NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee has approved conferment of Padma Awards to 112 persons as per the list below.
The list comprises of 10 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 83 Padma Shri Awardees. 19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons in the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs (include one posthumous) and 4 posthumous awardees:
PADMA VIBHUSHAN:
Yamini Krishnamurthi Art-Classical dance, Delhi,Rajinikanth Art-Cinema, Tamil Nadu , Girija Devi Art-Classical Vocal, West Bengal, Ramoji Rao Literature & Education, Andhra Pradesh, Viswanathan Shanta, Medicine-Oncology, Tamil Nadu, Ravi Shankar, Others-Spiritualism, Karnataka, Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Jagmohan, Public Affairs, Delhi, Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre, Science & Engineering, Karnataka, Avinash Dixit , Dhiru Bhai Ambani, (Posthumous) Industry, Maharashtra.
PADMA BHUSHAN:
Anupam Kher Art-Cinema, Maharashtra, Udit Narayan Jha Art-Playback Singing, Maharashtra, Ram V. Sutar Art-Sculpture, Uttar Pradesh, Heisnam Kanhailal Art-Theatre Manipur , Vinod Rai Civil Service, Kerala, Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Literature, Andhra Pradesh, N S Ramanuja Tatacharya Literature, Maharashtra, Barjinder Singh Hamdard Journalism, Punjab, D Nageshwar Reddy Medicine, Telangana,
Swami Tejomayananda Other-Spiritualism, Maharashtra, Hafeez Contractor Others-Architecture, Maharashtra , Ravindra Chandra Bhargava Public Affairs, Uttar Pradesh, Venkata Rama Rao Alla Science, Andhra Pradesh, Saina Nehwal Sports-Badminton, Telangana, Sania Mirza Sports-Tennis, Telangana, Indu Jain, Trade & Industry, Delhi, Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous) Spiritualism, Uttarakhand, Robert Blackwill, Public Affairs, USA, Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry, Trade & Industry, Ireland,
Padma Shri: Prathibha Prahlad Art-Classical Dance, Delhi, Bhikhudan Gadhvi Art- Folk Music, Gujarat, Sribhas Chandra Supakar, Art- Designing, Uttar Pradesh, Ajay Devgn Art-Cinema, Maharashtra, Priyanka Chopra Art-Cinema, Maharashtra, Tulsidas Borkar Art-Classical Music, Goa, Soma Ghosh Art-Classical Vocal, Uttar Pradesh, Nila Madhab Panda Art-Film Direction, Delhi, S S Rajamouli Art-Film Direction, Karnataka, Madhur Bhandarkar Art-Film Direction, Maharashtra, M Venkatesh Kumar Art-Folk Artist, Karnataka, Gulabi Sapera Art-Folk Dance, Rajasthan, Mamta Chandrakar Art-Folk Music, Chhattisgarh, Malini Awasthi Art-Folk Music, Uttar Pradesh, Jai Prakash Lekhiwal Art-Miniature Painting, Delhi, K. Laxma Goud Art-Painting, Telangana, Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe, Art-Photography, MP, Naresh Chander Lal, Art-Theatre, Andaman & Nicobar , Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah Literature & Education, Assam, Prahlad Chandra Tasa Literature & Education Assam, Ravindra Nagar Literature & Education, Delhi, Dahyabhai Shastri Literature & Education, Gujarat, Santeshivara Bhyrappa Literature & Education, Karnataka, Haldar Nag Literature & Education, Odisha, Kameshwaram Brahma Literature & Education, Assam , Pushpesh Pant Literature & Education, Delhi , Jawaharlal Kaul, Literature, Jammu and Kashmir , Ashok Malik Literature & Education, Delhi, Mannam Gopi Chand Medicine, Telangana, Ravi Kant Medicine-Surgery Uttar Pradesh, Ram Harsh Singh Medicine- Ayurveda Uttar Pradesh, Shiv Narain Kureel Medicine, Uttar Pradesh, Sabya Sachi Sarkar, Medicine Radiology, Uttar Pradesh, Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale, Medicine, Andhra Pradesh, T K Lahiri Medicine, Uttar Pradesh, Praveen Chandra Medicine-Cardiology, Delhi , Daljeet Singh Gambhir Medicine-Cardiology, Uttar Pradesh, Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva Medicine, Tamil Nadu, Anil Kumari Malhotra Medicine-Homeopathy, Delhi, M V Padma Srivastava Medicine-Neurology, Delhi , Sudhir V. Shah Medicine-Neurology, Gujarat, M M Joshi Medicine-Ophthalmology, Karnataka, John Ebnezar Medicine-Orthopaedic, Karnataka, Nayudamma Yarlagadda Medicine, Andhra Pradesh, Simon Oraon, Other Environment, Jharkhand, Imitiaz Qureshi Other-Culinary, Delhi, Piyush Pandey Others-Advertising, Maharashtra , Subhash Palekar Others-Farming, Maharashtra , Ravinder Kumar Sinha Others-Wildlife, Bihar, H R Nagendra Others-Yoga, Karnataka, M C Mehta Public Affairs, Delhi, M N Krishna Mani Public Affairs, Delhi, Ujjwal Nikam Public Affairs, Maharashtra, Tokheho Sema Public Affairs, Nagaland, Satish Kumar Science & Engineering, Delhi , Mylswamy Annadurai Science & Engineering, Karnataka, Dipankar Chatterji Science & Engineering, Karnataka, Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav Science, Maharashtra Veena Tandon, Science, Meghalaya, Onkar Nath Srivastava Science, Uttar Pradesh, Sunita Krishnan Social Work, Andhra Pradesh Ajoy Kumar Dutta Social Work, Assam, M Pandit Dasa Social Work, Karnataka, P P Gopinathan NairSocial Work, Kerala, Madeleine Herman de Blic Social Work, Puducherry, Srinivasan Damal Kandalai Social work, Tamil Nadu , Sudhakar Olwe Social Work, Maharashtra, T V Narayana Social Work, Telangana, Arunachalam Murugantham Social Work, Tamil Nadu, Deepika Kumari Sports-Archery, Jharkhand , Sushil Doshi Sports-commentary, MP, Mahesh Sharma Trade & Industry, Delhi , Saurabh Srivastava,Trade & Industry, Delhi, Dilip Sanghvi Trade & Industry, Maharashtra Keki Hormusji Gharda, Trade & Industry, Maharashtra Prakash Chand Surana (Posthumous) Art, Rajasthan, Saeed Jaffrey (NRI/PIO/Posthumous) Art-Cinema, UK , Michael Postel Art-Archaeology, France, Salman Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO), Literature, USA, Hui Lan Zhang (Foreigner)Others-Yoga, China, Predrag K. Nikic (Foreigner)Others-Yoga, Serbia , Sundar Aditya Menon (NRI/PIO) Social Work, UAE, Ajaypal Singh Banga (NRI/PIO), Trade & Industry, USA .