Padma Awards 2012

The Padma awards for the year 2012 have been announced a day before India’s Republic Day tomorrow.

Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

The President of India, Pratibha Patil, 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.

The awards are given out to people who have carried out exceptional work in various fields including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.

The ‘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 late cartoonist Mario Miranda and the late musician Bhupen Hazarika were amongst the five people awarded the Padma Vibhushan Wednesday.

The others are sculptor K.G. Subramanyan, orthopaedist Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti and civil servant T.V. Rajeswar.

Dharmendra and Shabana Azmi were confirmed for Padma Bhushan along with 25 more awardees.

The awards will be distributed by the President at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in March/April.

Padma Vibhushan

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

1. Smt. Shabana Azmi Art – Cinema Maharashtra
2. Shri Khaled Choudhury Art – Theatre West Bengal
3. Shri Jatin Das Art – Painting Delhi
4. Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta Art – Instrumental Music – Sarod West Bengal
5. Shri Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra Art – Cinema Maharashtra
6. Dr. Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan Art – Classical vocal and instrumental music Tamil Nadu
7. Ms. Mira Nair Art – Cinema Delhi
8. Shri M.S. Gopalakrishnan Art – Instrumental Music-Violin Tamil Nadu
9. Shri Anish Kapoor Art – Sculpture UK*
10. Shri Satya Narayan Goenka Social Work Maharashtra
11. Dr. (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao Public Affairs Germany*
12. Shri George Yong-Boon Yeo Public Affairs Singapore*
13. Prof. Shashikumar Chitre Science and Engineering Maharashtra
14. Dr. M S Raghunathan Science and Engineering Maharashtra
15. Shri Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu
16. Shri Balasubramanian Muthuraman Trade and Industry Maharashtra
17. Dr. Suresh H. Advani Medicine – Oncology Maharashtra
18. Dr. Noshir H Wadia Medicine-Neurology Maharashtra
19. Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty Medicine-Cardiology Karnataka
20. Prof. (Dr.) Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar Literature and Education Maharashtra
21. Prof. Vidya Dehejia Literature and Education USA*
22. Prof. Arvind Panagariya Literature and Education USA*
23. Dr. Jose Pereira Literature and Education USA*
24. Dr. Homi K. Bhabha Literature and Education UK *
25. Shri N Vittal Civil Service Kerala
26. Shri Mata Prasad Civil Service Uttar Pradesh
27. Shri Ronen Sen Civil Service West Bengal

Padma Awards 2011

The Padma awards for this year have been declared today. Hyderabad-born Indian cricketer, VVS Laxman has been awarded the Padma Shri for his outstanding performance in Indian cricket. Laxman is the one of the finest batsmen of Indian test cricket, known for pulling off India out of many crisis situations. Yesteryear film actress, Waheeda Rahman will receive this year's Padma Bhusan for her outstanding contribution to Indian cinema. Earlier, she had won the Padma Shri in 1972. Indian music composer Mohammed Zahur "Khayyam" Hashmi, better known as Khayyam has been declared the winner of 2011's Padma Vibhusan. Earlier in 2007, Khayam was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Creative Music, by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India. Other     
Padma Shri Awardees are: Kajol, Sushil Kumar.
Padma Bhusan Awardees are: Shyam Saran , Chanda Kochar,Sashi Kapoor. 
Padma Vibhusan Awardees are: Kapila Vatsyan, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Aziz Premji, Vijay Kelkar, Brojesh Mishra and A Nageshwar

                    
The Bharat Ratna is likely to be awarded to none other than cricketing legend, Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar's name has already been nominated for the Bharat Ratna awards, confirmed Ambika Soni, the Information and Broadcasting Minister.  If Sachin wins the Bharat Ratna this time, it will be the first time the Bharat Ratna will be given to any sportsperson in India. The Padma awards and the Bharat Ratna will be awarded to their respective recipients on January 26, 2011- India's Republic Day.


*****  After all discussions there is no Bharat Ratna Award This Year