Padma award conferred on 104 personalities

Mon 26 Jan 2015

New Delhi, January 26, 2015: 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.

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 approved conferment of Padma Awards to 104 persons as per the list below. The list comprises of 9 Padma Vibhushan, 20 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri Awardees. 17 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 17 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and 4 Posthumous awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

Shri L.K.Advani, Shri Amitabh Bachchan, Shri Prakash Sing Badal, Dr. D.Veerredra Heggade, Shri.Mohammad Yousuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar, Shri Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya, Prof. Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan, Shri Kottyan K.Venugopal, Shri Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan (Foreigner)

Padma Bhushan

Shri Jahnu Barua, Dr. Vijya Bhatkar, Shri Swapan Dasgupta, Swami Satyamitranand Giri, Shri.N.Gopalaswami, Dr. Subhash C.Kashyap, Dr. (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj, Dr. Ambrish Mithal, Smt.

Sudha Ragunathan, Shri Harish Salve, Dr.Ashok Seth, Shri Rajat Sharma, Shri Satpal, Shri.Shivakumara Swami, Dr.Kharag Singh Valdiya

Padma Shri

Dr.Manjula Anagani, Ms.Kanyakumari Avasarala, Shri.S.Arunan, Dr.Bettina Sharda Baumer, Shri Naresh Bedi, Shri Ashok Bhagat, Shri Sanjay Leela Bansali, Dr. Lakshmi Nandan Bora, Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi, Prof. Dr. Yogesh Kumar Chawla, Shri Bibek Debroy, Dr.Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi, Dr. Ashok Gulati, Dr. Randeep Guleria, Dr. K.P.Haridas, Shri Rahul Jain, Shri Ravindra Jain, Dr. Sunil Jogi, Shri Prasoon Joshi, Dr. Prafulla Kar, Ms.Saba Anjum, Smt. Usha Kiran Khan, Dr. Rajesh Kotecha, Prof. Alka Kriplani, Dr.Harsh Kumar, Shri Narayana Purushothama Mallaya, Shri Lambert Mascarenhas, Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan, Shri Tarak Mehta, Shri Neil Herbert Nongkynrih, Shri Chewang Norphel, Shri T.V.Mohandas Pai, Dr. Tejas Patel, Shri Jadav Molai Peyang, Smit Bimla Poddar, Dr. N.Prabhakar, Dr. Prahalada, Dr. Narendra Prasad, Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, Ms.Mithali Raj, Shri.P.V.Rajaraman, Prof.J.S.Rajput, Shri Kota Srinivasa Rao, Prof. Bimal Roy, Shri Shekhar Sen, Shri Gunvant Shah, Shri Brahmdev Sharma(Bhajji), Shri.Manu Sharma, Prof. Yog Raj Sharma, Shri Vasant Shastri, Shri S.K.Shivkumar, Ms.P.V.Sindhu, Shri Sardara Singh, Ms.Arunima Sinha, Shri Mahesh Raj Soni, Dr.Nikhil Tandon, Shri.H. Thegtse Rinpoche, Dr. Hargovind Lasminshanker Trivedi, Shri Huany Boasheng (Foreigner), Prof. Jacques Blamont, Late Shri.Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin, Shri Jean-Claude Carriere, Dr. Nandrajan "Raj" Chetty, Shri George L.Hart, Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja , Late Shri Meetha Lal Mehta, Ms.Tripti Mukherjee, Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori, Dr. Raghu Rama Pillarisetti, Dr. Saumitra Rawat, Prof. Annette Schemiedchen, Late shri Pran kuman Sharma alias Pran(posthumous), Late Shri. R. Vasudevan (Posthumous)

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