Padma awards for the year has been announced. Cricketer and team India skipper MS Dhoni, Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Helen, composer Hridaynath Mangeshkar, singer Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Penaz Masani and Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra is among the Padma awardees.

133 Padma awards has been announced. In these 133, 10 is Padma Vibhushan, 30 Padma Bhushan and 93 are Padma Shri. Cricketer and Bollywood stars are Padma Shri. Abhinav Bindra is Padma Bhushan along with technocrat and chairman of the National Knowledge Commission Sam Pitroda, Shekhar Gupta the eminent journalist, historian Ramchandra Guha and Lt Gen (retd) Satish Nambiar.

The Padma Vibhushan awardees are ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair, Sister Nirmala of Mother Teresa Missionaries of Charity, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar, environmentalist Sunderlai Bahuguna and member of the PM’s Council on Trade and Industry Ashok S Ganguly.

PADMA AWARDEES 2009

Padma Vibhushan

Dr Chandrika Prasad Srivastava — Civil Service
Sunderlal Bahuguna — Environment

Prof D P Chattopadhyaya — Literature
Prof Jasbir Singh Bajaj — Medicine
Dr Purshotam Lal — Medicine
Govind Narain — Public Affairs
Dr Anil Kakodkar — Science
G Madhavan Nair — Science
Sister Nirmala — Social Work
Dr A S Ganguly — Trade & Industry

Padma Bhushan

G Sivarama Krishna Murthy — Art
Prof Ramanlal C Mehta — Art
Shamshad Begum — Art
V P Dhananjayan & Shanta Dhananjayan — Art
Dr Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati — Art
S.K. Misra — Civil Service
Shekhar Gupta — Journalism
Prof. Alappat Sreedhara Menon — Literature
C.K. Prahlad — Literature
D. Jayakanthan — Literature
Dr. Isher Judge Ahluwalia — Literature
Kunwar Narain — Literature
Prof. Minoru Hara — Literature
Ramachandra Guha — Literature
Dr. Brijendra Kumar Rao — Medicine
Vaidya Devendra Triguna — Medicine
Dr. Khalid Hameed — Medicine
Lt.Gen. (Retd.) Satish Nambiar — Security Affairs
Dr. Inderjit Kaur Barthakur — Public Affairs
Dr. Kirit Shantilal Parikh — Public Affairs
Dr. Bhakta B. Rath — Science
Shri Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri — Science
Dr. Gurdip Singh Randhawa — Science
Sam Pitroda — Science
Prof. (Dr.) Sarvagya Singh Katiyar — Science
Prof. Thomas Kailath — Science
Dr. Naganath Nayakawadi — Social Work
Dr. Sarojini Varadappan — Social Work
Abhinav Bindra — Sports
Anil Manibhai Naik — Trade & Industry