President Pranab
Mukherjee on March 31st 2014, presented the prestigious Padma Awards
including one Padma Vibhushan to eminent scientist Dr RA Mashelkar, 12 Padma
Bhushan and 53 Padma Shri awards at a Civil Investiture ceremony at Rashtrapati
Bhavan.
Besides Dr Mashelkar
who was presented Padma Vibhushan, film star Kamal Hasan was among the nine
personalities who were awarded Padma Bhushan while film actor Vidya Balan was
given Padma Shree.
Among the dignitaries
present on the occasion were Vice- President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and several other
dignitaries.
The other Padma
Bhushan awardees are Prof Anisuzzaman, Pullela Gopichand, Prof Jyeshtharaj
Bhalchandra Joshi, Vijayndra Nath Koul, Prof ( Dr) Neelam Kler, Prof Lloyd
Rudolph and Prof Susanne H Rudolph.
Dr Anumolu
Ramakrishnan was given Padma Bhushan posthumously.
Besides film actor
Vidha Balan, the other 52 Padma Shree awardees are: Dr Naheed Abidi, Dr
Krishnakumar Mansukhlal Acharya, Dr Subrat Kumar Acharya, Sekhar Basu, Prof (
Dr) Balram Bhargava, Prof Ashok Chakradhar, Sabitri Chatterjee, Chhakchhuak
Chhuanvawra, Dr Sunil Dabas, Prof Biman Bihari Das, Dr Ramakant Krishnaji
Deshpande, Elom Indira Devi, Prof G N Devy, Dr Bharma Dutt, Prof Kolakaluri
Enoch, Prof Ved Kumari Ghai, Prof ( Dr) Pawan Raj Goyal, Ravi Bhushan Grover,
Prof ( Dr) Daya Kishore Hazra, Prof Ramaswamy R Iyer, Prof Eluvathingal Devassy
Jemmis, Naina Apte Joshi, Prof ( Dr) Shashank Ramesh Chandra Joshi, Bansi Kaul,
Jawahar Lal Kaul, Ustad Moinuddin Khan, Prof Rehana Khatoon, Dr P Kilemsungla,
Dr Milind Vasant Kirtane, Ashok Kumar Mago, Geeta Mahalik, Paresh Meity,
Waikhom Gojen Meetei and Dr Mohan Mishra. The other Padma Shree winners are:
Prof Vamsi Krishna Mootha, Mr Ravi Kumar Narra, Ms Dipika Rebecca Pallikal, Dr
Ashok Panagriya, Mr Sudarshan Pattnaik, Mr Pratap Gobind Pawan, Dr Sunil
Pradhan, Mr Wendell Augustine Rodricks, Dr Sarbeswar Saraiah, Mr Rajesh Kumar Saraiya,
Mr Alur Seelin Kiran Kumar, Mr Anuj ( Ramanuj) Sharma, Prof Vinod Kumar Singh,
Ms Sooni Taraporewala, Prof ( dr) Jeewan Singh Titiyal, Mr Tashi Tondup and
Prof Om Prakash Upadhyaya.
Prof Vishnu Narayanan
Namboodiri, who also got Padma Shree, was not present.
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