CONGRATS!!!
PADMA Awards Announced
- 63rd  Anniversary Republic of India2013
The annual High Civilian Awards conferred by the Government of India has been announced.
Government of India has conferred 2013 Padma Awards to 108 persons viz., 4 Padma Vibhushans, 24 Padma Bhushans, 80 Padma  Awards

PADMA VIBHUSHAN  Padma Vibhushan 1.  Raghunath Mohapatra - Art - Orissa 2.  S. Haider Raza - Art - Delhi 3. Prof. Yash Pal  - Science and Engineering  - Uttar Pradesh 4. Prof. Roddam Narasimha - Science and Engineering - Karnataka     Dr Roddam Narasimha  Prof Yash Pal PADMA VIBHUSHAN PADMA SHREE/ PADMA SHRI 1.  Gajam Anjaiah - Art - Andhra Pradesh 2. Swami G.C.D. Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu - Art - Chhattisgarh 3. Ms. B. Jayashree - Art - Karnataka 4. Smt. Sridevi Kapoor - Art - Maharashtra 5.  Kailash Chandra Meher - Art - Orissa 6.  Brahmdeo Ram Pandit - Art - Maharashtra 7.  Vishwanath Dinkar Patekar alias Nana Patekar - Art - Maharashtra 8.  Rekandar Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji - Art - Andhra Pradesh 9.  Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju - Art - Tamil Nadu 10. Smt. Jaymala Shiledar - Art - Maharashtra 11.  Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar - Art - Maharashtra 12.  P. Madhavan Nair alias Madhu - Art - Kerala 13.  Apurba Kishore Bir - Art - Maharashtra 14.  Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan - Art - Assam 15. Smt. Hilda Mit Lepcha - Art - Sikkim 16. Smt. Sudha Malhotra - Art - Maharashtra 17.  Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz - Art - Jammu and Kashmir 18.  Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy - Art - Maharashtra 19. Ms. Mahrukh Tarapor - Art - Maharashtra 20.  Balwant Thakur - Art - Jammu & Kashmir 21.  Puran Das Baul  - Art - West Bengal 22.  Rajendra Tikku - Art - Jammu & Kashmir 23.  Pablo Bartholomew - Art - Delhi 24.  S. Shakir Ali - Art  - Rajasthan 25. Sh. S.K.M Maeilanandhan - Social Work - Tamil Nadu 26. Ms. Nileema Mishra - Social Work - Maharashtra 27. Ms. Reema Nanavati - Social Work - Gujarat 28. Ms. Jharna Dhara Chowdhury - Social Work - Bangladesh * 29. Late Dr. Ram Krishan - Social Work - Uttar Pradesh # 30. Late Manju Bharat Ram - Social Work - Delhi # 31. Prof. Mustansir Barma - Science and Engineering - Maharashtra 32.  Avinash Chander - Science and Engineering - Delhi 33. Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande - Science and Engineering - Uttar Pradesh 34. Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kumar Pal - Science and Engineering - West Bengal 35. Prof. Deepak B. Phatak - Science and Engineering - Maharashtra 36. Dr. Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju - Science and Engineering - Andhra Pradesh 37. Prof. Ajay K. Sood - Science and Engineering - Karnataka 38. Prof. Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan - Science and Engineering - Karnataka 39. Dr. Manindra Agrawal  - Science and Engineering  - Uttar Pradesh 40. Dr. Jayaraman Gowrishankar - Science and Engineering - Andhra Pradesh 41. Prof. Sharad Pandurang Kale - Science and Engineering - Maharashtra 42. Smt. Vandana Luthra - Trade and Industry - Delhi 43. Ms. Rajshree Pathy - Trade and Industry - Tamil Nadu 44.  Hemendra Prasad Barooah - Trade and Industry - Assam 45.  Milind Kamble - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra 46. Ms. Kalpana Saroj - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra 47. Dr. Sudarshan K. Aggarwal - Medicine - Delhi 48. Dr. C. Venkata S. Ram alias Chitta Venkata Sundara Ram - Medicine - Andhra Pradesh 49. Dr. Rajendra Achyut Badwe -  Medicine - Maharashtra 50. Dr. Taraprasad Das - Medicine - Orissa 51. Prof. (Dr.) T.V. Devarajan - Medicine - Tamil Nadu 52. Prof. (Dr.) Saroj Chooramani Gopal - Medicine - Uttar Pradesh 53. Dr. Pramod Kumar Julka - Medicine - Delhi 54. Dr. Gulshan Rai Khatri - Medicine - Delhi 55. Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani - Medicine - Delhi 56. Dr. Amit Prabhakar Maydeo - Medicine - Maharashtra 57. Dr. Sundaram Natarajan - Medicine - Maharashtra 58. Prof. Krishna Chandra Chunekar - Medicine - Uttar Pradesh 59. Dr. Vishwa Kumar Gupta - Medicine - Delhi 60. Prof. (Capt.) Dr. Mohammad Sharaf-eAlam - Literature & Education - Bihar 61. Dr. Radhika Herzberger - Literature & Education - Andhra Pradesh 62.  J. Malsawma - Literature & Education - Mizoram 63.  Devendra Patel - Literature & Education - Gujarat 64. Dr. Rama Kant Shukla - Literature & Education - Delhi 65. Prof. Akhtarul Wasey - Literature & Education - Delhi 66. Prof. Anvita Abbi - Literature & Education - Delhi 67.  Nida Fazli - Literature & Education - Madhya Pradesh 68.  Surender Kumar Sharma - Literature & Education - Delhi 69. Dr. Jagdish Prasad Singh - Literature & Education - Bihar 70. Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi - Literature & Education - West Bengal # 71. Prof. Noboru Karashima - Literature & Education Japan * 72.  Christopher Pinney - Literature & Education - UK * 73. Smt. Premlata Agrawal - Sports - Jharkhand 74.  Yogeshwar Dutt - Sports - Haryana 75.  Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha - Sports - Karnataka 76. Subedar Major Vijay Kumar - Sports - Himachal Pradesh 77.  Ngangom Dingko Singh - Sports - Maharashtra 78. Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar - Sports - Rajasthan 79. Ms. Ritu Kumar - Fashion Designing - Delhi 80. Dr. Ravindra Singh Bisht - Archaeology - Uttar Pradesh PADMA SHRI

PADMA BHUSHAN   1. Dr. Ramanaidu Daggubati - Art - Andhra Pradesh 2. Smt. Sreeramamurthy Janaki - Art - Tamil Nadu 3. Dr. (Smt.) Kanak Rele - Art -  Maharashtra 4. Smt. Sharmila Tagore - Art - Delhi 5. Dr. (Smt.) Saroja Vaidyanathan - Art - Delhi 6.  Abdul Rashid Khan - Art - West Bengal 7. Late Rajesh Khanna - Art - Maharashtra # 8. Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti - Art - Punjab # 9.  Shivajirao Girdhar Patil - Public Affairs - Maharashtra 10. Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai - Science and Engineering - Delhi 11. Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat - Science and Engineering - Delhi 12. Dr. Ashoke Sen - Science and Engineering - Uttar Pradesh 13. Dr. B.N. Suresh - Science and Engineering - Karnataka 14. Prof. Satya N. Atluri - Science and Engineering - USA * 15. Prof. Jogesh Chandra Pati - Science and Engineering USA * 16.  Ramamurthy Thyagarajan - Trade and Industry - Tamil Nadu 17.  Adi Burjor Godrej - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra 18. Dr. Nandkishore Shamrao Laud - Medicine - Maharashtra 19.  Mangesh Padgaonkar - Literature & Education - Maharashtra 20. Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Literature & Education - USA* 21.  Hemendra Singh Panwar - Civil Service - Madhya Pradesh 22. Dr. Maharaj Kishan Bhan - Civil Service - Delhi 23. Rahul Dravid - Sports - Karnataka 24. Ms. H. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom - Sports - Manipur PADMA BHUSHAN

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