NEW DELHI: The President has approved the conferment of 108 Padma Awards. These comprise 4 Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 80 Padma Shri Awards on Friday. 24 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 people in the category of Foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and Posthumous awardees.

PDF of complete list of 2013 Padma awardees

Noted physicist Yash Pal and space scientist Roddam Narasimha were chosen the second highest civilian honour — Padma Vibhushan. Batting great Rahul Dravid and Olympic bronze medallist MC Mary Kom and recently-deceased Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna were named for the prestigious Padma Bhushan award — the third highest civilian award of the country.

Renowned sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra and painter S Haider Raza were chosen for Padma Vibhushan. The list of 108 Padma awardees for this year also includes actress Sridevi, actors Nana Patekar and Malayalam star Madhu of Chemmeen fame and Olympians Yogeshwar Dutt and Vijay Kumar .

Nobody was named for Bharat Ratna for this year too. The last awardee was late Bhimsen Joshi in 2008.

Satirist Jaspal Bhatti, who died in a road accident last year, film maker D Rama Naidu, noted South Indian playback singer S Janaki, Bharatnatyam dancer Saroja Vaidyanathan, missile scientist Dr A Sivathanu Pillai of BrahMos programme, Industrialist Adi Godrej and R Tyagarajan, former bureaucrat M K Bhan were among the 24 Padma Bhushan awardees.

In all four personalities were awarded Padma Vibhushan, 24 for Padma Bhushan and 80 Padma Shri. Of the awardees 24 are women, 11 belong to the category of foreigners, NRI, PIOs and posthumous.

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

