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Page 1 of 5 MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

PRESS NOTE

North Block, New . the 25th January, 2008

The President of has been pleased to approve the conferment of Padma Awards-2008 in respect of the following:

Padma Vibhushan

Sl.No. Name Discipline State / Domicile 1. Ms. Art 2. Justice (Dr.) A. S. Anand Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 3. Shri P.N. Dhar Public Affairs Delhi 4. Shri Public Affairs Delhi 5. Dr. E. Sreedharan Science and Delhi Engineering 6. Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri Science and Delhi Engineering 7. Late Mr. Sports New Zealand (Posthumous) 8. Shri Sachin Ramesh Sports Maharashtra Tendulkar 9. Shri Sports 10. Shri Lakshmi Narayan Mittal Trade and Industry UK 11. Shri N.R. Narayana Murthy Trade and Industry Karnataka 12. Shri P.R.S. Oberoi Trade and Industry Delhi 13. Shri Ratan Naval Tata Trade and Industry Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan

Sl.No. Name Discipline State / Domicile 1. Late Shri Art Delhi (Posthumous) 2. Ustad Art Delhi 3. Smt. P. Susheela Art Tamil Nadu 4. Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Art Delhi Dagar 5. Prof. Saxena Art Delhi

Page 2 of 5 6. Shri Chandrashekhar Civil Service Delhi Dasgupta 7. Shri K. Padmanabhiah Civil Service Delhi 8. Shri V. Ramachandran Civil Service 9. Shri Commentary & Delhi Broadcasting 10. Prof. Brijinder Nath Literature and Chandigarh Goswamy Education 11. Prof. Ji Xianlin Literature and China Education 12. Prof. Literature and USA Education 13. Prof. (Smt.) Literature and USA Education 14. Shri Literature and Goa Education 15. Dr. (Smt.) Literature and Delhi Education 16. Shri Shri Lal Shukla Literature and Uttar Pradesh Education 17. Dr. Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan Literature and USA Education 18. Prof. T.K. Oommen Literature and Haryana Education 19. Prof. (Dr.) Medicine Chandigarh Chopra 20. Prof. Nirmal Kumar Ganguly Medicine Delhi 21. Public Affairs Jammu & 22. Lord Meghnad Desai Public Affairs UK 23. Late Mr. Yuli Mikhailovitch Public Affairs Vorontsov (Posthumous) 24. Prof. Science and Delhi Engineering 25. Prof. Science and Delhi Engineering 26. Mrs. Science and USA Engineering – Astronautics 27. Dr. Science and Maharashtra Engineering

Page 3 of 5 28. Shri D.R. Mehta Social Work Rajasthan 29. Mr. Social Work France 30. Dr. (Ms.) Inderjit Kaur Social Work Punjab 31. Shri Trade and Industry Delhi and Social Work 32. Shri Baba Neelkanth Kalyani Trade and Industry Maharashtra 33. Shri K. V. Kamath Trade and Industry Maharashtra 34. Shri Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 35. Shri Trade and Industry USA

Padma Shri

Sl.No. Name Discipline State / Domicile 1. Shri Gangadhar Pradhan Art Orissa 2. Mr. Gennadi Mikhailovich Art Russia Pechinkov 3. Pandit Gokulotsavji Maharaj Art Madhya Pradesh 4. Shri Hans Raj Hans Art Punjab 5. Dr. (Smt.) Helen Giri Art Meghalaya 6. Shri Jatin Goswami Art 7. Shri Jawahar Wattal Art Delhi 8. Shri John Martin Nelson Art Chhattisgarh 9. Shri Jonnalagadda Gurappa Art Andhra Pradesh Chetty 10. Shri Kekoo M. Gandhy Art Maharashtra 11. Smt. Madhuri Dixit Art Maharashtra 12. Shri Mangala Prasad Art Jharkhand Mohanty 13. Shri Manoj Night Shyamalan Art USA 14. Ms. Meenakshi Chitharanjan Art Tamil Nadu 15. Shri Moozhikkulam Art Kerala Kochukuttan Chakyar 16. Shri P.K. Narayanan Art Kerala Nambiar 17. Shri Pratap Pawar Art UK 18. Smt. Sabitri Heisnam Art Manipur 19. Ms. Sentila T. Yanger Art Nagaland 20. Dr. Sirkazhi G. Art Tamil Nadu Sivachidambaram 21. Shri Tom Alter Art Maharashtra

Page 4 of 5 22. Prof. Yella Venkateswara Art Andhra Pradesh Rao 23. Ms. Barkha Dutt Journalism Delhi 24. Shri Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai Journalism Delhi 25. Shri Journalism Delhi 26. Prof. Literature and Jammu & Education Kashmir 27. Shri Balasubramanian Literature and Tamil Nadu Sivanthi Adithan Education 28. Shri Literature and Gujarat Education 29. Dr. (Smt.) Literature and Delhi Education 30. Prof. (Dr.) K.S. Nisar Ahmed Literature and Karnataka Education 31. Dr. (Smt.) M. Leelavathy Literature and Kerala Education 32. Dr. Literature and USA Education 33. Dr. Srinivas Udgata Literature and Orissa Education 34. Prof. Literature and Delhi Education 35. Shri Literature and Assam Education 36. Dr. Vellayani Arjunan Literature and Kerala Education 37. Mohammad Yousuf Taing Literature and Jammu & Education Kashmir 38. Haji Mango Plantation Uttar Pradesh and Grafting 39. Dr. A. Jayanta Kumar Singh Medicine Manipur 40. Prof. (Dr.) Arjunan Medicine Tamil Nadu Rajasekaran 41. Prof. (Dr.) C.U. Medicine Tamil Nadu Velmurugendran 42. Dr. Deepak Sehgal Medicine Delhi 43. Prof. (Dr.) Dinesh K. Medicine Delhi Bhargava 44. Dr. Indu Bhushan Sinha Medicine Bihar 45. Dr. Keiki R. Mehta Medicine Maharashtra

Page 5 of 5 46. Dr. (Smt.) Malvika Medicine Delhi Sabharwal 47. Dr. Mohan Chandra Pant Medicine Uttar Pradesh 48. Dr. Rakesh Kumar Jain Medicine Uttarakhand 49. Dr. Raman Kapur Medicine Delhi 50. Dr. Randhir Sud Medicine Delhi 51. Dr. Shyam Narayan Arya Medicine Bihar 52. Prof. (Dr.) Surendra Singh Medicine Delhi Yadav 53. Dr. Tatyarao Pundlikrao Medicine Maharashtra Lahane 54. Dr. Tony Fernandez Medicine Kerala 55. Smt. Colette Mathur Public Affairs Switzerland 56. Shri Bhavarlal Hiralal Jain Science and Maharashtra Engineering 57. Dr. Joseph H. Hulse Science and Canada Engineering 58. Prof. Science and Delhi Engineering 59. Dr. Science and USA Engineering 60. Shri Kailash Chandra Social Work Rajasthan Agrawal 61. Sister Karuna Mary Braganza Social Work Maharashtra 62. Dr. (Smt.) Kshama Metre Social Work Himachal Pradesh 63. Dr. Kutikuppala Surya Rao Social Work Andhra Pradesh 64. Shri Madan Mohan Social Work Delhi Sabharwal 65. Dr. (Ms.) Sheela Barthakur Social Work Assam 66. Shri V.R. Gowrishankar Social Work Karnataka 67. Shri Vikramjit Singh Sahney Social Work Delhi 68. Shri Yousaf Ali Social Work UAE Musaliamveettil Abdul Kader 69. Shri Baichung Bhutia Sports Sikkim 70. Ms. Bula Chowdhury Sports Chakraborty 71. Dr. Amit Mitra Trade and Industry Delhi

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