Kerala Awards, the state-level civilian awards instituted by the Government of Kerala, emulating the Padma awards issued by the central government was announced on Thursday.

• Kerala Jyoti Award: M K Sanu (Teacher and writer)

• Kerala Prabha Award: S. Somnath (Science & Engineering)

• Kerala Prabha Award: Bhuvaneswari (Agriculture)

• Kerala Shri Award: Kalamandalam Vimala Menon

• Kerala Shri Award: Dr. TK Jayakumar (Health)

• Kerala Shri Award: Narayana Bhattathiri (Calligraphy)

• Kerala Shri Award: Sanju Vishwanath Samson (Sports)

• Kerala Shri Award: Shaija Baby (Social Service, Asha Worker)

• Kerala Shri Award: VK Mathews (Industrial- Commerce)