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2012 Padma Shri Awardees
2012 Padma Shri Awardees are Gundecha Brothers, Anup Jalota, V. Mohan, Priyadarshan and many more from various fields. Padma Shri Award is the fourth highest civilian award in India. It is awarded by the Government of India every year.

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Name Field State Country
Vanraj Bhatia Art - Music Maharashtra India
Zia Fariduddin Dagar Art - Music - vocal Maharashtra India
Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi Art - Music- Khongjom Parba Manipur India
Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani Art - Yakshagana dance form drama Karnataka India
Moti Lal Kemmu Art - Playwright Jammu and Kashmir India
Shahid Parvez Khan Art - Instrumental Music-Sitar Maharashtra India
Shri Mohanlal Kumhar Art - Terracotta Rajasthan India
Sakar Khan Manganiar Art - Rajasthani Folk Music Rajasthan India
Joy Michael Art - Theatre Delhi India
Minati Mishra Art - Indian Classical Dance-Odissi. Orissa India
Natesan Muthuswamy Art - Theatre. Tamil Nadu India
R. Nagarathnamma Art - Theatre Karnataka India
Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri Art - Indian Classical Dance- Kutiyattam Kerala India
Yamunabai Waikar Art - Indian Folk Music-Lavani. Maharashtra India
Satish Alekar Art - Playwright Maharashtra India
Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey Art - Chhau dance and choreography Jharkhand India
Ramakant Gundecha and Umakant Gundecha or Gundecha Brothers Art - Indian Classical Music- Vocal Madhya Pradesh India
Anup Jalota Art-Indian Classical Music- Vocal Maharashtra India
Soman Nair (Priyadarsan) Art - Cinema- Direction Kerala India
Sunil Janah Art-Photography Assam India
Laila Tyebji Art-Handicrafts Delhi India
Vijay Sharma Art-Painting Himachal Pradesh India
Shamshad Begum Social Work Chattisgarh India
Reeta Devi Social Work Delhi India
P.K. Gopal Social Work Tamil Nadu India
Phoolbasan Bai Yadav Social Work Chattisgarh India
G. Muniratnam Social Work Andhra Pradesh India
Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya Social Work Maharashtra India
Uma Tuli Social Work Delhi India
Sat Paul Varma Social Work Jammu and Kashmir India
Binny Yanga Social Work Arunachal Pradesh India
Yezdi Hirji Malegam Public Affairs Maharashtra India
Pravin H. Parekh Public Affairs Delhi India
V. Adimurthy Science and Engineering Kerala India
Krishna Lal Chadha Science and Engineering - Agriculture Delhi India
Virander Singh Chauhan Science and Engineering Delhi India
Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai Science and Engineering Jammu and Kashmir India
Vijaypal Singh Science and Engineering - Agricultural Research Uttar Pradesh India
Lokesh Kumar Singhal Science and Engineering Punjab India
Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan Science and Engineering Karnataka India
Jagadish Shukla Science and Engineering USA
Priya Paul Trade and Industry Delhi India
Shoji Shiba Trade and Industry Japan
Gopinath Pillai Trade and Industry Singapore
Arun Hastimal Firodia Trade and Industry Maharashtra India
Swati A. Piramal Trade and Industry Maharashtra India
Mahdi Hasan Medicine-Anatomy Uttar Pradesh India
Viswanathan Mohan Medicine - Diabetology Tamil Nadu India
J. Hareendran Nair Medicine - Ayurveda Kerala India
Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan Medicine - Geriatrics Tamil Nadu India
Jitendra Kumar Singh Medicine - Oncology Bihar India
Shrinivas S. Vaishya Medicine-Healthcare Daman and Diu India
Nitya Anand Medicine - Drugs Research Uttar Pradesh India
Jugal Kishore Medicine - Homoeopathy Delhi
Mukesh Batra Medicine-Homeopathy Maharashtra India
Kedar Gurung Literature and Education Sikkim India
Surjit Singh Patar Literature and Education - Poetry Punjab India
Vijay Dutt Shridhar Literature and Education - Journalism Madhya Pradesh India
Irwin Allan Sealy Literature and Education Uttarakhand India
Geeta Dharmarajan Literature and Education Delhi India
Sachchidanand Sahai Literature and Education Bihar India
Pepita Seth Literature and Education Kerala India
Ralte L. Thanmawia Literature and Education Mizoram India
Ajeet Bajaj Sports - Skiing Delhi India
Jhulan Goswami Sports - Women`s Cricket West Bengal India
Zafar Iqbal Sports-Hockey Uttar Pradesh India
Devendra Jhajrija Sports - Athletics- Paralympics Rajasthan India
Limba Ram Sports - Archery Rajasthan India
Syed Mohammed Arif Sports - Badminton Andhra Pradesh India
Ravi Chaturvedi Sports- Commentary Delhi India
Prabhakar Vaidya Sports-Physical Education Maharashtra India
T. Venkatapathi Reddiar Others-Horticulture Puducherry India
K. Ullas Karanth Others-Wildlife Conservation and Environment Protection Karnataka India
K Paddayya Others-Archaeology Maharashtra India
Swapan Guha Others-Ceramics Rajasthan India
Kartikeya V. Sarabhai Others - Environmental Gujarat India


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