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Govt announces Padma Awards


A total of 109 persons, including 19 women, have been selected for the Padma awards on the eve of the Republic Day.

President Pratibha Patil approved the awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/posthumous.

The awards comprise five Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri awards.

The awardees are K G Subramanyan Art-Painting and Sculpture , Late Mario De Miranda Art-Cartoonist Goa, Late (Dr) Bhupen Hazarika Art- Vocal Music Assam, Dr Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Medicine- Orthopaedics .

T V Rajeswar Civil Service Delhi Padma Bhushan Cinema , Khaled Choudhury Art - Theatre , Jatin Das Art - Painting, Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta Art - Instrumental Music - Sarod.

Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra Art- Cinema , Dr Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan Art - Classical vocal and instrumental music, Mira Nair Art - Cinema, M S Gopalakrishnan Art - Instrumental Music-Violin, Anish Kapoor Art - Sculpture, Satya Narayan Goenka Social Work.

Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao Public Affairs, George Yong-Boon Yeo Public Affairs , Prof Shashikumar Chitre Science and Engineering , Dr M S Raghunathan Science and Engineering.

Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan Trade and Industry, Balasubramanian Muthuraman Trade and Industry, Dr Suresh H Advani Medicine - Oncology, Dr Noshir H Wadia Medicine-Neurology, Dr Devi Prasad Shetty Medicine-Cardiology, Prof (Dr) Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar Literature and Education.

Prof Vidya Dehejia Literature and Education, Prof Arvind Panagariya Literature and Education, Dr Jose Pereira Literature and Education, Dr Homi K Bhabha Literature and Education,  N Vittal Civil Service.

Mata Prasad Civil Service Uttar Pradesh, Ronen Sen Civil Service West Bengal Padma Shri Name Discipline State/ Domicile, Vanraj Bhatia Art - Music, Zia Fariduddin Dagar Art - Music- vocal.

Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani Art - Yakshagana dance drama, Moti Lal Kemmu Art - Playwright, Shahid Parvez Khan Art - Instrumental Music-Sitar.

Mohan Lal Kumhar Art - Terracotta, Sakar Khan Manganiar Art - Rajasthani Folk Music.

Smt Joy Michael Art - Theatre, Dr Minati Mishra Art - Indian Classical Dance-Odissi Orissa , Natesan Muthuswamy Art - Theatre, Smt R Nagarathnamma Art - Theatre , Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri Art - Indian Classical Dance Kutiyattam .

Smt Yamunabai Waikar Art - Indian Folk Music-Lavani, Satish Alekar Art - Playwright, Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey Art - Chhau dance and choreography, Ramakant Gundecha, Art- Indian Classical Music- Vocal

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