This Article is From Jan 25, 2013

List of Padma awardees

Ministry of Home Affairs

Press note

North Block, New Delhi.

Dated the 25th January, 2013.

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

2. These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has consented to confer Padma Awards to 108 persons as per the list below. The list comprises of 4 Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 80 Padma Shri Awardees.  24 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and Posthumous  awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

Name Discipline State/ Domicile

1.Shri Raghunath Mohapatra Art, Orissa

2.Shri S. Haider Raza Art, Delhi

3.Prof. Yash Pal Science and Engineering,  Uttar Pradesh

4.Prof. Roddam Narasimha  Science and Engineering, Karnataka

Padma Bhushan

Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile

1. Dr. Ramanaidu Daggubati  Art,  Andhra Pradesh

2.Smt. Sreeramamurthy Janaki Art,  Tamil Nadu

3. Dr. (Smt.) Kanak Rele  Art,  Maharashtra

4.Smt. Sharmila Tagore  Art,  Delhi

5. Dr. (Smt.) Saroja Vaidyanathan  Art, Delhi

6.Shri Abdul Rashid Khan  Art,  West Bengal

7. Late Rajesh Khanna  Art,  Maharashtra #

8. Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti  Art,  Punjab #

9.Shri Shivajirao Girdhar Patil Public Affairs, Maharashtra

10. Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai  Science and Engineering,  Delhi

11. Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat  Science and Engineering,  Delhi

12. Dr. Ashoke Sen  Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh

13. Dr. B.N. Suresh  Science and Engineering, Karnataka

14.Prof. Satya N. Atluri  Science and Engineering,  USA *

15.Prof. Jogesh Chandra Pati  Science and Engineering, USA

16. Shri Ramamurthy Thyagarajan  Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu

17.Shri Adi Burjor Godrej  Trade and Industry, Maharashtra

18. Dr. Nandkishore Shamrao Laud  Medicine,  Maharashtra

19.Shri Mangesh Padgaonkar  Literature & Education, Maharashtra

20. Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak  Literature & Education, USA*

21. Shri Hemendra Singh Panwar Civil Service, Madhya Pradesh

22. Dr. Maharaj Kishan Bhan Civil Service, Delhi

23. Shri Rahul Dravid Sports,  Karnataka

24. Ms. H. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom  Sports  Manipur

Padma Shri

Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile

1.Shri Gajam Anjaiah  Art,  Andhra Pradesh

2. Swami G.C.D. Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu Art,  Chhattisgarh

3. Ms. B. Jayashree  Art,  Karnataka

4.Smt. Sridevi Kapoor  Art,  Maharashtra

5.Shri Kailash Chandra Meher  Art,  Orissa

6.Shri Brahmdeo Ram Pandit  Art,  Maharashtra

7. Shri Vishwanath Dinkar Patekar alias Nana Patekar Art,  Maharashtra

8. Shri Rekandar Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji Art,  Andhra Pradesh

9.Shri Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju  Art,  Tamil Nadu

10.Smt. Jaymala Shiledar  Art,  Maharashtra

11.Shri Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar Art,  Maharashtra

12.Shri P. Madhavan Nair alias Madhu Art,  Kerala

13.Shri Apurba Kishore Bir  Art,  Maharashtra

14.Shri Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan Art,  Assam

15. Smt. Hilda Mit Lepcha  Art,  Sikkim

16. Smt. Sudha Malhotra  Art  Maharashtra

17.Shri Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz  Art, Jammu and Kashmir

18. Shri Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy  Art,  Maharashtra

19. Ms. Mahrukh Tarapor  Art,  Maharashtra

20. Shri Balwant Thakur Art, Jammu & Kashmir

21.Shri Puran Das Baul Art, West Bengal

22.Shri Rajendra Tikku Art, Jammu &  Kashmir

23.Shri Pablo Bartholomew Art Delhi

24.Shri S. Shakir Ali  Art Rajasthan

25.Sh. S.K.M Maeilanandhan  Social Work Tamil Nadu

26. Ms. Nileema Mishra  Social Work Maharashtra

27. Ms. Reema Nanavati Social Work Gujarat

28. Ms. Jharna Dhara Chowdhury  Social Work Bangladesh *

29. Late Dr. Ram Krishan  Social Work Uttar Pradesh #

30. Late Manju Bharat Ram  Social Work Delhi #

31. Prof. Mustansir Barma Science and Engineering Maharashtra

32.Shri Avinash Chander Science and Engineering Delhi

33.Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh

34. Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kumar Pal Science and Engineering West Bengal

35.Prof. Deepak B. Phatak Science and Engineering Maharashtra

36. Dr. Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh

37.Prof. Ajay K. Sood  Science and Engineering Karnataka

38.Prof. Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan Science and Engineering, Karnataka

39. Dr. Manindra Agrawal Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh

40. Dr. Jayaraman Gowrishankar  Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh

41. Prof. Sharad Pandurang Kale  Science and Engineering  Maharashtra

42.Smt. Vandana Luthra  Trade and Industry Delhi

43. Ms. Rajshree Pathy  Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu

44. Shri Hemendra Prasad Barooah  Trade and Industry Assam

45.Shri Milind Kamble Trade and Industry Maharashtra

46. Ms. Kalpana Saroj Trade and Industry Maharashtra

47. Dr. Sudarshan K. Aggarwal  Medicine  Delhi

48. Dr. C. Venkata S. Ram alias Chitta Venkata Sundara Ram Medicine  Andhra Pradesh

49. Dr. Rajendra Achyut Badwe  Medicine  Maharashtra

50. Dr. Taraprasad Das  Medicine  Orissa

51.Prof. (Dr.) T.V. Devarajan  Medicine  Tamil Nadu

52.Prof. (Dr.) Saroj Chooramani Gopal  Medicine  Uttar Pradesh

53. Dr. Pramod Kumar Julka  Medicine  Delhi

54. Dr. Gulshan Rai Khatri  Medicine  Delhi

55. Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani  Medicine  Delhi

56. Dr. Amit Prabhakar Maydeo  Medicine Maharashtra

57. Dr. Sundaram Natarajan Medicine Maharashtra

58.Prof. Krishna Chandra Chunekar Medicine Uttar Pradesh

59. Dr. Vishwa Kumar Gupta Medicine Delhi

60. Prof. (Capt.) Dr. Mohammad Sharaf-eAlam Literature & Education Bihar

61. Dr. Radhika Herzberger Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh

62.Shri J. Malsawma  Literature & Education Mizoram

63.Shri Devendra Patel  Literature & Education Gujarat

64. Dr. Rama Kant Shukla  Literature & Education Delhi

65.Prof. Akhtarul Wasey Literature & Education Delhi
66. Prof. Anvita Abbi  Literature & Education Delhi

67.Shri Nida Fazli  Literature & Education  Madhya Pradesh

68. Shri Surender Kumar Sharma Literature & Education Delhi

69. Dr. Jagdish Prasad Singh  Literature & Education

Bihar

70. Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi Literature & Education West Bengal #

71.Prof. Noboru Karashima  Literature & Education Japan *

72.Shri Christopher Pinney  Literature & Education  UK *

73.Smt. Premlata Agrawal  Sports  Jharkhand

74.Shri Yogeshwar Dutt  Sports  Haryana

75.Shri Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha  Sports  Karnataka

76.Subedar Major Vijay Kumar  Sports  Himachal Pradesh

77.Shri Ngangom Dingko Singh  Sports  Maharashtra

78. Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar  Sports  Rajasthan

79. Ms. Ritu Kumar Fashion Designing Delhi

80. Dr. Ravindra Singh Bisht  Archaeology  Uttar Pradesh

Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs.

 # indicates awardees in the posthumous category.

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