Padma Awards Announced The President of India has approved the conferment of Padma Awards-2010. This year the President has approved 128 awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 12 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous. These comprise 13 Padma Vibhushan, 31 Padma Bhushan and 84 Padma Shri Awards. There are 31 ladies among the awardees. Padma Vibhushan Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Dr. (Smt.) Kapila Vatsyayan 2. Mrs. Homai Vyarawalla 3. Shri A Nageshwara Rao 4. Shri Parasaran Kesava Iyengar 5. Dr. Akhlaq-ur- Rehman Kidwai Art - Art Administration and Promotion. Art - Photography Art- Cinema Public Affairs Public Affairs Gujarat 6. Shri Vijay Kelkar Public Affairs 7. Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia Public Affairs 8. Shri Palle Rama Rao 9. Shri Azim Premji 10. Shri Brajesh Mishra Civil Services Madhya Pradesh
11. Prof. (Dr.) Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup 12. Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra Orissa 13. Late Shri L. C. Jain Public Affairs * Padma Bhushan Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Shri Satyadev Dubey Art - Theatre 2. Shri Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi alias Khayyam Art - Cinema - Music 3. Shri Shashi Kapoor Art - Cinema 4. Shri Krishen Khanna Art - Painting Haryana 5. Shri Madavur Vasudevan Nair 6. Ms. Waheeda Rehman 7. Shri Rudrapatna Krishna Shastry Srikantan Art - Dance - Kathakali Art - Cinema Art - Music-Vocal 8. Ms. Arpita Singh Art - Painting 9. Dr. Sripathi Panditharadhyula Art - Playback Singing, Music Direction &
Balasubrahmanyam 10. Shri C.V. Chandrasekhar 11. Shri Dwijen Mukherjee acting Art - Classical Dance- Bharatanatyam Art 12. Smt. Rajashree Birla Social work 13. Mrs. Shobhana Ranade 14. 15. 16. Dr. Suryanarayanan Ramachandran Shri S.(Kris) Gopalakrishnan Shri Yogesh Chander Deveshwar Social work Ms. Chanda Kochhar 17. 18. Dr. K. Anji Reddy - Pharmacy 19. Shri Analjit Singh 20. 21. Shri Rajendra Singh Pawar Dr. Gunapati Venkata Krishna Reddy Haryana 22. Shri Ajai Chowdhary 23. Shri Surendra Singh Civil Services 24. Shri M. N.Buch Civil Services Madhya Pradesh
25. Shri Shyam Saran Civil Services 26. Shri Thayil Jacob Sony George 27. Dr. Ramdas Madhava Pai 28. Shri Sankha Ghosh 29. Late Shri K. Raghavan Thirumulpad Medicine - Ayurveda. * 30. Late Dr. Keki Byramjee Grant 31. Late Shri Dashrath Patel Medicine - Cardiology * Art Gujarat * Padma Shri Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Ms. Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry 2. Shri Makar Dhwaja Darogha 3. Shri Shaji Neelakantan Karun 4. Shri Girish Kasaravalli 5. Ms. Tabassum Hashmi Khan alias Art - Theatre Art- Chhau Dance Art Film Direction Art - Film making Art - Cinema Chandigarh Jharkhand
Tabu 6. Shri Jivya Soma Mase 7. Guru (Ms.) M.K. Saroja 8. Shri Jayaram Subramaniam 9. Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty 10. Smt. Mahasundari Devi 11. Shri Gajam Govardhana 12. Ms. Sunayana Hazarilal 13. Shri S.R. Janakiraman Art - Warli Painting Art - Dance- Bharatnatyam Art - Cinema Art - Music-Indian Classical Vocal Art - Mithilia/ Madhubani Painting. Art - Handloom Weaving Art - Dance - Kathak Art - Carnatic Vocal Music Bihar 14. Shri Peruvanam Kuttan Marar Art - Chenda Melam- Drum concert 15. Smt. Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Pavithran 16. Shri Dadi Dorab Pudumjee Art - Dance - Mohiniattam Art - Puppetry 17. Shri Khangembam Mangi Singh Art - Traditional Music of Manipur (Pena) Manipur
18. Shri Prahlad Singh Tipaniya Art - Folk Music Madhya Pradesh 19. Smt. Usha Uthup Art - Music. 20. Smt. Kajol Art- Cinema 21. Shri Irfan Khan Art- Cinema 22. Shri Mamraj Agrawal 23. Shri Jockin Arputham 24. Ms. Nomita Chandy Social work Social work Social work 25. Ms. Sheela Patel Social work 26. Ms. Anita Reddy Social work 27. Shri Kanubhai Hasmukhbhai Tailor 28. Shri Anant Darshan Shankar Social work Public Affairs Gujarat 29. Prof. M. Annamalai 30. Dr. Mahesh Haribhai Mehta - Agricultural Science Gujarat 31. Shri Coimbatore Narayana Rao Raghavendran 32. Dr. (Mrs.) Suman
Sahai 33. Prof.(Dr.) E.A. Siddiq - Agricultural Science 34. Shri Gopalan Nair Shankar - Architecture 35. Shri Mecca Rafeeque Ahmed 36. Shri Kailasam Raghavendra Rao 37. Shri Narayan Singh Bhati Civil Services 38. Shri P K Sen Civil Services Bihar 39. Ms. Shital Mahajan 40. Ms. Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi Sports - Adventure Sports- Para Jumping Sports - Weightlifting Manipur 41. Shri Sushil Kumar Sports - Wrestling 42. Shri Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman Sports - Cricket 43. Shri Gagan Narang Sports - Shooting 44. Smt. Krishna Poonia 45. Shri Harbhajan Singh Sports - Discus Throw Sports - Mountaineering Rajasthan Punjab
46. Dr. Pukhraj Bafna Medicine - Padeatrics Chhattisgarh 47. Prof. Mansoor Hasan 48. Dr. Shyama Prasad Mandal 49. Prof. (Dr.) Sivapatham Vittal 50. Prof. (Dr.) Madanur Ahmed Ali Medicine- Cardiology Medicine - Orthopaedic Medicine - Endocrinology Medicine - Gastroenterology Uttar Pradesh 51. Dr. Indira Hinduja Medicine - Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 52. Dr. Jose Chacko Periappuram 53. Prof. (Dr.) A. Marthanda Pillai Medicine - Cardio- Thoracic Surgery. Medicine - Neurosurgery 54. Shri Mahim Bora Assam 55. Prof. (Dr.) Pullella Srirama Chandrudu - Sanskrit 56. Dr. Pravin Darji Gujarat 57. Dr. Chandra Prakash Deval Rajasthan 58. Shri Balraj Komal 59. Mrs. Rajni Kumar
60. Dr. Devanooru Mahadeva 61. Shri Barun Mazumder 62. Dr. Avvai Natarajan 63. Shri Bhalchandra Nemade 64. Prof. Riyaz Punjabi 65. Prof. Koneru Ramakrishna Rao Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir 66. Ms. Buangi Sailo Mizoram 67. Prof. Devi Dutt Sharma 68. Shri Nilamber Dev Sharma Uttarakhand Jammu and Kashmir 69. Ms. Urvashi Butalia # Ms. Ritu Menon # 70. Prof. Krishna Kumar 71. Shri Deviprasad Dwivedi Uttar Pradesh
72. Ms. Mamang Dai Arunachal Pradesh 73. Dr. Om Prakash Agrawal 74. Prof. Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar 75. Ms. Shanti Teresa Lakra Others - Heritage Conservation Others - Archeology Others-Nursing Uttar Pradesh Andaman & Nicobar 76. Smt. Gulshan Nanda Others - Handicrafts promotion 77. 78. Dr. Azad Moopen Social work UAE * Prof. Upendra Baxi Public Affairs -Legal Affairs United Kingdom * 79. Dr. Mani Lal Bhaumik USA * 80. Dr. Subra Suresh USA * 81. Prof. Karl Harrington Potter USA * 82. 83. 84. Prof. Martha Chen Social work USA * Shri Satpal Khattar Singapore * Shri Granville Austin USA * Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous. # indicates duo case. 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 are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan sometime around March/ April.