Padma Awards 2023: Zakir Hussain, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Raveena Tandon among others to be honoured; watch LIVE here

President Droupadi Murmu bestowed the Padma award on 106 people, including 6 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan, and 91 Padma Shri awardees, on Wednesday evening. The Indian government announced in the month of January the full list of Padma Awardees who will be conferred with honours. The list includes some of the most prominent names in the country, ranging from the field of politics to arts and science.

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The list comprises 6 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri awardees. 19 awardees are women & the list also includes 2 persons from category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 7 Posthumous awardees.

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.