Nobel laureate of Indian origin Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Apollo hospital chief Pratap Reddy and former RBI Governor Y V Reddy were today chosen for the second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan while music maestro A R Rahman and Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan have been named for Padma Bhushan.
Eminent theatre personalities Zohra Segal and Ebrahim Alkazi and noted 'mridangam' Carnatic artist Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman are the other three chosen for Padma Vibhushan award by the government which, in all, named 130 people, including 13 in the category of foreigners, NRIs and PIOs. 43 are Padma Bhushan and 83 are Padma Shri.
Cricketer Virendra Sehwag, Hockey national Ignace Tirkey, Formula 1 driver Narain Kartikeyan, Badminton star Saina Nehwal, Boxer Vijender Singh and Sachin Tendulkar's 'guru' Ramakant Achrekar have been selected for Padma Shri awards in sports category.
Among the Padma Bhushan awardees this year are noted NRI hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal, eminent nurosurgeon Satya Paul Agarwal and eminent cardiac surgeon Ramakant Panda, who performed 'beating heart' on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year. No one has been chosen for the Bharat Ratna award this year.
Tamil film music composer Ilaiyaraaja, who set music for Hindi films like 'Cheeni Kum' and 'Paa', Hindustan classical vocalist Pandit Chhannulal Mishra, dancer Mallika Sarabhai, former Cabinet Secretary and now now Member in the Planning Commission B K Chaturvedi have been chosen for Padma Bhushan along with former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Moosa Raza and former Vice Chancellor of Goa University P R Dubhashi for civil service.
Noted US-based journalist Farid Zakaria gets Padma Bhushan in joyrnalism category while Prof Tan Chung and Prof A J Paulraj get the award in literature and education and science and engineering respectively. Both are also from the US.
In the art category, Akbar Padamsee, Kumudini Lakhia, Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana, Puttaraj Gavai, Ram Kumar, Shrinivas Vinayak Khale and Ustad Sultan Khan are being conferred with the Padma Bhushan awards. Another Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen and S K Bandyopadhyay have been named in the public affairs category of Padma Bhushan.
Among the Padma Shri award winners are Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, Oscar award winner in sound technician category Resul Pookutty, Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar, Nemai Ghosh, who had done camera work for Satyajit Ray, Arundhati Nag and Shobha Raju selected from the field of art.
Former CBI Director D R Karthikeyan, who headed the Special Investigation Team that probed the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and environment activist Ranjit Bhargava have been chosen for Padma Shri awards.
In the trade and industry category Venu Srinivasan of the TVS Group, Alluri Venkata Satyanarayana Raju, B Raveendran Pillai, Deepak Puri, Irshad Mirza and Kapil Mohan have been selected for Padma Shri awards.
Padma Shri is also being awarded to Anu Aga, Ayekpam Tomba Meetei, J R Ganga Ramani, Deep Joshi, Baba Sewa Singh, Sudha Kaul and Kranti Shah for their social work.
Former Union Minister Balasaheb Vikhe Patil gets Padma Bhushan for social work while Ghulam Mohammad Mir and Arun Sarma get Padma Shri in public service and literature and education category. PTI
Following Are The Names Of People Chosen For Padma Awards:
Padma Vibhushan
1. Ebrahim Alkazi - Art
2. Umayalpuram K Sivaraman - Art
3. Zohra Segal - Art
4. Yaga Venugopal Reddy - Public Affairs
5. Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Science and Engineering
6. Prathap Chandra Reddy - Trade and Industry
Padma Bhushan
1. Ilaiyaraaja - Art
2. Aamir Khan - Art
3. Akbar Padamsee - Art
4. Allah Rakha Rahman - Art
5. Pandit Chhannulal Mishra - Art
6. Kumudini Lakhia - Art
7. Kuzhur Narayana Marar - Art
8. Prof. Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky - Art
9. Mallika Sarabhai - Art
10. Prof. (Dr.) Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana - Art
11. Pandit (Dr.) Puttaraj Gavai - Art
12. Ram Kumar - Art
13. Shrinivas Vinayak Khale - Art
14. Ustad Sultan Khan - Art
15. B K Chaturvedi - Civil Service
16. Moosa Raza - Civil Service
17. Dr. P R Dubhashi - Civil Service
18. Fareed Zakaria - Journalism
19. Anil Bordia - Literature and Education
20. Prof Bipan Chandra - Literature and Education
21. G P Chopra - Literature and Education
22. Prof Mohammad Amin - Literature and Education
23. Prof Satya Vrat Shastri - Literature and Education
24. Prof Tan Chung - Literature and Education
25. Prof Belle Monappa Hegde - Medicine
26. E T Narayanan Mooss - Medicine
27. Dr Noshir M Shroff - Medicine
28. Dr Panniyampilly Krishna Warrier - Medicine
29. Dr Ramakant Madanmohan Panda - Medicine
30. Prof (Dr.) Satya Paul Agarwal - Medicine
31. Prof Abhijit Sen - Public Affairs
32. Sailesh Kumar Bandyopadhyay - Public Affairs
33. Sant Singh Chatwal - Public Affairs
34. Prof Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj - Science and Engineering
35. Prof Bikash Chandra Sinha - Science and Engineering
36. Jagdish Chandra Kapur - Science and Engineering
37. Dr Balagangadharanatha Swamiji - Social Work
38. Eknath Rao alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil - Social Work
39. Capt. C P Krishnan Nair - Trade and Industry
40. Dr Kushal Pal Singh - Trade and Industry
41. Manvinder Singh Banga alias Vindi Banga - Trade and Industry
42. Narayanan Vaghul - Trade and Industry
43. S P Oswal - Trade and Industry
Padma Shri
1. Gulam Mohammed Mir - Public Service
2. Rekha - Art
3. Arjun Prajapati - Art
4. Arundhati Nag - Art
5. Carmel Berkson - Art
6. Ustad F Wasifuddin Dagar - Art
7. Gul Bardhan - Art
8. Haobam Ongbi Ngangbi Devi - Art
9. Hari Uppal - Art
10. K Raghavan - Art
11. Guru Mayadhar Raut - Art
12. Mukund Lath - Art
13. Nemai Ghosh - Art
14. Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi - Art
15. Rajkumar Achouba Singh - Art
16. Dr. Ram Dayal Munda - Art
17. Resul Pokutty - Art
18. Saif Ali Khan - Art
19. Dr. Shobha Raju - Art
20. Sumitra Guha - Art
21. Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar - Art
22. D R Karthikeyan - Civil Service
23. Dr Ranjit Bhargava - Environment Protection
24. Arun Sarma - Literature and Education
25. Prof Arvind Kumar - Literature and Education
26. Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar - Literature and Education
27. Prof Govind Chandra Pande - Literature and Education
28. Prof Hamidi Kashmiri - Literature and Education
29. Prof (Dr) Hermann Kulke - Literature and Education
30. Janaki Ballav Shastri - Literature and Education
31. Dr Jitendra Udhampuri - Literature and Education
32. Dr Lal Bahadur Singh Chauhan - Literature and Education
33. Lalzuia Colney - Literature and Education
34. Maria Aurora Couto - Literature and Education
35. Dr(Smt) Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy alias Y G Parthasarathy - Literature and Education
36. Prof Ramaranjan Mukherji - Literature and Education
37. Dr Ranganathan Parthasarathy - Literature and Education
38. Fr. Romuald D'Souza - Literature and Education
39. Prof Sadiq-Ur-Rahman Kidwai - Literature and Education
40. Sheldon Pollock - Literature and Education
41. Dr Surendra Dubey - Literature and Education
42. Dr Anil Kumar Bhalla - Medicine
43. Dr Arvinder Singh Soin - Medicine
44. Dr B Ramana Rao - Medicine
45. Dr Jalakantapuram Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthy - Medicine
46. Dr K K Aggarwal - Medicine
47. Prof Kodaganur S Gopinath - Medicine
48. Dr Laxmi Chand Gupta - Medicine
49. Dr Philip Augustine - Medicine
50. Dr Rabindra Narain Singh - Medicine
51. Dr Vikas Mahatme - Medicine
52. Dr Rafael Iruzubieta Fernandez - Public Affairs
53. Prof M R Satyanarayana Rao - Science and Engineering
54. Prof (Dr.) Palpu Pushpangadan - Science and Engineering
55. Prof Ponisseril Somasundaran - Science and Engineering
56. Prof Pucadyil Ittoop John - Science and Engineering
57. Dr Vijay Prasad Dimri - Science and Engineering
58. Dr Vijaylakshmi Ravindranath - Science and Engineering
59. Anu Aga - Social Work
60. Ayekpam Tomba Meetei - Social Work
61. Deep Joshi - Social Work
62. Dr J R Gangaramani - Social Work
63. Kranti Shah - Social Work
64. Dr Kurian John Melamparambil - Social Work
65. Baba Sewa Singh - Social Work
66. Sudha Kaul - Social Work
67. Dr Sudhir M Parikh - Social Work
68. Ignace Tirkey - Sports
69. Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan - Sports
70. Ramakant Vithal Achrekar - Sports
71. Saina Nehwal - Sports
72. Vijender Singh - Sports
73. Virendra Sehwag - Sports
74. Dr Alluri Venkata Satyanarayana Raju - Trade and Industry Andhra Pradesh
75. Dr B Raveendran Pillai - Trade and Industry
76. Deepak Puri - Trade and Industry
77. Irshad Mirza - Trade and Industry
78. Brig. Dr. Kapil Mohan - Trade and Industry
79. Dr. Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel - Trade and Industry
80. T N Manoharan - Trade and Industry
81. Venu Srinivasan - Trade and Industry PTI
