Padma Awards 2009 - PadmaVibhushan,PadmaBhushan and PadmaShri Awards for the year 2009

Indian Govt has announced the list of Prestigious Padma Vibhushan,Padma Bhushan and Padma Sri awards for the year 2009.

These awards will be awarded to those who draw thier services and lightened our country India in various fields like civilservice,entertainment,Art,Science&enggineering,social,medicine,education, trade & industry,journalism,national security,Sports,Technology sulutions.

This year,10 PadmaVibhushan,30 PadmaBhushan & 93 PadmaShri awards will be awarded by Indian Govt on the eve of the Republic Day,Jan29th 2009.

Olympic Gold medallist ace marksman Abhinav Bindra has been selected for the Padma Bhushan award while Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team-mate Harbhajan Singh will receive the Padma Shri award.

President Pratibha Patil has approved the conferment of Padma awards (2009) which includes four sportsmen in the list of Padma Shri awards.

Bindra, who won the first individual gold medal for India at the Olympics, is the lone sports personality who is featuring in the list of Padma Bhushan awardees.

Besides Dhoni and Harbhajan, World billiards champion Pankaj Advani and veteran hockey player Balbir Singh Khullar have also been named for the prestigious Padma Shri award.

Bindra brought India its first-ever individual gold medal which he achieved at the Beijing Olympics last year which was followed by two Bronze medals by Vijender Singh (boxing) and Sushil Kumar (wrestling).

Dhoni, who also received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award last year, led India to victory in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup held in South Africa in 2007.

He was the first Indian who was awarded the ODI player of the year by ICC in 2008 and has 1,807 runs in 35 Tests so far. In the 125 ODIs that he has played so far, Dhoni has 3,935 runs at an impressive average of 46 per innings.

Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has 314 wickets to his name from 74 Tests, while in his 180-match ODI career so far, he has 202 wickets.

Both Dhoni and Harbhajan would leave for Sri Lanka tomorrow from Chennai for a five-match ODI series and a one-off Twenty20 match.

Pankaj Advani, who was conferred Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2006, became the world's youngest billiards champion last year and has records galore to his name, including the gold medal in 2006 Asian Games.

Padma Vibhushan

Sl.No.	Name	Discipline	State / Domicile
1.	Dr. Chandrika PrasadSrivastava	Civil Service	Maharashtra
2.	Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna	Environment Conservation	Uttarakhand
3.	Prof. D.P.Chattopadhyaya	Literature & Education	West Bengal
4.	Prof. Jasbir Singh Bajaj	Medicine	Punjab
5.	Dr. Purshotam Lal	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
6.	Shri Govind Narain	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
7.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
8.	Shri G. Madhavan Nair	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
9.	Sister Nirmala	Social Work	West Bengal
10.	Dr. A.S. Ganguly	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan

Sl.No.	Name	Discipline	State / Domicile
1.	Shri G. Sivarama KrishnaMurthy alias Krishna	Art	Andhra Pradesh
2.	Prof. Ramanlal C. Mehta	Art	Gujarat
3.	Smt. Shamshad Begum	Art	Maharashtra
4.	Shri V.P. Dhananjayan & Smt. Shanta Dhananjayan(Duo)	Art	Tamil Nadu
5.	Dr. Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati	Art	Tamil Nadu
6.	Shri S.K. Misra	Civil Service	Haryana
7.	Shri Shekhar Gupta	Journalism	Delhi
8.	Prof. Alappat SreedharaMenon	Literature & Education	Kerala
9.	Shri C.K. Prahlad	Literature & Education	NRI/ PIO
10.	Shri D. Jayakanthan	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
11.	Dr. (Smt.) Isher JudgeAhluwalia	Literature & Education	Delhi
12.	Shri Kunwar Narain	Literature & Education	Delhi
13.	Prof. Minoru Hara	Literature & Education	Foreigner
14.	Shri Ramachandra Guha	Literature & Education	Karnataka
15.	Dr. Brijendra Kumar Rao	Medicine	Delhi
16.	Vaidya Devendra Triguna	Medicine	Delhi
17.	Dr. Khalid Hameed	Medicine	NRI/ PIO
18.	Lt.Gen. (Retd.) SatishNambiar	National Security Affairs	Delhi
19.	Dr. (Smt.) Inderjit KaurBarthakur	Public Affairs	Meghalaya
20.	Dr. Kirit Shantilal Parikh	Public Affairs	Delhi
21.	Dr. Bhakta B. Rath	Science & Engineering	NRI/ PIO
22.	Shri Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
23.	Dr. Gurdip SinghRandhawa	Science & Engineering	Delhi
24.	Shri Sam Pitroda	Science & Engineering	Delhi
25.	Prof. (Dr.) Sarvagya SinghKatiyar	Science & Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
26.	Prof. Thomas Kailath	Science & Engineering	NRI/ PIO
27.	Dr. Naganath Nayakawadi	Social Work	Maharashtra
28.	Dr. (Smt.) SarojiniVaradappan	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
29.	Shri Abhinav Bindra	Sports	Punjab
30.	Shri Anil Manibhai Naik	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra

Padma Shri

Sl.No.	Name	Discipline	State / Domicile
1.	Shri Thilakan	Art	Kerala
2.	Shri A. Vivekh	Art	Tamil Nadu
3.	Smt. Aishwarya RaiBachchan	Art	Maharashtra
4.	Shri Akshay Kumar	Art	Maharashtra
5.	Dr. (Ms.) Ameena AhmedAhuja	Art	Delhi
6.	Smt. Aruna Sairam	Art	Tamil Nadu
7.	Smt. Devayani Chaymotty	Art	Foreigner
8.	Ms. Geeta Kapur	Art	Delhi
9.	Shri Govind Ram Nirmalkar	Art	Chhattisgarh
10.	Shri Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma	Art	Manipur
11.	Shri Hashmat Ullah Khan	Art	Jammu & Kashmir
12.	Smt. Helan Khan	Art	Maharashtra
13.	Smt. Hemi Bawa	Art	Delhi
14.	Pandit HridaynathMangeshkar	Art	Maharashtra
15.	Shri Iravatham Mahadevan	Art	Tamil Nadu
16.	Shri K.P. Udayabhanu	Art	Kerala
17.	Dr. KannegantiBrahmanandam	Art	Andhra Pradesh
18.	Prof. Kiran Seth	Art	Delhi
19.	Shri Kumar SanuBhattacharjee	Art	Maharashtra
20.	Prof. Dr. (Smt.) LeelaOmchery	Art	Delhi
21.	Shri Mattannoor Sankarankutty Marar	Art	Kerala
22.	Shri Niranjan Goswami	Art	West Bengal
23.	Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa	Art	Punjab
24.	Ms. Penaz Masani	Art	Maharashtra
25.	Shri Prakash N. Dubey	Art	Maharashtra
26.	Dr. Pratapaditya Pal	Art	NRI/ PIO
27.	Shri Ram Kishore Chhipa	Art	Rajasthan
28.	Smt. Saoli Mitra	Art	West Bengal
29.	Late Shri SkendrowellSyiemlieh (Posthumous)	Art	Meghalaya
30.	Dr. SubrahmanyamKrishnaswamy	Art	Tamil Nadu
31.	Shri Suresh Dutta	Art	West Bengal
32.	Late Shri Tafazzul Ali(Posthumous)	Art	Assam
33.	Shri Udit Narayan	Art	Maharashtra
34.	Shri Vadakka ManalathGovindan alias Kalamandalam Gopi	Art	Kerala
35.	Shri S.B. Ghosh Dastidar	Civil Service	Haryana
36.	Shri Ameen Sayani	Commentary & Broadcasting	Maharashtra
37.	Shri Abhay Chhajlani	Journalism	Madhya Pradesh
38.	Dr. A. Sankara Reddy	Literature & Education	Delhi
39.	Shri Alok Mehta	Literature & Education	Delhi
40.	Dr. BannanjeGovindacharya	Literature & Education	Karnataka
41.	Dr. Birendranath Datta	Literature & Education	Assam
42.	Prof. Geshe NgawangSamten	Literature & Education	Foreigner
43.	Prof. Jalees Ahmed KhanTareen	Literature & Education	Puducherry
44.	Shri Jayanta Mahapatra	Literature & Education	Orissa
45.	Dr. John Ralston Marr	Literature & Education	Foreigner
46.	Shri Lalthangfala Sailo	Literature & Education	Mizoram
47.	Shri Laxman Bapu Mane	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
48.	Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurty	Literature & Education	Karnataka
49.	Shri Norden Tshering	Literature & Education	Sikkim
50.	Dr. PanchapakesaJayaraman	Literature & Education	NRI/ PIO
51.	Prof. Ram Shankar Tripathi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
52.	Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir ChanderSobti	Literature & Education	Chandigarh
53.	Dr. Ravindra NathSrivastava	Literature & Education	Bihar
54.	Shri Shamsur RahmanFaruqi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
55.	Smt. Shashi Deshpande	Literature & Education	Karnataka
56.	Shri Sunny Varkey	Literature & Education	NRI/ PIO
57.	Shri Suresh GunduAmonkar	Literature & Education	Goa
58.	Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee	Literature & Education	Delhi
59.	Dr. A.K. Gupta	Medicine	Maharashtra
60.	Dr. Alampur Saibaba Goud	Medicine	Andhra Pradesh
61.	Dr. Arvind Lal	Medicine	Delhi
62.	Dr. Ashok K. Vaid	Medicine	Delhi
63.	Dr. Ashok Kumar Grover	Medicine	Delhi
64.	Dr. Balswarup Choubey	Medicine	Maharashtra
65.	Dr. D. S. Rana	Medicine	Himachal Pradesh
66.	Dr. GovindanVijayaraghavan	Medicine	Kerala
67.	Dr. Kalyan Banerjee	Medicine	Delhi
68.	Shri P.R. Krishna Kumar	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
69.	Dr. R. Sivaraaman	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
70.	Dr. Shaik Khader Noordeen	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
71.	Prof. (Dr.) ThanikachalamSadagopan	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
72.	Dr. Yash Gulati	Medicine	Delhi
73.	Shri K. Asungba Sangtam	Public Affairs	Nagaland
74.	Dr. (Ms.) Shyamlha Pappu	Public Affairs	Delhi
75.	Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain	Research on Himalayan Glaciers	Delhi
76.	Shri Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
77.	Prof. Pramod Tandon	Science & Engineering	Meghalaya
78.	Shri Bansilal Rathi	Social Work	Madhya Pradesh
79.	Begum Bilkees I. Latif	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
80.	Shri Cheril Krishna Menon	Social Work	NRI/ PIO
81.	Rev. Fr. Joseph H. Pereira	Social Work	Maharashtra
82.	Shri K. Viswanathan	Social Work	Kerala
83.	Ms Keepu Tshering Lepcha	Social Work	Sikkim
84.	Prof. Shyam SunderMaheshwari	Social Work	Rajasthan
85.	Shri Sunil Kanti Roy	Social Work	West Bengal
86.	Shri Balbir Singh Khullar	Sports	Punjab
87.	Shri Harbhajan Singh	Sports	Punjab
88.	Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Sports	Jharkhand
89.	Shri Pankaj Advani	Sports	Karnataka
90.	Shri Surinder Mehta	Technology Solutions	Delhi
91.	Shri Arunmugam Sakthivel	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
92.	Dr. Bavaguthu RaghuramShetty	Trade & Industry	NRI/ PIO
93.	Shri R.K. Krishna Kumar	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra