President Pranab Mukherjee approves conferment of Padma Awards to 112 persons

NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee has approved conferment of Padma Awards to 112 persons as per the list below.

The list comprises of 10 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 83 Padma Shri Awardees. 19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons in the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs (include one posthumous) and 4 posthumous awardees:

Following is the full list:

Padma Vibhushan

Yamini Krishnamurthi Art-Classical dance, Delhi

Rajinikanth Art-Cinema, Tamil Nadu

Girija Devi Art-Classical Vocal, West Bengal

Ramoji Rao Literature & Education,Andhra Pradesh

Viswanathan Shanta Medicine-Oncology, Tamil Nadu

Ravi Shankar Others-Spiritualism, Karnataka

Jagmohan Public Affairs, Delhi

Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre Science & Engineering, Karnataka

Avinash Dixit

Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous) Industry, Maharashtra.

Padma Bhushan

Anupam Kher Art-Cinema, Maharashtra

Udit Narayan Jha Art-Playback Singing, Maharashtra

Ram V. Sutar Art-Sculpture, Uttar Pradesh

Heisnam Kanhailal Art-Theatre Manipur

Vinod Rai Civil Service, Kerala

Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Literature, Andhra Pradesh

N S Ramanuja Tatacharya Literature, Maharashtra

Barjinder Singh Hamdard Journalism, Punjab

D Nageshwar Reddy Medicine, Telangana

Swami Tejomayananda Other-Spiritualism, Maharashtra

Hafeez Contractor Others-Architecture, Maharashtra

Ravindra Chandra Bhargava Public Affairs, Uttar Pradesh

Venkata Rama Rao Alla Science, Andhra Pradesh

Saina Nehwal Sports-Badminton, Telangana

Sania Mirza Sports-Tennis, Telangana

Indu Jain Trade & Industry, Delhi

Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous) Spiritualism,

Uttarakhand

Robert Blackwill Public Affairs, USA

Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry Trade & Industry, Ireland.