The President of India has approved the Padma Awards for 2012. The President approved 109 awards, including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous.

These comprise five Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards. There are 19 ladies among the awardees.

Padma Awards, the country's highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

The awards are given in all disciplines/fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports and civil service.

The 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. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

According to a statement by the government, the awards will be conferred by the President at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan sometime in March/April.

Here is the full list.

Padma Vibhushan 

Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile
1.     K G Subramanyan Art-Painting & Sculpture West Bengal
2.     Late Shri Mario De Miranda Art-Cartoonist Goa*
3.     Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika Art- Vocal Music Assam*
4.     Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Medicine - Orthopedics Maharashtra
5.     T V Rajeswar Civil Service Delhi

Padma Bhushan

Sl No.

Name

Discipline

State/ Domicile
  1.  
 Shabana Azmi Art - Cinema Maharashtra
  1.  
 Shri Khaled Choudhury Art - Theatre West Bengal
  1.  
 Jatin Das Art - Painting Delhi
  1.  
 Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta Art - Instrumental Music - Sarod West Bengal
  1.  
 Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra Art - Cinema Maharashtra
  1.  
 Dr. Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan Art - Classical vocal and instrumental music Tamil Nadu
  1.  
 Mira Nair Art - Cinema Delhi
  1.  
 M.S. Gopalakrishnan Art - Instrumental Music-Violin Tamil Nadu
  1.  
 Anish Kapoor Art - Sculpture UK*
  1.  
 Satya Narayan Goenka Social Work Maharashtra
  1.  
 Dr. (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao Public Affairs Germany*
  1.  
 Shri George Yong-Boon Yeo Public Affairs Singapore*
  1.  
 Prof. Shashikumar Chitre Science and Engineering Maharashtra
  1.  
 Dr. M S Raghunathan Science and Engineering Maharashtra
  1.  
 Shri Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu
  1.  
 Shri Balasubramanian Muthuraman Trade and Industry Maharashtra
  1.  
 Dr. Suresh H. Advani Medicine - Oncology Maharashtra
  1.  
 Dr. Noshir H Wadia Medicine-Neurology Maharashtra
  1.  
 Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty Medicine-Cardiology Karnataka
  1.  
 Prof. (Dr.) Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar Literature and Education Maharashtra
  1.  
 Prof. Vidya Dehejia Literature and Education USA*
  1.  
 Prof. Arvind Panagariya Literature and Education USA*
  1.  
 Dr. Jose Pereira Literature and Education USA*
  1.  
 Dr. Homi K. Bhabha Literature and Education UK *
  1.  
 N Vittal Civil Service Kerala
  1.  
 Mata Prasad Civil Service Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
 Ronen Sen Civil Service West Bengal

Padma Shri

Sl No.

Name

Discipline

State/ Domicile
  1.  
 Vanraj Bhatia Art - Music Maharashtra
  1.  
 Zia Fariduddin Dagar Art - Music - vocal Maharashtra
  1.  
 Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi Art - Music- Khongjom Parba Manipur
  1.  
 Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani Art - Yakshagana dance drama Karnataka
  1.  
 Moti Lal Kemmu Art - Playwright Jammu and Kashmir
  1.  
 Shahid Parvez Khan Art - Instrumental Music-Sitar Maharashtra
  1.  
 Mohan Lal Kumhar Art - Terracotta Rajasthan
  1.  
 Sakar Khan Manganiar Art - Rajasthani Folk Music Rajasthan
  1.  
 Joy Michael Art - Theatre Delhi
  1.  
 Dr. Minati Mishra Art - Indian Classical Dance-Odissi. Orissa
  1.  
 Natesan Muthuswamy Art - Theatre. Tamil Nadu
  1.  
 R. Nagarathnamma Art - Theatre Karnataka
  1.  
 Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri Art - Indian Classical Dance- Kutiyattam Kerala
  1.  
 Yamunabai Waikar Art - Indian Folk Music-Lavani. Maharashtra
  1.  
 Satish Alekar Art - Playwright Maharashtra
  1.  
 Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey Art - Chhau dance and choreography Jharkhand
  1.  
 Ramakant Gundecha # Art - Indian Classical Music- Vocal Madhya Pradesh
Umakant Gundecha # Art - Indian Classical Music- Vocal Madhya Pradesh
  1.  
 Anup Jalota Art-Indian Classical Music- Vocal Maharashtra
  1.  
 Soman Nair Priyadarsan Art - Cinema- Direction Kerala 
  1.  
 Sunil Janah Art-Photography Assam
  1.  
 Laila Tyebji Art-Handicrafts Delhi
  1.  
 Vijay Sharma Art-Painting Himachal Pradesh
  1.  
 Shamshad Begum Social Work Chattisgarh
  1.  
 Reeta Devi Social Work Delhi
  1.  
 Dr. P.K. Gopal Social Work Tamil Nadu
  1.  
 Phoolbasan Bai Yadav Social Work Chattisgarh
  1.  
 Dr. G. Muniratnam Social Work Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
 Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya Social Work Maharashtra
  1.  
 Dr. Uma Tuli Social Work Delhi
  1.  
 Sat Paul Varma Social Work Jammu and Kashmir
  1.  
 Binny Yanga Social Work Arunachal Pradesh
  1.  
 Yezdi Hirji Malegam Public Affairs Maharashtra
  1.  
 Pravin H. Parekh Pubic Affairs Delhi
  1.  
 Dr. V. Adimurthy Science and Engineering Kerala
  1.  
 Dr. Krishna Lal Chadha Science and Engineering - Agriculture Delhi
  1.  
 Prof. Virander Singh Chauhan Science and Engineering Delhi
  1.  
 Prof. Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai Science and Engineering Jammu and Kashmir
  1.  
 Dr. Vijaypal Singh Science and Engineering - Agricultural Research Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
 Dr. Lokesh Kumar Singhal Science and Engineering Punjab
  1.  
 Dr. Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan Science and Engineering Karnataka
  1.  
 Prof. Jagadish Shukla Science and Engineering USA*
  1.  
 Priya Paul Trade and Industry Delhi
  1.  
 Shoji Shiba Trade and Industry Japan*
  1.  
 Gopinath Pillai Trade and Industry Singapore*
  1.  
 Arun Hastimal Firodia Trade and Industry Maharashtra
  1.  
 Dr. Swati A. Piramal Trade and Industry Maharashtra
  1.  
 Prof. Mahdi Hasan Medicine-Anatomy Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
 Dr. Viswanathan Mohan Medicine - Diabetology Tamil Nadu
  1.  
 Dr. J. Hareendran Nair Medicine - Ayurveda Kerala
  1.  
 Dr. Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan Medicine - Geriatrics Tamil Nadu
  1.  
 Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh Medicine - Oncology Bihar
  1.  
 Dr. Shrinivas S. Vaishya Medicine-Healthcare Daman and Diu
  1.  
 Dr. Nitya Anand Medicine - Drugs Research Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
 Late Dr. Jugal Kishore Medicine - Homoeopathy Delhi *
  1.  
 Dr. Mukesh Batra Medicine-Homeopathy Maharashtra
  1.  
 Dr. Eberhard Fischer Literature and Education Switzerland*
  1.  
 Kedar Gurung Literature and Education Sikkim
  1.  
 Surjit Singh Patar Literature and Education - Poetry Punjab
  1.  
 Vijay Dutt Shridhar Literature and Education - Journalism Madhya Pradesh
  1.  
 Irwin Allan Sealy Literature and Education Uttarakhand
  1.  
 Geeta Dharmarajan Literature and Education Delhi
  1.  
 Prof. Sachchidanand Sahai Literature and Education Haryana
  1.  
 Pepita Seth Literature and Education Kerala
  1.  
 Dr. Ralte L. Thanmawia Literature and Education Mizoram
  1.  
 Ajeet Bajaj Sports - Skiing Delhi
  1.  
 Jhulan Goswami Sports - Women's Cricket West Bengal
  1.  
 Zafar Iqbal Sports-Hockey Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
 Devendra Jhajrija Sports - Athletics- Paralympics Rajasthan
  1.  
 Limba Ram Sports - Archery Rajasthan
  1.  
 Shri Syed Mohammed Arif Sports - Badminton Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
 Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi Sports- Commentary Delhi
  1.  
 Prabhakar Vaidya Sports-Physical Education Maharashtra
  1.  
 T. Venkatapathi Reddiar Others-Horticulture Puducherry
  1.  
 Dr. K. (Kota) Ullas Karanth Others-Wildlife Conservation and Environment Protection Karnataka
  1.  
 K Paddayya Others-Archaeology Maharashtra
  1.  
 Swapan Guha Others-Ceramics Rajasthan
  1.  
 Dr. Kartikeya V. Sarabhai Others - Environmental Education Gujarat

 

Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous.

            # indicates duo case.