The award is given for distinguished service in any field including service rendered by the Government servants.

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2008

Name	Place	Field
A. Sivasailam	Tamil Nadu	Trade and Industry
Dr. Adya Prasad Mishra	U.P	Literature & Education
Amitav Ghosh	U.S	Literature and Education
Ananda M. Chakrabarty	U.S	Science and Engineering
Dr. (Smt.) Ananda Shankar Jayant	Andhra Pradesh	Art
Dr. Anoop Misra	Delhi	Medicine
Dr. Ashok Kumar Hemal	Delhi	Medicine
Astad Aderbad Deboo	Maharashtra	Art
Dr. Atul Kumar	Delhi	Medicine
Dr. B. Paul Thaliath	U.P	Medicine
Dr. Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia	Gujarat	Literature and Education
Balbir Singh	Delhi	Medicine
Dr. Baldev Raj	Delhi	Science and Engineering
Bharath Balachandra Menon	Kerala	Art
Prof. Devindra Rahinwal (posthumous)	Uttarakhand	Social Work
Prof. (Dr.) Dilip K. Biswas	Delhi	Science & Engineering
Gajendra Narayan Singh	Bihar	Art
Geeta Chandran	Delhi	Art
Giriraj Kishore	U.P	Literature and Education
Rajmata Goverdan Kumarri	Gujarat	Art
Dr. Harpinder Singh Chawla	Chandigarh	Medicine
Jeev Milkha Singh	Punjab	Sports
Dr. K.R. Palaniswamy	Tamil Nadu	Medicine
Khalid Zaheer	Uttarakhand	Social Work
Dr. Kharak Singh Valdiya	Karnataka	Science and Engineering
Kiran Karnik	Delhi	Science and Engineering
Ms. Koneru Humpy	Andhra Pradesh	Sports
Dr. Lalit Pande	Uttarakhand	Environment Protection
Louis Remo Fernandes	Goa	Art
Dr. M. Mohan Babu	Andhra Pradesh	Art
Dr. Mahadev Prasad Pandey	Chhattisgarh	Literature and Education
Dr. Mahipal S. Sachdevl	Delhi	Medicine
Dr. Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa	Karnataka	Medicine
Dr. Mayilvahanan Natarajan	Tamil Nadu	Medicine
Ms. Meenakshi Gopinath	Delhi	Literature and Education
Ms. Miriam L'vovna Salganik	Russia	Literature and Education
Dr. Mohsin Wali	Delhi	Medicine
Mujtaba Hussain	Andhra Pradesh	Literature and Education
Prof. Mushirul Hassan	Delhi	Literature and Education
Ms. Naina Lal Kidwai	Maharashtra	Trade and Industry
Dr. Narmada Prasad Gupta	Delhi	Medicine
Smt. Neelamani Devi	Manipur	Art
P. Gopinathan	Kerala	Art
P.R. Thilagam	Tamil Nadu	Art
Shri Pannuru Sripathy	Andhra Pradesh	Art
Dr. Perumalsamy Namperumalsamy	Tamil Nadu	Medicine
Prof. (Smt.) Pratibha Ray	Orissa	Literature and Education
Smt. Pushpa Hans	Delhi	Art
Rabinder Gokaldas Ahuja	Maharashtra	Sea Cadet Corps Management
Rajinder Gupta	Punjab	Trade and Industry
Dr. Ravi Narayan Bastia	Maharashtra	Science and Engineering
Late Shri Ravindra Dayal	Delhi	Literature & Education
Prof. Rostislav Borisovich Rybakov	Russia	Literature and Education
Ms. Runa Banerjee	U.P	Social Work
S. Dhakshinamurthy Pillai	Tamil Nadu	Art
Sister S.M. Cyril	Ireland	Social Work
Smt. Shanti Hiranand	Delhi	Art
Smt. Shashikala Jawalkar	Maharashtra	Art
Prof. (Dr.) Shekhar Pathak	Uttarakhand	Literature and Education
Dr. Sheo Bhagwan Tibrewal	U.K	Medicine
Sonam Skalzang	Jammu & Kashmir	Art
Sonam Tshering Lepcha	Sikkim	Art
Prof. Sudhir Kumar Sopory	Haryana	Science and Engineering
Dr. Sukumar Azhikode	Kerala	Literature and Education
Shri Sushil Gupta	Delhi	Social Work
Dr.(Ms.) Syeda Saiyidain Hameed	Delhi	Public Affairs
T.S. Rangarajan alias Kavingar Vaali	Tamil Nadu	Literature and Education
Ms. Tarla Dalal	Maharashtra	Cookery
Ms. Teesta Setalvad		Public Affairs
Dr. (Smt.) Temsula Ao	Assam	Literature and Education
Dr. Thanu Padmanabhan	Maharashtra	Science and Engineering
Dr. Thekkethil Kochandy Alex	Karnataka	Science and Engineering
Thingbaijam Babu Singh	Manipur	Art
Lama Thupten Phuntsok	Arunachal Pradesh	Social Work
Valayapatti A.R. Subramaniam	Tamil Nadu	Art
Vijaydan Detha	Rajasthan	Literature and Education
Vikram Seth	U.K	Literature and Education
Waman Thakre	Madhya Pradesh	Art
Dr. Yusufkhan Mohamadkhan Pathan	Maharashtra	Literature and Education

 

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