GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1506 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 15 TH MARCH, 2017/ PHALGUNA 24, 1938 (SAKA) NORM FOR CONFERRING PADMA VIBHUSHAN AND OTHER AWARDS 1506. SHRI SANJAY SETH: Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state : (a) whether Government has fixed any norm for conferring Padma Vibhushan and other awards; (b) if so, the details thereof; (c) the names of the social workers, great luminaries and eminent persons honoured with these awards by Central Government during last three years till date, year-wise; (d) whether the attention of Government has been drawn towards conferring with Padma Vibhushan award to Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav along with some other great social workers; and (e) if so, the details thereof and the steps taken by Government in this regard? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI KIREN RIJIJU) (a & b) The Padma 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. (c) Year wise details of the Padma Awardees for the year 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 are enclosed in Annexure-I, II, III and IV respectively. -2/..
-2- RS.US.Q.No. 1506 FOR 15.03.2017 (d ) & (e) The matter relating to conferment of Padma Vibhushan to Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav was raised in the Rajya Sabha on 06.02.2017 and also appeared in the Media on 08.02.2017. The recommendations for Padma Awards are invited from 1 st May to 15 th September every year, from all State/UT Governments, Ministries/Departments of the Government of India, Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan awardees and selected Institutes of Excellence. Recommendations are also received from several other sources like Governors, Chief Ministers of States, Central/State Ministers, MPs, MLAs and various other organizations/bodies/ private individuals etc. All nominations/recommendations so received for the Padma Awards are placed before the Padma Awards Committee which makes its recommendations, from amongst the nominations/recommendations received, or of those whom the Committee may identify on its own, to the President of India. *****
Annexure-I Padma Awards-2014 Padma Vibhushan Sl. No. Name of the Awardee 1. 2. Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar Shri B.K.S. Iyengar Padma Bhushan Sl. No. Name of the Awardee 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Prof. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Begum Parveen Sultana Shri T.H. Vinayakram Shri Kamala Haasan Justice Dalveer Bhandari Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram Prof. Jyeshtharaj Joshi Dr. Madappa Mahadevappa Dr. Thirumalachari Ramasami Dr. Vinod Prakash Sharma Dr. Radhakrishnan Koppillil Dr. Mrityunjay Athreya Ms. Anita Desai Dr. Dhirubhai Thaker Shri Vairamuthu Ramasamy Thevar Shri Ruskin Bond Shri Pullela Gopichand Shri Leander Paes Shri Vijayendra Nath Kaul Late Dr. Anumolu Ramakrishna Prof. Anisuzzaman Prof. Lloyd I. Rudolph Prof. Susanne H. Rudolph Dr. (Smt.) Neelam Kler Public Affairs Civil Service
Padma Shri Sl. No. Name of the Awardee 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Shri Mohammad Ali Baig Ms. Nayana Apte Joshi Shri Musafir Ram Bhardwaj Ms. Sabitri Chatterjee Prof. Biman Bihari Das Shri Sunil Das Smt. Elam Endira Devi Shri Vijay Ghate Smt Rani Karnaa Shri Bansi Kaul Ustad Moinuddin Khan Ms. Geeta Mahalik Shri Paresh Maity Shri Ram Mohan Shri Sudarsan Pattnaik Shri Paresh Rawal Shri Wendell Augustine Rodricks Prof. Kalamandalam Sathyabhama Shri Anuj (Ramanuj) Sharma Shri Santosh Sivan Ms. Supriya Devi Ms. Sooni Taraporevala Ms. Vidya Balan Smt. Durga Jain Dr. Rama Rao Anumolu Dr. Brahm Dutt Shri Mukul Chandra Goswami Shri J.L. Kaul Shri Mathurbhai Madhabhai Savani Shri Tashi Tondup Public Affairs
Sl. No. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. Name of the Awardee Dr. Hasmukh Chamanlal Shah Shri Sekhar Basu Shri Madhavan Chandradathan Dr. Ravi Bhushan Grover Prof. Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis Shri Ramkrishna V. Hosur Dr. Ajay Kumar Parida Dr. Malapaka Yajneswara Satyanarayana Prasad Shri Kiran Kumar Alur Seelin Dr. Brahma Singh Prof. Vinod Kumar Singh Dr. Govindan Sundararajan Ramaswamy R. Iyer Dr. Jayanta Kumar Ghosh Shri Ravi Kumar Narra Shri Rajesh Saraiya Ms. Mallika Srinivasan Shri Pratap Govindrao Pawar Dr. Kiritkumar Mansukhlal Acharya Dr. Balram Bhargava Prof. (Dr.) Indra Chakravarty Dr. Ramakant Krishnaji Deshpande Prof. (Dr.) Pawan Raj Goyal Prof. Amod Gupta Prof. (Dr.) Daya Kishore Hazra Prof. (Dr.) Thenumgal Poulose Jacob Prof. (Dr.) Shashank R. Joshi Prof. Hakim Syed Khaleefathullah Dr. Milind Vasant Kirtane Dr. Lalit Kumar Dr. Mohan Mishra Public Affairs Trade and Industry Trade and Industry Trade and Industry Trade and Industry
Sl. No. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. Name of the Awardee Dr. M. Subhadra Nair Dr. Ashok Panagariya Dr. Narendra Kumar Pandey Dr. Sunil Pradhan Dr. Ashok Rajgopal Dr. Kamini A. Rao Dr. Sarbeswar Sahariah Prof. Om Prakash Upadhyaya Prof. (Dr.) Mahesh Verma Dr. J.S. Titiyal Dr. Nitish Naik Dr. Surbrat Kumar Acharya Dr. Rajesh Kumar Grover Dr. Naheed Abidi Prof. Ashok Chakradhar Shri Chhakchhuak Chhuanvawra Shri Keki N. Daruwalla Prof. Ganesh Narayandas Devi Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch Prof. (Dr.) Ved Kumari Ghai Smt. Manorama Jafa Prof. Rehana Khatoon Dr. Waikhom Gojen Meeitei Shri Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri Prof. Dinesh Singh Dr. (Mrs.) P. Kilemsungla Ms. Anjum Chopra Ms. Sunil Dabas Shri Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu Ms. Dipika Rebecca Pallikal Shri H. Boniface Prabhu
Sl. No. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Name of the Awardee Shri Yuvraj Singh Smt. Mamta Sodha Ms Parveen Talha Late Dr. Narendra Achyut Dabholkar Shri Ashok Kumar Mago Dr. Siddharth Mukherjee Dr. Vamsi Mootha Dr. Sengaku Mayeda ----- Civil Service Trade and Industry
Padma Awards-2015 Annexure-II Padma Vibhushan Sl. No. Name of the Awardee 1. Shri L. K. Advani Public Affairs 2. Shri Amitabh Bachchan 3. Shri Prakash Singh Badal Public Affairs 4. Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade 5. Shri Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar 6. Shri Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya 7. Prof. Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan 8. Shri Kottayan K. Venugopal Public Affairs 9. Shri Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan Trade and Industry Sl. No. Name of the Awardee Padma Bhushan 1. Shri Jahnu Barua 2. Dr. Vijay Bhatkar 3. Shri Swapan Dasgupta 4. Swami Satyamitranand Giri 5. Shri N. Gopalaswami Civil Service 6. Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap Public Affairs 7. Dr. (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj 8. Dr. Ambrish Mithal 9. Smt. Sudha Ragunathan 10. Shri Harish Salve Public Affairs 11. Dr. Ashok Seth 12. Shri Rajat Sharma 13. Shri Satpal 14. Shri Shivakumara Swami
S. No. Name of the Awardee 15. Dr. Kharag Singh Valdiya 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Prof. Manjul Bhargava Shri David Frawley (Vamadeva) Shri Bill Gates Ms. Melinda Gates Shri Saichiro Misumi Padma Shri S. No. Name of the Awardee 1. Dr. Manjula Anagani 2. Shri S. Arunan 3. Ms. Kanyakumari Avasarala 4. Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer 5. Shri Naresh Bedi 6. Shri Ashok Bhagat 7. Shri Sanjay Leela Bhansali 8. Dr. Lakshmi Nandan Bora 9. Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi 10. Prof. (Dr.) Yogesh Kumar Chawla 11. Smt. Jayakumari Chikkala 12. Shri Bibek Debroy 13. Dr. Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi 14. Dr. Ashok Gulati Public Affairs 15. Dr. Randeep Guleria 16. Dr. K. P. Haridas 17. Shri Rahul Jain 18. Shri Ravindra Jain 19. Dr. Sunil Jogi 20. Shri Prasoon Joshi 21. Dr. Prafulla Kar 22. Ms. Saba Anjum 23. Smt. Ushakiran Khan 24. Dr. Rajesh Kotecha 25. Prof. Alka Kriplani 26. Dr. Harsh Kumar 27. Shri Narayana Purushothama Mallaya 28. Shri Lambert Mascarenhas 29. Dr. (Mrs.) Janak Palta McGilligan 30. Shri Veerendra Raj Mehta
S. No. Name of the Awardee 31. Shri Tarak Mehta 32. Shri Neil Herbert Nongkynrih 33. Shri Chewang Norphel 34. Shri T. V. Mohandas Pai Trade and Industry 35. Dr.Tejas Patel 36. Shri Jadav Molai Peyang 37. Smt. Bimla Poddar Other 38. Dr. N. Prabhakar 39. Dr. Prahalada 40. Dr. Narendra Prasad 41. Shri Ram Bahadur Rai 42. Ms. Mithali Raj 43. Shri P. V. Rajaraman Civil Service 44. Prof. J. S. Rajput 45. Shri Kota Srinivasa Rao 46. Prof. Bimal Roy 47. Shri Shekhar Sen 48. Shri Gunvant Shah 49. Shri Brahmdev Sharma (Bhaiji) 50. Shri Manu Sharma 51. Prof. Yog Raj Sharma 52. Shri Vasant Shastri 53. Shri S. K. Shivkumar 54. Ms. P. V. Sindhu 55. Shri Sardara Singh 56. Ms. Arunima Sinha 57. Shri Mahesh Raj Soni 58. Dr.Nikhil Tandon 59. Shri H. Thegtse Rinpoche 60. Dr.Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. Shri Huang Baosheng Prof. Jacques Blamont 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 Trade and Industry
S. No Name of the Awardee 71. 72. 73. 74. Dr. Saumitra Rawat Prof. Annette Schmiedchen Late Shri Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran Late Shri R. Vasudevan ------ Civil Service
Padma Awards-2016 Padma Vibhushan Annexure-III S. No Name of the Awardee 1. Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi 2. Shri Rajinikanth 3. Smt. Girija Devi 4. Shri Ramoji Rao Literature & Education 5. Dr. Viswanathan Shanta 6. Shri Shri Ravi Shankar 7. Shri Jagmohan Public Affairs 8. Dr.Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre Science & Engineering 9. 10. Shri Avinash Dixit Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani Padma Bhushan Literature & Education Trade & Industry S. No. Name of the Awardee 1. Shri Anupam Kher 2. Shri Udit Narayan Jha 3. Shri Ram V. Sutar 4. Shri Heisnam Kanhailal 5. Shri Vinod Rai Civil Service 6. Dr. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Literature & Education 7. Prof. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya Literature & Education 8. Dr. Barjinder Singh Hamdard Literature & Education 9. Prof. D. Nageshwar Reddy 10. Swami Tejomayananda Other 11. Shri Hafeez Contractor 12. Shri Ravindra Chandra Bhargava Public Affairs 13. Dr.Venkata Rama Rao Alla Science & Engineering 14. Ms. Saina Nehwal 15. Ms. Sania Mirza 16. Ms. Indu Jain Trade & Industry 17. 18. Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati Shri Robert Blackwill Public Affairs 19. Shri Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry Trade & Industry Padma Shri S. No Name of the Awardee 1. Smt. Prathibha Prahlad 2. Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi 3. Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar 4. Shri Ajay Devgn 5. Ms. Priyanka Chopra 6. Pt. Tulsidas Borkar 7. Dr. Soma Ghosh
S. No Name of the Awardee 8. Shri Nila Madhab Panda 9. Shri S.S. Rajamouli 10. Shri Madhur Bhandarkar 11. Prof. M. Venkatesh Kumar 12. Ms. Gulabi Sapera 13. Smt. Mamta Chandrakar 14. Ms. Malini Awasthi 15. Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal 16. Shri K. Laxma Goud 17. Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe 18. Shri Naresh Chander Lal 19. Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah Literature & Education 20. Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa Literature & Education 21. Dr.Ravindra Nagar Literature & Education 22. Shri Dahyabhai Shastri Literature & Education 23. Dr.Santeshivara Bhyrappa Literature & Education 24. Shri Haldar Nag Literature & Education 25. Shri Kameshwaram Brahma Literature & Education 26. Prof. Pushpesh Pant Literature & Education 27. Shri Jawaharlal Kaul Literature & Education 28. Shri Ashok Malik Literature &Education 29. Dr.Mannam Gopi Chand 30. Prof. Ravi Kant 31. Prof. Ram Harsh Singh 32. Prof. Shiv Narain Kureel 33. Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar 34. Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale 35. Prof. T.K. Lahiri 36. Dr. Praveen Chandra 37. Prof. (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir 38. Dr.Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva 39. Dr. (Mrs.) Anil Kumari Malhotra 40. Prof. M.V. Padma Srivastava 41. Dr. Sudhir V. Shah 42. Dr. M. M. Joshi 43. Prof. (Dr) John Ebnezar 44. Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda 45. Shri Simon Oraon Other 46. Shri Imitiaz Qureshi Other 47. Shri Piyush Pandey 48. Shri Subhash Palekar 49. Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha 50. Dr. H.R. Nagendra 51. Shri M. C. Mehta Public Affairs 52. Shri M. N. Krishna Mani Public Affairs 53. Shri Ujjwal Nikam Public Affairs 54. Shri Tokheho Sema Public Affairs 55. Dr. Satish Kumar Science & Engineering 56. Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai Science & Engineering 57. Prof. Dipankar Chatterji Science & Engineering 58. Prof.(Dr.) Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav Science & Engineering
S. No Name of the Awardee 59. Smt. (Prof.) Veena Tandon Science & Engineering 60. Shri Onkar Nath Srivastava 61. Ms. Sunita Krishnan 62. Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta 63. Shri M. Pandit Dasa 64. Shri P. P. Gopinathan Nair 65. Smt. Madeleine Herman de Blic 66. Shri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai Social work 67. Shri Sudhakar Olwe 68. Dr. T.V. Narayana 69. Shri Arunachalam Murugantham 70. Ms. Deepika Kumari 71. Shri Sushil Doshi 72. Shri Mahesh Sharma Trade & Industry 73. Shri Saurabh Srivastava Trade & Industry 74. Sh Dilip Sanghvi Trade & Industry 75. Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda Trade & Industry 76. Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana 77. Late Shri Saeed Jaffrey (NRI/PIO/Posthumous) 78. Shri Michael Postel 79. Shri Salman Amin Sal Khan Literature & Education 80. Smt. Hui Lan Zhang 81. Shri Predrag K. Nikic 82. Dr. Sundar A. Menon 83. Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga Trade & Industry ------
Padma Awards-for conferment in 2017 Padma Vibhushan Annexure-IV S. No Name of the Awardee 1. Shri K J Yesudas 2. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev 3. Shri Sharad Pawar Public Affairs 4. Shri Murli Manohar Joshi Public Affairs 5. Prof. Udipi Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering 6. 7. Late Shri Sunder Lal Patwa Late Shri PA Sangma Public Affairs Public Affairs Padma Bhushan S. No. Name of the Awardee 1. Shri Vishwa Mohan Bhatt 2. Prof. (Dr.) Devi Prasad Dwivedi Literature & Education 3. Shri Tehemton Udwadia 4. Shri Ratna Sundar Maharaj 5. Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati 6. H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn 7. Late Shri Cho Ramaswamy Literature & Education Literature & Education Padma Shri S. No Name of the Awardee 1. Smt. Basanti Bisht 2. Shri Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair 3. Smt. Aruna Mohanty 4. Smt. Bharathi Vishnuvardhan 5. Shri Sadhu Meher 6. Shri T K Murthy 7. Shri Laishram Birendrakumar Singh 8. Shri Krishna Ram Chaudhary 9. Smt. Baoa Devi 10. Shri Tilak Gitai 11. Dr. Prof. Aekka Yadagiri Rao 12. Shri Jitendra Haripal 13. Shri Kailash Kher 14. Smt. Parassala B Ponnammal 15. Smt. Sukri Bommagowda 16. Shri Mukund Nayak 17. Shri Purushottam Upadhyay 18. Smt. Anuradha Paudwal 19. Shri Wareppa Naba Nil 20. Shri Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary Civil Service
S. No Name of the Awardee 21. Shri T.K. Viswanathan Civil Service 22. Shri Kanwal Sibal Civil Service 23. Shri Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla Literature & Education 24. Smt. Eli Ahmed Literature & Education 25. Dr. Narendra Kohli Literature & Education 26. Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah Literature & Education 27. Shri Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri Literature & Education 28. Shri Kashi Nath Pandita Literature & Education 29. Shri Chamu Krishna Shastry Literature & Education 30. Shri Harihar Kripalu Tripathi Literature & Education 31. Shri Michel Danino Literature & Education 32. Shri Punam Suri Literature & Education 33. Shri VG Patel Literature & Education 34. Smt. V Koteswaramma Literature & Education 35. Shri Balbir Dutt Literature & Education 36. Smt. Bhawana Somaaya Literature & Education 37. Shri Vishnu Pandya Literature & Education 38. Dr. Subroto Das 39. Dr. (Smt.) Bhakti Yadav 40. Dr. Mohammed Abdul Waheed 41. Dr. Madan Madhav Godbole 42. Dr. Devendra Dayabhai Patel 43. Prof. Harkishan Singh 44. Dr. Mukut Minz 45. Shri Arun Kumar Sharma 46. Shri Sanjeev Kapoor 47. Smt. Meenakshi Amma 48. Shri Genabhai Dargabhai Patel 49. Shri Chandrakant Pithawa Science & Engineering 50. Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray Science & Engineering 51. Shri Chintakindi Mallesham Science & Engineering 52. Shri Jitendra Nath Goswami Science & Engineering 53. Shri Daripalli Ramaiah 54. Shri Girish Bhardwaj 55. Shri Karimul Hak 56. Shri Bipin Ganatra 57. Smt. Nivedita Raghunath Bhide Social work 58. Shri Appasaheb Dharmadhikari 59. Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal 60. Shri Virat Kohli 61. Shri Shekar Naik 62. Shri Vikasa Gowda 63. Smt. Deepa Malik 64. Shri Mariyappan Thangavelu 65. Smt. Dipa Karmakar 66. Shri P R Shreejesh 67. Smt. Sakshi Malik 68. 69. Shri Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu Shri Anant Agarwal Trade & Industry Literature & Education
S. No Name of the Awardee 70. 71. 72. 73. Shri H.R. Shah Late (Smt.) Suniti Solomon Shri Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya Dr. Mapuskar Literature & Education 74. Smt. Anuradha Koirala ------