Govt announces Padma Awards

A total of 109 persons, including 19 women, have been selected for the Padma awards on the eve of the Republic Day.

President Pratibha Patil approved the awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ posthumous.

The awards comprise five Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri awards.

The awardees are listed below:

Padma Vibhushan

1. K G Subramanyan for Art-Painting and Sculpture from West Bengal

2. Late Mario De Miranda for Art-Cartoonist from Goa

3. Late (Dr) Bhupen Hazarika for Art- Vocal Music from Assam

4. Dr Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti for Medicine- Orthopaedics from Maharashtra

5. T V Rajeswar for Civil Service from Delhi

Padma Bhushan

1. Shabana Azmi Art - Cinema - Maharashtra

2. Khaled Choudhury Art - Theatre - West Bengal

3. Jatin Das Art - Painting - Delhi

4. Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta - Art - Instrumental Music - Sarod - West Bengal

5. Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra - Art- Cinema - Maharashtra

6. Dr Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan - Art - Classical vocal and instrumental music - Tamil Nadu

7. Mira Nair Art - Cinema - Delhi

8. M S Gopalakrishnan - Art - Instrumental Music-Violin Tamil Nadu

9. Late Anish Kapoor - Art - Sculpture - UK

10. Satya Narayan Goenka - Social Work - Maharashtra.

11. Dr (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao - Public Affairs - Germany

12. George Yong-Boon Yeo - Public Affairs - Singapore

13. Prof Shashikumar Chitre - Science and Engineering - Maharashtra

14. Dr M S Raghunathan - Science and Engineering - Maharashtra

15. Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan - Trade and Industry - Tamil Nadu

16. Balasubramanian Muthuraman - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra

17. Dr Suresh H Advani Medicine - Oncology - Maharashtra

18. Dr Noshir H Wadia -Medicine - Neurology - Maharashtra

19. Dr Devi Prasad Shetty - Medicine - Cardiology - Karnataka

20. Prof (Dr) Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar - Literature and Education - Maharashtra

21. Prof Vidya Dehejia - Literature and Education - USA

22. Prof Arvind Panagariya - Literature and Education - USA

23. Dr Jose Pereira - Literature and Education - USA

24. Dr Homi K Bhabha - Literature and Education - UK

25. N Vittal - Civil Service - Kerala

26. Mata Prasad - Civil Service - Uttar Pradesh

27. Ronen Sen - Civil Service - West Bengal

Padma Shri

1. Vanraj Bhatia - Art - Music - Maharashtra

2. Zia Fariduddin Dagar - Art - Music- vocal - Maharashtra

3. Smt Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi - Art - Music- Khongjom Parba - Manipur

4. Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani - Art - Yakshagana dance drama - Karnataka

5. Moti Lal Kemmu - Art - Playwright - Jammu and Kashmir

6. Shahid Parvez Khan - Art - Instrumental Music - Sitar - Maharashtra

7. Mohan Lal Kumhar - Art - Terracotta - Rajasthan

8. Sakar Khan Manganiar - Art - Rajasthani Folk Music - Rajasthan.

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