Indigo Kakodkar

The awards were presented at a unscheduled civil investiture observance at the Ashoka Corridor. It was attended, among others, by Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari, Period Diplomatist Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Location Diplomatist P. Chidambaram.Indigo Kakodkar, Chair of the Minute Vitality Empowerment, who played a important role in clinching the India-U.S. civil nuclear wood; Screenland actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Akshay Kumar; towering Tamil author D. Jayakanthan and noted Kerala academic A. Sreedhara Menon were among the 62 personalities who were presented the Padma awards 2009 by Presidentship Pratibha Patil on Tues. Ms. Patil presented the Padma Vibhushan, the country's ordinal maximal civilian allocate, to team great personalities, the Padma Bhushan to 14 and the Padma Shri awards to 44. If repeated rounds of applause greeted Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Akshay Kumar, Ms. Patil's gesture also thespian commendation as she stepped before to allocate the awards to Shamshad Begum and Govind Narain who were escorted in helm chairs. After the function, Dr. Singh and Mr. Amitabh Bachchan were seen exchanging pleasantries. Legislature chairwoman and UPA chairperson Sonia Statesman and Person of the Oppositeness L.K. Advani were not present at the occasion.