Padma Awards 2015

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. 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 104 persons as per the list below. The list comprises of 9 Padma Vibhushan, 20 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri Awardees.  17 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 17 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and 4 Posthumous awardees.   Padma Vibhushan S. No. Name of the Awardee Discipline State/Domicile 1.                   Shri L. K. Advani Public Affairs Gujarat 2.                   Shri Amitabh Bachchan Art Maharashtra 3.                   Shri Prakash Singh Badal Public Affairs Punjab 4.                   Dr. 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. 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 Padma Bhushan 1.                   Shri Jahnu Barua Art Assam 2.                   Dr. Vijay Bhatkar Science and Engineering Maharashtra 3.                   Shri Swapan Dasgupta Literature and Education Delhi 4.                   Swami Satyamitranand Giri Others Uttar Pradesh 5.                   Shri N. Gopalaswami Civil Service Tamil Nadu 6.                   Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap Public Affairs Delhi 7.                   Dr. (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj    Art Madhya Pradesh 8.                   Dr. Ambrish  Mithal Medicine Delhi 9.                   Smt. Sudha Ragunathan Art Tamil Nadu 10.               Shri Harish Salve Public Affairs Delhi 11.               Dr. 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. 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.    Ms. Melinda Gates  (Foreigner) Social Work  USA 20.    Shri Saichiro Misumi (Foreigner) Others  Japan Padma Shri 1.        Dr. Manjula Anagani Medicine Telangana 2.                   Shri S. Arunan Science and Engineering Karnataka 3.                   Ms. Kanyakumari Avasarala Art Tamil Nadu 4.        Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir 5.                   Shri Naresh Bedi Art Delhi 6.                   Shri Ashok Bhagat Social Work Jharkhand 7.                   Shri 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.               Smt. Jayakumari Chikkala Medicine Delhi 12.               Shri 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. K. P. Haridas Medicine Kerala 17.               Shri Rahul Jain Art Delhi 18.               Shri Ravindra Jain Art Maharashtra 19.               Dr. Sunil Jogi Literature and Education Delhi 20.               Shri Prasoon Joshi Art Maharashtra 21.               Dr. Prafulla Kar Art Odisha 22.               Ms. Saba Anjum   Sports Chhattisgarh 23.               Smt. 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.               Shri Narayana Purushothama Mallaya Literature and Education Kerala 28.               Shri Lambert Mascarenhas Literature and Education Goa 29.               Dr. (Mrs.) Janak Palta McGilligan Social Work Madhya Pradesh 30.               Shri Veerendra Raj Mehta Social Work Delhi 31.               Shri Tarak Mehta Art Gujarat 32.               Shri Neil Herbert Nongkynrih Art Meghalaya 33.               Shri Chewang Norphel Others Jammu and Kashmir 34.               Shri T. V. Mohandas Pai Trade and Industry Karnataka 35.               Dr.Tejas Patel Medicine Gujarat 36.               Shri Jadav Molai Peyang Others Assam 37.               Smt. Bimla Poddar Other Uttar Pradesh 38.               Dr. N. Prabhakar Science and Engineering Delhi 39.               Dr. Prahalada Science and Engineering Maharashtra 40.               Dr. Narendra Prasad Medicine Bihar 41.               Shri Ram Bahadur Rai Literature and Education Delhi 42.               Ms. Mithali Raj Sports Telangana 43.               Shri P. V.  Rajaraman Civil Service  Tamil Nadu 44.               Prof.  J. S. Rajput Literature and Education  Uttar Pradesh 45.               Shri Kota Srinivasa Rao Art Andhra Pradesh 46.               Prof. Bimal Roy Literature and Education West Bengal 47.               Shri Shekhar Sen Art Maharashtra 48.               Shri Gunvant Shah Literature and Education  Gujarat 49.               Shri Brahmdev Sharma (Bhaiji) Literature and Education  Delhi 50.               Shri Manu Sharma Literature and Education  Uttar Pradesh 51.               Prof. Yog Raj Sharma Medicine  Delhi 52.               Shri Vasant Shastri Science and Engineering Karnataka 53.               Shri S. K. Shivkumar Science and Engineering Karnataka 54.               Ms. P. V. Sindhu Sports Telangana 55.               Shri Sardara Singh Sports Haryana 56.               Ms. Arunima Sinha Sports    Uttar Pradesh 57.               Shri Mahesh Raj Soni Art Rajasthan 58.               Dr.Nikhil Tandon Medicine Delhi 59.               Shri H. Thegtse Rinpoche Social Work Arunachal Pradesh 60.               Dr.Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi Medicine Gujarat 61.    Shri Huang Baosheng (Foreigner) Others China 62.    Prof. Jacques Blamont (Foreigner) Science and Engineering France 63.    Late Shri Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin (Posthumous) Others Maharashtra 64.    Shri Jean-Claude Carriere (Foreigner) Literature and Education France 65.    Dr. Nandrajan “Raj” Chetty (NRI/PIO) Trade and Industry USA 66.    Shri George L. Hart (Foreigner) Others USA 67.    Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja(NRI/PIO) Others Portugal 68.    Late Shri Meetha Lal Mehta (Posthumous) Social Work Rajasthan 69.    Ms. Tripti Mukherjee (NRI/PIO) Art USA 70.    Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori (NRI/PIO) Medicine USA 71.    Dr. Raghu Rama Pillarisetti (NRI/PIO) Medicine USA 72.    Dr. Saumitra Rawat (NRI/PIO) Medicine UK 73.    Prof. Annette Schmiedchen (Foreigner) Literature and Education Germany 74.    Late Shri Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran(Posthumous) Art Delhi 75.    Late Shri R. Vasudevan (Posthumous) Civil Service Tamil Nadu