Ministry of Home Affairs
Press note
North Block, New Delhi.
Dated the 25th January, 2013.
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.
2. These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has consented to confer Padma Awards to 108 persons as per the list below. The list comprises of 4 Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 80 Padma Shri Awardees. 24 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and Posthumous awardees.
Padma VibhushanName Discipline State/ Domicile
1.Shri Raghunath Mohapatra Art, Orissa
2.Shri S. Haider Raza Art, Delhi
3.Prof. Yash Pal Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh
4.Prof. Roddam Narasimha Science and Engineering, Karnataka
Padma BhushanSl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile
1. Dr. Ramanaidu Daggubati Art, Andhra Pradesh
2.Smt. Sreeramamurthy Janaki Art, Tamil Nadu
3. Dr. (Smt.) Kanak Rele Art, Maharashtra
4.Smt. Sharmila Tagore Art, Delhi
5. Dr. (Smt.) Saroja Vaidyanathan Art, Delhi
6.Shri Abdul Rashid Khan Art, West Bengal
7. Late Rajesh Khanna Art, Maharashtra #
8. Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti Art, Punjab #
9.Shri Shivajirao Girdhar Patil Public Affairs, Maharashtra
10. Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai Science and Engineering, Delhi
11. Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat Science and Engineering, Delhi
12. Dr. Ashoke Sen Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh
13. Dr. B.N. Suresh Science and Engineering, Karnataka
14.Prof. Satya N. Atluri Science and Engineering, USA *
15.Prof. Jogesh Chandra Pati Science and Engineering, USA
16. Shri Ramamurthy Thyagarajan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu
17.Shri Adi Burjor Godrej Trade and Industry, Maharashtra
18. Dr. Nandkishore Shamrao Laud Medicine, Maharashtra
19.Shri Mangesh Padgaonkar Literature & Education, Maharashtra
20. Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Literature & Education, USA*
21. Shri Hemendra Singh Panwar Civil Service, Madhya Pradesh
22. Dr. Maharaj Kishan Bhan Civil Service, Delhi
23. Shri Rahul Dravid Sports, Karnataka
24. Ms. H. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom Sports Manipur
Padma ShriSl 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.