Madhavan Nair, Bindra, Aishwarya among Padma Awardees

New Delhi, Jan 26: India's top civilian awards the Padma Awards such as Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri were announced on January 25, 2009.

The winners of Padma Awards 2009 are as following:

Padma Vibhushan

Dr Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, Civil Service (Maharashtra)
Sunderlal Bahuguna, Environment Conservation (Uttarakhand)
Prof D P Chattopadhyaya, Literature & Education (West Bengal)
Prof Jasbir Singh Bajaj, Medicine (Punjab)
Dr Purshotam Lal, Medicine (Uttar Pradesh)
Govind Narain, Public Affairs (Uttar Pradesh)
Dr Anil Kakodkar, Science and Engineering (Maharashtra)
G Madhavan Nair, Science and Engineering (Karnataka)
Sister Nirmala, Social Work (West Bengal)
Dr A S Ganguly, Trade and Industry (Maharashtra)

Padma Bhushan

G Sivarama Krishna Murthy alias Krishna, Art (Andhra Pradesh)
Prof Ramanlal C Mehta, Art (Gujarat)
Shamshad Begum, Art (Maharashtra)
V P Dhananjayan and Smt Shanta Dhananjayan (Duo), Art (Tamil Nadu)
Dr Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati, Art (Tamil Nadu)
S K Misra, Civil Service (Haryana)
Shekhar Gupta, Journalism (Delhi)
Prof Alappat Sreedhara Menon, Literature & Education (Kerala)
CK Prahlad, Literature and Education (NRI/ PIO)
Jayakanthan, Literature and Education (Tamil Nadu)
Dr (Smt) Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Literature and Education (Delhi)
Kunwar Narain, Literature and Education (Delhi)
Prof Minoru Hara, Literature and Education (Foreigner)
Ramachandra Guha, Literature and Education (Karnataka)
Dr Brijendra Kumar Rao, Medicine (Delhi)
Vaidya Devendra Triguna, Medicine (Delhi)
Dr Khalid Hameed, Medicine (NRI/ PIO)
Lt Gen (Retd) Satish Nambiar, National Security Affairs (Delhi)
Dr (Smt) Inderjit Kaur Barthakur, Public Affairs (Meghalaya)
Dr Kirit Shantilal Parikh, Public Affairs (Delhi)
Dr Bhakta B Rath, Science & Engineering (NRI/ PIO)
Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri, Science and Engineering (Tamil Nadu)
Dr Gurdip Singh Randhawa, Science and Engineering (Delhi)
Sam Pitroda, Science & Engineering (Delhi)
Prof (Dr) Sarvagya Singh Katiyar, Science and Engineering (Uttar Pradesh)
Prof Thomas Kailath, Science & Engineering (NRI/ PIO)
Dr Naganath Nayakawadi, Social Work (Maharashtra)
Dr (Smt) Sarojini Varadappan, Social Work (Tamil Nadu)
Abhinav Bindra, Sports (Punjab)
Anil Manibhai Naik, Trade and Industry (Maharashtra)

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