The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has approved the award of one Ashok Chakra, two Kirti

Chakras and eight Shaurya Chakras to the Indian Army personnel on the occasion of Republic Day 2016 has
been included in the list of citations.
Awardees
Ashok Chakra
Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami (Posthumous), 9 PARA (Special Force)
Kirti Chakra
Subedar Mahendra Singh, Sena Medal, 9 PARA (Special Force)
Sepoy Jagdish Chand (Posthumous), 546 DSC Platoon
Shaurya Chakra
Colonel Santosh Yashwant Mahadik (Posthumous), Sena Medal,

41 Rashtriya Rifle (PARA)

Major Praphul Kumar Bhardwaj, 12 PARA (Special Force)

Major Anurag Kumar, 9 PARA (Special Force)
Major Sandip Yadav, 55 Rashtriya Rifle (Armed)
Lieutenant Harjinder Singh, 3 KUMAON
Naik Satish Kumar (Posthumous), 21 Rashtriya Rifle (Guards)
Naik Kheem Singh Mehra, 21 KUMAON
Sepoy Dharma Ram (Posthumous), 1 Rashtriya Rifle (MAHAR)

These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at
Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has approved
conferment of Padma Awards to 112 persons as per the list below. 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.

Padma Vibhushan
1. Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi

Art- Classical dance

Delhi

2. Shri Rajinikanth

Art-Cinema

Tamil Nadu

3. Smt. Girija Devi

Art-Classical Vocal

4. Shri Ramoji Rao

Literature & Education-Journalism

West Bengal
Andhra Pradesh

5. Dr. Viswanathan Shanta

Medicine- Oncology Tamil Nadu

6. Shri Shri Ravi Shankar

Others-Spiritualism

7. Shri Jagmohan

Public Affairs

8. Dr.Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre

Karnataka

Delhi

Science & Engineering

9. Shri Avinash Dixit (Foreigner)

Karnataka

Literature & Education

10. Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous)

USA

Trade & Industry Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan
11. Shri Anupam Kher

Art-Cinema

12. Shri Udit Narayan Jha

Maharashtra

Art-Playback Singing

13. Shri Ram V. Sutar Art-Sculpture

14. Shri Heisnam Kanhailal
15. Shri Vinod Rai

Uttar Pradesh

Art-Theatre

Civil Service

Manipur

Kerala

16. Dr. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad

Literature & Education

17. Prof. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya

18. Dr. Barjinder Singh Hamdard

Maharashtra

Literature & Education

20. Swami Tejomayananda

Other-Spiritualism

21. Shri Hafeez Contractor

Others-Architecture

22. Shri Ravindra Chandra Bhargava

24. Ms. Saina Nehwal
25. Ms. Sania Mirza
26. Ms. Indu Jain

Maharashtra

Literature & Education - Journalism

19. Prof. D. Nageshwar Reddy Medicine-Gastroenterology

23. Dr.Venkata Rama Rao Alla

Andhra Pradesh

Maharashtra
Uttar Pradesh

Science & Engineering

Sports-Tennis

Telangana

Maharashtra

Public Affairs

Sports-Badminton

Punjab

Andhra Pradesh

Telangana

Telangana

Trade & Industry Delhi

27.

Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous)

28.

Shri Robert Blackwill (Foreigner)

29.

Shri Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (NRI/PIO)

Public Affairs

Others-Spiritualism
USA

Trade & Industry Ireland

Padma Shri
30. Smt. Prathibha Prahlad

Art- Classical Dance

31. Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi

Art- Folk Music

Delhi

Gujarat

32. Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar

Art- Textile Designing Uttar Pradesh

33. Shri Ajay Devgn

Maharashtra

Art-Cinema

34. Ms. Priyanka Chopra

35. Pt. Tulsidas Borkar
36. Dr. Soma Ghosh

Art-Cinema

Maharashtra

Art-Classical Music

Art-Classical Vocal

37. Shri Nila Madhab Panda

Goa

Uttar Pradesh

Art-Film Direction and Production

Delhi

Uttarakhand

38. Shri S.S. Rajamouli

Art-Film Direction and Production

39. Shri Madhur Bhandarkar

Art-Film Direction and Production

40. Prof. M. Venkatesh Kumar

41. Ms. Gulabi Sapera

Art-Folk Artist

Art-Folk Dance

42. Smt. Mamta Chandrakar

43. Ms. Malini Awasthi

44. Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal

Karnataka
Chhattisgarh

Uttar Pradesh

Art-Miniature Painting

Art-Painting

46. Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe

47.

Shri Naresh Chander Lal

48.

Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah

49.

Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa

50.

Dr.Ravindra Nagar

51.

Shri Dahyabhai Shastri

52.

Dr.Santeshivara Bhyrappa

53.

Shri Haldar Nag

54.

Shri Kameshwaram Brahma

Maharashtra

Rajasthan

Art-Folk Music

Art-Folk Music

45. Shri K. Laxma Goud

Karnataka

Delhi

Telangana
Art-Photography Madhya Pradesh

Art-Theatre & Cinema

Andaman & Nicobar

Literature & Education

Literature & Education

Literature & Education

Assam

Delhi

Literature & Education

Gujarat

Literature & Education

Literature & Education

Assam

Karnataka

Odisha

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

58. Dr.Mannam Gopi Chand

59. Prof. Ravi Kant

Delhi

Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery

Telangana

Medicine-Surgery Uttar Pradesh

60. Prof. Ram Harsh Singh

Medicine- Ayurveda

61. Prof. Shiv Narain Kureel

62. Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar

Medicine- Paediatric Surgery Uttar Pradesh

Medicine -Radiology Uttar Pradesh

63. Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale

64. Prof. T.K. Lahiri

Uttar Pradesh

Medicine-Cardiac Surgery Andhra Pradesh

Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery

65. Dr. Praveen Chandra

Medicine-Cardiology

66. Prof. (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir

Uttar Pradesh

Delhi

Medicine-Cardiology Uttar Pradesh

67. Dr.Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva Medicine-Gastroenterology

68. Dr. (Mrs.) Anil Kumari Malhotra
69. Prof. M.V. Padma Srivastava
70. Dr. Sudhir V. Shah
71. Dr. M. M. Joshi

Tamil Nadu

Medicine-Homeopathy Delhi

Medicine-Neurology Delhi

Medicine-Neurology Gujarat

Medicine-Ophthalmology Karnataka

72. Prof. (Dr) John Ebnezar

Medicine-Orthopaedic Surgery Karnataka

73. Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda

74. Shri Simon Oraon
75. Shri Imitiaz Qureshi

Medicine-Paediatric Surgery

Other -Environment Conservation

Jharkhand

Other-Culinary Delhi

76. Shri Piyush Pandey Others-Advertising & Communication

77. Shri Subhash Palekar

Andhra Pradesh

Others-Farming

Maharashtra

Maharashtra

78. Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha

Others-Wildlife Conservation

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

86. Prof. Dipankar Chatterji

Karnataka

Science & Engineering Karnataka

87. Prof.(Dr.) Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav

Science & Engineering Maharashtra

88. Smt. (Prof.) Veena Tandon

Science & Engineering

89. Shri Onkar Nath Srivastava

Science and Engineering

90. Ms. Sunita Krishnan

Social Work

91. Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta

Social Work

93.Shri P. P. Gopinathan Nair

Meghalaya
Uttar Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

92. Shri M. Pandit Dasa Social Work

Assam
Karnataka

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

97. Dr. T.V. Narayana

Social Work
Social Work

98. Shri Arunachalam Murugantham

99. Ms. Deepika Kumari
100. Shri Sushil Doshi

Maharashtra
Telangana
Social Work

Tamil Nadu

Sports-Archery Jharkhand

Sports-commentary Madhya Pradesh

101. Shri Mahesh Sharma

Trade & Industry Delhi

102. Shri Saurabh Srivastava

103. Sh Dilip Sanghvi

Bihar

Trade & Industry Delhi

Trade & Industry Maharashtra

104.Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda

Trade & Industry Maharashtra

105. Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana (Posthumous)

Art -Classical Music

106. Late Shri Saeed Jaffrey (NRI/PIO/Posthumous)

Art-Cinema

107. Shri Michael Postel (Foreigner)

UK

Art-Archaeology France

108. Shri Salman Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO)

109. Smt. Hui Lan Zhang (Foreigner)

Rajasthan

Literature & Education

USA

Others-Yoga China

110. Shri Predrag K. Nikic (Foreigner)

Others-Yoga Serbia

111. Dr.Sundar Aditya Menon (NRI/PIO)

112. Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga (NRI/PIO)

Social Work

UAE

Trade & Industry USA

What is Special on Republic Day of India 2016

On this Republic Day of India:

This is first time in the Indian history since 1950 that French contingent is participating in the
Republic Day parade of India together with the Indian armed forces.

The cleanliness in surrounding areas and statues of great personalities is ensured.

The topic our duties is discussed in schools, colleges and other places. Find Essay on Duty

After many years (26 years later), Indian Army dogs are now back to participate in the Republic Day
Parade 2016 at the Rajpath. Around 36 Indian Army dogs including 24 Labradors and 12 German Shepherds is
taking part in the parade. They were practicing since last four months and three times a day for better
performance.

The timing of republic day parade in 2016 has been reduced by at least 15 minutes by the government.
There is plan to perform 90-minute parade in 2016 instead of two hours by cutting down some marching
military contingents and number of tableaux.

About Delhi Republic Parade:

It commences from the fate of Rashtrapati Bahvan Raisina Hill on Rajpath past the India Gate.

This event lasts for 3 days.

The parade showcases Indias Defence Capability, Cultural and Social Heritage.
Beating Retreat:

This is held on 29th January.

It is performed by the bands of the three wings of the military, the Indian Army, Indian Navy and
Indian Air Force.

The venue is Raisina Hill and an adjacent square, Vijay Chowk, flanked by the North and South block
of the Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidents Palace) towards the end of Rajpath.

When the President arrives, the PBG commander asks the unit to give the National Salute, which is
followed by the playing of the Indian National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana, by the Army.
About Constitution Day:

It is also known as Samvidhan Divas.

It is celebrated in India in honour of Dr.B.R. Ambedkar.

The Government of India declared 26 November as Constitution Day.

It was declared by the President Shri Narendra Modi on 11 October 2015.

Later it was made Constitution Day on 19 November 2015 by a gazette notification.

Constitution Day is not a public holiday.

Tamil Nadu government awards list

The Thiruvalluvar award will be provided to V.C. Sandhosham

Thandhai periyar award is announced for V.R. Vengan of Dharmapuri district

Annal Ambedcar award is for Ponnusamy

Perarignar Anna award is for professor Dr Farvat Regina Papa

Kamarajar award is for Doctor R. Venkatasamy

Mahakavi Bharathiyar award is for poet Ponnadiyaan

Pavendhar Bharadhidhasan award is for Dr V. Renukadevi

Tamil Thendral Thiru V. Ka award is for Dhinamani editor Vaidhyanadhan

Muthamizh kaavalar Visunadham award is for R. K. Rajaram