Padma Awards-2012

The President of India has approved the conferment of Padma Awards-2012. This year the President has approved 109 awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous. These comprise 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards. There are 19 ladies among the awardees.

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.

Padma Vibhushan

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Shri K G Subramanyan	Art-Painting & Sculpture	West Bengal
2.	Late Shri Mario De Miranda	Art-Cartoonist	Goa*
3.	Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika	Art- Vocal Music	Assam*
4.	Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti	Medicine - Orthopedics	Maharashtra
5.	Shri T V Rajeswar	Civil Service	Delhi

Padma Bhushan

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
	Smt. Shabana Azmi	Art - Cinema	Maharashtra
	Shri Khaled Choudhury	Art - Theatre	West Bengal
	Shri Jatin Das	Art - Painting	Delhi
	Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta	Art - Instrumental Music - Sarod	West Bengal
	Shri Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra	Art - Cinema	Maharashtra
	Dr. Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan	Art - Classical vocal and instrumental music	Tamil Nadu
	Ms. Mira Nair	Art - Cinema	Delhi
	Shri M.S. Gopalakrishnan	Art - Instrumental Music-Violin	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Anish Kapoor	Art - Sculpture	UK*
	Shri Satya Narayan Goenka	Social Work	Maharashtra
	Dr. (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao	Public Affairs	Germany*
	Shri George Yong-Boon Yeo	Public Affairs	Singapore*
	Prof. Shashikumar Chitre	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
	Dr. M S Raghunathan	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
	Shri Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Balasubramanian Muthuraman	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
	Dr. Suresh H. Advani	Medicine - Oncology	Maharashtra
	Dr. Noshir H Wadia	Medicine-Neurology	Maharashtra
	Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty	Medicine-Cardiology	Karnataka
	Prof. (Dr.) Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar	Literature and Education	Maharashtra
	Prof. Vidya Dehejia	Literature and Education	USA*
	Prof. Arvind Panagariya	Literature and Education	USA*
	Dr. Jose Pereira	Literature and Education	USA*
	Dr. Homi K. Bhabha	Literature and Education	UK *
	Shri N Vittal	Civil Service	Kerala
	Shri Mata Prasad	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Ronen Sen	Civil Service	West Bengal

Padma Shri

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
	Shri Vanraj Bhatia	Art - Music	Maharashtra
	Shri Zia Fariduddin Dagar	Art - Music - vocal	Maharashtra
	Smt. Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi	Art - Music- Khongjom Parba	Manipur
	Shri Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani	Art - Yakshagana dance drama	Karnataka
	Shri Moti Lal Kemmu	Art - Playwright	Jammu and Kashmir
	Shri Shahid Parvez Khan	Art - Instrumental Music-Sitar	Maharashtra
	Shri Mohan Lal Kumhar	Art - Terracotta	Rajasthan
	Shri Sakar Khan Manganiar	Art - Rajasthani Folk Music	Rajasthan
	Smt. Joy Michael	Art - Theatre	Delhi
	Dr. Minati Mishra	Art - Indian Classical Dance-Odissi.	Orissa
	Shri Natesan Muthuswamy	Art - Theatre.	Tamil Nadu
	Smt. R. Nagarathnamma	Art - Theatre	Karnataka
	Shri Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri	Art - Indian Classical Dance- Kutiyattam	Kerala
	Smt. Yamunabai Waikar	Art - Indian Folk Music-Lavani.	Maharashtra
	Shri Satish Alekar	Art - Playwright	Maharashtra
	Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey	Art - Chhau dance and choreography	Jharkhand
	Shri Ramakant Gundecha #	Art - Indian Classical Music- Vocal	Madhya Pradesh
	Shri Umakant Gundecha #	Art - Indian Classical Music- Vocal	Madhya Pradesh
	Shri Anup Jalota	Art-Indian Classical Music- Vocal	Maharashtra
	Shri Soman Nair Priyadarsan	Art - Cinema- Direction	Kerala
	Shri Sunil Janah	Art-Photography	Assam
	Ms. Laila Tyebji	Art-Handicrafts	Delhi
	Shri Vijay Sharma	Art-Painting	Himachal Pradesh
	Smt. Shamshad Begum	Social Work	Chattisgarh
	Smt. Reeta Devi	Social Work	Delhi
	Dr. P.K. Gopal	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
	Smt. Phoolbasan Bai Yadav	Social Work	Chattisgarh
	Dr. G. Muniratnam	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
	Shri Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya	Social Work	Maharashtra
	Dr. Uma Tuli	Social Work	Delhi
	Shri Sat Paul Varma	Social Work	Jammu and Kashmir
	Smt.Binny Yanga	Social Work	Arunachal Pradesh
	Shri Yezdi Hirji Malegam	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
	Shri Pravin H. Parekh	Pubic Affairs	Delhi
	Dr. V. Adimurthy	Science and Engineering	Kerala
	Dr. Krishna Lal Chadha	Science and Engineering - Agriculture	Delhi
	Prof. Virander Singh Chauhan	Science and Engineering	Delhi
	Prof. Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai	Science and Engineering	Jammu and Kashmir
	Dr. Vijaypal Singh	Science and Engineering - Agricultural Research	Uttar Pradesh
	Dr. Lokesh Kumar Singhal	Science and Engineering	Punjab
	Dr. Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
	Prof. Jagadish Shukla	Science and Engineering	USA*
	Ms. Priya Paul	Trade and Industry	Delhi
	Shri Shoji Shiba	Trade and Industry	Japan*
	Shri Gopinath Pillai	Trade and Industry	Singapore*
	Shri Arun Hastimal Firodia	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
	Dr. Swati A. Piramal	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
	Prof. Mahdi Hasan	Medicine-Anatomy	Uttar Pradesh
	Dr. Viswanathan Mohan	Medicine - Diabetology	Tamil Nadu
	Dr. J. Hareendran Nair	Medicine - Ayurveda	Kerala
	Dr. Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan	Medicine - Geriatrics	Tamil Nadu
	Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh	Medicine - Oncology	Bihar
	Dr. Shrinivas S. Vaishya	Medicine-Healthcare	Daman and Diu
	Dr. Nitya Anand	Medicine - Drugs Research	Uttar Pradesh
	Late Dr. Jugal Kishore	Medicine - Homoeopathy	Delhi *
	Dr. Mukesh Batra	Medicine-Homeopathy	Maharashtra
	Dr. Eberhard Fischer	Literature and Education	Switzerland*
	Shri Kedar Gurung	Literature and Education	Sikkim
	Shri Surjit Singh Patar	Literature and Education - Poetry	Punjab
	Shri Vijay Dutt Shridhar	Literature and Education - Journalism	Madhya Pradesh
	Shri Irwin Allan Sealy	Literature and Education	Uttarakhand
	Ms. Geeta Dharmarajan	Literature and Education	Delhi
	Prof. Sachchidanand Sahai	Literature and Education	Haryana
	Smt. Pepita Seth	Literature and Education	Kerala
	Dr. Ralte L. Thanmawia	Literature and Education	Mizoram
	Shri Ajeet Bajaj	Sports - Skiing	Delhi
	Smt. Jhulan Goswami	Sports - Women`s Cricket	West Bengal
	Shri Zafar Iqbal	Sports-Hockey	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri Devendra Jhajrija	Sports - Athletics- Paralympics	Rajasthan
	Shri Limba Ram	Sports - Archery	Rajasthan
	Shri Syed Mohammed Arif	Sports - Badminton	Andhra Pradesh
	Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi	Sports- Commentary	Delhi
	Shri Prabhakar Vaidya	Sports-Physical Education	Maharashtra
	Shri T. Venkatapathi Reddiar	Others-Horticulture	Puducherry
	Dr. K. (Kota) Ullas Karanth	Others-Wildlife Conservation and Environment Protection	Karnataka
	Shri K Paddayya	Others-Archaeology	Maharashtra
	Shri Swapan Guha	Others-Ceramics	Rajasthan
	Dr. Kartikeya V. Sarabhai	Others - Environmental Education	Gujarat

Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous.

            # indicates duo case.