page_title: List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009)
section_title: Recipients
hierarchical_section_title: List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009) / Recipients
caption_attribution_description: English: Headshot
context_page_description: The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service of a high order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The recipients receive a Sanad, a certificate signed by the President of India and a circular-shaped medallion with no monetary association. The recipients are announced every year on Republic Day and registered in The Gazette of India—a publication used for official government notices and released weekly by the Department of Publication, under the Ministry of Urban Development. The conferral of the award is not considered official without its publication in the Gazette. The names of recipients whose awards have been revoked or restored, both of which processes require the authority of the president, are archived and they are required to surrender their medal when their name is struck from the register; none of the conferments of Padma Bhushan during 2000–2009 have been revoked or restored.
caption: Sam Pitroda (awarded in 2009) was an adviser to the Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations. He was also appointed as a Chairman of National Knowledge Commission (2005–2009).[30]
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