Govt announces Padma award winners

President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday approved the conferment of Padma Awards 2012.

Patil has approved 109 awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of Foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and Posthumous.

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

Padma Vibhushan will be awarded to late cartoonist Mario De Miranda and singer Bhupen Hazarika this tme.

The awards are conferred by the President of India around March- April.

Padma Vibhushan

1. K G Subramanyan

2. Late Shri Mario De Miranda

3. Late (Dr.) BhupenHazarika

4. Dr.Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti

5. T V Rajeswar

Padma Bhushan

Shabana Azmi

Shri Khaled Choudhury

Jatin Das

Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta

DharmendraSingh Deol alias Dharmendra

Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan

Mira Nair

M.S.Gopalakrishnan

Anish Kapoor

SatyaNarayan Goenka

(Judge)Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao

George Yong-Boon Yeo

Prof.ShashikumarChitre

M S Raghunathan

SubbiahMurugappaVellayan

BalasubramanianMuthuraman

Suresh H.Advani

Noshir HWadia

Devi Prasad Shetty

Prof. (Dr.)ShantaramBalwantMujumdar

Prof. VidyaDehejia

Prof. ArvindPanagariya

Jose Pereira

Homi K.Bhabha

N Vittal

Mata Prasad

Ronen Sen

Padma Shri

Vanraj Bhatia

Zia Fariduddin Dagar

NameirakpamIbemni Devi

Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani

Moti Lal Kemmu

Shahid Parvez Khan

Mohan Lal Kumhar

Sakar Khan Manganiar

Joy Michael

Minati Mishra

NatesanMuthuswamy

R.Nagarathnamma

Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri

YamunabaiWaikar

SatishAlekar

Gopal Prasad Dubey

RamakantGundecha

UmakantGundecha

AnupJalota

SomanNair Priyadarsan

SunilJanah

LailaTyebji

Vijay Sharma

Shamshad Begum

ReetaDevi

P.K.Gopal

Phoolbasan BaiYadav

G.Muniratnam

NiranjanPranshankarPandya

Uma Tuli

Sat PaulVarma

BinnyYanga

YezdiHirji Malegam

Pravin H. Parekh

V.Adimurthy

KrishnaLal Chadha

ViranderSingh Chauhan

Rameshwar NathKoul Bamezai

VijaypalSingh

LokeshKumar Singhal

YagnaswamiSundara Rajan

JagadishShukla

Priya Paul

ShojiShiba

GopinathPillai

ArunHastimal Firodia

Swati A.Piramal

MahdiHasan

ViswanathanMohan

J.Hareendran Nair

Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan

JitendraKumar Singh

ShrinivasS. Vaishya

Nitya Anand

Jugal Kishore

Mukesh Batra

Eberhard Fischer

KedarGurung

Surjit Singh Patar

Vijay Dutt Shridhar

Irwin Allan Sealy

Geeta Dharmarajan

Sachchidanand Sahai

Pepita Seth

Ralte L. Thanmawia

Ajeet Bajaj

Jhulan Goswami

ZafarIqbal

DevendraJhajrija

Limba Ram

SyedMohammed Arif

Ravi Chaturvedi

PrabhakarVaidya

T.VenkatapathiReddiar

K. (Kota)Ullas Karanth

K Paddayya

Swapan Guha

Kartikeya V. Sarabhai