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Government of India

Monday, January 25, 2010

Ministry of Home Affairs

THIS YEAR’S PADMA AWARDS ANNOUNCED

17:22 IST
Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three
categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The
awards are given in all 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.

The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at

Rashtrapati Bhavan sometime around March/ April. This year the President has
approved 130 awards including 13 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs. These
comprise 6 Padma Vibhushan, 43 Padma Bhushan and 81 Padma Shri awards.
There are 17 ladies among the awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

Sl.No. Name Discipline State/

Domicile
1. Shri Ebrahim Alkazi Art Delhi
2. Shri Umayalpuram K. Art Tamil Nadu
Sivaraman
3. Smt. Zohra Segal Art Delhi
4. Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy Public Affairs Andhra
Pradesh
5. Dr. Venkatraman Science and UK *
Ramakrishnan Engineering
6. Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu

Padma Bhushan

Sl.No. Name Discipline State/

Domicile
1. Shri Ilaiyaraaja Art Tamil Nadu
2. Shri Aamir Khan Art Maharashtra
3. Shri Akbar Padamsee Art Maharashtra
4. Shri Allah Rakha Rahman Art Tamil Nadu
5. Pandit Chhannulal Mishra Art Uttar Pradesh
6. Smt. Kumudini Lakhia Art Gujarat
7. Shri Kuzhur Narayana Marar Art Kerala
8. Prof. Madhusudan Amilal Art Gujarat
Dhaky
9. Ms. Mallika Sarabhai Art Gujarat
10. Prof. (Dr.) Nookala Chinna Art Andhra
Satyanarayana Pradesh
11. Pandit (Dr.) Puttaraj Gavai Art Karnataka
12. Shri Ram Kumar Art Delhi
13. Shri Shrinivas Vinayak Khale Art Maharashtra
 14. Ustad Sultan Khan Art Maharashtra
15. Shri B.K. Chaturvedi Civil Service Delhi
16. Shri Moosa Raza Civil Service Delhi
17. Dr. P.R. Dubhashi Civil Service Maharashtra
18. Shri Fareed Zakaria Journalism USA *
19. Shri Anil Bordia Literature and Rajasthan
Education
20. Prof. Bipan Chandra Literature and Delhi
Education
21. Shri G.P. Chopra Literature and Delhi
Education
22. Prof. Mohammad Amin Literature and Delhi
Education
23. Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri Literature and Delhi
Education
24. Prof. Tan Chung Literature and USA *
Education
25. Prof. Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine Karnataka
26. Shri E.T. Narayanan Mooss Medicine Kerala
27. Dr. Noshir M. Shroff Medicine Delhi
28. Dr. Panniyampilly Krishna Medicine Kerala
Warrier
29. Dr. Ramakant Madanmohan Medicine Maharashtra
Panda
30. Prof.(Dr.) Satya Paul Agarwal Medicine Delhi
31. Prof. Abhijit Sen Public Affairs Delhi
32. Shri Sailesh Kumar Public Affairs West Bengal
Bandyopadhyay
33. Shri Sant Singh Chatwal Public Affairs USA *
34. Prof. Arogyaswami Joseph Science and USA *
Paulraj Engineering
35. Prof. Bikash Chandra Sinha Science and West Bengal
Engineering
36. Shri Jagdish Chandra Kapur Science and Delhi
Engineering
37. Dr. Balagangadharanatha Social Work Karnataka
Swamiji
38. Shri Eknath Rao alias Social Work Maharashtra
Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
39. Capt. C.P. Krishnan Nair Trade and Industry Maharashtra
40. Dr. Kushal Pal Singh Trade and Industry Delhi
41. Shri Manvinder Singh Banga Trade and Industry UK *
alias Vindi Banga
42. Shri Narayanan Vaghul Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu
43. Shri S.P. Oswal Trade and Industry Punjab

Padma Shri

Sl.No. Name Discipline State/

Domicile
1. Shri Gulam Mohammed Mir Public Service Jammu and
Kashmir
2. Ms. Rekha Art Maharashtra
3. Shri Arjun Prajapati Art Rajasthan
4. Ms. Arundhati Nag Art Karnataka
5. Ms. Carmel Berkson Art Maharashtra
6. Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar Art Delhi
7. Smt. Gul Bardhan Art Madhya
 Pradesh
8. Smt. Haobam Ongbi Ngangbi Art Manipur
Devi
9. Shri Hari Uppal Art Bihar
10. Shri K. Raghavan Art Kerala
11. Guru Mayadhar Raut Art Delhi
12. Shri Mukund Lath Art Rajasthan
13. Shri Nemai Ghosh Art West Bengal
14. Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi Art Orissa
15. Shri Rajkumar Achouba Art Manipur
Singh
16. Dr. Ram Dayal Munda Art Jharkhand
17. Shri Resul Pokutty Art Kerala
18. Shri Saif Ali Khan Art Maharashtra
19. Dr. (Smt.) Shobha Raju Art Andhra
Pradesh
20. Ms. Sumitra Guha Art Delhi
21. Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar Art West Bengal
22. Shri D.R. Karthikeyan Civil Service Delhi
23. Dr. Ranjit Bhargava Environment Uttarakhand
Protection
24. Shri Arun Sarma Literature and Assam
Education
25. Prof. Arvind Kumar Literature and Maharashtra
Education
26. Ms. Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar Literature and Meghalaya
Education
27. Prof. Govind Chandra Pande Literature and Madhya
Education Pradesh
28. Prof. Hamidi Kashmiri Literature and Jammu and
Education Kashmir
29. Prof. (Dr.) Hermann Kulke Literature and Germany *
Education
30. Shri Janaki Ballav Shastri Literature and Bihar
Education
31. Dr. Jitendra Udhampuri Literature and Jammu and
Education Kashmir
32. Dr. Lal Bahadur Singh Literature and Uttar Pradesh
Chauhan Education
33. Shri Lalzuia Colney Literature and Mizoram
Education
34. Ms. Maria Aurora Couto Literature and Goa
Education
35. Dr.(Smt.) Rajalakshmi Literature and Tamil Nadu
Parthasarathy alias Y.G. Education
Parthasarathy
36. Prof. Ramaranjan Mukherji Literature and West Bengal
Education
37. Dr. Ranganathan Literature and Tamil Nadu
Parthasarathy Education
38. Fr. Romuald D’Souza Literature and Goa
Education
39. Prof. Sadiq - Ur - Rahman Literature and Delhi
Kidwai Education
40. Mr. Sheldon Pollock Literature and USA *
Education
41. Dr. Surendra Dubey Literature and Chhattisgarh
Education
 42. Dr. Anil Kumar Bhalla Medicine Delhi
43. Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin Medicine Uttar Pradesh
44. Dr. B. Ramana Rao Medicine Karnataka
45. Dr. Jalakantapuram Medicine Tamil Nadu
Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthy
46. Dr. K.K. Aggarwal Medicine Delhi
47. Prof. Kodaganur S. Gopinath Medicine Karnataka
48. Dr. Laxmi Chand Gupta Medicine Delhi
49. Dr. Philip Augustine Medicine Kerala
50. Dr. Rabindra Narain Singh Medicine Bihar
51. Dr. Vikas Mahatme Medicine Maharashtra
52. Dr. Rafael Iruzubieta Public Affairs Spain *
Fernandez
53. Prof. M.R. Satyanarayana Science and Karnataka
Rao Engineering
54. Prof. (Dr.) Palpu Science and Kerala
Pushpangadan Engineering
55. Prof. Ponisseril Science and USA *
Somasundaran Engineering
56. Prof. Pucadyil Ittoop John Science and Gujarat
Engineering
57. Dr. Vijay Prasad Dimri Science and Andhra
Engineering Pradesh
58. Dr.(Ms.) Vijaylakshmi Science and Karnataka
Ravindranath Engineering
59. Ms. Anu Aga Social Work Maharashtra
60. Shri Ayekpam Tomba Meetei Social Work Manipur
61. Shri Deep Joshi Social Work Delhi
62. Dr. J.R. Gangaramani Social Work UAE *
63. Shri Kranti Shah Social Work Maharashtra
64. Dr. Kurian John Social Work Kerala
Melamparambil
65. Baba Sewa Singh Social Work Punjab
66. Ms. Sudha Kaul Social Work West Bengal
67. Dr. Sudhir M. Parikh Social Work USA *
68. Shri Ignace Tirkey Sports Orissa
69. Kumar Ram Narain Sports Tamil Nadu
Karthikeyan
70. Shri Ramakant Vithal Sports Maharashtra
Achrekar
71. Ms. Saina Nehwal Sports Andhra
Pradesh
72. Shri Vijender Singh Sports Haryana
73. Shri Virendra Sehwag Sports Delhi
74. Dr. Alluri Venkata Trade and Industry Andhra
Satyanarayana Raju Pradesh
75. Dr. B. Raveendran Pillai Trade and Industry Bahrain *
76. Shri Deepak Puri Trade and Industry Delhi
77. Shri Irshad Mirza Trade and Industry Uttar Pradesh
78. Brig. Dr. Kapil Mohan Trade and Industry Himachal
Pradesh
79. Dr. Karsanbhai Khodidas Trade and Industry Gujarat
Patel
80. Shri T.N. Manoharan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu
81. Shri Venu Srinivasan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu

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