Tagore Ratna and Tagore Puraskar

Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Ratna and Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Puraskar were given at special events organised by Sangeet Natak Akademi in
 * Kolkata – Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Samman on 25 April 2012
 * Chennai – Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Samman on 2 May 2012.

Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Ratna is equivalent to Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship and Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Puruskar is equivalent to Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. These were one time awards conferred on the occasion to commemorate 150 birthday of Rabindranath Tagore

Music

 * Laxman Krishnarao Pandit
 * Zia Fariduddin Dagar
 * Ghulam Mustafa Khan
 * Prabha Atre
 * Vanraj Bhatia
 * Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
 * Ram Narayan
 * Sabri Khan
 * Buddhadev Das Gupta
 * Nedunuri Krishna Murthy
 * Sripada Pinakapani
 * R. K. Sreekanthan
 * M.S. Gopalakrishnan
 * Natesan Ramani
 * Vellore G. Ramabhadran
 * Guruvayur Dorai
 * Kartar Singh

Dance

 * Vyjayantimala Bali
 * Kalanidhi Narayanan
 * M. K. Saroja
 * Kumudini Lakhia
 * Mayadhar Raut
 * Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai
 * Pasumarthy Venugapala Krishna Sarma
 * Maya Rao
 * Amala Shankar
 * P.K. Narayanan Nambiar

Theatre

 * Mohit Chattopadhyaya
 * Satya Dev Dubey
 * Vijaya Mehta
 * Rajinder Nath
 * Rudraprasad Sengupta
 * Alyque Padamsee
 * Soumitra Chatterjee
 * R. Nagarathnamma
 * V. Ramamurthy

Traditional/Folk/Tribal/Dance/Music/Theatre and Puppetry

 * Satguru Jagjit Singh Namdhari
 * Gurcharan Singh Ragi
 * Kartar Singh
 * Yamunabai Waikar
 * Lalit Chandra Ojha
 * Arghya Sen
 * G Gourakishore Sharma
 * T. R. Kamala Murthy
 * Birendranath Datta
 * Sonam Tshering Lepcha

Overall Contribution/Scholarship

 * B. Rajanikanta Rao
 * Laxmi Narayan Garg
 * B. N. Goswamy
 * M. Nagabhushana Sarma
 * P. V. Krishnamurthy

Music

 * Shankar Lal Mishra - Hindustani
 * Sunanda Patnaik - Hindustani
 * Ganesh Prasad Sharma -	Hindustani
 * Amiya Ranjan Banerjee - Hindustani
 * Shrikrishna Savlaram Haldankar - Hindustani
 * Faiyaz Khan - Hindustani Instrumental
 * Tanjavur Sankara Iyer - Carnatic
 * R Visweswaran	- Carnatic Instrumental
 * Mayavaram Saraswathi -	Carnatic Instrumental
 * KumarPillai Velukutty Nair - Carnatic Instrumental
 * K. Chellaiah - Carnatic Instrumental
 * S.R.G. Rajanna	- Carnatic Instrumental
 * Karam Chaoba Singh - Other Major Traditions of Music

Dance

 * S. Swaminathan - Bharatnatyam
 * N.S. Jayalakshmi - Bharatnatyam
 * Rajee Narayan - Bharatnatyam
 * Chemencerri Kuniraman Nair - Kathakali
 * Nattuvan Paramasiva Menon - Kathakali
 * Devjani Chaliha - Manipuri
 * Bhagavatula Yagna Narayan Sarma - Kuchipudi
 * Ritha Devi Mukhopadhyaya - Odissi
 * Haricharan Saikia - Sattriya
 * Patraayani Sangeetha Rao - Music for Dance
 * Bhagavatula Seetarama Sarma - Music for Dance

Theatre

 * Bijoy Kumar Mishra
 * K. M. Raghavan Nambiar
 * Madhukar Toradmal
 * Jalabala Vaidya & Gopal Sharman (Joint Award)
 * Prasad Sawkar
 * Chatla Sreeramulu
 * Sushma Seth
 * Jayamala Jayaram Shiledar

Traditional/Folk/Tribal/Dance/Music/Theatre and Puppetry

 * Ali Mohamad Bhagat
 * Zahoor Mir
 * Sumitra Sen
 * Mahipatray Kavi
 * Hira Lal Yadav
 * Abungbam Kabui
 * Bishwa Bandhu
 * Ramsahaya Pandey
 * Radha Krishna Kadam
 * Gambhari Devi
 * Sademmeren Longkumer
 * Anusuya Devi
 * Gopiram Borgayan

Overall Contribution/Scholarship

 * M. L. Varadpande
 * B M Sundaram
 * Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere
 * Raja Mrigendra SIngh
 * Nilamadhab Panigrahi