2020 – Tarubala Debbarma (Folk Music and Dance - Tripura) 2020 – Sang Jangmu (Folk Dance - Arunachal Pradesh) 2020 – Gafoor Khan Manganiar (Folk Music - Rajasthan) 2020 – Zachunu Keyho (Folk Music - Nagaland) 2021 – Silbi Passah (Folk Music - Meghalaya) 2021 – Durga Prasad Murmu (Folk Music and Dance - Jharkhand) 2021 – Prashanna Gogoi (Folk Music & Dance - Assam) 2021 – Gartigere Raghanna (H. N Raghavenda) (Folk Music - Karnataka) 2021 – S Samundaram (Folk Music - Tamil Nadu) 2021 – Data Ram Purohit (Folk Music & Theatre - Uttarakhand) 2021 – Mahavir Singh Guddu (Folk Music & Dance - Haryana) 2021 – N Tiken Singh (Folk Music - Manipur) 2021 – N. Sekar (Folk Music - Puducherry) 2021 – R. Murugan (Instrument Making - Tamil Nadu) Puppetry/ Mime/ Allied arts of traditional forms 1978 – Kathinanada Das (Ravanchhaya puppetry), Orissa 1979 – U. Kogga Devanna Kamath (Gombeatta puppetry), Karnataka 1980 – K.L. Krishnan Kutty Pulavar (Tholpava Koothu), Kerala 1981 – M.R. Ranganatha Rao, Karnataka 1983 – Meher Rustom Contractor, Gujarat 1987 – Suresh Dutta, West Bengal 1992 – Dadi Dorab Pudumjee, Delhi 1995 – T. Hombiah, Karnataka 1998 – Kolhacharan Sahu (Ravanchhaya puppetry), Orissa 1999 – B.H. Puttashamachar, Karanataka 2001 – Hiren Bhattacharya, Assam 2003 – Puran Bhatt, Rajasthan 2005 – Ganpat Sakharam Masge, Maharashtra 2010 – K. Chinna Anjannamma (Shadow puppetry: Tolu Bommalata), Andhra Pradesh 2010 – K.V. Ramakrishnan and K.C. Ramakrishnan (Glove puppetry: Pava Kathakali), Kerala 2012 – Prafulla Karmakar (Traditional Puppetry - West Bengal) 2013 – Lilavati M Kavi (Bajaj), Puppetry 2014 – K. Kesavasamy (Puppetry - Puducherry) 2016 – Prabhitangsu Das (Contemporary Puppetry - Tripura) 2018 – Anupama Hoskere (Classical String Puppetry of Karnataka, Bengaluru) 2020 – Meena Nayak (Puppetry - Maharashtra) Films Overall Contribution/Scholarship References External links Awards established in 1952 Civil awards and decorations of India Indian film awards Indian music awards Indian art awards Dance awards Sangeet Natak Akademi 1952 establishments in India hi:संगीत नाटक अकादमी पुरस्कार