre ( Group) 23. Pratibha Agarwal 24. Probir Guha - The Living Theatre Kolkata 25. Pronob Krishna Mitra – Gandhar 26. Rudra Prasad Sengupta – 27. Samik Bandyopadhyay 28. Sanjay Ganguly – Janasanskriti 29. Saoli Mitra 30. – Padatik 31. Sima Mukhopadhyay – Rangroop 32. 33. Sova Sen - People’s Little Theatre 34. Soumitra Mitra - Theatre 35. Thakurnagar Mime Academy of Culture - Chandra Kanta Sirali (Mime) 36. Theatre Unit Kolkata 37. - /Rudali 38. Vikram Iyengar – Ranan (Kolkata) 39. Zarin Choudhury - Deaf Theatre

PUPPETRY 1. Aakar Puppet Group - Shri Puran Bhatt (NCR) 2. Ajit Ayancheri - Puppet Theatre, (Kerala) (P) 3. Anil Bhatt (NCR) (P) 4. Anurupa Roy - Puppet Theatre Contemporary (NCR) 5. Anupama Hoskere - String Puppetry (Karnataka) 6. Babu Lal Bhatt (NCR) 7. Bakhan Creations - Madhu Singh ( Delhi) 8. Sri Ganesha Yakshagana Gombeyata Mandali - Bhaskar Kogga Kamath (Karnataka) (O) 9. Belagallu Veranna, (Karnataka) (E) 102 10. Basanti Rajasthani Folk Art (P) 11. Chitarakari - Dalavai Kullayappa ( Andhra Pradesh) 12. Kolkata Puppet Theatre - Shri 13. Shri Gananathar Bommai Nataga Sabha - Shri A S Manickavsagam 14. Harji Bhatt & Party - Shri Harji Bhatt (Jaipur) 15. Hathi Singh Mohan Lal & Party - Hathi Singh Mohal Lal(NCR) 16. Hyderabad Puppet Theatre (Andhara Pradesh) 17. Kathputli - Shri. Suresh Bhat (Rajasthan) 18. Sri Gopalakrishna Yakshagana Bombeyata Sangha (R) - Kasaragod V Ramesh, (String Puppetry) (Karnataka) 19. Samanwaya Pavanataka Sanghom -T.P Kunhiraman (Kerala) 20. Little Puppet Theatre India (Kolkata) 21. Lok Kala Nidhi - Shri M K Pal 22. Mahipat Kavi (Group), (Ahemdabad) (E) 23. Meher The Troupe - Mansinh Bahecharsing Zala Puppetry Contemporary (Ahmedabad) 24. Mayur Puppet Theatre - Pradeep Nath Tripathi (Lucknow) 25. Mohan Bhatt & Party - Shri Mohan Bhatt Nanu (NCR) 26. Mohan Lal Puppeteer - Shri Mohan Lal 27. Natanakairali, (Kerala) (O) 28. Naurang Lal (NCR) (P) 29. Nori Art & Puppetry Centre - Ms. Ratnamala Nori Modern Gloves Educational (Agartala) 30. Pappu Bhatt & Party (NCR) 31. People’s Puppet Theatre - Hiren Bhattacharaya (Kolkata) 32. Prabal Pramanik - Shadow Puppet (E) (Punjab) 33. Prakash Bhatt Group Anarkali - Prakash Bhatt ( Rajasthan) 34. Puppeteer Babulal Mohan (NCR) 35. Puthali Kalarangaa - Shri Dattatrey Aralikatte Ramrao (Karnataka) 36. Rahales Little Theatre - Smt. Rachael Mac-Bean (Kolkata) 37. Raj Kumar Bhatt & Puppet Party 38. Rangaputhali Puppeteers - Karnataka Traditional Puppets (Bangaluru) 39. Sri Rangaputhali Raghunandan Puppetry - M.G. Raghunandan (Rod Puppet Traditional) ( Bangaluru) 40. Ranjeet Bhaat Puppet - Ranjeet Bhaat - Group (Delhi) 41. Ravan Chhaya Natya Sansad (Orissa) 103 42. Ravindra Kala Bharati - Shri D.Nagendra Prasad Rao 43. Ramdas Padhye (Mumbai) 44. Shailpik Communication Art, (W.B) (E) 45. Santosh Devi (NCR) (P) 46. Shahukaru Srinivasu Puppet Leather(Chennai) (P) 47. Shanukaru Seethalakshmi - Andhra Shadow Puppet (Chennai) 48. Shri Sudip Gupta - Dolls Theatre (Kolkata) 49. Shree Rameswara Soothragombe - Shri H.C.Thammannahar (Mela Karnataka Puppet) (Karnataka) 50. Sri Kali Kambaprasanna - Shri Thimmappacharya Puthali Bom (Karnataka) 51. Tripura Puppet Theatre - Shri Prabhitangsu Das (Tripura) 52. Tolpavakkothu Sangham - K L Krishnan Kutty Pulavar (Kerala) 53. Tolpavakoothu & Puppet Center - Shri. K K Ramachandran Pulavar (Shadow Puppet) (Kerala) 54. Vinod Bhatt & Party (Rajasthan) 55. Yakshagana Sutaadagombe Sangha - Shri Veeranagouda H Jeevanagouda

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1. CLARIONET 104 106 2. DEVOTIONAL 107 3. 108 4. FUSION 109 5. /GUITAR 110 6. GOTTUVADYAM 111 7. HARMONIUM 112 8. 113 9. JALTARANG 114 10. 115 11. MANDOLIN 116 12. 117 13. 118 14. PANCHVADYAM 119 15. PERCUSSION 120 16. SAXOPHONE 121 17. TALAVADIYA & KONAKOL 122 18. TAVIL 123 19. VEENA 124 20. 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)

106 DEVOTIONAL ESTABLISHED 1. Rajagopalan B R (Chennai)

PROFICIENT 1. Govindan E. (NCR) 2. Rao Vedavathi Prabhakar 3. P S S Ravichandran ( Chennai )

DEVOTIONAL LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. T M Nagnath (Chennai)

107 FLUTE OUTSTANDING 1. Gopalakrishnan K S 2. Prapancham Sitaram 3. Ramani N 4. Shashank S (Master) 5. Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar (Chennai) 6. Sikkil Sister: V Kunjamani and Neela

ESTABLISHED 1. Balasai B.V. (Chennai) 2. Bhaskaran K 3. Prakash A V 4. Rajan G S (Sahibabad) 5. Ramanujan K.V (Mylapore) 6. Srinivasan N (Hyderabad) 7. Thiagarajan T R 8. Vijayagopal B. (Tamilnadu)

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

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

109 GHATAM OUTSTANDING 2. Ranganathan S 3. Subhashchandran T A 4. Sukanya Ramgopal (Bangaluru) 5. Vaikom Gopalkrishnan 6. Vinayakram T.H 7. Vasan T V

ESTABLISHED 1. H Sivaramakrishnan (Bangaluru) 2. Krishnamurthy M A 3. Rajagopal R A 4. Ramesh Purushottam (a.k.a. Ramesh Shottam)

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

GUITAR ESTABLISHED 1. Shri Prasanna Ramaswamy

110 GOTTUVADYAM (CHITRAVEENA) OUTSTANDING 1. A Durga Prasad 2. Ravikiran N

ESTABLISHED 1. Avudayarkovil Subramanyam (Gethuvadyam)

111 HARMONIUM PROFICIENT 1. C. Ramadas (Bangaluru)

112 IDAKKA PROFICIENT 1. P Nandakumar (Thrissur)

113 JALTARANG ESTABLISHED 1. Anayampatti Ganeshan S

PROFICIENT 1. Nemani Somayajulu (Hyderabad) 2. Tulankar Milind, Pune

114 KANJIRA OUTSTANDING 1. Selva Ganesh

ESTABLISHED 1. Ramesh Purushottam

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

115 MANDOLIN OUTSTANDING 1. Srinivas U

ESTABLISHED 1. Rajesh U

PROFICIENT 1. Raju U P (Chennai)

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

117 LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. Venkatasubramaniam T K (NCR) Accompaniment

118 NADASWARAM OUTSTANDING 1. Kaleeshabi Mahaboob & Sheikh Mahaboob Subhani (Tamilnadu) 2. Kodandaram M 3. Tiruvila Jaishankar

ESTABLISHED 1. Kasim S (Tamilnadu) 2. Nagaraju C S 3. Nadhaswaram & Party - B.K.Govindasamy (Pondicherry) 4. Sembanarkoil Brothers 5. Seshampati Sivalingam T 6. Sheikh Hassan Saheb 7. Tiruppamabaram Brothers

PROFICIENT 1. Ravi Shankar T.A.P. (Chennai) 2. T K S Swaminathan Brothers 3. Vijay Karthikeyan A, Chidambaram Cudddalore (Tamil Nadu)

119 PANCHVADYAM (GROUP) ESTABLISHED 1. Ballusseri Kotta Pancha Sangham - Kirshnadas Balussery (Kerala)

PROFICIENT 1. Delhi Panchavadya Sangham - Cheruthazham Kunhiraman 2. Kalamandalam Sreekumar & Group - Shri Kalamandalam Sreekumar (NCR) 3. Karayadam Chandramarar – Group (Kerala) 4. Kongadvijayan Devi Sadanam Group (Kerala) 5. Moosad - A V Krishna Moosad (Trivandrum)

120 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 (Mumbai)

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

121 SAXOPHONE OUTSTANDING 1.

PROFICIENT 1. Gopalakrishnan Ramanathan (Chennai) 2. Mangalore K.Ananthram (Mangalore) 3. Mysore Sainatha Lavanya (Karnataka)

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

123 TAVIL OUTSTANDING 1. Denkanikottai Muniratnam 2. Haridwaramangalam Palanivel 3. Thiruvalaputhu Kaliya Murthy 4. Valayapatti Subramaniam A R

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

124 VEENA OUTSTANDING 1. Bhagyalakshmi C (Bangaluru) 2. Gayatri E 3. Jayanthi Kumaresh Ravikiran (Bangaluru) 4. Rajeswari Padmanathan 5. Saraswati Rajagopalan 6. Visweswaran R

ESTABLISHED 1. Chitra Lingam 2. Emani Kalyani Lakshminarayana 3. Muthulakshmi Ranganathan 4. Rajalakshmi Tirunarayanan (Bangaluru) 5. S. Sundar (Chennai) 6. Shanti Rao 7. Suma Sudhindra 8. Venkatraman S 9. Venkatachalam Visalam (NCR)

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

125 VICHITRA VEENA PROFICIENT 1. Vijay V. Inala (Chennai)

126 VIOLIN OUTSTANDING 1. Annavarapu Ramaswamy 2. Chandrasekharan M 3. Dr. M. Narmada (Mylapore) 4. Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao 5. Ganesh R & Kumaresh R (Chennai) 6. Gopalakrishnan M S 7. 8. Kanya Kumari A 9. Krishnan T N 10. Krishnan Viji 11. Lalgudi G J R Krishnan 12. 13. Mysore M Manjunath & Mysore M Nagaraj (Duet) 14. Nagai Muralidharan 15. Peri Sriramamurthy 16. Rukmini T 17. Dr. L Subramaniam 18. Subramaniam V V 19. Vijayalakshmi J. Lalgudi ESTABLISHED 1. Anuradha B 2. Dwaram Satyanarayana Rao 3. Lalgudi Srimathi & Party, Lalgudi Srimathi Chennai ) 4. Lakshminarayana ( Bangalore ) 5. M Subramaniam Sharma 6. Mallikarjun Sarma A 7. M.Lalitha & M.Nandini (Duet) (Chennai) 8. Poosarla (Dwaram Family) 9. Raghavendra & Venkatram H K 10. V V Ravi (Chennai) PROFICIENT 1. Krishnan Siram 2. L Athira Krishna (Chennai) 3. Muthuri S M Murthy (Visakhapatnam) 4. Narayan Radha 5. Parampara V. K. V.S (Group) Chennai 6. Raaga Sudha Rasa-T R Venkataramani (Tiruppur) Jugalbandi 7. Ranjani & Gayatri (Mylapore) 8. Sridhar R. (NCR) 9. Subbarathnam Kanchana V (Karnataka) 10. Thyagarajan T G 11. Usha Rajagopalan (Chennai) 127 CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 1. Sankara Ensemble Instrumental - T H Subash Chandran (Chennai) 2. Madras String Quartet - V S Narasimhan Chennai)

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

ESTABLISHED 1. Alamuri Sudharani 2. Carnatica Brothers - P Ganesh & K N Shashikiran ( Chennai) 3. Charumathi Ramachandran 4. Chidambaram Sirakazhi G Siva 5. Gayatri S 6. Gopalanathan M 7. Geeta Raja 8. Geetha Rajashekar (Chennai) 9. Haripriya & Lalitha 10. Janaki Subramaniam 11. Jayashri S (Mylapore) 129 12. K Omanakutty Amma (Trivandrum) 13. M K Sankaran Namboothiri (Kerala) 14. Malladi Ravi Kumar & Malladi Sreerama Prasad (A.P.) 15. Mani G S 16. Mahajanam C Ramamurthi 17. Meera Nathan 18. Nirmala Sundararajan 19. Dr .N.C.Indira Devi (NCR) 20. Palai Ramachandran C K (Calicut) 21. Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Chennai) 22. Ramakanth Rudrapatnam S (Bangaluru) 23. Rama Ravi (NCR) 24. Ramamani R A 25. S Hariharan Nair (Aluva) 26. Shankar S 27. Sankaran Gayatri (Chennai) 28. Santhanagopalan Neyveli R (Chennai) 29. Sukanya Prabhakar 30. Tulasi Veluri Laxmi (Rajahmundry) 31. Visalam Venkatachalam 32. Venkataraman A 33. Vijayaaraghaavan B S

PROFICIENT 1. Akhila Seshadri (Mumbai) 2. Alamelu K S & Chitra K S 3. Anuradha Suresh Krishnamurthy (Chennai) 4. Ayamkudy Mony (Thiruvananthapuram) 5. Bala Kunnakkudy (Chennai) 6. Balaji Shankar 7. Chandramana Sreekumaran Sajeev (Trivendrum) 8. Devie Neithiyar ( Chennai ) 9. Dr. B. Arundhati (Trivandrum) 10. Durgalakshmi V Bala Kunnakkudy 11. Govindrajan Elangovan (Carnatic) 12. Gayathri Venkatesan ( Chennai) 13. Jayashri Shankar (Trivanderpuram) 14. Kavitha & Triveni Saralaya (Bangaluru) 15. Lahari Kolachela (Visakhapatnam) 16. Lakshmi Rangarajan (Chennai) 17. Nisha Rajagopalan (Chennai) 18. Nagaavalli Nagaraj 19. Maharajpuram Ramachandran 20. Mahalakshmi C. (Tamilnadu) 21. Madras Sisters (Chennai) 22. Manasi Prasad (Bangaluru) 23. Mathangi Sathyamoorthy (Kerala) 24. N J Nandini ( Kerala) 130 25. Natyanand Visalakshmi 26. Pantula Rama (Andhra Pradesh) 27. Prema Hariharan (Chennai) 28. Raghuraman Sudha (NCR) 29. Ranjani & Gayatri (also in Violin) (Aylapore) 30. Rajeswari A 31. Radha Venkatachalam 32. R S Nandkumar (Karnataka) 33. Narendra Menon 34. S R Veeraraghavan (Chennai) 35. Satyavati T S 36. S. Mathangi (Pondicherry) 37. Sisters Matunga (Lakshmi & Kalyani) (Mumbai) 38. Sankaranarayanan V (Chennai) 39. Sakuntla Narsimhan 40. Sivachidambaaram S G 41. Sathyanarayanan S (NCR) 42. Srinivasan Padmaja (NCR) 43. Subhashini Parthasarathy (Chennai) 44. T V Ramprasad (Chennai) 45. T V Manikandan (Delhi) 46. V R Dileepkumar ( Kerala) 47. V Subramaniam (Chennai) 48. Vasundhra Rajagopal (Chennai) 49. Vasumathi Badrinathan (Mumbai) 50. Vidya Harikrishna ( Maharashtra) 51. Vijayalakshmi Muraleedharan ( Kerala)

LECTURE DEMONSTRATION 1. Desikan G N 2. Leela Omcherry 3. Navile Lalitha (Bangaluru) 4. Rajam Iyer B (S) 5. Rajan Ritha (Chennai) 6. Dr.Salem Jayalakshmi S 7. Sreelatha R N (Mysore) 8. Srinivasarghavan A (Chennai)

131 INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS EMPANELMENT SECTION REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR HINDUSTANI MUSIC (VOCAL & INSTRUMENTAL) AS ON 26/09/2012

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1. Clarionet 132 2. DiIruba 133 3. 134 4. 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. 145 15. Rabab 146 16. 147 17. Sarangi 148 18. Sarasvani 149 19. 150 - 151 20. 152 21. Side Rhythem (Manjeera/Ghungroo) 153 22. Sur Bahar 154 23. 155 – 157 24. Sundari Wadan 158 25. Synthsizer 159 26. 160 – 162 27. Vichitra Veena 163 28. Violin 164 29. Hindustani Vocal 165 - 171

132 REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR HINDUSTANI MUSIC (VOCAL & INSTRUMENTAL) AS ON 26/09/2012

HINDUSTANI MUSIC CLARIONET ESTABLISHED 1. Solarpurkar M V Bandopant

PROFICIENT 1. Abdul Salam (Indore) 2. Mobarak Karim 3. Narasimhalu Vadavati

133 DILRUBA PROFICIENT 1. Shubhada Pendharkar (Nagpur)

134 DOTARA PROFICIENT 1. Prasenjit Phangchoo (Guwahati)

135 ESRAJ ESTABLISHED 1. 2. S Kumar Mishra (Lucknow)

136 FLUTE OUTSTANDING 1. Amarnath (Pt.) 2. Hari Prasad Chaurasia 3. Nityanand N Haldipur (Mumbai) 4. 5. Rajendra Prasanna 6. Ronu Majumdar 7. Vijaya Raghava Rao

ESTABLISHED 1. K.L.Ginde (Poona) 2. Krishna Bhandari (Pune) 3. Prashad Varman (NCR) 4. Purohit S N (Jodhpur) 5. Prakash Saxena 6. Pashupati Nath Arya (Bihar) 7. Rajendra Kulkarni 8. Rohit Anand 9. Rupak Kulkarni (Borivilli) 10. Sudip Kumar Chattopadhyay (West Bengal)

PROFICIENT 1. Ainoddin Faqroddin Warsi 2. Babulal Sharma 3. Chetan Kumar Joshi 4. Hari Mohan Srivastava (Bhopal) 5. Kailash Chand Sharma (NCR) 6. Mahavir Prasad 7. Mohini Mohan Patnaik 8. Naresh S Kumta (Mumbai) 9. Niranjan Prasad (Lucknow) 10. Om Prakash (Varanasi) 11. Pradeep Marjani (Baroda) 12. Rajesh Prasanna & Rishab Prasanna (Delhi) 13. Srinibas Satapathy (Orissa ) 14. Sunder Lal Gandharv (Uttar Pradesh) 15. Sunil Kant Gupta (Mumbai) 16. Sunil Bhagwan Avachat (Pune)

137 GUITAR OUTSTANDING 1. Brij Bhusan Kabra 2. Debashish Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) 3.

ESTABLISHED 1. Anup Dasgupta (Kolkata) 2. Barun Kumar Pal (Kolkata) 3. Kamala S (Varanasi) 4. Prasanna Ramaswamy (Chennai)

PROFICIENT 1. B.P. Mukhopadhyay (Hooghly) 2. Chaudhury Dipen Vallabh 3. Debashish Chakraborty (Howrah) 4. Neel Ranjan Mukherjee (Delhi) 5. Rhitom Sarkar (Kolkata) 6. Dr. Sunil Pavgi ( Lucknow )

138 HARMONIUM OUTSTANDING 1. Appa Jalgaonkar

ESTABLISHED 1. Jayaram Potdar (NCR) 2. Mehmood Dhaulpuri (NCR) 3. Pt. Sohan Lal Sharma (Kolkata)

PROFICIENT 1. Ahmed Jaan Raaz 2. Paromita Mukherjee (NCR) 3. Prakash Dutt Chitnis (Thane) 4. Sanatan Goswami (Kolkata) 5. Sudhanshu R Kulkarni (Belgaum) 6. Suvendu Banerjee (Kolkata) 7. Suyog Subhash Kundalkar ( Pune )

139 JALTARANG

PROFICIENT 1. Manish Sharma ( Delhi )

140 KANJIRA PROFICIENT 1. Vijaypal Punakar (Maharashtra)

141 MANDOLIN PROFICIENT 1. Nasir Ahmed Quereshi (Mumbai)

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

143 PAKHAWAJ OUTSTANDING 1. Bal Krishna Sharma 2. Rao Shinde 3. Bhavani Shankar (Borivali) 4. Dal Chand Sharma (Delhi) 5. Pannalal Upadhyay 6. Ramashish Pathak (Solo) 7. Ramji Upadhyay 8. Ramji Lal Sharma (Lucknow)

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

PROFICIENT 1. Anil Chaudhary (NCR) 2. Arun Kumar (Punjab) 3. Chitrangana Agle Reshwal ( Madhya Pradesh ) 4. Chitranjan Dev Shukl (Rampur) 5. Harish Chandra Pati (NCR) 6. Prithveeraj Kumar (Chhattisgarh) 7. Ram Pathak (Lucknow) 8. Ravi S. Upadhyay (Allahabad) 9. Shashi Kant Pathak (Lucknow)

144 SREEKHOLE PROFICIENT 1. Anupam Pramanik (Nadia)

145 RUDRA VEENA OUTSTANDING 1.

ESTABLISHED 1. Bahauddin Dagar (Mumbai)

PROFICIENT 1. Asit Kumar Banerjee (Kolkata) 2. Jayanta Kumar Das (Bangaluru) 3. Jyoti G Hegde (Dharwad) 4. Zahid Khan (NCR)

MOHAN VEENA ESTABLISHED 1. Salil V. Bhatt (Jaipur)

146 RABAB (INSTRUMENTAL) PROFICIENT 1. Shri Imran Khan (NCR)

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

ESTABLISHED 1. Abhay Rustam Sapori (NCR) 2. Kankan Ghosal (Howrah) 3. Nandkishore Mulye 4. Rahul (Mumbai) 5. Visweswaran R

PROFICIENT 1. Bipul Kumar Ray ( New Delhi ) 2. Dhananjay Daithankar () 3. Harinder Pal Singh 4. Surendra Naryekar (Mumbai) 5. Sandeep Chatterjee (Howrah) 6. Dr. Varsha Agrawal ( Ujjain )

148 SARANGI OUTSTANDING 1. Hamid Khan 2. Inder Lal 3. Mohinuddin Khan (Indore) 4. Ram Narayan 5. Ramesh Mishra (Kolkata) 6. 7.

ESTABLISHED 1. Aruna Narayana Kale 2. Bharat Bhushan Goswami 3. Chote Sabri Khan 4. Dhruba Ghosh 5. Farooqi Latif Khan (Indore) 6. Iqbal Khan 7. Kamaal Sarwar Sabri 8. Murad Ali (Delhi) 9. Naseer Khan (Lucknow) 10. Santosh Kumar Misra 11. Sarwar Hussain (Bhopal)

PROFICIENT 1. Fakurddin Dholpuri (Delhi) 2. Faiz Khan (Kolkata) 3. Gouri Banerjee (Delhi) 4. Mohd. Nasir Khan (Delhi) 5. Murad Ali & Fateh Ali ( Delhi ) Jugalbandi Sitar & Sarangi

149 SARASVANI PROFICIENT 1. Subhash Chandra Ghosh (Chandigarh)

150 SAROD OUTSTANDING 1. 2. Ashish Khan 3. 4. 5. Sunil Mukherjee 6. Zarin Sharma

ESTABLISHED 1. Aman Ali Bangash (Delhi) 2. Abhik Sarkar 3. Abhisek Lahiri (Howrah) 4. Ayaan Ali Bangash (Delhi) 5. Brij Narain 6. Biswajit Roy Choudhury 7. Irfan Mohammed Khan (Kolkata) 8. Joydeep Ghosh (Kolkata) 9. Mukesh Sharma (Lucknow) 10. Narendra N Dhar 11. Parthasarathy Choudhury 12. Prattyush Banerjee 13. Ranajit Sengupta (West Bengal) 14. Shree Gangopadhyay (Kolkata) 15. Suran Ranjan (Hooghly) 16. Stuti Dey (Kolkata) 17. Vidyut Khan 18. Vikash Maharaj (Varanasi) 19. Vasant Kabra

PROFICIENT 1. Abdul Sami Khan (Delhi) 2. Abhijit Roy Choudhury (Lucknow) 3. Abhijit Roy Choudhury 4. Amit Bhattacharya (Varanasi) 5. Apratim Majumdar ( Kolkata ) 6. Arnab Chakrabarty (Gurgaon) 7. Atish Mukhopadhyay (Kolkata) 8. Avijit Ghosh (Kolkata) 9. Danish Aslam Khan (Meerut) 10. Deboiyoti Bose (Kolkata) 11. Debanjan Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) 12. Gurudev Singh 151 13. Gulfam Ahmed (Delhi) 14. Jatinder Pal Singh 15. Prabhat Kumar (Delhi) 16. Rajeeb Chakraborty 17. Rakesh Prasanna (Delhi) 18. Sachin Patwardhan (Indore) 19. Barua (Kolkata) 20. Shekhar Dinanath Borkar (Puna) 21. Smit Tewari (Uttrakhand) 22. Sougata Ganguli (Kolkata) 23. Srikumar Banerjee 24. Sunatno Mukherjee (Kolkata) 25. Susim Kr. Malik (Lucknow) 26. Tanusree Chatterjee (Kolkata) 27. Vir Bhadra Bhardwaj (Gurgaon)

LECTURE – DEMONSTRATION 1. Rajeev Taranath

152 SHEHNAI OUTSTANDING 1. Ali Hussain Khan 2. Anant Lal 3. Ali Ahmed Hussain 4. Babu Rao Kaladkar 5. Daya Shankar 6. Prabhashankar Kaladkar 7. Rajendra Prasanna

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

PROFICIENT 1. Ashok Kumar Chaurasia (NCR) 2. Bageshwari Qamar & Party (NCR) 3. Bayeswar Kamat 4. Guaher Ali Khan (Kolkata) 5. Krishna Raichaudhury 6. Lokesh Anand Shehnai (Group) Lokesh Anand (NCR) 7. Pramod P Gaikwad (Pune) 8. Rama Shankar (Varanasi) 9. Sanjeev Shankar & Ashwani Shankar ( Delhi) Jugalbandi 10. Vikas Babu (NCR)

153 SIDE RHYTHM (MANJEERA & GHUNGROO) PROFICIENT 1. Mohan Ram 2. Anurodh Jain (Delhi)

154 PROFICIENT 1. Jagdeep Singh Bedi (NCR)

155 SITAR OUTSTANDING 1. Abdul Halim Jafar Khan (Mumbai) 2. Anupama Bhagwat (Chhatisgarh) 3. 4. 5. Debu Choudhuri 6. Ghulam Khan Dastgir 7. Imrat Hussain Khan 8. Joya Biswas 9. Kartick Kumar (Mumbai) 10. 11. Niladri Kumar (Mumbai) 12. Nishat Khan 13. Purbayan Chatterjee 14. Rajendra Varman (Mumbai) 15. Ravi Shankar (Pt.) 16. Shamim Ahmed 17. 18. Shujaat Khan 19. Soumitra Lahiri (Kolkata) 20. Uma Shankar Misra

ESTABLISHED

1. Amaljyoti Choudhury (Kolkata) 2. Arup Chatterjee (Hooghly) 3. Ashim Choudhury (Kolkata) 4. Asit Kumar Banerjee (Madhya Pradesh) 5. Deepak Choudhury (NCR) 6. Gaurav Mazumdar (NCR) 7. Gopal Shankar Mishra (Varanasi) 8. Hari Shankar Bhattacharya (West Bengal) 9. Irshad Khan (also Surbahar) 10. Suneera Kasliwal 11. Kirit Khan (NCR) 12. Krishna Chakraborty (Varanasi) 13. Meera Prasad (NCR) 14. Madan Shankar Misra 15. Matloob Hussain Khan (Sitar) 16. N R Rama Rao (Bangaluru) 17. Prateek Chaudhuri (NCR) 18. Pratha Bose (Kolkata) 19. Partho Das 156 20. Pushpraj Koshti (Mumbai) 21. Ravindra Dev (Rohtak) 22. Rash Behari Dutta (Delhi) 23. Sanjay Bandopadhyay 24. Saeed Zafar 25. Shubhandro Rao (Bangaluru) 26. Subroto Roy Choudhury 27. Sardeshmukh Chandrakant Prabhakar (Pune) 28. Sharmistha Sen 29. Taralghatti S H (Dhadwad) 30. Usman Khan (Pune) 31. Vijaykumar Sant G (Vadodara) 32. Zunain Halim Khan (Mumbai)

PROFICIENT 1. Adip Kumar Ghosh (West Bengal) 2. Agni Kumar Verma (Allahabad) 3. Amitava Chatterjee ( Delhi) 4. Aggarwal Sisters (Alka & Sapna) (Delhi) 5. Ahmad Ali Khan (Delhi) 6. Ajay Roy 7. Anjan Saha (Kolkata) 8. Aqeel Ahmed (NCR) 9. Avaneendra Sheolikar (Bhilai Nagar) 10. Anupam Mahajan ( New Delhi) 11. Batuk Nath Mishra (Varanasai) 12. Chirag S Katti (Mumbai) 13. Chote Rehmat Khan 14. Deba Prasad Chakraborty (Kolkata) 15. Deepsankar Bhattacharjee ( Kolkata ) 16. Dhimani Varman (Mumbai) 17. Dhrubajyoti Chakraborty (West Bengal) 18. Debajit Chakraborty (Kolkata) 19. Fateh Ali ( Delhi ) 20. Ganesh Mohan (Mumbai) 21. Indrajit Banerjee (West Bengal) 22. Jayanta Kumar Das (Bangaluru) 23. Jagdeep Singh Bedi (NCR) Also Surbahar 24. Jayashree Chakraborty (West Bengal) 25. K. Shekhar Suryakant (Pune) 26. Kajal Chatterjee 27. Lovely Sharma (Uttar Pradesh) 28. Manu Kumar Seen (Punjab) 29. Mohsin Ali Khan (NCR) 30. Panchanan Sardar (NCR) 31. Pandurang Parate (Chennai) 32. Parimal Manmohan Sadaphal (NCR) 33. Partha Chatterjee 34. Prabal Choudhury (Kolkata) 157 35. Pradeep Chattopadhyay 36. Prabir Bhattacharya ( Guwahati ) 37. Rabindra Narayan Goswami (Varanasi) 38. Rafat Hussain Khan (Mumbai) 39. Rafique Khan (Mangalore) 40. Ravi Sharma (NCR) 41. Rajeev Janardan (Jabalpur) 42. Sandip Banerjee (NCR) 43. Sanchari Bakshi (NCR) 44. Shakir Shahid Khan (Pune) 45. Shubhendra & Saskia Rao ( Delhi) Jugalbandi 46. Shyamal Chattopadhyay (Kolkata) 47. Sanjay Guha (Kolkata) 48. Subroto Nag 49. Sudeepta Sharma (NCR) 50. Sugato Nag (Kolkata) 51. Soumyajit Paul ( West Bengal ) 52. Susanta Chowdhury (West Bengal) 53. Swarup Kumar Bose (Hooghly) 54. Shiva Nath Mishra (Pt.) (Varanasi) 55. Subho Chakraborty (Kolkata) 56. Subrata De (Jameshedpur) 57. Syeed Ahmed Alvi (NCR) 58. Sudhir Pandit (Chhatisgarh) 59. Svetlana Janardan Gatina ( New Delhi ) 60. Vikas Gupta 61. Vikas Bharadwaj ( Rajasthan ) 62. Yogesh Narasing Bode (Amrawati)

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

158 SUNDARI WADAN PROFICIENT 1. Chidanand Shidram Jadhav & Party (Sholapur) 2. Sundari Wadan & Party - Bhimanna Kiraling Jadhav(Solapur)

159 SYNTHSIZER PROFICIENT 1. Vijay Chandra (Allahbad) Accompanist

160 TABLA OUTSTANDING 1. Abhijit Banerjee (Howrah) 2. Akram Khan 3. 4. Faiyaz Khan 5. Kishan Maharaj 6. Kumar Bose 7. Man Mohan Singh 8. Rafiuddin Sabri (Before 1989) 9. Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa (NCR) 10. Sabir Khan (Kolkata) 11. Sadanand Naimpalli (Mumbai) 12. Shankar Ghosh 13. Sandeep Das ( New Delhi ) 14. Suresh Talwarkar 15.

ESTABLISHED 1. Arvind Kumar Azad ( Pune ) 2. Arindam Chakravarty (West Bengal) 3. Arun Shejwal 4. Arunangshu Chaudhury (West Bengal) 5. Akhtar Hassain 6. Awadh Singh Thakur 7. Ananda Gopal Banerjee 8. Anuradha Pal (Juhu) 9. Bikram Ghosh 10. Charles Gladwin 11. Chaudhury Arunangshu 12. Dal Chand Sharma (NCR) 13. Dipak Kumar Chakraborty (Howrah) 14. Debendra Kanti (Kolkata) 15. Gaitonde B. 16. Govinda Bose 17. Govind Chakraborty (Varanasi) 18. Hidayat Khan 19. Jerry Massey (Varanasi) 20. Kiran Deshpande 21. Kishore Banerjee (NCR) 22. Kumar Lal Mishra (Varanasi) 23. Lachhman Singh Seen (Punjab) 24. Manas Chakraborty (West Bengal) 25. Mustafa Raza (NCR) 26. Omkar D. Gulvady (Mumbai) 161 27. Ram Nath Singh (Madhya Pradesh) 28. Ramdas G. Palsule ( Pune ) 29. Samir Chatterjee (Kolkata) 30. Sandip Banerjee (Kolkata) 31. Sanjay Mukherjee 32. Subhash Nirwan 33. Sheetala Prasad Mishra (Lucknow) 34. Sudhir Pandey (NCR) 35. Sujit Kumar Saha (Kolkata) 36. Sukhwinder Singh 37. Vinod Gangadhar Lele ( New Delhi ) 38. Zameer Ahmed 39. Zamir Ahmed Khan (NCR) PROFICIENT 1. (Mumbai) 2. Amjad Ali 3. Ashok Chakraborty 4. Amaan Ali (NCR) 5. Arkendu Mitra ( Kolkata ) 6. Arshad Ali Khan (NCR) 7. Arun Kumar Bhatt (Lucknow) Dance Accompanist 8. Ansubha Bandopadhyay (Kolkota) 9. Ashok Duta (Kolkata) 10. Amit Chatterjee (Kolkata) 11. Abhijit Ghosh (Kolkata) 12. Ajay Vyankatesh Ashtaputre 13. Arup Chattopadhyay (Kolkata) 14. Arif Khan ( Kolkata ) 15. Avirbhav Verma ( Chandigarh ) 16. Biswajit Pal (West Bengal) 17. Bimal Kumar Bhattacharya 18. Bivash Sengupta (Kolkata) 19. Buddha Dev Manna (West Bengal) 20. Chiradip Banerjee (West Bengal) 21. Deepak Mehta (Master)-(Congs) (NCR) Tabla 22. Durjay Bhaumik (NCR) 23. Faraz Ahmed Khan ( Mumbai ) 24. Ganesh Vishwanath Tanwade (Pune) 25. Gopal Mishra (NCR) 26. Gulfam Sarwarr Sabri 27. Gurpreet Singh (Punjab) 28. Idris Khan (Delhi) 29. Jai Shankar Mishra (NCR) 30. Jaidev ( Patiala ) 31. Kamal Sarwar Shabu 32. Karodilal Bhatt (Madhya Pradesh) 33. Kedarnath (Meerut) 34. Keshab K Chowdhury (NCR) 35. Khushboo (Gurgaon) 162 36. Lal Babu Nirala (New Delhi) 37. Madhurjya Ranjan Barthakur (Kolkata) 38. Madhuresh Bhatt (Punjab) 39. Mainak Banerjee ( Kolkata ) 40. Mubarak Khan (NCR) 41. Nakul Mishra(Ahmedabad)Kathak Accompanisment 42. Naviin Babulal Gandharv (Mumbai) 43. Nawab Ali 44. Nirmal Mondal (NCR) 45. Neetu Chopra (New Delhi) 46. P.K. Bhagwat (Varanasi) 47. Parimal Chakraborty (Kolkata) 48. Prasenjit Adhikari (West Bengal) 49. Raghu Nath Nandy ( Kolkata ) 50. Rajaneesh (Uttar Pradesh) 51. Rajnarayan Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 52. 53. Rinku Adarsh (Patna) 54. Samir Nandi (Nadia, West Bengal) 55. Sankar Prasad Choudhury (Hooghly) 56. Sandip Ghosh (Kolkata) 57. Shiv Shankar Banerjee (NCR) 58. Shivendra Pratap Tripathi (Varanasi) 59. (Kolkata) 60. Sukanta Debnath (West Bengal) 61. Shabbeer Nisar (Hyderabad) 62. Shridhar Kshirsagar H (Kolkata) 63. Soumya Kanti Mookherjee (Varanasi) 64. Soumitra Paul (Hooghly) 65. Sunil Banerjee (Kolkata) 66. Supreet Deshpande (Pune) 67. Sandesh Popatkar (Nagpur 68. Saurabh Bose (NCR) 69. Subhash C. Kamat (Mumbai) 70. Subhajyoti Guha (Kolkata) 71. Subhir Adhikari (Siliguri) 72. Subir Kumar Ghosh (Howrah) 73. Subrata Manna (West Bengal) 74. Somnath Mukherjee 75. Swaraj Bhattacharya 76. Vasi Ahmed Khan (Mumbai)

163 VICHITRA VEENA OUTSTANDING 1. Dr. Mustafa Raza 2. Ramesh Prem

PROFICIENT 1. Ajit Singh (Dehradun)

164 VIOLIN OUTSTANDING 1. Datar D K 2. Gopalakrishnan M S Vidwan (Carnatic & Hin) 3. (NCR) 4. Rajam N (Dr.) 5. Ramoo Prasad Shastri (Varanasi) 6. Sisir Kana Dhar Chaudhury 7. Vasant Ranade

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

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

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

ESTABLISHED 166 1. Aniruddha Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 2. Anita Goswami (Maharashtra) 3. Anjana Nath (Kolkata) 4. Arati Anklikar 5. Abhisheki Shounak (Pune) 6. Adsule Leelawati 7. Alka Deo Marulkar 8. Aftab Ahmed Khan (Mumbai) 9. Aloke Chatterjee 10. Arun N Kashelkar (Mumbai) 11. Askaran Sharma (Mumbai) 12. Aslam Khan (Mumbai) 13. Anita Mazumdar (Kolkata) 14. Anita Roy (NCR) 15. Anant Terdal (Karnataka) 16. Aslam Hussain Khan (Mumbai) 17. Baldev Raj Verma (NCR) 18. Bharati Chakravarty 19. Bhuvanesh Mukul Komkali (classical) 20. Bakul Chattopadhyay (Kolkata) 21. Bireshawar Gautam Biru (Mumbai) 22. Dharampal Barpaga (Lucknow) 23. Deepak Chatterjee (also Lec-Dem) 24. Dinanath Misra (Kolkata) 25. Dipali Nag 26. Falisse Philippe () 27. Faiyaz (NCR) 28. Ganapati Bhatt 29. Ghulam Husain Khan 30. Ghulam Akbar Khan 31. Ganesh Prasad Misra 32. Gurinder Harnam Singh (NCR) 33. H. Sayeeduddin Dagar (Pune) 34. Hubhda Paradkar 35. Ira Mukherjee 36. Kankana Banerjee 37. Kaberi Kar 38. Kailash Chand 39. Kale Raja Prabhakar (Dr.) 40. Kamala Bose (Allahabad) 41. Krishna Hangal 42. Kumud Diwan (NCR) 43. Kavita Saigal (NCR) 44. Koushik Bhattacharya (West Bengal) 45. Kailash Pawar Bandhu 46. Kaivalya K.S. Gurav (Dharward) 47. Kalapini Komkali (Madhya Pradesh) 48. Kalyani P Deshmukh (Nagpur) 49. Rao 50. M R Gautam (Dr.) 167 51. Madhav Gudi (Karnataka) 52. M 53. Malini Mukhopadhyay (Kolkata) 54. Madhuri Dandage 55. Meenakshi Mukherjee (H. L classical vocal) 56. Meeta Pandit (NCR) 57. Mustaq Hussain Khan 58. 59. Mallika Banerjee (NCR) 60. Mujahid Hussain Khan 61. Mukul Shivaputra 62. Neela M Kodli 63. Nihar Ranjan Banerjee (Kolkata) 64. Nirmalaya Dey (NCR) 65. Nita Saha Kuthial (Kolkata) 66. Panchakshraswami Mattigitti 67. Parameshwar G. Hegde (Bangaluru) 68. Prakash Sangeet 69. Radhika Chopra (Delhi) 70. Ritesh Mishra & Rajnish Mishra (Jugalbandi) Delhi 71. Raka Mukherjee (Kolkata) 72. Ram Uddhavrao Kothekar (Natya Sangeet) 73. Ritwick Sanyal (Dhrupad) 74. Rupan Sarkar 75. Sanjeev Vishnu Abhyankar (Pune) 76. Sandipan Samajpati (Kolkata) 77. Satya Bhan Sharma (Dr.) (Dhrupad) 78. Satyasheel Vaman Deshpande (Mumbai) 79. Subhra Guha 80. Shruti Sadolikar (Mumbai) 81. Shubhada Paradkar 82. Shantanu Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 83. Suhashini Koratkar 84. Sukhdeo Pawar Badhu (Indore) 85. Satya Narayan Mishra (Mumbai) 86. Narasimhan (Mumbai) 87. Santanu Banerjee (Kolkata) 88. Sushila Rani Baburao Patel (Bandra) 89. Suhas Chintaman Vyas (Mumbai) 90. Sunanda Patnaik 91. Sunanda Sharma (NCR) 92. Surender & Tejpal Singh () 93. Saryu Kalekar (Dr.) (NCR) 94. Tulika Ghosh 95. Uday Bhawalkar (Maharashtra) (Est.) 96. Uma Garg 97. Vasundhara Komakali 98. Vijaya Jadhav 99. Vijay Sardeshmukh 100. Vinayak Torvi 168 101. Vishwanath (NCR) 102. Warnendu Chattopadhyay 103. Yash Paul (Chandigarh) 104. Zareena Begam (Lucknow)

PROFICIENT 1. Amjad Ali (Delhi) 2. Arati Suyog Kundalkar (Pune) 3. Arnab Chatterjee (Kolkata) 4. Arvind Nilkanth Apte (Gwalior) 5. Asha Ramchandra (Maharashtra) 6. Anal Chatterjee (Kolkata) 7. Anuradha Y Kuber (Pune) 8. Amir Ahmed Khan (Delhi) 9. Amit Mukherjee (Lucknow) 10. Arshad Ali (Kolkata) 11. Bharati Banerjee (Nanavati) (Kolkata) 12. Basavi Mukerji Rath 13. Bhola Nath Mishra (NCR) 14. Brij Bhushan Goswami 15. Chitra Modak (Marathi Natya Sangeet) 16. Chitralekha Vijaykumar Deshmukh 17. Chitta Ranjan Pani 18. D Kumar Das 19. Debapriya Adhikary (Kolkata) 20. Deepshikha 21. Devashish Dey (Varanasi) 22. Deepa Ranganathan 23. Dhananjay Hegde (Mumbai) 24. Dhananjay Moreshwar Joshi (Maharashtra) 25. Falisse Banishree (NCR) 26. Geeta Sadanand Javadekar (Mumbai) 27. Girish Wazalwar (Allahabad) 28. Gouri Roy Chaudhury (Kolkata) 29. Hussain Baksh (Afganistan) (NCR) 30. Hema Shripad Upasani (Maharashtra) 31. Hemant Ganesh Pendre (Pune) 32. Hema Aziz (NCR) 33. Harish Tiwari (NCR) 34. Indu Prakash Trivedi (NCR) 35. Jayant Pandey 36. Jayateerth Mevundi (Hubli) 37. Kalpana Zokarkar (Semi Classical) (Indore) 38. Chattopadhyay (Kolkata) 39. Keshav Raghunath Talegaonker (Agra) 40. Khan Brothers (NCR), Abdul Aziz Khan & Marghob Hussain Khan 41. Kum Kum Bhattacharya 42. Kumar Roy (Hooghly) 169 43. K Upendra Bhat 44. Laxmi Kant Madhav Sahakari (Mumbai) 45. Madhu Bhatt Tailong (Dr.) (Dhrupad) (Rajasthan) 46. Madhumita Roy (NCR) 47. Manjiri Abhijit Kelkar (Maharastra) 48. Manjusha Sandeep Patil (Pune) 49. Manjiri Charudatta (Pune) 50. Milind Chittal 51. Mohan Vitthalrao Darekar (Pune) 52. Mohsin Ahmed Shamin Ahmed (Mumbai) 53. Mowna Ramachandra (Bangalore) 54. Maqbool H Khan (Mumbai) 55. Mitreyi Majumdar (NCR) 56. Minakshi Majumder (Howrah) 57. Nadeem Ahmed Khan (NCR) 58. Narayan Rath (Odissi Vocal) 59. Nandini Chakraborty (Kolkata) 60. Nisha Parasnis (Mumbai) 61. Ojesh Pratap Singh (Delhi) 62. Padmaja Phenani Joglekar (Mumbai) 63. Piu Sarkhel (Rajkot) 64. Padmini Kishore Rao (Navi Mumbai) 65. Prabhakar Kashyap & Diwakar Kashyap (Duet) 66. Prakash & Deepak Mishra (duet) 67. Pranab Kumar Biswas (Thane) 68. Prem Kumar & Ram Kumar Malik 69. Prabir Banerjee (Howrah) 70. Pratima S. Tilak 71. Priti Bagh (Howrah) 72. Priyadarshini Kulkarni 73. Priyankaa Mathur 74. Raja Kale 75. Ramakant Suryakant Gaikwad (Pune) 76. Ranjani Ramachandran (Pune) 77. Raghunandan Panshikar (Pune) 78. Rajendra Vasant (Pune) 79. Rajesh Kelkar 80. Rita Ray (Kolkata) 81. Rajyashree Ghosh 82. Ratna Aich Bhowmick (Karnataka) 83. Rattan Mohan Sharma (Mumbai) 84. Ruchira Kale (Pune) 85. Ruchira Panda (Kolkata) 86. Sambuddha Chatterjee (Kolkata) 87. Saniya Dheeraj Patankar (Pune) 88. Sanjay Kumar Mishra (Mumbai) 89. Saptarshi Chakraborty (Kolkata) 90. Sharmila Roychowdhury (Dhrupad) 91. Paul (Bhopal) 92. Shirin Sengupta (Kolkata) 170 93. Shobha Sadashiv Joshi (Pune) 94. Shokat Hussain Khan (Ahmedabad) 95. Sohini Mojumdar (Kolkata) 96. Soma Chakraborty 97. Sounak Chatterjee 98. Shaukat Hussain Khan 99. Shalmalee S. Joshi (Mumbai) 100. Shaila Piplapure 101. Shrikant Vasant Deshpande (Pune) 102. S.Nafeesuddin Dagar& S.Aneesuddin Dagar Pune 103. Sucharita Gupta 104. Suchisree Ray- Light Classical( ) West Bengal 105. Sudha Mathur 106. Sukhdev Chaturvedi (Mathura) 107. Suprio Dutta (Kolkata) 108. Supriya Dey 109. Sumanta Sarkar 110. Sunanda Suresh 111. Surajit Chatterjee (Kolkata) 112. Suvro Kanti Chatterjee (Kolkata) 113. Sanjay Kumar Mallick (NCR) 114. Sangeeta Bandhopadhyay (Kolkata) 115. Subhadra Desai (NCR) 116. Swarnendu Chattopadhyay (West Bengal) 117. Sarita Pathak Yajurvedi (NCR) 118. Sanjoy Banerjee (Kolkata) 119. Dr. Sushma Bajpai (Semi-Classical) (Kanpur) 120. Shampa Choudhury ( Kolkata ) 121. Tumpa Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) 122. (Mumbai) 123. Utpala Goswami (Kolkata) 124. Vidya Katgade 125. Vrinda Mundkur (Mumbai) 126. Vinay Bhide 127. Vinod Kumar Dwivedi 128. Viraj Amar Bhatt (Ahmedabad) 129. Waseem Ahmed Khan (Kolkata)

LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION OUTSTANDING 1. Athavale V.R 2. Battu Som Dutt () 3. Deepali Nag 171 4. Kumar Mukherjee 5. Shanno Khurana 6. Shakuntala Narasimhan

ESTABLISHED 1. Deepak Chatterjee (NCR) 2. Gomti Vishwanathan 3. Jitendra Pratap 4. Leelavati Adsule (Indore) 5. Neeta Mathur (Dr.) (Delhi) 6. Neela Bhagwat (Mumbai) 7. Premlata Puri 8. Ratnakar S Pai (Mumbai) 9. Shyamala G Bhave (Bangaluru) 10. Suhasini Koratkar 11. Somnath Murdur (Dharwad) 12. Satyasheel Deshpande

PROFICIENT 1. Ramesh Chandra Bhatt (Ghaziabad)

172 INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS EMPANELMEMT SECTION REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR MODERN EXPERIMENTAL WORKS OF DANCE AND MUSIC INCLUDING LIGHT & POPULAR MUSIC AS ON 26/09/2012

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1. Light Music (, Geet, Bhajan & Sufi) 173 - 177 2. 178 - 179 3. Devotional 180 - 181 4. Rabindra Sangeet 182 - 183 5. Style Puratani Gaan 184 6. Popular Music/ 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

173 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 2. Afroz Begum 3. Asha Bhonsle (L.M) 4. Channulal Mishra (Uttar Pradesh) 5. Dalia Rahut 6. Girija Devi 7. ( Punjab ) 8. Jwala Prasad (Delhi) 9. 10. Malashri Prasad (New Delhi) 11. Penaaz Masani (L.M) (Mumbai) 12. Rita Ganguli 13. 14. Satish Babbar (L.M) (NCR) 15. Sipra Bose 16. Savita Devi 17. 18. 19. Vani Jayram (LM) 20. Vinod Kumar (New Delhi) 21. Zameer Ahmed (NCR)

ESTABLISHED 1. Anjali Banerjee 2. Anjana Chopra (Ghazal) (L.M) 3. Aslam Khan (H.Vocal also) 4. Aneeta Sen () 5. Charanjit Soni (New Delhi) 6. Dilraj Kaur (L.M) (Mumbai) 7. Fareed Ahmed Khan (Delhi) 8. Ghulam Akbar Khan (Kolkata) 9. Jamil Ahmad (Uttar Pradesh) 10. K S Vasantha Lakshmi (NCR) 11. Kum Kum Bhattacharya 174 12. Kajal Banerjee (L.M.) (NCR) 13. Khalid Mohammed Abdul 14. Lata N Deo (Semi-classical) (Pune) 15. Meenakshi Pandey (semi-classical) (Mumbai) 16. Mahime Devahuti Casewa 17. Madhu Chandra (L.M) (Mumbai) 18. (Noida) 19. Mitali Sengupta (Kolkata) 20. Naim Ali (NCR) 21. Neharika Haider (L.M) (NCR) 22. Nila Sinha Roy (Haryana) 23. Nina & Rajendra Mehta (L.M) (Mumbai) 24. Neelam Sahni (L.M) (NCR) 25. Purnima Chaudhury 26. Rajkumar & Indrani Rizvi (L.M) (Mumbai) 27. Ravi Nagar (Lucknow) 28. Rekha Surya (L.M) 29. Rajinder Kr. Kachroo 30. Rashmi Aggarwal (Delhi) 31. Sabir Khan (Kolkata) 32. Sakhawat Hussain Khan (Uttar Pradesh) 33. Sahib Singh (NCR) 34. Shaoni Mitra (Solo) (Kolkata) 35. Shadab Hussain () (NCR) 36. (Mumbai) 37. Shevanti Sanyal (NCR) 38. Shobhana Rao 39. Sadhana Rahatagonkar (Bhilai) 40. Sufi Bawra (Inder Singh Bawra) Sufi Style New Delhi 41. Suman Devgan (NCR) 42. Triloki Prasad (Mumbai) 43. Uma Garg (NCR) 44. Vajahat Hussain Khan (Mumbai) 45. Yugantar Sindoor 46. Zila Khan (Sufi) (NCR)

PROFICIENT 1. Aastha Goswami (Uttar Pradesh) 2. Ashok Thawre (Prof.) (Maharashtra) 3. Avtar Singh (NCR) 4. Anita Jain 5. Anita Singhvi (NCR) 6. Anju Goyal & Subhash Goyal (NCR) (Duet) 7. Antardhwani Group (Devotional) (NCR) 8. Amir Ahmed 9. Amrish Mishra (Delhi) 10. Ardhendu Sekhar Bandopadhyay (W.B)Concerts & Lec.Dem. 175 11. Alka Nigam ( Bhopal ) 12. Abdul Aziz ( New Delhi ) 13. Banasree Chakraborty, (West Bengal) 14. Brijendra Nath Srivastava (LM) (Lucknow) 15. Brinda Roy Choudhury (New Delhi) 16. Bhai Baldeep Singh (NCR) 17. Bhikali Vinayak Prabhu (Mumbai) Devotional & Natya Sangeet 18. Charudutta G Aphale (Pune) 19. Chandranath Chattopadhyay (LM) (NCR) 20. Chitra Modak (Marathi Natya Sangeet) 21. Deepinder Kaur Alias Dolly Narang (NCR) 22. D Murali Krishna (Hyderabad) 23. Devajit Banerjee (W.B) Theatre Music Only 24. Dhananjay Kaul (L.M.) (NCR) 25. “Feels International” (Group), Ashwani Kumar (Ashoo Punjabi) (Delhi) 26. Gaurav Mishra (Uttar Pradesh) 27. Ghulam Abbas (NCR) 28. Gulfam Sarwar Sabri (NCR) 29. Imran Khan (NCR) 30. Imrat Khan (NCR) 31. Indira Naik (Mumbai) 32. Iqbal Siddiqui (Lucknow) 33. Jai Kumar Kesharwani ( Delhi) 34. Jameel Hasan (NCR) 35. Javed Khan (NCR) 36. Javed Hussain (Rajasthan) 37. Jayashri Gupta (Kolkata) 38. Jitender Singh (Delhi) 39. Jyotsana Dubey (Lucknow) 40. Kailash Joshi (U.P.) 41. Kailas Dattuji Kolhe (Devotional) (Buldana) 42. Kamal Khan (U.P.) 43. Kanak Chaturvedi (H.L.M) (NCR) 44. Kavita Seth (Mumbai) Sufi Style 45. Krishna Kant Shukla (Varanasi) 46. Krishna Nand (Lucknow) 47. Laik Khan (Agra) 48. Madho Prasad (New Delhi) 49. Madhur Lata Bhatanagar (Devotional) (NCR) 50. Madhumita Bose 51. Madhura Mukund Kulkarni (Maharashtra) 52. Mahua Chatterjee (Devotional) (NCR) 53. Manomay Bhattacharya (Kolkata) 54. Mira Chakraborty (Delhi) 55. Mahua Mukherjee ( New Delhi ) 56. Mahaendar Pal ( Delhi) 57. Moumita Mitra ( Kolkata ) 58. Mukul Mathur (NCR) 176 59. Naresh Kumar Malhotra (H.Classical & L.M) (NCR) 60. Nishi Gupta (Dr.) (Lanka) 61. Dr. Neeta Singh (Noida) 62. Papiha Mallick (NCR) 63. Parwati Kumari (Mumbai) 64. Pratik Chaudhury (Kolkata) 65. Prateeeksha Sharma (NCR) 66. Parul Banerjee (NCR) 67. Pooja Gupta (New Delhi) 68. Piyush Raj (New Delhi) 69. Rahat Ali Khan (Uttar Pradesh) 70. Rajab Ali Bharti (Rajasthan) 71. Rajesh Pandey ( Delhi) 72. Ramanuj Dasgupta (Kolkata) Devotional 73. Raza Ali Khan ( Andhra Pradesh) 74. Rolee Aggarwal (H.L.M) (NCR) 75. Roma Mukherjee (NCR) 76. Roohani Sisters (Sufi), Jagriti Luthra & Neeta Pandey (NCR) 77. Roshan Bharati (Dr.) (Kota) 78. Sada Thakur & Masoom Thakur (Gurgaon) (Duet) 79. Sanchaita Chaudhuri (L.M.) (Kolkata) 80. Sandhya Goswami (NCR) 81. Sangeeta Arya (Geet-Ghazal-Bhajan) (Ajmer) 82. Saswati Bagchi (H.L.M. Classical) Kolkata 83. Seema Uniyal Mishra ( Delhi) 84. Shahaab Khan (NCR) 85. Shahnaz Bano (H.L.M) (Lucknow) 86. Shaila Hattangadi (Mumbai) 87. Shalini Ved ( New Delhi ) 88. Shashank Thada (Mumbai) 89. Shumona R Biswas (Bhopal) 90. Siza Roy (H.L.M.)(Kolkata) 91. Sonroopa Vishal (U.P.) 92. Srabani Seth (Durgapur) (L.M) 93. Suchisree Ray (Light Classica Thumri & Dadra) West Bengal 94. Sudeep Banerjee (Mumbai) 95. Sujan Chatterjee (Bihar) 96. Sunita Jhingran (Lucknow) 97. Suvodeep Mukherjee (Kolkata) 98. Swarn Vijh (H.L.M.) (NCR) 99. T M S Selvakumar (Chennai) 100. Talat Zamir (NCR) 101. Tapsi Nagraj (Madhya Pradesh) 102. Tofael Ahmed (NCR) 103. Ustad Saleem Iqbal (Punj) 104. Vani Babbar (NCR) 105. Vivek Ranga ( Haryana) 106. Veenu Gupta (NCR) 177 LIGHT CLASSICAL & LIGHT MUSIC (LECTURE – DEMONSTRATION)

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

178 QAWWALI OUTSTANDING

1. Aslam Sabri & Party 2. Prabha Bharati & Party ESTABLISHED 1. Ahmed Warsi 2. Chand Afazal Group (Shri Chand Afazal) Delhi 3. Gulam Sabir & Gulam Waris 4. Gulam Hussain Niazi & Party (Delhi) 5. Haider Buksh Warsi (Lucknow) 6. Haji Mohammed. Idrees & Party (Delhi) 7. Hussain Group (Ahsan Hussain Adil Hussain) Hyderabad 8. Iftekhar Ahamed & Party (Moradabad) 9. Iqbal Hussain Khan (Hyderabad) 10. Nazeer Naseer Warsi Brothers (Nazeer Ahmed Khan & Shri Naseer Ahmed Khan) Hyderabad 11. Niyaz Ahmad Qawwal & Party (Muzzafar Nagar) 12. Nizami Bandhu Qawwal,Ghulam Fareed Nizami (NCR ) 13. Qutbi Brothers- Mohd. Ilyas (Delhi) 14. Qadar Niazi Qawwal (Delhi) 15. Taj Musical Group, Imran Khan (U.P.) 16. Yusuf Azad & Party 17. Zahir Ahmed Warsi PROFICIENT

1. Anwar Sabri Brothers (Firozabad) 2. Ashwani Kumar 3. Abdul Hamid Sabri (NCR) 4. Aftab Hashim Sabri (Group), Aftab Hashim Sabri (Mumbai) 5. B.S.Balli () L.M- Sufi-Kalam 6. Chanchal Bharati & Party (NCR) 7. Geeta Singh & Party – Geeta Singh (U.P) 8. Javed Majid Qawwal & Party - Javed Ahmed (U.P) 9. Majid Ikhlas Husain Qawwal Group - Majid Husain (U.P) 10. Mohan Singh Vedi 11. Naushad Shahzad Sabri Qawal -Naushad Shahzd Sabri (U.P) 12. Nazar Andaz Qawwal & Party (Allahabad) 13. Neelay Khan Mohdsadeeque & Party, Neelay Khan Mohdsadeeque (Punjab) 14. Nizami Khusro Bandu (NCR) 179 15. Nizami Brothers, Tahseen Hussain Khan ( Hyderabad ) 16. Niazi Nizami Brothers-Haider Niazi & Hasan Nizami (Delhi) 17. Sahadat Hussain (Lucknow) 18. Sarfaraz Chishti & Party, Shri Sarfaraz Chisti (U.P) 19. Shahid Niazi & Party, Shahid Niazi (U.P.) 20. Shahroz Bharti Qawwal & Party - Shahroz Bharti (U.P) 21. Teena Parveen & Party , Mrs.Teena Parveen (Lucknow) 22. Wajahat Jaffar Budauni & Party” Wajahat Husain ( U.P) 23. Yousuf Khan Nizami Group - Yousuf Khan ( Delhi) 24. Zafar Nizami (Group), Mr. M. Zafar Nizami (NCR)

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

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

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

181 DEVOTIONAL (GURBANI) ESTABLISHED 1. Ajit singh Paintal (Gurbani)

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

DEVOTIONAL LECTURE DEMONSTRATION GROUP 1. Bharati Bandhu (Chhattisgarh)

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

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

ESTABLISHED 1. Chandrabali Rudra (Devotional) (Kolkata) 2. Kamal Kanti Gupta (Kolkata) 3. Mukul Banerjee 4. Malay Sankar Chattopadhyay (West Bengal) 5. Purba Dam 6. Rama Banerjee 7. Sumitra Sen PROFICIENT 1. Agnibha Bandopadhyay (Kolkata) 2. Aparajita Saha Basu (Kolkata) 3. Arnab Basu (Kolkata) 4. Basabi Datta ( Kolkata ) 5. Bidhan Roy (Kolkata) 6. Bishakha Basu ( NCR ) 7. Chitralekha Dutta (Kolkata) (Ms) 8. Gargi Das Bakshi (Kolkata) 9. Debarati Mitra (West Bengal) 10. Madhurima Bhattacharjee (Tripura) 11. Maitreyee Mazumdar (Smt) (Kolkata) 12. Mali Mitra (Howrah) 13. Mihir Kumar Basu ( NCR ) 14. Mouna Mukher Mukherjee ( West Bengal) 15. Prabudda Raha (Kolkata) 16. Puranjan Tarafdar (W.Bengal) 17. Ranjana Dey (NCR) 18. Reba Som (Kolkata) 19. Sahana Mishra (Kolkata) 20. Sanghmitra Gupta 21. Shikha Basu (Kolkata) 22. Shramana Chattopadhyay ( West Bengal) 23. Sounak Chatterjee (Kolkata) 24. Srabani Chaterjee (Chattopadhyay) (Kolkata) 25. Sreyashi Mitra (Kolkata) 26. Sudeshna Basu ( USA ) 27. Suparna Chattopadhyay (Howrah) 183 28. Swapan Gupta (Kolkata) 29. Tanushree Data (Kolkata) (Ms)

RABINDRA SANGEET GROUP 1. Rabindra Bharati

RABINDRA SANGEET (LECTURE – DEMONSTRATION) ESTABLISHED 1. Prafulla Kumar (Kolkata)

NAZRUL GEET PROFICIENT 1. Ramanuj Dasgupta ( Kolkata)

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

185 POPULAR MUSIC / BOLLYWOOD STYLE/ROCK BAND POPULAR MUSIC 1. Ila Arun (Mumbai) 2. Lou Wajaw (Meghalaya) 3. Padmini Roy & Party (Mumbai) 4. Shimak Nanabhoy Davar (Mumbai) 5. Sumana Chakrabarty (Kolkata)

BOLLYWOOD STYLE

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

ROCK BAND GROUP 1. Boomarang, Hangsing Lalruatliana (Aizawal) 2. Dementia, Inakhu A Ayeh (Nagaland) 3. Parikrama, Subir Malik (New Delhi) 4. Sifar - Amit Yadav ( Delhi) 5. Something Relevant, Tanmay Bhattacherjee (Mumbai) 186 6. Soulmate - Rudolph Wallang ( Meghalaya) FUSION/ SUFI FUSION /PERCUSSION/ HINDUSTANI INSTRUMENTAL/JUGALBANDI TALVADHYA/JAZZ/JAZZ FUSION FUSION 1. Abiogenesis (Naga Howey), Moa Subong (Nagaland) 2. Abhijit Pohankar (Mumbai) Fusion 3. Advaita (Abhishek Mathur) NCR 4. Anuradha Pal’s Recharge, Ms Anuradha Pal (Mumbai) 5. Aroha Indians - Arindam Choudhury ( Delhi) 6. Banubala Fusion Music Group - Sanjay Najan & Bharathi Pal 7. Green (Sandep Srivastav) NCR 8. Gajalla Jaywant Naidu (Hyderabad) 9. Girish And The Chronicles, Girish Pradhan ( Sikkim )(P) 10. Harmony Fusion Music Band (Uttar Pradesh) Mohammad Bismil Kureshi, Mathura 11. Hum Ensemble, Sandeep Das ( NCR ) Group (E) 12. Indian Ocean (NCR), Dhruv Jagasia (Fusion) 13. Kaharwa - Umrao Salodia ( Rajasthan) 14. Karnatriix, (John Anthony) Chennai 15. Motherjane (Band Group) Suraj Mani (Bangalore) 16. Naad Brahma - Joseph Alvares ( Mumbai) 17. North East Breeze (Rupam Bhuyan) Guwhati 18. Oatcrpa - Mohini Mohan Patnaik ( Orissa ) 19. Papon N The East India Company - Angaraag Mahanta 20. Qalandar Sufi Band - Jwala Prasad ( Delhi) 21. Rajat Kakkar “Mrigya” (Cotemporary Music) 22. Ravi Pawar (Solo), Mumbai 23. Rhythms of Manipur - Aribam Laxmirani Devi ( Manipur) 24. Shwaas Fusion Band (Rajesh Prasanna) NCR 25. SKY - Sovon Kumar Hazra ( Delhi) 26. Soul of India - Kamal Sabri (Delhi) 27. Soul Samvaad - Murad Ali Khan ( Delhi) 28. SARGAM, Shri Johar Ali Kan (NCR) (E) (Hindustani Fusion) 29. Taaltantra, Tanmoy Bose ( Kolkata ) Group (E) 30. Yatra -Shekh Mohammad Ibrahim (U.P) 31. The Raghu Dixit Project (Raghu Dixit) Myore 32. The Sufi Gospel Project - Sonam Kalra ( Delhi) 33. Vibgyor (Ratish Sharad Chandra Tagde) Mumbai 34. Vibrations Group - Ronu Majumdar ( Mumbai) 187 PERCUSSION 1. DHWANI (Lalgudi R. Sriganesh), NCR (E) Ensemble 2. The Bengal Ensemble , Monaranjan Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) Tri – Khole, Pakhwaj, Tabla 3. Saurang Ensemble (NCR), Ustad Ghulam Sabir Khan (Prof.) HINDUSTANI INSTRUMENTAL 1. Stree Shakti (Mumbai), Ms. Anuradha Pal (Prof.) 2. Amar Nath & Pankaj Nath (NCR) (E), H. Instrumental Group 3. Arunangshu Chaudhury (West Bengal) (E), Impulse Group 4. Selvaraj R. (Chennai) (E), Instrumental cell Group 5. Ustad Ghulam Mohd. Saznawaaz (Kashmir), H. Instrumental 6. Sujoy Basu (Kolkata), H. Instrumental Group 7. Tarang Group-Saraswati Rajagopalan (NCR), Veena-jugalbandi, H.Instrumental 8. Talash Musical Band (Uttar Pradesh), Ritesh Ranjan Sahai 9. Shankar Ghosh & Party (Hindustani) (Est.) JUGALBANDI 1. Mor Mukut Kedia & Manoj Kr Kedia (Jharkhand) Sitar & Sarod (Jugalbandi) 2. Laya Shakti Tabla Tarang (NCR), Shri Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa , (Jugalbandi) (Group) Tabla & Tarang 3. Prakash Sontakke ( Bangalore ) Jugalbandi (P) TALVADHYA

1. Babulal Verma, (Dewas) Tal Vadhya (Est.) JAZZ PROFICIENT

1. Sonam Kalra ( Delhi) JAZZ FUSION PROFICIENT

1. ( Bangalore ) 2. Joseph Anthony Alvares ( Mumbai) 188 189 COMPOSER-ORCHESTRA/CHORAL/OPERA OUTSTANDING 1. Anil Biswas 2. Atul Desai 3. 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 (Kolkata) 14. Vanaraj Bhatia 15.

ESTABLISHED 1. Air Warriors Band Flight Lieutenant 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 ( Bangalore) 2. India National Youth Orchestra - Sonia Khan ( Delhi)

190 CHOIR/ VRINDAGAN 1. Asima - John David James Mott (Devissaro) (Kerala) 2. Kolkata Youth Choir - Director: Ms Ruma Guha Thakurta 3. Gandhrva Choir, Delhi, Director: Pt ), 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 (NCR) 8. Sugarmix Cooperative – Varnahas, Children's Orchestra, Director: Shri Kulkarni 9. The Stop – Gaps Cultural Academy, Choir 10. Zohra Lilavati Shaw (Delhi) , Choir, Western, Harmony (Est.) 11. Viswa Bharati Choir 12. Saptasur Choir Group, C/O Dipali Nag 13. Lipokmar Tzudir (Nagaland) (Proficient) Chance L-Choir Foundation for Performing Arts

OPERA 1. Neemrana Choir (Situ Singh Buehler) NCR

191 PIANO PROFICIENT 1. Vandana Kohli (Delhi)

192 WHISTLING ESTABLISHED 1. Komarravolu Siva Prasad (Hyderabad)

PROFICIENT 1. Sreekrishnan N R (Bangaluru)

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

GROUP 1. Mr. Lokendranath Kaushik, Jagriti Kala Sangam

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

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

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

GROUPS

1. Arangham Dance Theatre (Chennai), Anita Ratnam 2. Anuradha Majumdar Legrand & Group (Tamilnadu) 3. Anveshana Dance Theatre (Contemporary Choreography) Sangeeta Sharma (NCR) 4. `s Group 5. Attakkalari (Shri P.Jayachandran), Centre for Contemporary Performing Arts, Kerala 6. Baruipara Nrityalok (Choreography), Sutapa Awon Pradhan (Kolkata) 7. Bhoomika - Narendra Sharma 8. Chandralekha`s Group 9. Dancer`s Guild, Jonaki Sarkar (Kolkata) 195 10. Darpana Dance Akademi, Mrinalini & 11. Delhi Ballet Group (Contemporary Dance-Drama) Valmiki Bannerjee (New Delhi) 12. Kala Samoh 13. Kant Ratnabali (Delhi) 14. Lacchu Maharaj Ballet Centre , (Kathak Style - Dance Drama) Kumkum Adarsh Lucknow 15. Maya Rao`s Group 16. Mamta Shankar & Group 17. Natya Ballet Centre 18. Natya Stem Dance Kampni , (Contemporary Kathak Dance Group), Madhu Nataraj (Bangaluru)

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

26. Rangasri Little Ballet Troupe () 27. Rekha Mehra & Group (Creative & Choreography) Rekha Mehra (NCR) 28. Rhythmosaic - Shambik Ghose ( Kolkata) Contemporary 29. Sachin Shankar`s Group 30. Sadhya A Unit of Performing Arts, Santosh Nair (NCR) 31. Saltlake Navanritya Dance Centre (Contemporary) Chirantan Bhaduri (Kolkata) 32. Sampravaahi Group - Anurag Verma & Samandar Manganiar ( Rajasthan) 33. Samudra Performing Arts (Trivandrum) 34. Shankarananda Kalakshetra (Secunderabad) 35. Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra 36. Kathak Sansthan Nritya Mandal, (Kathak Style Dance-Drama), Sarita Srivastav, (Lucknow) 37. Sonar Chand & Group 38. Santosh Kumar Nair (Creative Dance) NCR 39. Taal Chandanam (Contemporary Dance Group) Satyabrata Roy (Kolkatta) 40. Tanva Creative Dance Ensemble of Delhi, Kishore Sharma (NCR) 41. Tanusree Shankar Dance Company (Kolkata) 42. Tapsaya - Ajay Kumar (U.P) Modern Dance Drama 43. Tibetan Performing Arts (Dharamsala) 44. Natyalakshana (Dance-Drama Group) 196 Usha Venkateswaran (Bangaluru) 45. KROSSWINDZ – (Group) Vikramajit Banerjee (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

197 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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