Tata, Tendulkar in Padma awards list

NEW DELHI: Ratan Tata, Asha Bhonsle, LN Mittal and Sachin Tendulkar are among this year's recipients of the top civilian award Padma Vibhushan. Some other recipients of this award are Pranab Mukherjee (Public Affairs), E Sreedharan (Science and Engineering), Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (Science and Engineering), Edmund Hillary (Posthumous), Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (Sports), Viswanathan Anand (Sports), N R Narayana Murthy (Trade and Industry), P R S Oberoi (Trade and Industry).

The list of awardees is as follows:
Padma Vibhushan
Asha Bhonsle (Art), Justice (Dr) A S Anand (Public Affairs), P N Dhar (Public Affairs), Pranab Mukherjee (Public Affairs), E Sreedharan (Science and Engineering), Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (Science and Engineering), Edmund Hillary (Posthumous) (Sports), Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (Sports), Viswanathan Anand (Sports), Lakshmi Narayan Mittal (Trade and Industry), N R Narayana Murthy (Trade and Industry), P R S Oberoi (Trade and Industry), Ratan Naval Tata (Trade and Industry).

Padma Bhushan
Amarnath Sehgal (Posthumous) (Art), Ustad Asad Ali Khan (Art), P Susheela (Art), Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar (Art), Sushil Kumar Saxena (Art), Chandrashekhar Dasgupta (Civil Service), K Padmanabhiah (Civil Service), V Ramachandran (Civil Service), Jasdev Singh (Commentary and Broadcasting), Brijinder Nath Goswamy (Literature and Education), Ji Xianlin (Literature and Education), Kaushik Basu (Literature and Education), Padma Desai (Literature and Education), Ravindra Kelekar (Literature and Education), Shayama Chona (Literature and Education), Shri Lal Shukla (Literature and Education), Srinivasa S R Varadhan (Literature and Education), T K Oommen (Literature and Education), Jagjit Singh Chopra (Medicine), Nirmal Kumar Ganguly (Medicine), Mian Bashir Ahmed (Public Affairs), Lord Meghnad Desai (Public Affairs), Y M Vorontsov (Posthumous) (Public Affairs), Asis Datta (Science and Engineering), Sukh Dev (Science and Engineering), Sunita Williams (Science and Engineering), Vasant Gowarikar (Science and Engineering), D R Mehta (Social Work).

Padma Shri
Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, Hollywood film maker Manoj Night Shyamalan, actor Tom Alter, UGC Chairman Sukhdeo Thorat, FICCI General Secretary Amit Mitra and noted footballer Baichung Bhutia and swimmer Bula Chowdhury, Journalist Barkha Dutt, Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai and Jounalist Vinod Dua, Vice Chancellor of Jammu University Amitabh Mattoo and playback singer Jawahar Wattal, Gangadhar Pradhan (Art) Gennadi Mikhailovich Pechinkov (Art) Pandit Gokulotsavji Maharaj (Art) Hans Raj Hans (Art) Helen Giri (Art) Jatin Goswami (Art) Jawahar Wattal (Art) John Martin Nelson (Art) Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty (Art) Kekoo M. Gandhy (Art) Madhuri Dixit (Art) Mangala Prasad Mohanty (Art) Meenakshi Chitharanjan (Art) Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar (Art) P.K. Narayanan Nambiar (Art) Pratap Pawar (Art).