Padma Awards

A total of 133 persons were honoured with the prestigious Padma Awards this year. The second highest civilian honour Padma Vibhushan was given to 10 personalities. 30 individuals won Padma Bhushan while 93 others were presented Padma Shri award. The awardees were as follows:

Padma Vibhushan
Dr. Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, Civil Service; Sunderlal Bahuguna, Environment Conservation; Prof. D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Literature & Education; Prof. Jasbir Singh Bajaj, Medicine; Dr. Purshotam  Lal, Medicine; Govind Narain, Public Affairs; Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Science & Engineering; G. Madhavan Nair, Science & Engineering; Sister Nirmala, Social Work; Dr. A.S. Ganguly, Trade & Industry.

Padma Bhushan
Shri G. Sivarama Krishna Murthy alias Krishna, Art; Prof. Ramanlal C. Mehta, Art; Shamshad Begum, Art; V. P.
Dhananjayan & Smt Shanta Dhananjayan (Duo), Art; Dr. Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati, Art; Shri S. K. Misra, Civil Service; Shri Shekhar Gupta, Journalism; Prof. Alappat Sreedhara Menon, Literature & Education; Shri C. K. Prahlad, Literature & Education; D.Jayakanthan, Literature & Education; Dr. (Smt) Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Literature & Education; Shri Kunwar Narain, Literature & Education; Prof. Minoru Hara, Literature & Education; Shri Ramachandra Guha, Literature & Education; Dr. Brijendra Kumar Rao, Medicine; Vaidya Devendra Triguna, Medicine; Dr. Khalid Hameed, Medicine; Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Satish Nambiar, National Security Affairs; Dr. (Smt) Inderjit Kaur Barthakur, Public Affairs; Dr. Kirit Shantilal Parikh, Public Affairs; Dr. Bhakta B. Rath, Science & Engineering; Shri Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri, Science & Engineering; Dr. Gurdip Singh Randhawa, Science & Engineering; Shri Sam Pitroda, Science & Engineering; Prof . Sarvagya Singh Katiyar, Science & Engineering; Prof. Thomas Kailath, Science & Engineering; Dr. Naganath  Nayakawadi, Social Work; Dr. (Smt) Sarojini Varadappan, Social Work; Shri Abhinav Bindra, Sports; Shri Anil Manibhai Naik, Trade & Industry.

Padma Shri
Thilakan, Art; A. Vivekh, Art;  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Art; Akshay Kumar, Art; Dr. (Ms) Ameena Ahmed Ahuja, Art; Aruna Sairam, Art; Devayani Chaymotty, Art; Geeta Kapur, Art; Govind Ram Nirmalkar, Art; Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma, Art; Hashmat Ullah Khan, Art (Jammu & Kashmir);  Helan Khan, Art; Hemi Bawa, Art; Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Art; Iravatham Mahadevan, Art;  K.P. Udayabhanu, Art; Dr. Kanneganti Brahmanandam, Art; Prof. Kiran Seth, Art; Kumar Sanu Bhattacharjee, Art; Dr. Leela Omchery, Art; Mattannoor Sankarankutty Marar, Art; Niranjan Goswami, Art; Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, Art; Penaz Masani, Art; Prakash N.  Dubey, Art; Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, Art; Ram Kishore Chhipa, Art; Saoli Mitra, Art; Late Shri Skendrowell Syiemlieh (Posthumous), Art; Dr. Subrahmanyam Krishnaswamy, Art; Suresh Dutta, Art; Late Shri Tafazzul Ali (Posthumous), Art; Udit Narayan, Art; Vadakka Manalath Govindan alias Kalamandalam Gopi, Art; S. B. Ghosh Dastidar, Civil Service; Ameen Sayani, Commentary & Broadcasting; Abhay Chhajlani, Journalism; Dr. A. Sankara Reddy, Literature & Education; Alok Mehta, Literature & Education; Dr. Bannanje Govindacharya, Literature & Education; Dr. Birendranath Datta, Literature & Education; Prof. Geshe Ngawang Samten, Literature & Education; Prof. Jalees Ahmed Khan Tareen, Literature & Education; Jayanta Mahapatra, Literature & Education; Dr. John Ralston Marr, Literature & Education; Lalthangfala Sailo, Literature & Education; Laxman Bapu Mane, Literature & Education; Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurty, Literature & Education; Norden Tshering, Literature & Education; Dr. Panchapakesa Jayaraman, Literature & Education; Prof. Ram Shankar Tripathi, Literature & Education; Prof. Ranbir Chander Sobti, Literature & Education; Dr. Ravindra Nath Srivastava, Literature & Education; Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Literature & Education; Shashi Deshpande, Literature & Education; Sunny Varkey,
Literature & Education; Suresh Gundu Amonkar, Literature & Education; Dr. Utpal K Banerjee, Literature & Education; Dr. A. K.
Gupta, Medicine; Dr. Alampur Saibaba Goud, Medicine; Dr. Arvind Lal, Medicine; Dr. Ashok K. Vaid, Medicine; Dr. Ashok Kumar  Grover, Medicine; Dr. Balswarup Choubey, Medicine; Dr. D.S. Rana, Medicine; Dr. Govindan Vijayaraghavan, Medicine; Dr. Kalyan Banerjee, Medicine; P.R. Krishna Kumar, Medicine; Dr. R. Sivaraaman, Medicine; Dr. Shaik Khader Noordeen, Medicine; Prof. Thanikachalam Sadagopan, Medicine; Dr. Yash Gulati, Medicine; K. Asungba Sangtam, Public Affairs; Dr. Shyamlha Pappu, Public Affairs; Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Research on Himalayan Glaciers; Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav, Science & Engineering; Prof. Pramod Tandon, Science & Engineering; Bansilal Rathi, Social Work; Begum Bilkees I. Latif, Social Work; Cheril Krishna Menon, Social Work; Rev. Fr. Joseph H. Pereira, Social Work; K. Viswanathan, Social Work; Keepu Tshering Lepcha, Social Work; Prof. Shyam Sunder Maheshwari, Social Work; Sunil Kanti Roy, Social Work; Balbir Singh Khullar, Sports; Harbhajan Singh, Sports; Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sports; Pankaj Advani, Sports; Surinder Mehta, Technology Solutions; Arumugam Sakthivel, Trade & Industry;  Dr. Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty, Trade & Industry; R.K. Krishna Kumar, Trade & Industry.