Awards Padam Vibhushan, Bhushan, Shri

The President of India has approved the conferment of Padma Awards-2012. This year the President has approved 109 awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous. These comprise five Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards. There are 19 women among the awardees.

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 will conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan in March/April.

PADMA VIBHUSHAN

1. Shri K G Subramanyan	Art	Painting & Sculpture	West Bengal
2. Late Shri Mario De Miranda	Art	Cartoonist	Goa*
3. Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika	Art	Vocal Music	Assam*
4. Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti	Medicine	Orthopedics	Maharashtra
5. Shri T V Rajeswar	Civil Service	Delhi

PADMA BHUSHAN

1. Smt. Shabana Azmi	Art	Cinema	Maharashtra
2. Shri Khaled Choudhury	Art	Theatre	West Bengal
3. Shri Jatin Das	Art	Painting	Delhi
4. Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta	Art	Instrumental Music	Sarod	West Bengal
5. Shri Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra	Art	Cinema	Maharashtra
6. Dr. Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan	Art	Classical vocal and instrumental music	Tamil Nadu
7. Ms. Mira Nair	Art	Cinema	Delhi
8. Shri M.S. Gopalakrishnan	Art	Instrumental Music	Violin	Tamil Nadu
9. Shri Anish Kapoor	Art	Sculpture	UK*
10. Shri Satya Narayan Goenka	Social Work	Maharashtra
11. Dr. (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao	Public Affairs	Germany*
12. Shri 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. Shri Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
16. Shri 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. Shri N Vittal	Civil Service	Kerala
26. Shri Mata Prasad	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
27. Shri Ronen Sen	Civil Service	West Bengal

PADMA SHRI

1. Shri Vanraj Bhatia	Art	Music	Maharashtra
2. Shri Zia Fariduddin Dagar	Art	Music	vocal	Maharashtra
3. Smt. Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi	Art	Music	Khongjom Parba	Manipur
4. Shri Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani	Art	Yakshagana dance drama	Karnataka
5. Shri Moti Lal Kemmu	Art	Playwright	Jammu and Kashmir
6. Shri Shahid Parvez Khan	Art	Instrumental Music	Sitar	Maharashtra
7. Shri Mohan Lal Kumhar	Art	Terracotta	Rajasthan
8. Shri Sakar Khan Manganiar	Art	Rajasthani Folk Music	Rajasthan
9. Smt. Joy Michael	Art	Theatre	Delhi
10. Dr. Minati Mishra	Art	Indian Classical Dance	Odissi.	Orissa
11. Shri Natesan Muthuswamy	Art	Theatre.	Tamil Nadu
12. Smt. R. Nagarathnamma	Art	Theatre	Karnataka
13. Shri Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri	Art	Indian Classical Dance	Kutiyattam	Kerala
14. Smt. Yamunabai Waikar	Art	Indian Folk Music	Lavani.	Maharashtra
15. Shri Satish Alekar	Art	Playwright	Maharashtra
16. Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey	Art	Chhau dance and choreography	Jharkhand
17. Shri Ramakant Gundecha and Shri Umakant Gundecha#	Art	Indian Classical Music	Vocal	Madhya Pradesh
18. Shri Anup Jalota	Art	Indian Classical Music	Vocal	Maharashtra
19. Shri Soman Nair Priyadarsan	Art	Cinema	Direction	Kerala
20. Shri Sunil Janah	Art	Photography	Assam
21. Ms. Laila Tyebji	Art	Handicrafts	Delhi
22. Shri Vijay Sharma	Art	Painting	Himachal Pradesh
23. Smt. Shamshad Begum	Social Work	Chattisgarh
24. Smt. Reeta Devi	Social Work	Delhi
25. Dr. P.K. Gopal	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
26. Smt. Phoolbasan Bai Yadav	Social Work	Chattisgarh
27. Dr. G. Muniratnam	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
28. Shri Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya	Social Work	Maharashtra
29. Dr. Uma Tuli	Social Work	Delhi
30. Shri Sat Paul Varma	Social Work	Jammu and Kashmir
31. Smt.Binny Yanga	Social Work	Arunachal Pradesh
32. Shri Yezdi Hirji Malegam	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
33. Shri Pravin H. Parekh	Pubic Affairs	Delhi
34. Dr. V. Adimurthy	Science and Engineering	Kerala
35. Dr. Krishna Lal Chadha	Science and Engineering	Agriculture	Delhi
36. Prof. Virander Singh Chauhan	Science and Engineering	Delhi
37. Prof. Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai	Science and Engineering	Jammu and Kashmir
38. Dr. Vijaypal Singh	Science and Engineering	Agricultural Research	Uttar Pradesh
39. Dr. Lokesh Kumar Singhal	Science and Engineering	Punjab
40. Dr. Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
41. Prof. Jagadish Shukla	Science and Engineering	USA*
42. Ms. Priya Paul	Trade and Industry	Delhi
43. Shri Shoji Shiba	Trade and Industry	Japan*
44. Shri Gopinath Pillai	Trade and Industry	Singapore*
45. Shri Arun Hastimal Firodia	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
46. Dr. Swati A. Piramal	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
47. Prof. Mahdi Hasan	Medicine	Anatomy	Uttar Pradesh
48. Dr. Viswanathan Mohan	Medicine	Diabetology	Tamil Nadu
49. Dr. J. Hareendran Nair	Medicine	Ayurveda	Kerala
50. Dr. Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan	Medicine	Geriatrics	Tamil Nadu
51. Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh	Medicine	Oncology	Bihar
52. Dr. Shrinivas S. Vaishya	Medicine	Healthcare	Daman and Diu
53. Dr. Nitya Anand	Medicine	Drugs Research	Uttar Pradesh
54. Late Dr. Jugal Kishore	Medicine	Homoeopathy	Delhi *
55. Dr. Mukesh Batra	Medicine	Homeopathy	Maharashtra
56. Dr. Eberhard Fischer	Literature and Education	Switzerland*
57. Shri Kedar Gurung	Literature and Education	Sikkim
58. Shri Surjit Singh Patar	Literature and Education	Poetry	Punjab
59. Shri Vijay Dutt Shridhar	Literature and Education	Journalism	Madhya Pradesh
60. Shri Irwin Allan Sealy	Literature and Education	Uttarakhand
61. Ms. Geeta Dharmarajan	Literature and Education	Delhi
62. Prof. Sachchidanand Sahai	Literature and Education	Haryana
63. Smt. Pepita Seth	Literature and Education	Kerala
64. Dr. Ralte L. Thanmawia	Literature and Education	Mizoram
65. Shri Ajeet Bajaj	Sports	Skiing	Delhi
66. Smt. Jhulan Goswami	Sports	Women's Cricket	West Bengal
67. Shri Zafar Iqbal	Sports	Hockey	Uttar Pradesh
68. Shri Devendra Jhajrija	Sports	Athletics	Paralympics	Rajasthan
69. Shri Limba Ram	Sports	Archery	Rajasthan
70. Shri Syed Mohammed Arif	Sports	Badminton	Andhra Pradesh
71. Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi	Sports	Commentary	Delhi
72. Shri Prabhakar Vaidya	Sports	Physical Education	Maharashtra
73. Shri T. Venkatapathi Reddiar	Others	Horticulture	Puducherry
74. Dr. K. (Kota) Ullas Karanth	Others	Wildlife Conservation and Environment Protection	Karnataka
75. Shri K Paddayya	Others	Archaeology	Maharashtra
76. Shri Swapan Guha	Others	Ceramics	Rajasthan
77. Dr. Kartikeya V. Sarabhai	Others	Environmental Education	Gujarat

* INDICATES AWARDEES IN THE CATEGORY OF FOREIGNERS / NRIS/ PIOS/ POSTHUMOUS