President has approved the conferment of108 Padma Awards. These comprise 04 Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and80 Padma Shri Awards. 24 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons in the category of Foreigners, NRIs, PIOs andPosthumous 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 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. The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan sometime around March/ April.

Padma Vibhushan awardees

Padma Bhushan

Padma Shri

 

Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile

1.Shri Gajam Anjaiah  Art,  Andhra Pradesh 

2. Swami G.C.D. Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu Art,  Chhattisgarh 

3. Ms. B. Jayashree  Art,  Karnataka 

4.Smt. Sridevi Kapoor Art, Maharashtra 

5.Shri Kailash Chandra Meher  Art,  Orissa 

6.Shri Brahmdeo Ram Pandit  Art,  Maharashtra 

7. Shri Vishwanath Dinkar Patekar alias Nana Patekar Art,  Maharashtra 

8. Shri Rekandar Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji Art,  Andhra Pradesh 

9.Shri Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju  Art,  Tamil Nadu 

10.Smt. Jaymala Shiledar  Art,  Maharashtra 

11.Shri Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar Art,  Maharashtra 

12.Shri P. Madhavan Nair alias Madhu Art,  Kerala

13.Shri Apurba Kishore Bir  Art,  Maharashtra 

14.Shri Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan Art,  Assam 

15. Smt. Hilda Mit Lepcha  Art,  Sikkim 

16. Smt. Sudha Malhotra  Art  Maharashtra 

17.Shri Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz  Art, Jammu and Kashmir 

18. Shri Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy  Art,  Maharashtra 

19. Ms. Mahrukh Tarapor  Art,  Maharashtra 

20. Shri Balwant Thakur Art, Jammu & Kashmir

21.Shri Puran Das Baul Art, West Bengal

22.Shri Rajendra Tikku Art, Jammu &  Kashmir

23.Shri Pablo Bartholomew Art Delhi 

24.Shri S. Shakir Ali  Art Rajasthan 

25.Sh. S.K.M Maeilanandhan  Social Work Tamil Nadu

26. Ms. Nileema Mishra  Social Work Maharashtra 

27. Ms. Reema Nanavati Social Work Gujarat

28. Ms. Jharna Dhara Chowdhury  Social Work Bangladesh *

29. Late Dr. Ram Krishan  Social Work Uttar Pradesh # 

30. Late Manju Bharat Ram  Social Work Delhi #

31. Prof. Mustansir Barma Science and Engineering Maharashtra 

32.Shri Avinash Chander Science and Engineering Delhi 

33.Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh 

34. Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kumar Pal Science and Engineering West Bengal 

35.Prof. Deepak B. Phatak Science and Engineering Maharashtra 

36. Dr. Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh 

37.Prof. Ajay K. Sood  Science and Engineering Karnataka 

38.Prof. Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan Science and Engineering, Karnataka 

39. Dr. Manindra Agrawal Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh

40. Dr. Jayaraman Gowrishankar  Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh 

41. Prof. Sharad Pandurang Kale  Science and Engineering  Maharashtra 

42.Smt. Vandana Luthra  Trade and Industry Delhi 

43. Ms. Rajshree Pathy  Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 

44. Shri Hemendra Prasad Barooah  Trade and Industry Assam 

45.Shri Milind Kamble Trade and Industry Maharashtra

46. Ms. Kalpana Saroj Trade and Industry Maharashtra

47. Dr. Sudarshan K. Aggarwal  Medicine  Delhi 

48. Dr. C. Venkata S. Ram alias Chitta Venkata Sundara Ram Medicine  Andhra Pradesh 

49. Dr. Rajendra Achyut Badwe  Medicine  Maharashtra 

50. Dr. Taraprasad Das  Medicine  Orissa 

51.Prof. (Dr.) T.V. Devarajan  Medicine  Tamil Nadu 

52.Prof. (Dr.) Saroj Chooramani Gopal  Medicine  Uttar Pradesh 

53. Dr. Pramod Kumar Julka  Medicine  Delhi 

54. Dr. Gulshan Rai Khatri  Medicine  Delhi 

55. Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani  Medicine  Delhi 

56. Dr. Amit Prabhakar Maydeo  Medicine Maharashtra 

57. Dr. Sundaram Natarajan Medicine Maharashtra

58.Prof. Krishna Chandra Chunekar Medicine Uttar Pradesh

59. Dr. Vishwa Kumar Gupta Medicine Delhi 

60. Prof. (Capt.) Dr. Mohammad Sharaf-eAlam Literature & Education Bihar 

61. Dr. Radhika Herzberger Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh 

62.Shri J. Malsawma  Literature & Education Mizoram 

63.Shri Devendra Patel  Literature & Education Gujarat 

64. Dr. Rama Kant Shukla  Literature & Education Delhi 

65.Prof. Akhtarul Wasey Literature & Education Delhi 
 

66. Prof. Anvita Abbi  Literature & Education Delhi 

67.Shri Nida Fazli  Literature & Education  Madhya Pradesh 

68. Shri Surender Kumar Sharma Literature & Education Delhi 

69. Dr. Jagdish Prasad Singh  Literature & Education

Bihar

70. Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi Literature & Education West Bengal #

71.Prof. Noboru Karashima  Literature & Education Japan *

72.Shri Christopher Pinney  Literature & Education  UK *

73.Smt. Premlata Agrawal  Sports  Jharkhand 

74.Shri Yogeshwar Dutt  Sports  Haryana 

75.Shri Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha  Sports  Karnataka 

76.Subedar Major Vijay Kumar  Sports  Himachal Pradesh 

77.Shri Ngangom Dingko Singh  Sports  Maharashtra 

78. Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar  Sports  Rajasthan 

79. Ms. Ritu Kumar Fashion Designing Delhi

80. Dr. Ravindra Singh Bisht  Archaeology  Uttar Pradesh 

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

 # indicates awardees in the posthumous category.