Following is the list of the 127 awardees of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri which were announced on the eve of the 65th Republic day.
Padma Vibhushan
The Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award in the Republic of India. It consists of a medal and a citation and is awarded by the President of India. It was established on 2 January 1954. It ranks behind the Bharat Ratna and comes before the Padma Bhushan andPadma Shri. It is awarded to recognize exceptional and distinguished service to the nation in any field, including government service. The first recipients of this award were Satyendra Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, V. K. Krishna Menon in the year 1954.
The award was established by Presidential decree on 2 January 1954. The Padma Vibhushan was originally established as the Pahela Varg(First Class) of a three-class "Padma Vibhushan" awards. However the structure was changed in 1955 and there is no record of the award being presented to recipients in the original structure. The award was suspended between 1977 and 1980 and between 1992 and 1998. (Source: Wikipedia)
This year's awardees: Dr Raghunath A Mashelkar, Science and Engineering, Maharashtra; B K S Iyengar, Yoga, Maharashtra
Padma Bhushan: The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. It is conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The award was established on 2 January 1954 by the President of India. Shivam Shetty Manohar was the youngest to have received this title. It is awarded to recognize distinguished service of a high order to the nation, in any field. As of January 2010, 1111 people have thus far received the award. In 2013 the veteran playback singer Mrs.S. Janaki rejected the award, stating that the honour came to her too late and that the artists of South India were not duly recognised. (Source: Wikipedia)
The list of 2014 awardees:
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Art-Painting, Gujarat; Begum Parveen Sultana, Art-Classical Singing, Maharashtra; T.H. Vinayakram, Art-Ghatam Artist, Tamil Nadu; Kamal Haasan, Art-Cinema, Tamil Nadu; Justice Dalveer Bhandari, Public Affairs, Delhi; Prof Padmanabhan Balaram, Science and Engineering, Karnataka; Prof Jyeshtharaj Joshi, Science and Engineering, Maharashtra; Dr Madappa Mahadevappa, Science and Engineering, Karnataka; Dr Thirumalachari Ramasami, Science and Engineering, Delhi; Dr Vinod Prakash Sharma, Science and Engineering, Delhi; Dr Radhakrishnan Koppillil, Science and Engineering, Karnataka; Dr Mrityunjay Athreya, Literature and Education, Delhi; Anita Desai, Literature and Education, Delhi; Dr Dhirubhai Thaker, Literature and Education, Gujarat; Vairamuthu, Literature and Education, Tamil Nadu; Ruskin Bond, Literature and Education, Uttarakhand; Pullela Gopichand, Sports-Badminton, Andhra Pradesh; Leander Paes, Sports-Tennis, Maharashtra; Vijayendra Nath Kaul, Civil Service, Delhi; Late Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma, Public Affairs, Uttar Pradesh; Late Dr Anumolu Ramakrishna, Science and Engineering, Andhra Pradesh; Prof Anisuzzaman, Literature and Education, Bangladesh; Prof Lloyd I Rudolph, Literature and Education, USA; Prof Susanne H Rudolph, Literature and Education, USA; Dr (Smt) Neelam Kler, Medicine-Neonatology, Delhi
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