Padma Awards 2016

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.

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 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 from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs (include one posthumous) and 4 Posthumous awardees.

PADMA VIBHUSHAN

Sl. No	Name	Field	State
1.	Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi	Art- Classical dance	Delhi
2.	Shri Rajinikanth	Art-Cinema	Tamil Nadu
3.	Smt. Girija Devi	Art-Classical Vocal	West Bengal
4.	Shri Ramoji Rao	Literature & Education-Journalism	Andhra Pradesh
5.	Dr. Viswanathan Shanta	Medicine- Oncology	Tamil Nadu
6.	Shri Shri Ravi Shankar	Others-Spiritualism	Karnataka
7.	Shri Jagmohan	Public Affairs	Delhi
8.	Dr.Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
9.	Shri Avinash Dixit (Foreigner)	Literature & Education	USA
10.	Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous)	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan

Sl. No.	Name	Field	State
11.	Shri Anupam Kher	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
12.	Shri Udit Narayan Jha	Art-Playback Singing	Maharashtra
13.	Shri Ram V.  Sutar	Art-Sculpture	Uttar Pradesh
14.	Shri Heisnam Kanhailal	Art-Theatre	Manipur
15.	Shri Vinod Rai	Civil Service	Kerala
16.	Dr. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
17.	Prof. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
18.	Dr. Barjinder Singh Hamdard	Literature & Education - Journalism	Punjab
19.	Prof. D. Nageshwar Reddy	Medicine-Gastroenterology	Telangana
20.	Swami Tejomayananda	Other-Spiritualism	Maharashtra
21.	Shri Hafeez Contractor	Others-Architecture	Maharashtra
22.	Shri  Ravindra Chandra Bhargava	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
23.	Dr.Venkata Rama Rao Alla	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
24.	Ms. Saina Nehwal	Sports-Badminton	Telangana
25.	Ms. Sania Mirza	Sports-Tennis	Telangana
26.	Ms. Indu Jain	Trade & Industry	Delhi
27.	Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous)	Others-Spiritualism	Uttarakhand
28.	Shri Robert Blackwill (Foreigner)	Public Affairs	USA
29.	Shri Pallonji Shapoorji  Mistry (NRI/PIO)	Trade & Industry	Ireland

           

Padma Shri 

Sl. No	Name	Field	State
30.	Smt. Prathibha Prahlad	Art- Classical Dance	Delhi
31.	Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi	Art- Folk Music	Gujarat
32.	Shri  Sribhas Chandra Supakar	Art- Textile Designing	Uttar Pradesh
33.	Shri Ajay Devgn	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
34.	Ms. Priyanka Chopra	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
35.	Pt. Tulsidas Borkar	Art-Classical Music	Goa
36.	Dr. Soma Ghosh	Art-Classical Vocal	Uttar Pradesh
37.	Shri  Nila Madhab Panda	Art-Film Direction and Production	Delhi
38.	Shri S.S. Rajamouli	Art-Film Direction and Production	Karnataka
39.	Shri Madhur Bhandarkar	Art-Film Direction and Production	Maharashtra
40.	Prof. M. Venkatesh Kumar	Art-Folk Artist	Karnataka
41.	Ms. Gulabi Sapera	Art-Folk Dance	Rajasthan
42.	Smt. Mamta Chandrakar	Art-Folk Music	Chhattisgarh
43.	Ms. Malini Awasthi	Art-Folk Music	Uttar Pradesh
44.	Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal	Art-Miniature Painting	Delhi
45.	Shri  K. Laxma Goud	Art-Painting	Telangana
46.	Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe	Art-Photography	Madhya Pradesh
47.	Shri Naresh Chander Lal	Art-Theatre & Cinema	Andaman & Nicobar
48.	Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah	Literature & Education	Assam
49.	Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa	Literature & Education	Assam
50.	Dr.Ravindra Nagar	Literature & Education	Delhi
51.	Shri Dahyabhai Shastri	Literature & Education	Gujarat
52.	Dr.Santeshivara Bhyrappa	Literature & Education	Karnataka
53.	Shri  Haldar Nag	Literature & Education	Odisha
54.	Shri Kameshwaram Brahma	Literature & Education -Journalism	Assam
55.	Prof. Pushpesh Pant	Literature & Education-Journalism	Delhi
56.	Shri Jawaharlal Kaul	Literature & Education-Journalism	Jammu & Kashmir
57.	Shri Ashok Malik	Literature &Education	Delhi
58.	Dr.Mannam Gopi Chand	Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery	Telangana
59.	Prof. Ravi Kant	Medicine-Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
60.	Prof. Ram Harsh Singh	Medicine- Ayurveda	Uttar Pradesh
61.	Prof. Shiv Narain Kureel	Medicine- Paediatric Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
62.	Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar	Medicine –Radiology	Uttar Pradesh
63.	Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale	Medicine-Cardiac Surgery	Andhra Pradesh
64.	Prof. T.K. Lahiri	Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
65.	Dr. Praveen Chandra	Medicine-Cardiology	Delhi
66.	Prof. (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir	Medicine-Cardiology	Uttar Pradesh
67.	Dr.Chandrasekar  Shesadri  Thoguluva	Medicine-Gastroenterology	Tamil Nadu
68.	Dr. (Mrs.) Anil Kumari Malhotra	Medicine-Homeopathy	Delhi
69.	Prof. M.V. Padma Srivastava	Medicine-Neurology	Delhi
70.	Dr. Sudhir V. Shah	Medicine-Neurology	Gujarat
71.	Dr. M. M. Joshi	Medicine-Ophthalmology	Karnataka
72.	Prof. (Dr) John Ebnezar	Medicine-Orthopaedic Surgery	Karnataka
73.	Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda	Medicine-Paediatric Surgery	Andhra Pradesh
74.	Shri  Simon Oraon	Other –Environment Conservation	Jharkhand
75.	Shri Imitiaz Qureshi	Other-Culinary	Delhi
76.	Shri Piyush Pandey	Others-Advertising & Communication	Maharashtra
77.	Shri Subhash Palekar	Others-Farming	Maharashtra
78.	Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha	Others-Wildlife Conservation	Bihar
79.	Dr. H.R. Nagendra	Others-Yoga	Karnataka
80.	Shri M. C. Mehta	Public Affairs	Delhi
81.	Shri M. N. Krishna Mani	Public Affairs	Delhi
82.	Shri Ujjwal Nikam	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
83.	Shri Tokheho Sema	Public Affairs	Nagaland
84.	Dr. Satish Kumar	Science & Engineering	Delhi
85.	Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
86.	Prof. Dipankar Chatterji	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
87.	Prof.(Dr.) Ganapati Dadasaheb  Yadav	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
88.	Smt. (Prof.) Veena Tandon	Science & Engineering	Meghalaya
89.	Shri Onkar Nath Srivastava	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
90.	Ms. Sunita Krishnan	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
91.	Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta	Social Work	Assam
92.	Shri  M. Pandit  Dasa	Social Work	Karnataka
93.	Shri  P. P. Gopinathan Nair	Social Work	Kerala
94.	Smt. Madeleine Herman de Blic	Social Work	Puducherry
95.	Shri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai	Social work	Tamil Nadu
96.	Shri Sudhakar Olwe	Social Work	Maharashtra
97.	Dr. T.V. Narayana	Social Work	Telangana
98.	Shri Arunachalam Murugantham	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
99.	Ms. Deepika Kumari	Sports-Archery	Jharkhand
100.	Shri Sushil Doshi	Sports-commentary	Madhya Pradesh
101.	Shri Mahesh Sharma	Trade & Industry	Delhi
102.	Shri Saurabh Srivastava	Trade & Industry	Delhi
103.	Sh Dilip Sanghvi	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
104.	Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
105.	Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana  (Posthumous)	Art  -Classical Music	Rajasthan
106.	Late Shri  Saeed Jaffrey (NRI/PIO/Posthumous)	Art-Cinema	UK
107.	Shri  Michael Postel (Foreigner)	Art-Archaeology	France
108.	Shri  Salman  Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education	USA
109.	Smt. Hui Lan Zhang (Foreigner)	Others-Yoga	China
110.	Shri  Predrag K. Nikic (Foreigner)	Others-Yoga	Serbia
111.	Dr.Sundar Aditya Menon (NRI/PIO)	Social Work	UAE
112.	Shri  Ajaypal Singh  Banga(NRI/PIO)	Trade & Industry	USA

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