 The Government of India honored him in 2010, with the third highest civilian award of Padma Shri.Jitendra Undhampuri was born to Jagan Nath as his eldest son, on 9 November 1944 in a small town of Udhampur, near Jammu in the northern most Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, in a family with meagre financial resources.He did his schooling in Udhampur and moved to Jammu where he joined for his graduate studies at the Government Gandhi Memorial Science College.