Who among the following was NOT a member of Padma Awards Committee, 2024?

The Padma Awards Committee is reconstituted every year by the Ministry of Home Affairs to screen and recommend candidates for that year's Padma Awards. It is headed by the Cabinet Secretary and includes a few ex-officio government members plus a set of eminent persons appointed specifically for that year's cycle -- so committee membership is tied to a particular year, not a permanent or lifetime position.

Checking the officially notified Padma Awards Committee-2024 (Ministry of Home Affairs notification) against each name offered: Dr. I.V. Subba Rao, Prof. Tariq Mansoor, and Shri Satnam Singh Sandhu are all listed as members of the 2024 committee. Jogendra Nath Phukan does not appear on that 2024 list.

• I.V. Subba Rao, Tariq Mansoor, and Satnam Singh Sandhu each carry a genuine 2024-committee listing, so none of them answers a question asking who was excluded.

• Jogendra Nath Phukan served on the Padma Awards Committee-2021, a different year's committee, and separately received the Padma Shri award himself in 2020 -- neither fact places him on the 2024 committee, which is the criterion this question asks about.

• "Question not attempted" is a placeholder representing a skipped response, not a candidate's name, so it can never answer a "who" question.

Jogendra Nath Phukan was NOT a member of the Padma Awards Committee, 2024.