Padma Awards 2017 Announced Winner List

Padma Awards 2017 announced

Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.

            These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards to 89 persons as per the list below.

PADMA VIBHUSHAN

Sl. No	Name		Field		State
1.	Shri K J Yesudas		Art-Music		Kerala
2.	Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev		Others-Spiritualism		Tamil Nadu
3.	Shri Sharad Pawar		Public Affairs		Maharashtra
4.	Shri Murli Manohar Joshi		Public Affairs		Uttar Pradesh
5.	Prof. Udipi Ramachandra Rao		Science & Engineering		Karnataka
6.	Late Shri Sunder Lal Patwa (Posthumous)		Public Affairs		Madhya Pradesh
7.	Late Shri PA Sangma (Posthumous)		Public Affairs		Meghalaya

Padma Bhushan 

Sl. No.	Name		Field		State
8.	Shri Vishwa Mohan Bhatt		Art-Music		Rajasthan
9.	Prof. (Dr.) Devi Prasad Dwivedi		Literature & Education		Uttar Pradesh
10.	Shri Tehemton Udwadia		Medicine		Maharashtra
11.	Shri Ratna Sundar Maharaj		Others-Spiritualism		Gujarat
12.	Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati		Others-Yoga		Bihar
13.	H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Foreigner)		Literature & Education		Thailand
14.	Late Shri Cho Ramaswamy (Posthumous)		Literature & Education –Journalism		Tamil Nadu

           

Padma Shri  

Sl. No	Name		Field	State
15.	Smt. Basanti Bisht		Art-Music		Uttarakhand
16.	Shri Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair		Art-Dance		Kerala
17.	Smt. Aruna Mohanty		Art-Dance		Odisha
18.	Smt. Bharathi Vishnuvardhan		Art-Cinema		Karnataka
19.	Shri Sadhu Meher		Art-Cinema		Odisha
20.	Shri T K Murthy		Art-Music		Tamil Nadu
21.	Shri Laishram Birendrakumar Singh		Art-Music		Manipur
22.	Shri Krishna Ram Chaudhary		Art-Music		Uttar Pradesh
23.	Smt. Baoa Devi		Art-Painting		Bihar
24.	Shri Tilak Gitai		Art-Painting		Rajasthan
25.	Dr. Prof. Aekka Yadagiri Rao		Art-Sculpture		Telangana
26.	Shri Jitendra Haripal		Art-Music		Odisha
27.	Shri Kailash Kher		Art-Music		Maharashtra
28.	Smt. Parassala B Ponnammal		Art-Music		Kerala
29.	Smt. Sukri Bommagowda		Art-Music		Karnataka
30.	Shri Mukund Nayak		Art-Music		Jharkhand
31.	Shri Purushottam Upadhyay		Art-Music		Gujarat
32.	Smt. Anuradha Paudwal		Art-Music		Maharashtra
33.	Shri Wareppa Naba Nil		Art-Theatre		Manipur
34.	Shri Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary		Civil Service		Telangana
35.	Shri T.K. Viswanathan		Civil Service		Haryana
36.	Shri Kanwal Sibal		Civil Service		Delhi
37.	Shri Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla		Literature & Education		Sikkim
38.	Smt. Eli Ahmed		Literature & Education		Assam
39.	Dr. Narendra Kohli		Literature & Education		Delhi
40.	Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah		Literature & Education		Karnataka
41.	Shri Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri		Literature & Education		Kerala
42.	Shri Kashi Nath Pandita		Literature & Education		Jammu & Kashmir
43.	Shri Chamu Krishna Shastry		Literature & Education		Delhi
44.	Shri Harihar Kripalu Tripathi		Literature & Education		Uttar Pradesh
45.	Shri Michel Danino		Literature & Education		Tamil Nadu
46.	Shri Punam Suri		Literature & Education		Delhi
47.	Shri VG Patel		Literature & Education		Gujarat
48.	Smt. V Koteswaramma		Literature & Education		Andhra Pradesh
49.	Shri Balbir Dutt		Literature & Education-Journalism	Jharkhand
50.	Smt. Bhawana Somaaya		Literature & Education-Journalism	Maharashtra
51.	Shri Vishnu Pandya		Literature & Education-Journalism	Gujarat
52.	Dr. Subroto Das		Medicine	Gujarat
53.	Dr. (Smt.) Bhakti Yadav		Medicine	Madhya Pradesh
54.	Dr. Mohammed Abdul Waheed		Medicine	Telangana
55.	Dr. Madan Madhav Godbole		Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
56.	Dr. Devendra Dayabhai Patel		Medicine	Gujarat
57.	Prof. Harkishan Singh		Medicine	Chandigarh
58.	Dr. Mukut Minz		Medicine	Chandigarh
59.	Shri Arun Kumar Sharma		Others-Archaeology	Chhattisgarh
60.	Shri Sanjeev Kapoor		Others-Culinary	Maharashtra
61.	Smt. Meenakshi Amma		Others-Martial Art	Kerala
62.	Shri Genabhai Dargabhai Patel		Others-Agriculture	Gujarat
63.	Shri Chandrakant Pithawa		Science & Engineering	Telangana
64.	Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray		Science & Engineering	West Bengal
65.	Shri Chintakindi Mallesham		Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
66.	Shri Jitendra Nath Goswami		Science & Engineering	Assam
67.	Shri Daripalli Ramaiah		Social Work	Telangana
68.	Shri Girish Bhardwaj		Social Work	Karnataka
69.	Shri Karimul Hak		Social Work	West Bengal
70.	Shri Bipin Ganatra		Social Work	West Bengal
71.	Smt. Nivedita Raghunath Bhide		Social work	Tamil Nadu
72.	Shri Appasaheb Dharmadhikari	Social Work		Maharashtra
73.	Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal	Social Work		Punjab
74.	Shri Virat Kohli	Sports-Cricket		Delhi
75.	Shri Shekar Naik	Sports-Cricket		Karnataka
76.	Shri Vikasa Gowda	Sports-Discus Throw		Karnataka
77.	Smt. Deepa Malik	Sports-Athletics		Haryana
78.	Shri Mariyappan Thangavelu	Sports-Athletics		Tamil Nadu
79.	Smt. Dipa Karmakar	Sports-Gymnastics		Tripura
80.	Shri P R Shreejesh	Sports-Hockey		Kerala
81.	Smt. Sakshi Malik	Sports-Wrestling		Haryana
82.	Shri Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu	Trade & Industry		Telangana
83.	Shri Imrat Khan  (NRI/PIO)	Art-Music		USA
84.	Shri Anant Agarwal (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education		USA
85.	Shri H.R. Shah (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education-Journalism		USA
86.	Late (Smt.) Suniti Solomon (Posthumous)	Medicine		Tamil Nadu
87.	Shri Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (Posthumous)	Others-Archaeology		West Bengal
88.	Dr. Mapuskar (Posthumous)	Social Work		Maharashtra
89.	Smt. Anuradha Koirala (Foreigner)	Social Work		Nepal