Padma Awards 2023: Mulayam Singh Yadav, Zakir Hussain, KM Birla, and Sudha Murty are among 106 Padma Award recipients in 2023. Of the total 106, 6 are Padma Vibhushan awardees, 9 Padma Bhushan, and 91 Padma Shri. Nine of the awardees are women and there are seven posthumous awardees. Here’s the complete list of winners:
Padma Awards 2023
The President of India, Droupadi Murmu approved 6 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan, and 91 Padma Shri Awards for the year 2023 at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-I held at Rashtrapati Bhavan today (March 22, 2023) in the presence of Vice President of India, Prime Minister, Union Minister for Home Affairs and other dignitaries.
Many prominent names from fields varying from politics, arts, and science were honored on this day.
Padma Awards have truly become the People's Padma. pic.twitter.com/5qWgWVlbCv
— P C Mohan (@PCMohanMP) March 22, 2023
Of these, over 50 people were awarded on Wednesday. The rest of the awardees would be conferred the honor in another ceremony later. Meanwhile, India’s top civilian award Bharat Ratna has not been given to anyone since 2019.
With immense pride, happy to note that Thiru Masi Sadayan & Thiru Vadivel Gopal from the Irula tribe in Tamil Nadu were conferred the Padma Shri awards yesterday by Hon President of India, Smt Draupadi Murmu avl. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/NbFNRWmj1H
— K.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) March 23, 2023
The following are the Padma Award recipients:
Padma Vibhushan
Balkrishna Doshi (Posthumous), Zakir Hussain, S M Krishna, Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous), Srinivas Varadhan, Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous)
Padma Bhushan
S L Bhyrappa, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Deepak Dhar, Vani Jairam, Swami Chinna Jeeyar, Suman Kalyanpur, Kapil Kapoor, Sudha Murty, Kamlesh D Patel
Padma Shri
Dr. Sukama Acharya, Jodhaiyabai Baiga, Premjit Baria, Usha Barle, Munishwar Chanddawar, Hemant Chauhan, Bhanubhai Chitara, Hemoprova Chutia, Narendra Chandra Debbarma (Posthumous), Subhadra Devi, Khadar Valli Dudekula Hem Chandra Goswami Pritikana Goswami Radha Charan Gupta Modadugu Vijay Gupta Ahmed Hussain & Shri Mohd Hussain *(Duo) Dilshad Hussain Bhiku Ramji Idate C I Issac Rattan Singh Jaggi Bikram Bahadur Jamatia Ramkuiwangbe Jene Rakesh Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala (Posthumous), Ratan Chandra Kar Mahipat Kavi M M Keeravaani Areez Khambatta (Posthumous), Parshuram Komaji Khune Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagara Maguni Charan Kuanr Anand Kumar Arvind Kumar Domar Singh Kunvar Risingbor Kurkalang Hirabai Lobi Moolchand Lodha Rani Machaiah Ajay Kumar Mandavi Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande Gajanan Jagannath Mane Antaryami Mishra Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa Prof. (Dr.) Mahendra Pal Uma Shankar Pandey Ramesh Parmar & Ms. Shanti Parmar *(Duo) Dr. Nalini Parthasarathi Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti Ramesh Patange Krishna Patel K Kalyanasundaram Pillai V P Appukuttan Poduval Kapil Dev Prasad S R D Prasad Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri C V Raju Bakshi Ram Cheruvayal K Raman Sujatha Ramdorai Abbareddy Nageswara Rao Pareshbhai Rathwa B Ramakrishna Reddy Mangala Kanti Roy K C Runremsangi Vadivel Gopal & Shri Masi Sadaiyan *(Duo) Manoranjan Sahu Patayat Sahu Ritwik Sanyal Kota Satchidananda Sastry Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar K Shanathoiba Sharma Nekram Sharma Gurcharan Singh Laxman Singh Mohan Singh Thounaojam Chaoba Singh Prakash Chandra Sood Neihunuo Sorhie Dr. Janum Singh Soy Kushok Thiksey Nawang Chamba Stanzin S Subbaraman Moa Subong Palam Kalyana Sundaram Raveena Ravi Tandon Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari Dhaniram Toto Tula Ram Upreti Dr. Gopalsamy Veluchamy Dr. Ishwar Chander Verma Coomi Nariman Wadia Karma Wangchu (Posthumous), Ghulam Muhammad. Source: Free Press Journal
