News Track India, NI Wire: The President of India Pratibha Patil facilitated 53 persons with the Padma awards, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Thursday, 22 March 2012. The list of awardees included famous people from various fields including public affairs, social work, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, education, sports and civil service, who had made remarkable contributions in their respective fields. The country's second highest recognition after Bharat Ratna, Padma
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Vibhushan was given to three people. Famous Assamese singer-composer late Dr Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika was entitled with the award posthumously. The other two are: former Uttar Pradesh governor and Intelligence Bureau chief T V Rajeswar and internationally renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr K H Sancheti. Taz Hazarika, son of late Dr Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika, received the Padma Vibhushan award for his father from the President. In addition to that, a number of people got recognition of Padam Bhushan and Padam shri awards. The list of the
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other awardees includes: Padam Bhushan: 1 Shri Jatin Das - Art - Painting ? Delhi, 2 Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta - Art - Instrumental Music - Sarod - West Bengal, 3 Dr. Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan - Art - Classical vocal and instrumental music - Tamil Nadu, 4 Ms. Mira Nair - Art - Cinema - Delhi, 5 Prof. Shashikumar Chitre - Science and Engineering - Maharashtra, 6 Dr. Suresh H. Advani - Medicine - Oncology - Maharashtra, 7 Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty - Medicine-Cardiology - Karnataka, 8 Prof. (Dr.) Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar - Literature and Education ? Maharashtra,
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9 Shri Ronen Sen - Civil Service - West Bengal, 10 Prof. Arvind Panagariya - Literature and Education - USA, 11 Prof. Vidya Dehejia - Literature and Education - USA, 12 Shri Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan - Trade and Industry - Tamil Nadu, 13 Shri Khaled Choudhury - Art - Theatre - West Bengal, 14 Shri
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Sunil Janah - Art-Photography - Assam, Padam Shri: 1 Shri Vanraj Bhatia - Art - Music - Maharashtra, 2 Smt. Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi - Art - Music- Khongjom Parba - Manipur, 3 Shri Moti Lal Kemmu - Art - Playwright - Jammu and Kashmir, 4 Shri Satish Alekar - Art - Playwright - Maharashtra, 5 Smt. Joy Michael - Art - Theatre - Delhi, 6 Shri Natesan Muthuswamy - Art - Theatre. - Tamil Nadu, 7 Shri Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri - Art - Indian Classical Dance- Kutiyattam - Kerala, 8 Shri Ramakant Gundecha and Shri Umakant Gundecha - Art - Indian Classical Music- Vocal - Madhya Pradesh, 9 Shri Anup Jalota - Art-Indian Classical Music- Vocal - Maharashtra, 10 Shri Soman Nair Priyadarsan - Art - Cinema- Direction - Kerala, 11 Shri Pravin H. Parekh - Public Affairs - Delhi, 12 Dr. Krishna Lal
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Chadha - Science and Engineering - Agriculture - Delhi, 13 Prof. Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai - Science and Engineering - Jammu and Kashmir, 14 Smt. Shamshad Begum - Social Work - Chattisgarh, 15 Dr. P.K. Gopal - Social Work - Tamil Nadu, 16 Dr. G. Muniratnam - Social Work - Andhra Pradesh, 17 Dr. Uma Tuli - Social Work - Delhi, 18 Smt.Binny Yanga - Social Work - Arunachal Pradesh, 19 Dr. Lokesh Kumar Singhal - Science and Engineering - Punjab, 20 Ms. Priya Paul - Trade and Industry - Delhi,
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21 Shri Arun Hastimal Firodia - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra, 22 Shri Shoji Shiba - Trade and Industry - Japan, 23 Dr. J. Hareendran Nair - Medicine - Ayurveda - Kerala, 24 Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh - Medicine - Oncology - Bihar, 25 Dr. Nitya Anand - Medicine - Drugs Research - Uttar Pradesh, 26 Dr. Mukesh Batra - Medicine-Homeopathy - Maharashtra, 27 Shri Kedar Gurung - Literature and Education - Sikkim, 28 Shri Vijay Dutt Shridhar - Literature and Education - Journalism - Madhya Pradesh, 29 Ms. Geeta Dharmarajan - Literature and Education - Delhi, 30 Smt. Pepita Seth - Literature and Education - Kerala, 31 Smt. Jhulan Goswami -Sports - Women's Cricket - West Bengal, 32 Shri Ajeet Bajaj - Sports - Skiing - Delhi, 33 Shri Devendra Jhajrija - Sports - Athletics- Paralympics - Rajasthan, 34 Shri Syed Mohammed Arif - Sports - Badminton - Andhra Pradesh, 35 Dr. K. (Kota) Ullas Karanth - Others-Wildlife Conservation and Environment Protection - Karnataka, 36 Shri Swapan Guha - Others-Ceramics - Rajasthan Source: News Track India
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other awardees includes: Padam Bhushan: 1 Shri Jatin Das - Art - Painting ? Delhi, 2 Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta - Art - Instrumental Music - Sarod - West Bengal, 3 Dr. Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan - Art - Classical vocal and instrumental music - Tamil Nadu, 4 Ms. Mira Nair - Art - Cinema - Delhi, 5 Prof. Shashikumar Chitre - Science and Engineering - Maharashtra, 6 Dr. Suresh H. Advani - Medicine - Oncology - Maharashtra, 7 Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty - Medicine-Cardiology - Karnataka, 8 Prof. (Dr.) Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar - Literature and Education ? Maharashtra,
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9 Shri Ronen Sen - Civil Service - West Bengal, 10 Prof. Arvind Panagariya - Literature and Education - USA, 11 Prof. Vidya Dehejia - Literature and Education - USA, 12 Shri Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan - Trade and Industry - Tamil Nadu, 13 Shri Khaled Choudhury - Art - Theatre - West Bengal, 14 Shri
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Sunil Janah - Art-Photography - Assam, Padam Shri: 1 Shri Vanraj Bhatia - Art - Music - Maharashtra, 2 Smt. Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi - Art - Music- Khongjom Parba - Manipur, 3 Shri Moti Lal Kemmu - Art - Playwright - Jammu and Kashmir, 4 Shri Satish Alekar - Art - Playwright - Maharashtra, 5 Smt. Joy Michael - Art - Theatre - Delhi, 6 Shri Natesan Muthuswamy - Art - Theatre. - Tamil Nadu, 7 Shri Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri - Art - Indian Classical Dance- Kutiyattam - Kerala, 8 Shri Ramakant Gundecha and Shri Umakant Gundecha - Art - Indian Classical Music- Vocal - Madhya Pradesh, 9 Shri Anup Jalota - Art-Indian Classical Music- Vocal - Maharashtra, 10 Shri Soman Nair Priyadarsan - Art - Cinema- Direction - Kerala, 11 Shri Pravin H. Parekh - Public Affairs - Delhi, 12 Dr. Krishna Lal
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Chadha - Science and Engineering - Agriculture - Delhi, 13 Prof. Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai - Science and Engineering - Jammu and Kashmir, 14 Smt. Shamshad Begum - Social Work - Chattisgarh, 15 Dr. P.K. Gopal - Social Work - Tamil Nadu, 16 Dr. G. Muniratnam - Social Work - Andhra Pradesh, 17 Dr. Uma Tuli - Social Work - Delhi, 18 Smt.Binny Yanga - Social Work - Arunachal Pradesh, 19 Dr. Lokesh Kumar Singhal - Science and Engineering - Punjab, 20 Ms. Priya Paul - Trade and Industry - Delhi,
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21 Shri Arun Hastimal Firodia - Trade and Industry - Maharashtra, 22 Shri Shoji Shiba - Trade and Industry - Japan, 23 Dr. J. Hareendran Nair - Medicine - Ayurveda - Kerala, 24 Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh - Medicine - Oncology - Bihar, 25 Dr. Nitya Anand - Medicine - Drugs Research - Uttar Pradesh, 26 Dr. Mukesh Batra - Medicine-Homeopathy - Maharashtra, 27 Shri Kedar Gurung - Literature and Education - Sikkim, 28 Shri Vijay Dutt Shridhar - Literature and Education - Journalism - Madhya Pradesh, 29 Ms. Geeta Dharmarajan - Literature and Education - Delhi, 30 Smt. Pepita Seth - Literature and Education - Kerala, 31 Smt. Jhulan Goswami -Sports - Women's Cricket - West Bengal, 32 Shri Ajeet Bajaj - Sports - Skiing - Delhi, 33 Shri Devendra Jhajrija - Sports - Athletics- Paralympics - Rajasthan, 34 Shri Syed Mohammed Arif - Sports - Badminton - Andhra Pradesh, 35 Dr. K. (Kota) Ullas Karanth - Others-Wildlife Conservation and Environment Protection - Karnataka, 36 Shri Swapan Guha - Others-Ceramics - Rajasthan Source: News Track India
