By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Only four Muslim names feature in the list of 104 Padma awards, country’s highest civilian awards, announced each year on the occasion of the Republic Day.
The number is less than last three years. In 2014, seven Muslims, including one from Bangladesh, out of 127 were awarded Padma awards. In 2013, the number was six out of 108 and in 2012, eight Muslims featured in the list that had 109 names.
Actor Mohammad Yusuf Khan, popular as thespian Dilip Kumar and Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan, the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism, business magnate and philanthropist, will receive the second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan.
Seven others (total nine) including another Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachhan, politicians Lal Krishna Advani and Prakash Singh Badal, have been announced to receive Padma Vibhushan.
Twenty persons have been announced to receive Padma Bhushan awards. The list includes American philanthropist couple Bill and Melinda Gates, journalists Swapan Dasgupta and Rajat Sharma, senior lawyer Harish Salve among others. No Muslim is included in this list.
The longer list of 75 Padma Shri awardees has only two Muslims: Saba Anjum Karim, a member of the Indian women’s hockey team, from Chhattisgarh, and late Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin (posthumous), the last and 52nd leader of Dawoodi Bohra community. Bohras, mainly residing in Gujarat and Mumbai in Maharashtra, are involved in business and trade. They had extended their support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and in fact, in the run up to the general elections in 2014, Modi, the then PM candidate, had met the late spiritual leader of the Bohra community and sought his blessings.
There are 17 women and as many foreigners, NRIs and persons of Indian origin (PIOs) in the list and four posthumous awards too. The Padma awards – Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri – 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.
‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. These awards are conferred by the President of India at a ceremonial function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year.
Full List of 2015 Padma Awardees:
|
Sl.no |
Name of the Awardee |
Discipline |
State/Domicile |
|
1 |
Shri L. K. Advani |
Public Affairs |
Gujarat |
|
2 |
Shri Amitabh Bachchan |
Art |
Maharashtra |
|
3 |
Shri Prakash Singh Badal |
Public Affairs |
Punjab |
|
4 |
Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade |
Social Work |
Karnataka |
|
5 |
Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar |
Art |
Maharashtra |
|
6 |
Shri Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya |
Others |
Uttar Pradesh |
|
7 |
Prof. Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan |
Science and Engineering |
Tamil Nadu |
|
8 |
Shri Kottayan K. Venugopal |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
|
9 |
Shri Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan (Foreigner) |
Trade and Industry |
France/UK |
|
Sl.no |
Name of the Awardee |
Discipline |
State/Domicile |
|
1 |
Shri Jahnu Barua |
Art |
Assam |
|
2 |
Dr. Vijay Bhatkar |
Science and Engineering |
Maharashtra |
|
3 |
Shri Swapan Dasgupta |
Literature and Education |
Delhi |
|
4 |
Swami Satyamitranand Giri |
Others |
Uttar Pradesh |
|
5 |
Shri N. Gopalaswami |
Civil Service |
Tamil Nadu |
|
6 |
Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
|
7 |
Dr. (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj |
Art |
Madhya Pradesh |
|
8 |
Dr. Ambrish Mithal |
Medicine |
Delhi |
|
9 |
Smt. Sudha Ragunathan |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
|
10 |
Shri Harish Salve |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
|
11 |
Dr. Ashok Seth |
Medicine |
Delhi |
|
12 |
Shri Rajat Sharma |
Literature and Education |
Delhi |
|
13 |
Shri Satpal |
Sports |
Delhi |
|
14 |
Shri Shivakumara Swami |
Others |
Karnataka |
|
15 |
Dr. Kharag Singh Valdiya |
Science and Engineering |
Karnataka |
|
16 |
Prof. Manjul Bhargava |
Science and Engineering |
USA |
|
17 |
Shri David Frawley (Vamadeva) |
Others |
USA |
|
18 |
Shri Bill Gates |
Social Work |
USA |
|
19 |
Ms. Melinda Gates |
Social Work |
USA |
|
20 |
Shri Saichiro Misumi |
Others |
Japan |
|
Sl.no |
Name of the Awardee |
Discipline |
State/Domicile |
|
1 |
Dr. Manjula Anagani |
Medicine |
Telangana |
|
2 |
Shri S. Arunan |
Science and Engineering |
Karnataka |
|
3 |
Ms. Kanyakumari Avasarala |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
|
4 |
Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer |
Literature and Education |
Jammu and Kashmir |
|
5 |
Shri Naresh Bedi |
Art |
Delhi |
|
6 |
Shri Ashok Bhagat |
Social Work |
Jharkhand |
|
7 |
Shri Sanjay Leela Bhansali |
Art |
Maharashtra |
|
8 |
Dr. Lakshmi Nandan Bora |
Literature and Education |
Assam |
|
9 |
Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi |
Literature and Education |
Madhya Pradesh |
|
10 |
Prof. (Dr.) Yogesh Kumar Chawla |
Medicine |
Chandigarh |
|
11 |
Smt. Jayakumari Chikkala |
Medicine |
Delhi |
|
12 |
Shri Bibek Debroy |
Literature and Education |
Delhi |
|
13 |
Dr. Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi |
Medicine |
Manipur |
|
14 |
Dr. Ashok Gulati |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
|
15 |
Dr. Randeep Guleria |
Medicine |
Delhi |
|
16 |
Dr. K. P. Haridas |
Medicine |
Kerala |
|
17 |
Shri Rahul Jain |
Art |
Delhi |
|
18 |
Shri Ravindra Jain |
Art |
Maharashtra |
|
19 |
Dr. Sunil Jogi |
Literature and Education |
Delhi |
|
20 |
Shri Prasoon Joshi |
Art |
Maharashtra |
|
21 |
Dr. Prafulla Kar |
Art |
Odisha |
|
22 |
Ms. Saba Anjum |
Sports |
Chhattisgarh |
|
23 |
Smt. Ushakiran Khan |
Literature and Education |
Bihar |
|
24 |
Dr. Rajesh Kotecha |
Medicine |
Rajasthan |
|
25 |
Prof. Alka Kriplani |
Medicine |
Delhi |
|
26 |
Dr. Harsh Kumar |
Medicine |
Delhi |
|
27 |
Shri Narayana Purushothama Mallaya |
Literature and Education |
Kerala |
|
28 |
Shri Lambert Mascarenhas |
Literature and Education |
Goa |
|
29 |
Dr. (Mrs.) Janak Palta McGilligan |
Social Work |
Madhya Pradesh |
|
30 |
Shri Veerendra Raj Mehta |
Social Work |
Delhi |
|
31 |
Shri Tarak Mehta |
Art |
Gujarat |
|
32 |
Shri Neil Herbert Nongkynrih |
Art |
Meghalaya |
|
33 |
Shri Chewang Norphel |
Others |
Jammu and Kashmir |
|
34 |
Shri T. V. Mohandas Pai |
Trade and Industry |
Karnataka |
|
35 |
Dr.Tejas Patel |
Medicine |
Gujarat |
|
36 |
Shri Jadav Molai Peyang |
Others |
Assam |
|
37 |
Smt. Bimla Poddar |
Other |
Uttar Pradesh |
|
38 |
Dr. N. Prabhakar |
Science and Engineering |
Delhi |
|
39 |
Dr. Prahalada |
Science and Engineering |
Maharashtra |
|
40 |
Dr. Narendra Prasad |
Medicine |
Bihar |
|
41 |
Shri Ram Bahadur Rai |
Literature and Education |
Delhi |
|
42 |
Ms. Mithali Raj |
Sports |
Telangana |
|
43 |
Shri P. V. Rajaraman |
Civil Service |
Tamil Nadu |
|
44 |
Prof. J. S. Rajput |
Literature and Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
|
45 |
Shri Kota Srinivasa Rao |
Art |
Andhra Pradesh |
|
46 |
Prof. Bimal Roy |
Literature and Education |
West Bengal |
|
47 |
Shri Shekhar Sen |
Art |
Maharashtra |
|
48 |
Shri Gunvant Shah |
Literature and Education |
Gujarat |
|
49 |
Shri Brahmdev Sharma (Bhaiji) |
Literature and Education |
Delhi |
|
50 |
Shri Manu Sharma |
Literature and Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
|
51 |
Prof. Yog Raj Sharma |
Medicine |
Delhi |
|
52 |
Shri Vasant Shastri |
Science and Engineering |
Karnataka |
|
53 |
Shri S. K. Shivkumar |
Science and Engineering |
Karnataka |
|
54 |
Ms. P. V. Sindhu |
Sports |
Telangana |
|
55 |
Shri Sardara Singh |
Sports |
Haryana |
|
56 |
Ms. Arunima Sinha |
Sports |
Uttar Pradesh |
|
57 |
Shri Mahesh Raj Soni |
Art |
Rajasthan |
|
58 |
Dr.Nikhil Tandon |
Medicine |
Delhi |
|
59 |
Shri H. Thegtse Rinpoche |
Social Work |
Arunachal Pradesh |
|
60 |
Dr.Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi |
Medicine |
Gujarat |
|
61 |
Shri Huang Baosheng |
Others |
China |
|
62 |
Prof. Jacques Blamont |
Science and Engineering |
France |
|
63 |
Late Shri Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin |
Others |
Maharashtra |
|
64 |
Shri Jean-Claude Carriere |
Literature and Education |
France |
|
65 |
Dr. Nandrajan “Raj” Chetty |
Trade and Industry |
USA |
|
66 |
Shri George L. Hart |
Others |
USA |
|
67 |
Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja(NRI/PIO) |
Others |
Portugal |
|
68 |
Late Shri Meetha Lal Mehta (Posthumous) |
Social Work |
Rajasthan |
|
69 |
Ms. Tripti Mukherjee |
Art |
USA |
|
70 |
Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori |
Medicine |
USA |
|
71 |
Dr. Raghu Rama Pillarisetti |
Medicine |
USA |
|
72 |
Dr. Saumitra Rawat |
Medicine |
UK |
|
73 |
Prof. Annette Schmiedchen |
Literature and Education |
Germany |
|
74 |
Late Shri Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran(Posthumous) |
Art |
Delhi |
|
75 |
Late Shri R. Vasudevan |
Civil Service |
Tamil Nadu |