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PRESS NOTE

North Block, New Delhi. the 25th January, 2009

The President of India has approved the conferment of Padma Awards-2009 on the following persons:

Padma Vibhushan

Sl.No. Name Discipline State / Domicile 1. Dr. Chandrika Prasad Civil Service Maharashtra Srivastava 2. Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna Environment Uttarakhand Conservation 3. Prof. D.P. Chattopadhyaya Literature & West Bengal Education 4. Prof. Jasbir Singh Bajaj Medicine Punjab 5. Dr. Purshotam Lal Medicine Uttar Pradesh 6. Shri Govind Narain Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 7. Dr. Anil Kakodkar Science & Maharashtra Engineering 8. Shri G. Madhavan Nair Science & Karnataka Engineering 9. Sister Nirmala Social Work West Bengal 10. Dr. A.S. Ganguly Trade & Industry Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan

Sl.No. Name Discipline State / Domicile 1. Shri G. Sivarama Krishna Art Andhra Pradesh Murthy alias Krishna 2. Prof. Ramanlal C. Mehta Art Gujarat 3. Smt. Shamshad Begum Art Maharashtra 4. Shri V.P. Dhananjayan & Art Tamil Nadu Smt. Shanta Dhananjayan (Duo) 5. Dr. Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Art Tamil Nadu Sthapati 6. Shri S.K. Misra Civil Service Haryana Page 2 of 6 7. Shri Shekhar Gupta Journalism Delhi 8. Prof. Alappat Sreedhara Literature & Kerala Menon Education 9. Shri C.K. Prahlad Literature & NRI/ PIO Education 10. Shri D. Jayakanthan Literature & Tamil Nadu Education 11. Dr. (Smt.) Isher Judge Literature & Delhi Ahluwalia Education 12. Shri Kunwar Narain Literature & Delhi Education 13. Prof. Minoru Hara Literature & Foreigner Education 14. Shri Ramachandra Guha Literature & Karnataka Education 15. Dr. Brijendra Kumar Rao Medicine Delhi 16. Vaidya Devendra Triguna Medicine Delhi 17. Dr. Khalid Hameed Medicine NRI/ PIO 18. Lt.Gen. (Retd.) Satish National Security Delhi Nambiar Affairs 19. Dr. (Smt.) Inderjit Kaur Public Affairs Meghalaya Barthakur 20. Dr. Kirit Shantilal Parikh Public Affairs Delhi 21. Dr. Bhakta B. Rath Science & NRI/ PIO Engineering 22. Shri Conjeevaram Science & Tamil Nadu Srirangachari Seshadri Engineering 23. Dr. Gurdip Singh Randhawa Science & Delhi Engineering 24. Shri Sam Pitroda Science & Delhi Engineering 25. Prof. (Dr.) Sarvagya Singh Science & Uttar Pradesh Katiyar Engineering 26. Prof. Thomas Kailath Science & NRI/ PIO Engineering 27. Dr. Naganath Nayakawadi Social Work Maharashtra 28. Dr. (Smt.) Sarojini Social Work Tamil Nadu Varadappan 29. Shri Abhinav Bindra Sports Punjab 30. Shri Anil Manibhai Naik Trade & Industry Maharashtra

Page 3 of 6 Padma Shri

Sl.No. Name Discipline State / Domicile 1. Shri Thilakan Art Kerala 2. Shri A. Vivekh Art Tamil Nadu 3. Smt. Aishwarya Rai Art Maharashtra Bachchan 4. Shri Akshay Kumar Art Maharashtra 5. Dr. (Ms.) Ameena Ahmed Art Delhi Ahuja 6. Smt. Aruna Sairam Art Tamil Nadu 7. Smt. Devayani Chaymotty Art Foreigner 8. Ms. Geeta Kapur Art Delhi 9. Shri Govind Ram Nirmalkar Art Chhattisgarh 10. Shri Gurumayum Art Manipur Gourakishor Sharma 11. Shri Hashmat Ullah Khan Art Jammu & Kashmir 12. Smt. Helan Khan Art Maharashtra 13. Smt. Hemi Bawa Art Delhi 14. Pandit Hridaynath Art Maharashtra Mangeshkar 15. Shri Iravatham Mahadevan Art Tamil Nadu 16. Shri K.P. Udayabhanu Art Kerala 17. Dr. Kanneganti Art Andhra Pradesh Brahmanandam 18. Prof. Kiran Seth Art Delhi 19. Shri Kumar Sanu Art Maharashtra Bhattacharjee 20. Prof. Dr. (Smt.) Leela Art Delhi Omchery 21. Shri Mattannoor Art Kerala Sankarankutty Marar 22. Shri Niranjan Goswami Art West Bengal 23. Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa Art Punjab 24. Ms. Penaz Masani Art Maharashtra 25. Shri Prakash N. Dubey Art Maharashtra 26. Dr. Pratapaditya Pal Art NRI/ PIO 27. Shri Ram Kishore Chhipa Art Rajasthan 28. Smt. Saoli Mitra Art West Bengal Page 4 of 6 29. Late Shri Skendrowell Art Meghalaya Syiemlieh (Posthumous) 30. Dr. Subrahmanyam Art Tamil Nadu Krishnaswamy 31. Shri Suresh Dutta Art West Bengal 32. Late Shri Tafazzul Ali Art Assam (Posthumous) 33. Shri Udit Narayan Art Maharashtra 34. Shri Vadakka Manalath Art Kerala Govindan alias Kalamandalam Gopi 35. Shri S.B. Ghosh Dastidar Civil Service Haryana 36. Shri Ameen Sayani Commentary & Maharashtra Broadcasting 37. Shri Abhay Chhajlani Journalism Madhya Pradesh 38. Dr. A. Sankara Reddy Literature & Delhi Education 39. Shri Alok Mehta Literature & Delhi Education 40. Dr. Bannanje Govindacharya Literature & Karnataka Education 41. Dr. Birendranath Datta Literature & Assam Education 42. Prof. Geshe Ngawang Literature & Foreigner Samten Education 43. Prof. Jalees Ahmed Khan Literature & Puducherry Tareen Education 44. Shri Jayanta Mahapatra Literature & Orissa Education 45. Dr. John Ralston Marr Literature & Foreigner Education 46. Shri Lalthangfala Sailo Literature & Mizoram Education 47. Shri Laxman Bapu Mane Literature & Maharashtra Education 48. Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurty Literature & Karnataka Education 49. Shri Norden Tshering Literature & Sikkim Education 50. Dr. Panchapakesa Jayaraman Literature & NRI/ PIO Education Page 5 of 6 51. Prof. Ram Shankar Tripathi Literature & Uttar Pradesh Education 52. Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Chander Literature & Chandigarh Sobti Education 53. Dr. Ravindra Nath Srivastava Literature & Bihar Education 54. Shri Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Literature & Uttar Pradesh Education 55. Smt. Shashi Deshpande Literature & Karnataka Education 56. Shri Sunny Varkey Literature & NRI/ PIO Education 57. Shri Suresh Gundu Amonkar Literature & Goa Education 58. Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee Literature & Delhi Education 59. Dr. A.K. Gupta Medicine Maharashtra 60. Dr. Alampur Saibaba Goud Medicine Andhra Pradesh 61. Dr. Arvind Lal Medicine Delhi 62. Dr. Ashok K. Vaid Medicine Delhi 63. Dr. Ashok Kumar Grover Medicine Delhi 64. Dr. Balswarup Choubey Medicine Maharashtra 65. Dr. D. S. Rana Medicine Himachal Pradesh 66. Dr. Govindan Medicine Kerala Vijayaraghavan 67. Dr. Kalyan Banerjee Medicine Delhi 68. Shri P.R. Krishna Kumar Medicine Tamil Nadu 69. Dr. R. Sivaraaman Medicine Tamil Nadu 70. Dr. Shaik Khader Noordeen Medicine Tamil Nadu 71. Prof. (Dr.) Thanikachalam Medicine Tamil Nadu Sadagopan 72. Dr. Yash Gulati Medicine Delhi 73. Shri K. Asungba Sangtam Public Affairs Nagaland 74. Dr. (Ms.) Shyamlha Pappu Public Affairs Delhi 75. Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain Research on Delhi Himalayan Glaciers 76. Shri Goriparthi Narasimha Science & Andhra Pradesh Raju Yadav Engineering 77. Prof. Pramod Tandon Science & Meghalaya Engineering 78. Shri Bansilal Rathi Social Work Madhya Pradesh Page 6 of 6 79. Begum Bilkees I. Latif Social Work Andhra Pradesh 80. Shri Cheril Krishna Menon Social Work NRI/ PIO 81. Rev. Fr. Joseph H. Pereira Social Work Maharashtra 82. Shri K. Viswanathan Social Work Kerala 83. Ms Keepu Tshering Lepcha Social Work Sikkim 84. Prof. Shyam Sunder Social Work Rajasthan Maheshwari 85. Shri Sunil Kanti Roy Social Work West Bengal 86. Shri Balbir Singh Khullar Sports Punjab 87. Shri Harbhajan Singh Sports Punjab 88. Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni Sports Jharkhand 89. Shri Pankaj Advani Sports Karnataka 90. Shri Surinder Mehta Technology Delhi Solutions 91. Shri Arunmugam Sakthivel Trade & Industry Tamil Nadu 92. Dr. Bavaguthu Raghuram Trade & Industry NRI/ PIO Shetty 93. Shri R.K. Krishna Kumar Trade & Industry Maharashtra

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