New Delhi: Star batsman Sachin Tendulkar, Grand Master Viswanathan Anand and renowned mountaineer Edmund Hillary have been chosen for Padma Vibhushan among 13 people who were named for the nation's second highest civilian award on the eve of the Republic Day.
Singer Asha Bhosle, Nobel Prize winner and noted environmentalist RK Pachauri, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Delhi Metro Chief E Sreedharan, former bureaucrat PN Dhar, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata, Infosys chief mentor NR Narayana Murthy, steel tycoon LN Mittal and former Chief Justice of India Justice AS Anand are among the 13 other personalities who will get the Padma Vibhushan this year.
Thirty-five Padma Bhushan awards and 71 Padma Shri are being given this year. For the seventh consecutive year, no one has been named for the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna. Pranab Mukherjee is the only politician to win a civilian award this year.
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, Centre's interlocutor for talks with Naga groups and former Home Secretary K Padmanabhiah, noted commentator Jasdev Singh, DPS RK Puram principal Shyama Chona and ICICI Chief KV Kamath are among those named for Padma Bhushan awards.
Noted French writer Dominique Lapierre, HCL Chief Shiv Nadar, Head of the Citibank Vikram Pandit and former diplomat Chandrashekhar Dasgupta are among the Padma Bhushan awardees.
Prominent names among Padma Shri awardees include Hans Raj Hans, Madhuri Dixit, Manoj Night Shyamalan, PK Narayanan Nambiar, Tom Alter, Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai, Vinod Dua, Prof Amitabh Mattoo, Baichung Bhutia, Dr Amit Mitra and others.
This is the first time that a civilian award has been conferred on TV journalists in India.
Trade and Industry
In the trade and industry sector, India's biggest takeover tycoon Ratan Tata and the richest Lakshmi Mittal have been named for this year's second top civilian award 'Padma Vibhushan' .
New CEO of crisis-riddled Citigroup, India-born Vikram Pandit is in for a Padma Bhushan award, a list for which was approved by the President. The list of awardees for the year 2008, includes IT doyen NR Narayana Murthy and leading hotelier PRS Oberoi for
felicitation along with Tata and Mittal with Padma Vibhushan.
ICICI Bank CEO KV Kamath, HCL Technologies Chief Shiv Nadar and industrialists Baba Kalyani and Suresh Kumar Neotia are among those named for Padma Bhushan award, the third top civilian honour.
Economist and Secretary General of apex industry chamber Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Amit Mitra and Colette Mathur, who has been associated with the World Economic Forum, were among those who have been listed for Padma Shree awards.
Next: The Complete List of Awardees
The Complete List of Awardees
Padma Vibhushan
Sl.No. | Name | Discipline | State / Domicile |
1 | Ms. Asha Bhosle | Art | Maharashtra |
2 | Justice (Dr.) A. S. Anand | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
3 | Shri P.N. Dhar | Public Affairs | Delhi |
4 | Shri Pranab Mukherjee | Public Affairs | Delhi |
5 | Dr. E. Sreedharan | Science and Engineering | Delhi |
6 | Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri | Science and Engineering | Delhi |
7 | Late Mr. Edmund Hillary (Posthumous) | Sports | New Zealand |
8 | Shri Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | Sports | Maharashtra |
9 | Shri Viswanathan Anand | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
10. | Shri Lakshmi Narayan Mittal | Trade and Industry | UK |
11. | Shri N.R. Narayana Murthy | Trade and Industry | Karnataka |
12. | Shri P.R.S. Oberoi | Trade and Industry | Delhi |
13. | Shri Ratan Naval Tata | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
Padma Bhushan
Sl.No. | Name | Discipline | State / Domicile |
Late Shri Amarnath Sehgal (Posthumous) | Art | Delhi | |
Ustad Asad Ali Khan | Art | Delhi | |
Smt. P. Susheela | Art | Tamil Nadu | |
Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar | Art | Delhi | |
Prof. Sushil Kumar Saxena | Art | Delhi | |
Shri Chandrashekhar Dasgupta | Civil Service | Delhi | |
Shri K. Padmanabhiah | Civil Service | Delhi | |
Shri V. Ramachandran | Civil Service | Kerala | |
Shri Jasdev Singh | Commentary & Broadcasting | Delhi | |
Prof. Brijinder Nath Goswamy | Literature and Education | Chandigarh | |
Prof. Ji Xianlin | Literature and Education | China | |
Prof. Kaushik Basu | Literature and Education | USA | |
Prof. (Smt.) Padma Desai | Literature and Education | USA | |
Shri Ravindra Kelekar | Literature and Education | Goa | |
Dr. (Smt.) Shayama Chona | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
Shri Shri Lal Shukla | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
Dr. Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan | Literature and Education | USA | |
Prof. T.K. Oommen | Literature and Education | Haryana | |
Prof. (Dr.) Jagjit Singh Chopra | Medicine | Chandigarh | |
Prof. Nirmal Kumar Ganguly | Medicine | Delhi | |
Mian Bashir Ahmed | Public Affairs | Jammu & Kashmir | |
Lord Meghnad Desai | Public Affairs | UK | |
Late Mr. Yuli Mikhailovitch Vorontsov (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Russia | |
Prof. Asis Datta | Science and Engineering | Delhi | |
Prof. Sukh Dev | Science and Engineering | Delhi | |
Mrs. Sunita Williams | Science and Engineering – Astronautics | USA | |
Dr. Vasant Gowarikar | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra | |
Shri D.R. Mehta | Social Work | Rajasthan | |
Mr. Dominique Lapierre | Social Work | France | |
Dr. (Ms.) Inderjit Kaur | Social Work | Punjab | |
Shri Suresh Kumar Neotia | Trade and Industry and Social Work | Delhi | |
Shri Baba Neelkanth Kalyani | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra | |
Shri K. V. Kamath | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra | |
Shri Shiv Nadar | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Vikram Pandit | Trade and Industry | USA |
Padma Shri
Sl.No. | Name | Discipline | State / Domicile |
Shri Gangadhar Pradhan | Art | Orissa | |
Mr. Gennadi Mikhailovich Pechinkov | Art | Russia | |
Pandit Gokulotsavji Maharaj | Art | Madhya Pradesh | |
Shri Hans Raj Hans | Art | Punjab | |
Dr. (Smt.) Helen Giri | Art | Meghalaya | |
Shri Jatin Goswami | Art | Assam | |
Shri Jawahar Wattal | Art | Delhi | |
Shri John Martin Nelson | Art | Chhattisgarh | |
Shri Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty | Art | Andhra Pradesh | |
Shri Kekoo M. Gandhy | Art | Maharashtra | |
Smt. Madhuri Dixit | Art | Maharashtra | |
Shri Mangala Prasad Mohanty | Art | Jharkhand | |
Shri Manoj Night Shyamalan | Art | USA | |
Ms. Meenakshi Chitharanjan | Art | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar | Art | Kerala | |
Shri P.K. Narayanan Nambiar | Art | Kerala | |
Shri Pratap Pawar | Art | UK | |
Smt. Sabitri Heisnam | Art | Manipur | |
Ms. Sentila T. Yanger | Art | Nagaland | |
Dr. Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram | Art | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Tom Alter | Art | Maharashtra | |
Prof. Yella Venkateswara Rao | Art | Andhra Pradesh | |
Ms. Barkha Dutt | Journalism | Delhi | |
Shri Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai | Journalism | Delhi | |
Shri Vinod Dua | Journalism | Delhi | |
Prof. Amitabh Mattoo | Literature and Education | Jammu & Kashmir | |
Shri Balasubramanian Sivanthi Adithan | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Bholabhai Patel | Literature and Education | Gujarat | |
Dr. (Smt.) Bina Agarwal | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
Prof. (Dr.) K.S. Nisar Ahmed | Literature and Education | Karnataka | |
Dr. (Smt.) M. Leelavathy | Literature and Education | Kerala | |
Dr. Nirupam Bajpai | Literature and Education | USA | |
Dr. Srinivas Udgata | Literature and Education | Orissa | |
Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
Shri Surjya Kanta Hazarika | Literature and Education | Assam | |
Dr. Vellayani Arjunan | Literature and Education | Kerala | |
Mohammad Yousuf Taing | Literature and Education | Jammu & Kashmir | |
Haji Kaleem Ullah Khan | Mango Plantation and Grafting | Uttar Pradesh | |
Dr. A. Jayanta Kumar Singh | Medicine | Manipur | |
Prof. (Dr.) Arjunan Rajasekaran | Medicine | Tamil Nadu | |
Prof. (Dr.) C.U. Velmurugendran | Medicine | Tamil Nadu | |
Dr. Deepak Sehgal | Medicine | Delhi | |
Prof. (Dr.) Dinesh K. Bhargava | Medicine | Delhi | |
Dr. Indu Bhushan Sinha | Medicine | Bihar | |
Dr. Keiki R. Mehta | Medicine | Maharashtra | |
Dr. (Smt.) Malvika Sabharwal | Medicine | Delhi | |
Dr. Mohan Chandra Pant | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh | |
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Jain | Medicine | Uttarakhand | |
Dr. Raman Kapur | Medicine | Delhi | |
Dr. Randhir Sud | Medicine | Delhi | |
Dr. Shyam Narayan Arya | Medicine | Bihar | |
Prof. (Dr.) Surendra Singh Yadav | Medicine | Delhi | |
Dr. Tatyarao Pundlikrao Lahane | Medicine | Maharashtra | |
Dr. Tony Fernandez | Medicine | Kerala | |
Smt. Colette Mathur | Public Affairs | Switzerland | |
Shri Bhavarlal Hiralal Jain | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra | |
Dr. Joseph H. Hulse | Science and Engineering | Canada | |
Prof. Kasturi Lal Chopra | Science and Engineering | Delhi | |
Dr. Sant Singh Virmani | Science and Engineering | USA | |
Shri Kailash Chandra Agrawal | Social Work | Rajasthan | |
Sister Karuna Mary Braganza | Social Work | Maharashtra | |
Dr. (Smt.) Kshama Metre | Social Work | Himachal Pradesh | |
Dr. Kutikuppala Surya Rao | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh | |
Shri Madan Mohan Sabharwal | Social Work | Delhi | |
Dr. (Ms.) Sheela Barthakur | Social Work | Assam | |
Shri V.R. Gowrishankar | Social Work | Karnataka | |
Shri Vikramjit Singh Sahney | Social Work | Delhi | |
Shri Yousaf Ali Musaliamveettil Abdul Kader | Social Work | UAE | |
Shri Baichung Bhutia | Sports | Sikkim | |
Ms. Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty | Sports | West Bengal | |
Dr. Amit Mitra | Trade and Industry | Delhi |
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