Awards

• Awards:
• Award for Kerala Tourism Kerala Tourism has emerged as one among the four winners in the destination category at the 36th edition of FITUR – the second largest travel and tourism fair in Spain. The eye-catching pavilion, themed on Kerala’s fabled snake-boat race, has fetched the State the award along with Mexico, Japan, and Nepal. A large number of visitors flocked to the Kerala pavilion, adorned by two replicas of snake-boats, making it one of the most-photographed pavilions at FITUR.
  
  The pavilion, created with stunning images of boat races, won the Best Stand award for design, communication, and professionalism.
  
  The sprawling independent pavilion of Kerala Tourism built on a 60-square-metre area had participation from four co-exhibitors representing the State’s private tourism and hospitality sector. FITUR, organised by Madrid’s trade fair organisation IFEMA (Feria de Madrid), was held at IFEMA Convention Centre from January 20 to 24 and attended by 9,500 companies from 165 countries.
  
  The award-winning pavilion was conceived and designed by Stark Communications, the marketing agency of Kerala Tourism, and executed by Art Director Sabu Sivan and team.
  
• Govt announces Padma awards to 112 personalitiesPadma Awards are given in various disciplines and fields of activities, including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education.
  
  ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service, ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field.
  
  A total of 112 people have been selected for the Padma awards 2016. The list comprises of 10 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 83 Padma Shri Awardees. 19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs (include one posthumous) and 4 Posthumous awardees.
  
  The awards are conferred by the President as ceremonial functions held at Rashtrapati Bhawan around March-April every year.
  
   
  Padma Vibhushan

  Sl. No	Name	Field	State
  1.	Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi	Art- Classical dance	Delhi
  2.	Shri Rajinikanth	Art-Cinema	Tamil Nadu
  3.	Smt. Girija Devi	Art-Classical Vocal	West Bengal
  4.	Shri Ramoji Rao	Literature & Education-Journalism	Andhra Pradesh
  5.	Dr. Viswanathan Shanta	Medicine- Oncology	Tamil Nadu
  6.	Shri Shri Ravi Shankar	Others-Spiritualism	Karnataka
  7.	Shri Jagmohan	Public Affairs	Delhi
  8.	Dr.Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
  9.	Shri Avinash Dixit(Foreigner)	Literature & Education	USA
  10.	Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous)	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra

  
  Padma Bhushan

  Sl. No.	Name	Field	State
  11.	Shri Anupam Kher	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
  12.	Shri Udit Narayan Jha	Art-Playback Singing	Maharashtra
  13.	Shri Ram V. Sutar	Art-Sculpture	Uttar Pradesh
  14.	Shri Heisnam Kanhailal	Art-Theatre	Manipur
  15.	Shri Vinod Rai	Civil Service	Kerala
  16.	Dr. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
  17.	Prof. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
  18.	Dr. Barjinder Singh Hamdard	Literature & Education - Journalism	Punjab
  19.	Prof. D. Nageshwar Reddy	Medicine-Gastroenterology	Telangana
  20.	Swami Tejomayananda	Other-Spiritualism	Maharashtra
  21.	Shri Hafeez Contractor	Others-Architecture	Maharashtra
  22.	Shri Ravindra Chandra Bhargava	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
  23.	Dr.Venkata Rama Rao Alla	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
  24.	Ms. Saina Nehwal	Sports-Badminton	Telangana
  25.	Ms. Sania Mirza	Sports-Tennis	Telangana
  26.	Ms. Indu Jain	Trade & Industry	Delhi
  27.	Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous)	Others-Spiritualism	Uttarakhand
  28.	Shri Robert Blackwill(Foreigner)	Public Affairs	USA
  29.	Shri Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (NRI/PIO)	Trade & Industry	Ireland

  
  Padma Shri 

  Sl. No	Name	Field	State
  30.	Smt. Prathibha Prahlad	Art- Classical Dance	Delhi
  31.	Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi	Art- Folk Music	Gujarat
  32.	Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar	Art- Textile Designing	Uttar Pradesh
  33.	Shri Ajay Devgn	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
  34.	Ms. Priyanka Chopra	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
  35.	Pt. Tulsidas Borkar	Art-Classical Music	Goa
  36.	Dr. Soma Ghosh	Art-Classical Vocal	Uttar Pradesh
  37.	Shri Nila Madhab Panda	Art-Film Direction and Production	Delhi
  38.	Shri S.S. Rajamouli	Art-Film Direction and Production	Karnataka
  39.	Shri Madhur Bhandarkar	Art-Film Direction and Production	Maharashtra
  40.	Prof. M. Venkatesh Kumar	Art-Folk Artist	Karnataka
  41.	Ms. Gulabi Sapera	Art-Folk Dance	Rajasthan
  42.	Smt. Mamta Chandrakar	Art-Folk Music	Chhattisgarh
  43.	Ms. Malini Awasthi	Art-Folk Music	Uttar Pradesh
  44.	Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal	Art-Miniature Painting	Delhi
  45.	Shri K. Laxma Goud	Art-Painting	Telangana
  46.	Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe	Art-Photography	Madhya Pradesh
  47.	Shri Naresh Chander Lal	Art-Theatre & Cinema	Andaman & Nicobar
  48.	Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah	Literature & Education	Assam
  49.	Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa	Literature & Education	Assam
  50.	Dr.Ravindra Nagar	Literature & Education	Delhi
  51.	Shri Dahyabhai Shastri	Literature & Education	Gujarat
  52.	Dr.Santeshivara Bhyrappa	Literature & Education	Karnataka
  53.	Shri Haldar Nag	Literature & Education	Odisha
  54.	Shri Kameshwaram Brahma	Literature & Education -Journalism	Assam
  55.	Prof. Pushpesh Pant	Literature & Education-Journalism	Delhi
  56.	Shri Jawaharlal Kaul	Literature & Education-Journalism	Jammu & Kashmir
  57.	Shri Ashok Malik	Literature &Education	Delhi
  58.	Dr.Mannam Gopi Chand	Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery	Telangana
  59.	Prof. Ravi Kant	Medicine-Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
  60.	Prof. Ram Harsh Singh	Medicine- Ayurveda	Uttar Pradesh
  61.	Prof. Shiv Narain Kureel	Medicine- Paediatric Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
  62.	Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar	Medicine –Radiology	Uttar Pradesh
  63.	Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale	Medicine-Cardiac Surgery	Andhra Pradesh
  64.	Prof. T.K. Lahiri	Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
  65.	Dr. Praveen Chandra	Medicine-Cardiology	Delhi
  66.	Prof. (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir	Medicine-Cardiology	Uttar Pradesh
  67.	Dr.Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva	Medicine-Gastroenterology	Tamil Nadu
  68.	Dr. (Mrs.) Anil Kumari Malhotra	Medicine-Homeopathy	Delhi
  69.	Prof. M.V. Padma Srivastava	Medicine-Neurology	Delhi
  70.	Dr. Sudhir V. Shah	Medicine-Neurology	Gujarat
  71.	Dr. M. M. Joshi	Medicine-Ophthalmology	Karnataka
  72.	Prof. (Dr) John Ebnezar	Medicine-Orthopaedic Surgery	Karnataka
  73.	Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda	Medicine-Paediatric Surgery	Andhra Pradesh
  74.	Shri Simon Oraon	Other –Environment Conservation	Jharkhand
  75.	Shri Imitiaz Qureshi	Other-Culinary	Delhi
  76.	Shri Piyush Pandey	Others-Advertising & Communication	Maharashtra
  77.	Shri Subhash Palekar	Others-Farming	Maharashtra
  78.	Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha	Others-Wildlife Conservation	Bihar
  79.	Dr. H.R. Nagendra	Others-Yoga	Karnataka
  80.	Shri M. C. Mehta	Public Affairs	Delhi
  81.	Shri M. N. Krishna Mani	Public Affairs	Delhi
  82.	Shri Ujjwal Nikam	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
  83.	Shri Tokheho Sema	Public Affairs	Nagaland
  84.	Dr. Satish Kumar	Science & Engineering	Delhi
  85.	Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
  86.	Prof. Dipankar Chatterji	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
  87.	Prof.(Dr.) Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
  88.	Smt. (Prof.) Veena Tandon	Science & Engineering	Meghalaya
  89.	Shri Onkar Nath Srivastava	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
  90.	Ms. Sunita Krishnan	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
  91.	Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta	Social Work	Assam
  92.	Shri M. Pandit Dasa	Social Work	Karnataka
  93.	Shri P. P. Gopinathan Nair	Social Work	Kerala
  94.	Smt. Madeleine Herman de Blic	Social Work	Puducherry
  95.	Shri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai	Social work	Tamil Nadu
  96.	Shri Sudhakar Olwe	Social Work	Maharashtra
  97.	Dr. T.V. Narayana	Social Work	Telangana
  98.	Shri Arunachalam Murugantham	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
  99.	Ms. Deepika Kumari	Sports-Archery	Jharkhand
  100.	Shri Sushil Doshi	Sports-commentary	Madhya Pradesh
  101.	Shri Mahesh Sharma	Trade & Industry	Delhi
  102.	Shri Saurabh Srivastava	Trade & Industry	Delhi
  103.	Sh Dilip Sanghvi	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
  104.	Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
  105.	Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana (Posthumous)	Art -Classical Music	Rajasthan
  106.	Late Shri Saeed Jaffrey(NRI/PIO/Posthumous)	Art-Cinema	UK
  107.	Shri Michael Postel(Foreigner)	Art-Archaeology	France
  108.	Shri Salman Amin Sal Khan(NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education	USA
  109.	Smt. Hui Lan Zhang(Foreigner)	Others-Yoga	China
  110.	Shri Predrag K. Nikic(Foreigner)	Others-Yoga	Serbia
  111.	Dr.Sundar Aditya Menon(NRI/PIO)	Social Work	UAE
  112.	Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga(NRI/PIO)	Trade & Industry	USA