PADMA AWARDS

PADMA AWARDS 2015

Padma Awards (one of the highest civilian Awards of the country) 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.

This year the President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards to 104 persons. Complete list is given below  -

PADMA VIBHUSAN

( TOTAL – 9 )

	Awardees	Discipline	Domicile
1	Shri LK Advani	Public Affairs	Gujarat
2	Shri Amitabh Bachchan	Art	Maharashtra
3	Shri Prakash Singh Badal	Public Affairs	Punjab
4	Dr  Shri D Veerendra Heggade	Social Work	Karnataka
5	Shri Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar	Art	Maharashtra
6	Shri Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya	Others	Uttar Pradesh
7	Prof  Shri Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
8	Shri Kottayan K. Venugopal	Public Affairs	Delhi
9	Shri Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan (Foreigner)	Trade and Industry	France/UK

PADAM BHUSHAN

( TOTAL – 20 )

	Awardees	Discipline	Domicile
1	Shri Jahnu Barua	Art	Assam
2	Dr. Shri Vijay Bhatkar	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
3	Shri Swapan Dasgupta	Literature and Education	Delhi
4	Shri Swami Satyamitranand Giri	Others	Uttar Pradesh
5	Shri N Gopalaswami	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
6	Dr. Shri Subhash C Kashyap	Public Affairs	Delhi
7	Dr. (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj	Art	Madhya Pradesh
8	Dr. Shri Ambrish Mithal	Medicine	Delhi
9	Shri Sudha Ragunathan	Art	Tamil Nadu
10	Shri Harish Salve	Public Affairs	Delhi
11	Dr. Shri Ashok Seth	Medicine	Delhi
12	Shri Rajat Sharma	Literature and Education	Delhi
13	Shri Satpal	Sports	Delhi
14	Shri Shivakumara Swami	Others	Karnataka
15	Dr. Shri Kharag Singh Valdiya	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
16	Prof Manjul Bhargava (NRI/PIO)	Science and Engineering	USA
17	Shri David Frawley (Vamadeva) (Foreigner)	Others	USA
18	Shri Bill Gates (Foreigner )	Social Work	USA
19	Shri Melinda Gates (Foreigner)	Social Work	USA
20	Saichiro Misumi (Foreigner)	Others	Japan

PADMA SHRI

( TOTAL – 75 )

	Awardees	Discipline	Domicile
1	Dr Manjula Anagani	Medicine	Telangana
2	S Arunan	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
3	Kanyakumari Avasarala	Art	Tamil Nadu
4	Dr Bettina Sharada Baumer	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
5	Naresh Bedi	Art	Delhi
6	Ashok Bhagat	Social Work	Jharkhand
7	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Art	Maharashtra
8	Dr Lakshmi Nandan Bora	Literature and Education	Assam
9	Dr Gyan Chaturvedi	Literature and Education	Madhya Pradesh
10	Prof (Dr) Yogesh Kumar Chawla	Medicine	Chandigarh
11	Jayakumari Chikkala	Medicine	Delhi
12	Bibek Debroy	Literature and Education	Delhi
13	Dr Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi	Medicine	Manipur
14	Dr Ashok Gulati	Public Affairs	Delhi
15	Dr Randeep Guleria	Medicine	Delhi
16	Dr KP Haridas	Medicine	Kerala
17	Rahul Jain	Art	Delhi
18	Ravindra Jain	Art	Maharashtra
19	Dr Sunil Jogi	Literature and Education	Delhi
20	Prasoon Joshi	Art	Maharashtra
21	Dr Prafulla Kar	Art	Odisha
22	Saba Anjum	Sports	Chhattisgarh
23	Ushakiran Khan	Literature and Education	Bihar
24	Dr Rajesh Kotecha	Medicine	Rajasthan
25	Prof Alka Kriplani	Medicine	Delhi
26	Dr Harsh Kumar	Medicine	Delhi
27	Narayana Purushothama Mallaya	Literature & Education	Kerala
28	Lambert Mascarenhas	Literature and Education	Goa
29	Dr Janak Palta McGilligan	Social Work	Madhya Pradesh
30	Veerendra Raj Mehta	Social Work	Delhi
31	Tarak Mehta	Art	Gujarat
32	Neil Herbert Nongkynrih	Art	Meghalaya
33	Chewang Norphel	Others	Jammu and Kashmir
34	TV Mohandas Pai	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
35	Dr Tejas Patel	Medicine	Gujarat
36	Jadav Molai Peyang	Others	Assam
37	Bimla Podda	Others	Uttar Pradesh
38	Dr N Prabhakar	Science and Engg	Delhi
39	Dr Prahalada	Science and Engg	Maharashtra
40	Dr Narendra Prasad	Medicine	Bihar
41	Ram Bahadur Rai	Literature and Education	Delhi
42	Mithali Raj	Sports	Telangana
43	PV Rajaraman	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
44	Prof JS Rajput	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
45	Kota Srinivasa Rao	Art	Andhra Pradesh
46	Prof Bimal Roy	Literature and Education	West Bengal
47	Shekhar Sen	Art	Maharashtra
48	Gunvant Shah	Literature and Education	Gujarat
49	Brahmdev Sharma	Literature and Education	Delhi
50	Manu Sharma	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
51	Prof Yog Raj Sharma	Medicine	Delhi
52	Vasant Shastri	Science and Engg	Karnataka
53	SK Shivkumar	Science and Engg	Karnataka
54	PV Sindhu	Sports	Telangana
55	Sardara Singh	Sports	Haryana
56	Arunima Sinha	Sports	Uttar Pradesh
57	Mahesh Raj Soni	Art	Rajasthan
58	Dr Nikhil Tandon	Medicine	Delhi
59	H Thegtse Rinpoche	Social Work	Arunachal Pradesh
60	Dr Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi	Medicine	Gujarat
61	Huang Baosheng	Others	China
62	Prof Jacques Blamont	Science and Engg	France
63	Late Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin	Others	Maharashtra (Posthumous)
64	Jean-Claude Carriere-	Literature and Education	France
65	Dr Nandrajan 'Raj' Chetty	Literature and Education	France
66	George L Hart	Others	USA
67	Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja	Others	Portugal
68	Late Meetha Lal Mehta	Social Work	Rajasthan (Posthumous)
69	Tripti Mukherjee	Art	USA
70	Dr Dattatreyudu Nori	Medicine	USA
71	Dr Raghu Rama Pillarisetti	Medicine	USA
72	Dr Saumitra Rawat	Medicine	UK
73	Prof Annette Schmiedchen	Literature and Education	Germany
74	Late Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran	Art	Delhi (Posthumous)
75	Late R Vasudevan	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu (Posthumous)

§ Padma Vibhushan – 9          § Padma Bhushan – 20                       § Padma Shri – 75

§ Women awardees – 17         § Persons Foreigners, NRIs, PIOs – 17

§ Posthumous awardees – 4

¥ Yoga guru Ramdev and spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar have declined any Padma awards.

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