Samajwadi Party founder late Mulayam Singh Yadav, former External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, and tabla maestro Zakir Hussain are among the six people listed for this year’s Padma Vibhushan awards.
Others who will be bestowed the highest civilian honor are: Balkishna Doshi from Gujarat (posthumously), Dilip Mahalanabis (posthumously) who worked in relief camps during the Bangladesh war and US-based scientist and engineer Srinivas Varadhan.
No one has been named for the Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award.
In the Padma Awards announced ahead of Republic Day 2023, President Droupadi Murmu also listed out nine names for Padma Bhushan and 91 for Padma Shri Awards.
The nine Padma Bhushan awardees include: Industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s wife and writer Sudha Murthy, Kannada writer SL Bhyrappa, and singer Vani Jayaram. Telangana’s spiritual gurus Swami Chinna Jeeyar Kamlesh D Patel and writer and educationist Kapil Kapoor from Delhi as well , and singer Suman Kalyapur from Maharashtra were also awarded Padma Bhushan.
As many as 91 people were given Padma Shri this time including stock market guru late Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, musician Keeravaani, actress Raveen Tandon. Delhi based physician Dr.Ishawar Chandeer Vrma, Gurcharan Singh (sports) Dr.Nalini Parthasarathi (medicine) are also figured in the Padma Shri awardees list.
Among the Padma awarded 19 are women and two are from non-resident Indians and seven were awarded posthumously. Sukama Acharya, Jodhaiyabai Baiga, Premijit Baria, Usha Barle, Hemant Chauhan, Bhanubhai Chitara, Hemoprova ChitiaSubhadra Devi, Hem Chandra Goswai, Pritikana Goswami Ahmed Hussai, Mohammed Hussai, Dilshad Hussain (all in art category) were awarded Padma Shri.
The Government has awarded Padma Shri to many unsung heroes working in social service. They are Ratan Chadra Kar, a doctor working with Jarwa tribes of Andamans Island; Hirabai Lobi, working for the welfare of Siddi Tribes; Dr.Munishwar Chander Dawar. working in Jabalpur for poor patients. Ramkuiwangle Newme. engaged in primary education from Nagaland , noted Gandhian Appukuttan Poduval from Kerala;,S Chandra Sekhar. working for uplift and child education of the poor in Andhra Pradesh; snake experts from Tamil Nadu Vadivel Gopal; and Masi Sadaiyan, Nrkram Sharma from organic farming..
Complete list:
PADMA VIBHUSHAN
Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous)
Balkrishna Doshi (Posthumous)
Zakir Hussain
SM Krishna
Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous)
Srinivas Varadhan
PADMA BHUSHAN
SL Bhyrappa
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Deepak Dhar
Vani Jairam
Swami Chinna Jeeyar
Suman Kalyanpur
Kapil Kapoor
Sudha Murty
Kamlesh D Patel
PADMA SHRI
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 & 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 & Shanti Parmar (Duo)
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 & 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
Gopalsamy Veluchamy
Ishwar Chander Verma
Coomi Nariman Wadia
Karma Wangchu (Posthumous) Ghulam Muhammad Zaz
