On the eve of the 74th Republic Day, the Centre announced a list of over 100 persons in the country who have been selected to receive the Padma Awards 2023. Several notable personalities like deceased political leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and Indian activist Sudha Murty have been named in the list.
A total of 106 people have been included in the list of Padma Awardees 2023, which includes those who will be awarded the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri, which are the highest civilian honors in India, after the Bharat Ratna.
Till now, no one has been named for the Bharat Ratna, but the awardee is expected to be announced soon. The list comprises 6 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan, and 91 Padma Shri Awards. This year, 19 of the total awardees are women.
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Following is the list of people selected for the Padma Awards 2023
Padma Vibhushan 2023
- Balkrishna Doshi (Posthumous)
- Zakir Hussain
- S M Krishna
- Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous)
- Srinivas Varadhan
- Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous)
Padma Bhushan 2023
- S L Bhyrappa
- Kumar Mangalam Birla
- Deepak Dhar
- Vani Jairam
- Swami Chinna Jeeyar
- Suman Kalyanpur
- Kapil Kapoor
- Sudha Murty
- Kamlesh D Patel
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Padma Shri 2023
- 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
‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field.
(With PTI inputs)
