Padma Awards 2010

133 eminent personalities from different fields have been conferred with the country’s most important civilian awards, the Padma Awards. This includes 10 Padma Vibhushan, 30 Padma Bhushan and 93 Padma Shree.

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair, noted environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna, prominent social activist Sister Nirmala and Ashok S Ganguly, a member of the PM's Council on Trade and Industry are among the ten recipients of Padma Vibhushan.

Thirty persons were awarded with Padma Bhushan. Most important among them are India’s first Olympic Gold medalist Abhinav Bindra, technocrat and chairman of the National Knowledge Commission Sam Pitroda, journalist Shekhar Gupta, historian Ramchandra Guha, Lt Gen (retd) Satish Nambiar.

The list of Padma Shree awards includes some popular names including team India skipper M S Dhoni, cricketer Harbhajan Singh, snooker and billiards player Pankaj Advani, Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Helen, composer Hridaynath Mangeshkar and singers Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan and Penaz Masani.

Earlier the country’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna has been conferred on noted 86-year-old Indian classical vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.