Padma Awards 2023: Mulayam Yadav, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Dilip Mahalanabis among 6 awarded Padma Vibhushan

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The Centre has announced the Padma Awards on the eve of Republic Day 26 January.

An overview of the news

• Of the total 106 Padma Awards announced, six are Padma Vibhushan, nine are Padma Bhushan and 91 are Padma Shri.

• Nineteen of the awardees are women. 

• Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) pioneer Dilip Mahalanobis will be posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan in the field of medicine (paediatrics).

• He pioneered the widespread use of ORS, which is believed to have saved more than five crore lives globally.

• Former Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will be posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan in the public sector.

• Tabla player Zakir Hussain will also be awarded the Padma Vibhushan.

• Those who will be awarded the Padma Bhushan include Kannada novelist and screenwriter S L Bhairappa, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and author and philanthropist Sudha Murthy.

• The prominent names among Padma Shri awardees include stockbroker Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Rasna founder Areez Khabatta, former union minister and Manipur BJP president Thounaojam Chaoba Singh, former Tripura minister and Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura president Narendra Chandra Debbarma, RRR music composer M M Keeravani. 

• Ghazal singers Ahmed Hussain and Mohd Hussain, and Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon are also among Padma Shri awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

• Mulayam Singh Yadav (posthumously)

• Balkrishna Doshi (posthumous)

• Zakir hussain

• SM Krishna

• Dilip Mahalanabis (posthumous)

• Srinivasa Vardhan

Padma Bhushan

• SL Bhairappa

• Kumar Mangalam Birla

• Deepak Dhar

• vani jairam

• swami chinna jiyar

• Suman Kalyanpur

• Kapil Kapoor

• Sudha Murthy

• Kamlesh D Patel

Padma Shri

• Sukma Acharya

• Jodhaiyabai Baiga

• Premjeet Baria

• Usha Burle

• Munishwar Chandawar

• Hemant Chauhan

• Bhanubhai Chitra

• Hemoprova Chutiya

• Narendra Chandra Debbarma (posthumous)

• Subhadra Devi

• Khadar Valli Dudekula

• Hem Chandra Goswami

• Pratikana Goswami

• Radha Charan Gupta

• Modadugu Vijay Gupta

• Ahmed Hussain and Mohammad Hussain (pair)

• Dilshad Hussain

• Bhikhu Ramji Idate

• C I Issac

• Ratan Singh Jaggi

• Bikram Bahadur Jamatia

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• Rakesh Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala (posthumous)

• Ratan Chandra Kar

• Mahipat Kavi

• M M Keeravani

• Arez Khambatta (posthumous)

• Parshuram Komaji Khune

• Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajnagar

• Maguni Charan Kunar

• Anand Kumar

• Arvind Kumar

• Domar Singh Kunwar

• Rising Bor Kurklang

• Hirabai Lobi

• Moolchand Lodha

• rani machaiya

• Ajay Kumar Mandavi

• Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande

• Gajanan Jagannath Mane

• Antaryami Mishra

• Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa

• Pro. (Dr.) Mahendra Pal

• Uma Shankar Pandey

• Ramesh Parmar and Shanti Parmar (Pair)

• Nalini Parthasarathy

• Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti

• Ramesh Kites

• Krishna Patel

• K Kalyanasundaram Pillai

• V P Appukuttan Poduval

• Kapil Dev Prasad

• S R D Prasad

• Shah Rashid Ahmed Qadri

• C V Raju

• Bakshi Ram

• Raman of Cheruvayal

• Sujata Ramadorai

• Abbareddy Nageswara Rao

• Pareshbhai Rathwa

• B Ramakrishna Reddy

• Mangala Kanti Rai

• K C Runremsangi

• Vadivel Gopal and Masi Sadaiyan (Pair)

• Manoranjan Sahu

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• Ritwik Sanyal

• Kota Satchidananda Shastri

• Shankurtri Chandra Shekhar

• K Shanathoiba Sharma

• Nekram Sharma

• Gurcharan Singh

• Lakshman Singh

• Mohan Singh

• Thounaojam Chauba Singh

• Prakash Chandra Sood

• Nihunuo Sorhi

• Dr. Janam Singh Soy

• Kushok Thiksey Nawang Chamba Stanzin

• S Subbaraman

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• Palam Kalyana Sundaram

• Raveena Ravi Tandon

• Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari

• Dhaniram Toto

• Tula Ram Upreti

• Gopalasamy Veluchamy

• Ishwar Chand Verma

• Coomi Nariman Wadia

• Karma Wangchu (posthumous)

• Ghulam Muhammad Jazz