APPSC Panchayat Secretary Exam Paper - I Solved Paper (Exam Held on: 23-02-2014)

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An Analysis of the Indian Electorate from 1998 To 2014

A comparison of the electoral data as per the final publication of summary revision 2014 (released by the Election Commission of India on 14^th February, 2014) with that of last four General Elections (from 1998 onwards) shows that the total electorate size of the country grew by 34.45% from 605,880,192 electors in 1998 to reach 814,591,184 in 2014. This growth was 21.31% relative to an electorate size of 671,487,930 in 2004. Among the 28 states and 7 union territories, Dadra & Nagar Haveli at 53.9% registered the highest rate of growth in electorate size during the period from 2004 to 2014, next followed by Puducherry at 39.1%. Among states, West Bengal registered the highest rate of growth at 31.7%. Among all states and UTs, Andaman & Nicobar Islands registered the lowest rate of growth at 6.7%, next followed by Jammu & Kashmir at 8.9%. In absolute numbers, Uttar Pradesh registered the highest growth in electorate size relative to 2004, while Lakshadweep the lowest.

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Comparison of the Indian Electorate from 1951–1952 To 2014

A comparison of the electoral data as per the final publication of summary revision 2014 (released by the Election Commission of India on 14^th February, 2014) with that of previous General Elections shows that the total electorate size of the country grew from 173,212,343 electors in the 1st General Elections of 1951 – 1952 to become 814,591,184 in 2014 - more than 4.7 times the figure in 1951 – ’52. Relative to 1971 (the year since when the sex-wise break-up of electors is available), the size of the total electorate grew by 197.1% or became 2.97 times. Further, both the number of male electors and the number of female electors became 2.97 times of their respective numbers in 1971. The proportion of female electors in the Indian electorate has showed little variation since 1971, always hovering between 47.4% and 48.0%.

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Cabinet approved the setting up Equal Opportunities Commission

Union Cabinet approved the setting up of an Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) on 20 February 2014. The proposal for EOC was made by the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs on the recommendations of the Justice Sachar Committee on Social, Economic and Educational Status of Muslim Community in India.

The Equal Opportunities Commission will address the grievances of people from the minority communities when minorities are discriminated against by government agencies. Its role is advisory in nature and will have no jurisdiction over private agencies.

EOC is a three-member body and will be headed by a retired judge of the High Court. It will not have any powers to impose penalties.

Cabinet approved Odia as Classical Language

Union Cabinet on 20 February 2014 gave its nod for classifying Odia, the official language of Odisha as a classical language to give impetus to scholarships in the language. Odia is the first language from the Indo-Aryan linguistic group to be billed in the list of classical language. The proposal to give Odia a status of classical language was moved by the Culture Ministry.

Odia being one of the oldest languages has been declared as classical language because of the demands and also because it has no resemblance to Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Sanskrit. Odia is the sixth language to become the classical language of the country.Other languages that have been declared as the classical languages are Tamil in 2004, Sanskrit in 2005, Telugu in 2008, Kannada in 2008 and Malayalam in 2013 of which four are Dravidian languages.

National Skill Development Agency (NSDA)

The National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) is an autonomous body, with functions, inter-alia, including, taking all possible steps to meet skilling targets as envisaged in the 12th Five Year Plan and beyond and coordinating and harmonizing the approach to skill development in the country. The Agency has undertaken a number of activities, inter-alia, including facilitating the operationalisation of National Skills Qualification Framework; setting up of a committee for rationalisation of Central Government Schemes on skill development; commencing work on creating and maintaining a national database relating to skill development including development of a dynamic labour market informational system and creating online education resources. NSDA is also engaging with States Skill Development Missions for enabling them to converge efforts across State Ministries and advising them to develop their plans for increasing vocational training capacity in the State. 

NSDA is an agency that is mandated to coordinate the skilling effort of the Government of India (GOI). NSDA has informed that a target of skilling 73.42 lakh persons was set for the year 2013-14 by GOI Ministries and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and 49.16 lakh persons have been skilled till December, 2013. 

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Bifurcation of the State of Andhra Pradesh

INDIA BUDGET 2014-15

Leaving direct taxes untouched, finance minister P Chidambaram on February 17 slashed excise duty on cars, SUVs and two-wheelers, and capital goods and consumer durables to boost manufacturing and growth. Presenting the interim Union Budget for 2014-15, he also provided service tax exemption for storage and warehousing of rice like it was done in case of paddy last year. Also, blood banks have been exempted from its purview. 

Highlights of the Budget:

• * Fiscal deficit for current fiscal to be 4.6%
• * Revenue deficit estimated at 3% for current fiscal
• * 140m people lifted out of poverty in last 10 years
• * Excise duty on SUVs cut from 30 to 24%, in large and mid-segment cars from 27-24% to 24-20%
• * Excise duty on small cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles cut from 12% to 8%; appropriate cut to be done on chassis, trailers
• * A Rs 100 crore scheme formulated to promote community radio stations
• * RBI must strike a balance between growth and moderating inflation, Chidambaram says
• * We must focus on manufacturing, specially manufacturing for exports: Chidambaram
• * I am disappointed that we could not introduce GST: Chidambaram
• * No changes in tax laws in interim budget
• * Govt has obtained information in 67 cases of illegal offshore accounts of Indians: Chidambaram
• * Excise duty cut from 12 to 10 per cent in capital goods sector to stimulate growth
• * Excise duty on mobile handset to be 6% on CENVAT credit to encourage domestic production
• * Service tax relief storage for warehousing for rice
• * Blood banks to be exempt from service tax
• * Rs 500 crore estimated requirement for implementing one-rank-one-pay scheme for armed forces in 2014-15
• * Rs 6000 crore to rural housing fund, Rs 2000 crore for urban housing fund
• * Minority bank accounts have swelled to 43,53,000 by 2013-14 from 14,15,000 bank accounts 10 years ago
• * Rs 3711 crore for minority affairs; housing and urban poverty alleviation gets Rs 6000 crore
• * Social justice ministry gets Rs 6730 crore; panchayati raj ministry Rs 7000 crore
• * Moratorium on interest on student loans taken before March 31, 2009; to benefit 9 lakh borrowers
• * Public Debt Management Bill ready
• * Fiscal deficit target of 3% to be achieved by 2017
• * Fiscal deficit to be contained at 4.6% of GDP in 2013-14.
• * CAD will be $45 billion in 2013-14
• * Foreign exchange reserves up by $15 billion
• * Foodgrain production estimated at 263 million tons in 2013-14
• * Agriculture credit will cross $45 billion against $41 billion in 2012-13
• * 296 projects worth Rs 6,60,000 crore cleared by Cabinet Committee on Investment by end January 2014
• * Merchandise export to grow by 6.8% to $326 billion
• * 3 more industrial corridors — Chennai-Bangalore, Bangalore-Mumbai, Amritsar-Kolkata — under various stages of implementation
• * GDP growth rate in Q3 and Q4 of 2013-14 will be at least 5.2%
• * Declining fiscal deficit, moderation of CAD, stable exchange rate and increase in project implementation result of hardwork
• * Power capacity rises to 234,600 MW in 10 years
• * Expenditure on education has risen from Rs 10,145 crore 10 years ago to Rs 79,251 crore this year
• * Sugar decontrol, gradual correction of diesel prices, application for new bank licenses, sick electricity distribution companies restructured
• * Average growth under UPA's ten year rule was 6.2 per cent against 5.9 during NDA period of 1999-2004
• * Average growth under UPA-I was 8.4 per cent and UPA-II 6.6 per cent
• * PSUs to achieve record capex of Rs 2,57,645 crore in 2013-14
• * 500 MW fast breeder nuclear reaction in Kalpakkam to be ready shortly; 7 nuclear power reactors under construction
• * National Solar Mission to undertake 4 ultra mega solar power projects in 2014-15
• * Rs 1,200 crore additional assistance to N-E states to be released before end of the year
• * Rs 1,000 crore grant for Nirbhaya Fund will be non-lapsable; another Rs 1,000 crore to be given next fiscal
• * Rs 3,370 crore to transferred to 2.1 crore LPG users
• * Govt committed to Aadhaar-based LPG transfer but scheme on hold temporarily
• * Aadhaar is tool for empowerment
• * Non-plan expenditure to exceed by a small amount in 2013-14
• * 500 MW fast breeder test reactor in Kalpakkam to be ready shortly; 7 nuclear power reactors under construction
• * Plan expenditure will be Rs 5,55,322 crore in 2014-15, unchanged from last fiscal
• * Budgetary support to railways increased from Rs 26,000 crore to Rs 29,000 crore 2014-15
• * Rs 2,46,397 crore allocated for food, fertilizer and fuel subsidy
• * Food subsidy will be Rs 1,15,000 crore for implementation of National Food Security Act
• * Defence allocation increased by 10 per cent to Rs 2.24 lakh crore

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Afghan capital Kabul reported First polio case since 2001

The Capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, reported its first case of polio since 2001 on 11 February 2014. The three-year-old from a nomadic family living on the northeastern edge of the city contracted the disease.
 After detecting the first case, Afghanistan has launched an emergency polio vaccination campaign in Kabul.
The highly contagious polio virus remains endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but Kabul city has not had reported case since the Taliban regime was ousted by a US-led invasion in 2001. 
The polio strain in the Pakistan and Afghanistan is identical. Around 1.5 million children crossed the frontier every year, which causes cross-border transmission. Nearly all of the cases in Afghanistan in 2013 were in regions close to the Pakistan border.

Since the Afghan Taliban changed their policy, allowing vaccination in recent years, there has been a decline in cases in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has deployed health workers at the border crossings, attempting to monitor all children who cross, and vaccinating those at risk.
Besides Afghanistan and Pakistan, Nigeria is the only other country in the world where polio is still endemic. In all the three countries Islamic extremists have obstructed health workers, preventing polio eradication campaigns from taking place.

Canada announced to open Consulate General in Bangalore

Canada announced to open a Consulate General Office in Bangalore on 11 February 2014. The office of the Consulate General of Canada will be located at the World Trade Centre in the Bangalore.  The office of Consulate General will work on the supervision of Visa and Immigration services. The services will be offered for the entire South India. That is, the new office is supposed to cater to the needs of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. According to officials in the High Commission of Canada, the services are expected to commence by April 2014.   This would be the third office in India; the first two were in Mumbai and Chandigarh. Canada has a consulate in Chennai and trade offices in Ahmadabad, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Canada first established its Trade Office in Bangalore in 1996. The Consulate General is expected to reinforce Canada’s strong commercial relations and make future business easier providing immigration and visa services, according to a statement from the High Commission. Indian citizens have been eyeing at abroad education for higher studies, and thus the new Consulate General would aid the students from South India to come in terms with the admission procedure to Canadian educational institutions. 

India ranked 8th in demand for digital governance

India was ranked 8th in the list of ten countries in terms of digital governance. The report on digital governance was released by Accenture on 11 February 2014.

The list was topped by Singapore followed by Norway and UAE at second and third place respectively.

The report revealed the demand for the digital governance is rising in India and emerging economies which will enhance efficiency and output. In India the Government embarked on e- Governance model and the infrastructure which would pay the dividends in the long run.

The report is based on survey of 5000 respondents in ten countries including Brazil, Germany, India, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the Unitied Kingdom and the United States.

According to the report, high-performing digital governments are:

• Focusing on their digital strategy, which is deeply embedded in the government agenda and public reforms.
• Continuing long-term investment in key information and communication technology (ICT) assets and the digitalization of core public services, such as taxation, pensions and healthcare.
• Leveraging the power of new technologies, such as social media, mobility, analytics, big data and cloud computing.
• Connected across agency boundaries and have a strong culture of collaboration and data sharing.

Millennium Development Goals - India Country Report 2014

Former SC Justice Mathur to head 7th Central Pay Commission

Former Supreme Court judge and retired chairman of Armed Forces Tribunal Ashok Kumar Mathur has been appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission. The Commission has been mandated to submit its report in 19 months and its recommendations would be put into action from January 1, 2016.

The constitution of the commission will benefit about 50 lakh central government employees, including defence and railways, and about 30 lakh pensioners. But, on the other hand, it would significantly increase the fiscal burden of the centre and state governments. Implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission increased salaries by 21% resulting in an additional annual outgo of nearly Rs.18,000 crore for the Union government, besides a pay out of arrears of Rs.30,000 crore.

Besides Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, the commission’s full-time member will be Petroleum and Natural Gas Secretary Vivek Rae and part-time member will be Rathin Roy, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and Meena Agarwal (OSD, Department of Expenditure) its secretary.

The 101st Indian Science Congress begins at Jammu

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the 101st Indian Science Congress held at Jammu University from 3rd to 7th February with focal theme “Innovations in Science and Technology for Inclusive Development”. While inaugurating the five-day event Prime Minister pitches for more funds to promote science. Further he added that the country's annual expenditure on science and technology should be at least two per cent of the GDP.

In his inaugural address at the 101st Indian Science Congress in Jammu, the Prime Minister also said that India is joining the CERN, a premiere European Organisation for Nuclear Research, as an associate member.

The Prime Minister also announced a National Mission on High Performance Computing with an outlay of Rs 4500 crore. To ensure food security and to improve and water productivity, we have to launch a national drive for an ever-green revolution." Singh also announced institution of 25 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowships, under which eminent scientists from abroad will be invited to work in India for 12 months over a period of three years.

Under this initiative, the government will give 1 lakh USD for three years to the fellows. The government has already selected five scientists, who are also the Fellows of the Royal Society, London, under this scheme.

The Prime Minister also urged scientists to learn from the past and connect with the present and focus on the future.

This is the first time that the Indian Science Congress is being held in Jammu. Delegates from more than 65 countries participated in it along with numerous scientific institutions from across the country.

VRO SOLVED PAPER 2014

VRA QUESTION PAPER 2014

PM launchesNational Waqf Development Corporation

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated National Waqf Development Corporation (NAWADCO) in New Delhi. Government has established NAWADCO for the development of waqf properties for the benefit of the Muslim community.

This Corporation has been established with an authorized share capital of Rs.500 Crore. It will facilitate and mobilize financial resources for setting up of facilities like schools, colleges, hospitals on waqf properties for community purposes in a transparent manner.

NAWADCO will facilitate and mobilize financial resources for the development of Waqf properties for community development purposes in a joint venture with the State / Union Territory Waqf Boards and the Mutawallis. The Waqf Boards and the Muthawallis were not having the financial resources to develop the properties leading to encroachments.

There are more than 4.9 lakh registered waqf properties in India today which fetch an annual income of about Rs.163 crore. Many of these properties have the potential of generating considerable returns, which in turn could be used for the socio-economic development of the Muslim community. As per the estimates of the Sachar Committee, if these properties are properly developed, they could fetch an annual income of about Rs. 12000 crore, assuming an annual return of 10 percent on the value of the property. It is this vast potential that NAWADCO will strive to realize.

Government has also recently amended the Waqf Act. The amendments are expected to bring transparency in administration of waqf properties and provide an enabling environment for the development and utilization of waqf lands to the benefit of the Muslim community.

The amended Act has particularly strengthened the role of Central Waqf Council (CWC), which was established to advise the Government on matters pertaining to the working of State Waqf Boards and proper administration of waqf properties. The Council is now empowered to issue directives to State Waqf Boards on their performance, particularly on their financial performance, survey of waqf properties, maintenance of waqf deeds, and prevention of encroachment of waqf properties.

Keeping in view the need to prevent their alienation, ‘Sale’, ‘Gift’, ‘Mortgage’ and ‘Exchange’ of waqf properties have been made void ab initio. The process of leasing of waqf properties has been made transparent.

UNESCO released 11th EFA Global Monitoring Report 2013-14

UNESCO released the 11th Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2013 – 14 on 28 January 2014. The theme of the report was Teaching and Learning: Achieving quality for all. 
The report warns that despite advances made in education, not a single goal laid down in Dakar, Senegal in 2000 will be achieved globally by 2015.

The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2013-14 vividly underlines the fact that people in the most marginalized groups have continued to be denied opportunities for education over the decade. The Report has advocated to put in place a robust global post-2015 education framework to tackle unfinished business while addressing new challenges. 

It further said that post-2015 education goals will only be achieved if they are accompanied by clear, measurable targets with indicators tracking that no one is left behind, and if specific education financing targets for governments and aid donors are set.

The Main Highlights of the Report

Goal 1: Pre-primary Education: Despite improvements, far too many children lack early childhood care and education. In 2012, 25% of children under-5 suffered from stunting. In 2011, around half of young children had access to pre-primary education, and in sub-Saharan Africa the share was only 18%.

Goal 2: Universal Primary Education: Universal primary education is likely to be missed by a wide margin. The number of children out of school was 57 million in 2011, half of whom lived in conflict-affected countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, only 23% of poor girls in rural areas were completing primary education by the end of the decade. If recent trends in the region continue, the richest boys will achieve universal primary completion in 2021, but the poorest girls will not catch up until 2086.

Goal 3: Lower Secondary Education: Many adolescents lack foundation skills gained through lower secondary education. In 2011, 69 million adolescents were out of school, with little improvement in this number since 2004. In low income countries, only 37% of adolescents completed lower secondary education, and the rate is as low as 14% for the poorest. On recent trends, girls from the poorest families in sub-Saharan Africa are only expected to achieve lower secondary completion in 2111.

Goal 4: Adult Literacy: Adult literacy has hardly improved. In 2011, there were 774 million illiterate adults, a decline of just 1% since 2000. The number is projected to fall only slightly, to 743 million, by 2015. Almost two-thirds of illiterate adults are women. The poorest young women in developing countries may not achieve universal literacy until 2072.

Goal 5: Primary Education Gender Disparity: Gender disparities remain in many countries. Even though gender parity was supposed to be achieved by 2005, in 2011 only 60% of countries had achieved this goal at the primary level and 38% at the secondary level.

Goal 6: Lower Secondary Education Gender Parity: Poor quality of education means millions of children are not learning the basics. Around 250 million children are not learning basic skills, even though half of them have spent at least four years in school. The annual cost of this failure is around 129 billion dollars. The key to improve gender parity in lower secondary education is investing in teachers. In around a third of countries, less than 75% of primary school teachers are trained according to national standards. And in a third of countries, the challenge of training existing teachers is worse than that of recruiting and training new teachers.

Global Monitoring Report and India

According to the Report, in India there are two issues i.e. access and quality. While the Right to Education (Act) has almost taken care of the access part, the government next target is to now focus on improving quality.

The main highlights of the Report in context of India are:

•    In India, education accounts for 10.5% of the total government expenditure which is 3.3% of the GNP (gross national product). 
•    The expenditure on education was below the target of 6%. In fact the spending on education has declined over the period 1999 – 2011. The decline was witnessed in both terms, that is, as a percentage of budgeted expenditure an as a percentage of GNP. In 1999, the spending on education was 13% of the total budgeted expenditure and 4.4% of the GNP.
•    India has the highest population of illiterate adults, 287 million which is 37% of the total population of such people across the world.
•    In India, even after completing four years of school, 90% of children from poorer household remain illiterate. 
•    The UN body has advised countries including India to improve their tax regimes so as to provide more funds to the education sector.
•    In India, rich young women have already achieved universal literacy but the poorest will only do so around 2080.
•    Allocation for education in India varies widely across states. The expenditure of Kerala on education on per pupil was about 685 dollar per year while in Himachal Pradesh it was 542 dollar. In contrast, in West Bengal it was 127 dollar and in Bihar 100 dollar.

An Analysis

This 11th EFA Global Monitoring Report provides a timely update on progress that countries are making towards the global education goals that were agreed in 2000. It also makes a powerful case for placing education at the heart of the global development agenda after 2015. In 2008, the EFA Global Monitoring Report asked – ‘will we make it?’ With less than two years left before 2015, this Report makes it clear that we will not.

In this light Report calls on Governments to redouble efforts to provide learning to all who face disadvantages – whether from poverty, gender, where they live or other factors. Besides, governments must step up efforts to recruit an additional 1.6 million teachers to achieve universal primary education by 2015.  Consequently the Report has identified four strategies to provide the best teachers to reach all children with a good quality education.

First, the right teachers must be selected to reflect the diversity of the children they will be teaching.

Second, teachers must be trained to support the weakest learners, starting from the early grades.

Third, overcome inequalities in learning by allocating the best teachers to the most challenging parts of a country.

Fourth, governments must provide teachers with the right mix of incentives to encourage them to remain in the profession and to make sure all children are learning, regardless of their circumstances.

But teachers cannot shoulder the responsibility alone. The Report shows also that teachers can only shine in the right context, with well-designed curricula and assessment strategies to improve teaching and learning.

These policy changes have a cost. This is why we need to see a dramatic shift in funding. Basic education is currently underfunded by 26 billion dollars a year, while aid is continuing to decline. At this stage, governments simply cannot afford to reduce investment in education – nor should donors step back from their funding promises. This calls for exploring new ways to fund urgent needs.

About the Global Monitoring Report

The Education for All Global Monitoring Report was established in 2000 at Dakar in Senegal. The main objective of the Report is to inform, influence and sustain commitment to achieving the Education for All goals by 2015.

At the UNESCO Summit in April 2000, 1100 participants from 164 countries adopted the Dakar Framework for Action, Education for All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments. These participants agreed upon six wide-ranging education goals to be met by 2015.

India ranked lowest in International Intellectual Property Index

US Chamber of Commerce released the International Intellectual Property (IP) Index on 28 January 2014. In the IP Index, India has scored a low seven point out of maximum 30 points. India continues to have the weakest IP environment of all countries included in the GIPC Index for the second consecutive year.

The continued use of compulsory licenses, patent revocations, and weak legislative and enforcement mechanisms raise serious concerns about India’s commitment to promote innovation and protect creators.

Other highlights of the IP Index:

• The United States received the highest (28.5 percent) overall score, but came in third after the United Kingdom and France in the enforcement category.
• China IIP environment continued to see challenges (trade secret protection and enforcement) and it shows improvements in certain aspects of its patent regime.
• Canada’s treatment of pharmaceutical patents, copyright laws, and unwillingness to ratify international IP treaties resulted in significantly lower scores than other upper-income economies.

International IP Index is prepared by the Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) of the US Chamber of Commerce which maps the IP environment of 25 countries from around the world utilising 30 factors, which are indicative of an IP environments that fosters growth and development.

Comment:

In 2010, the then-President of India declared the next 10 years to be India’s “Decade of Innovation.” Promoting innovation means protecting domestic innovators and creators, attracting world-class research and development, and creating and sustaining high-quality future jobs through a robust intellectual property (IP) system. However, recent policy, regulatory, and legal decisions have deteriorated IP rights in the country, making India an outlier in the international community.

UPA GOVT. 10 YEARS PROGRESS

Padma Awards 2014

The President of India has approved conferment of 127 Padma Awards including one duo case (counted as one) as per the list below. The list comprises two Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 101 Padma Shri Awardees. 27 of the Awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and Posthumous 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 various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘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. The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan sometime around March/ April.

Padma Vibhushan

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
2.	Shri B.K.S. Iyengar	Others-Yoga	Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
	Prof. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh	Art - Painting	Gujarat
	Begum Parveen Sultana	Art - Classical Singing	Maharashtra
	Shri T.H. Vinayakram	Art - Ghatam Artist	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Kamala 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
	Ms. Anita Desai	Literature and Education	Delhi
	Dr. Dhirubhai Thaker	Literature and Education	Gujarat
	Shri Vairamuthu Ramasamy Thevar	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Ruskin Bond	Literature and Education	Uttarakhand
	Shri Pullela Gopichand	Sports - Badminton	Andhra Pradesh
	Shri Leander Paes	Sports - Tennis	Maharashtra
	Shri 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

Padma Shri

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
	Shri Mohammad Ali Baig	Art - Theatre	Andhra Pradesh
	Ms. Nayana Apte Joshi	Art -	Maharashtra
	Shri Musafir Ram Bhardwaj	Art - Instrumental Music - Pauna Manjha	Himachal Pradesh
	Ms. Sabitri Chatterjee	Art - Film	West Bengal
	Prof. Biman Bihari Das	Art - Sculptor	Delhi
	Shri Sunil Das	Art - Painting	West Bengal
	Smt. Elam Endira Devi	Art - Manipuri Dance	Manipur
	Shri Vijay Ghate	Art - Instrumental Music - Tabla	Maharashtra
	Smt Rani Karnaa	Art - Kathak	West Bengal
	Shri Bansi Kaul	Art - Theatre	Jammu & Kashmir
	Ustad Moinuddin Khan	Art - Instrumental Music-Sarangi Player	Rajasthan
	Ms. Geeta Mahalik	Art - Odishi Dance	Delhi
	Shri Paresh Maity	Art - Painting	Delhi
	Shri Ram Mohan	Art - Film Animation	Maharashtra
	Shri Sudarsan Pattnaik	Art - Sand Artist	Orissa
	Shri Paresh Rawal	Art - Cinema and Theatre	Maharashtra
	Shri Wendell Augustine Rodricks	Art - Fashion Designing	Goa
	Prof. Kalamandalam Sathyabhama	Art – Mohini Attam	Kerala
	Shri Anuj (Ramanuj) Sharma	Art - Performing Art	Chhattisgarh
	Shri Santosh Sivan	Art - Film	Tamil Nadu
	Ms. Supriya Devi	Art-Bengali Cinema	West Bengal
	Ms. Sooni Taraporevala	Art- Script Writing	Maharashtra
	Ms. Vidya Balan	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
	Smt. Durga Jain	Social Work	Maharashtra
	Dr. Rama Rao Anumolu	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
	Dr. Brahm Dutt	Social Work	Haryana
	Shri Mukul Chandra Goswami	Social Work	Assam
	Shri J.L. Kaul	Social Work	Delhi
	Shri Mathurbhai Madhabhai Savani	Social Work	Gujarat
	Shri Tashi Tondup	Public Affairs	Jammu and Kashmir
	Dr. Hasmukh Chamanlal Shah	Public Affairs	Gujarat
	Shri Sekhar Basu	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
	Shri Madhavan Chandradathan	Science and Engineering	Kerala
	Prof. Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta	Science and Engineering	West Bengal
	Dr. Ravi Bhushan Grover	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
	Prof. Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
	Shri Ramkrishna V. Hosur	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
	Dr. Ajay Kumar Parida	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
	Dr. Malapaka Yajneswara Satyanarayana Prasad	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
	Shri Kiran Kumar Alur Seelin	Science and Engineering	Gujarat
	Dr. Brahma Singh	Science and Engineering	Delhi
	Prof. Vinod Kumar Singh	Science and Engineering	Madhya Pradesh
	Dr. Govindan Sundararajan	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
	Ramaswamy R. Iyer	Science and Engineering	Delhi
	Dr. Jayanta Kumar Ghosh	Science and Engineering	West Bengal
	Shri Ravi Kumar Narra	Trade and Industry	Andhra Pradesh
	Shri Rajesh Saraiya	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
	Ms. Mallika Srinivasan	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Pratap Govindrao Pawar	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
	Dr. Kiritkumar Mansukhlal Acharya	Medicine - Dermatology	Gujarat
	Dr. Balram Bhargava	Medicine - Cardiology	Uttar Pradesh
	Prof. (Dr.) Indra Chakravarty	Medicine - Health & Hygiene	West Bengal
	Dr. Ramakant Krishnaji Deshpande	Medicine - Oncology	Maharashtra
	Prof. (Dr.) Pawan Raj Goyal	Medicine - Chest Disease	Haryana
	Prof. Amod Gupta	Medicine - Opthalmology	Haryana
	Prof. (Dr.) Daya Kishore Hazra	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
	Prof. (Dr.) Thenumgal Poulose Jacob	Medicine - Vascular Surgery	Tamil Nadu
	Prof. (Dr.) Shashank R. Joshi	Medicine - Endocrinology	Maharashtra
	Prof. Hakim Syed Khaleefathullah	Medicine - Unani Medicine	Tamil Nadu
	Dr. Milind Vasant Kirtane	Medicine - ENT Surgeory	Maharashtra
	Dr. Lalit Kumar	Medicine - oncology	Delhi
	Dr. Mohan Mishra	Medicine	Bihar
	Dr. M. Subhadra Nair	Medicine - Gyneacology	Kerala
	Dr. Ashok Panagariya	Medicine - Neurology	Rajasthan
	Dr. Narendra Kumar Pandey	Medicine - Surgery	Haryana
	Dr. Sunil Pradhan	Medicine - Neurology	Uttar Pradesh
	Dr. Ashok Rajgopal	Medicine - Orthopaedics	Delhi
	Dr. Kamini A. Rao	Medicine - Reproductive Medicine	Karnataka
	Dr. Sarbeswar Sahariah	Medicine - Surgery	Andhra Pradesh
	Prof. Om Prakash Upadhyaya	Medicine -	Punjab
	Prof. (Dr.) Mahesh Verma	Medicine - Dental Science	Delhi
	Dr. J.S. Titiyal	Medicine- Opthalmology	Delhi
	Dr. Nitish Naik	Medicine- Cardiology	Delhi
	Dr. Surbrat Kumar Acharya	Medicine- Gastroentrology	Delhi
	Dr. Rajesh Kumar Grover	Medicine-Oncology	Delhi
	Dr. Naheed Abidi	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
	Prof. Ashok Chakradhar	Literature and Education	Delhi
	Shri Chhakchhuak Chhuanvawra	Literature and Education	Mizoram
	Shri Keki N. Daruwalla	Literature and Education	Delhi
	Prof. Ganesh Narayandas Devi	Literature and Education	Gujarat
	Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
	Prof. (Dr.) Ved Kumari Ghai	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
	Smt. Manorama Jafa	Literature and Education	Delhi
	Prof. Rehana Khatoon	Literature and Education	Delhi
	Dr. Waikhom Gojen Meeitei	Literature and Education	Manipur
	Shri Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri	Literature and Education	Kerala
	Prof. Dinesh Singh	Literature and Education	Delhi
	Dr. (Mrs.) P. Kilemsungla	Literature and Education	Nagaland
	Ms. Anjum Chopra	Sports - Cricket	Delhi
	Ms. Sunil Dabas	Sports - Kabbadi	Haryana
	Shri Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu	Sports - Mountaineering	Delhi
	Ms. Dipika Rebecca Pallikal	Sports - Squash	Tamil Nadu
	Shri H. Boniface Prabhu	Sports - Wheelchair Tennis	Karnataka
	Shri Yuvraj Singh	Sports - Cricket	Haryana
	Smt. Mamta Sodha	Sports - Mountaineering	Haryana
	Ms Parveen Talha	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
	Late Dr. Narendra Achyut Dabholkar	Social Work	Maharashtra#
	Shri Ashok Kumar Mago	Trade and Industry	USA*
	Dr. Siddharth Mukherjee	Medicine-Oncology	USA*
	Dr. Vamsi Mootha	Medicine - Biomedical Research	USA*
	Dr. Sengaku Mayeda	Literature and Education	Japan*

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

            # indicates awardees in the posthumous category.

            $ indicates one duo case. (treated as one award.)