Padma Awards 2023

About Padma Awards

Padma Awards – one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘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. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President has approved the conferment of 128 Padma Awards including 2 duo cases (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per the list below. The list comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. 34 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.

Padma Awards 2023 Winners List Announced

• The Union ministry of home affairs announced the Padma Awards on the eve of the country’s 74th Republic Day.
• The government announced 6 names for Padma Vibhushan, 9 for Padma Bhushan, and 91 for Padma Shri Awards.
• Nineteen of the awardees are women.

Padma Vibhushan (6)

1. Zakir Hussain – Art
2. S M Krishna – Public Affairs
3. Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous) – Medicine
4. Srinivas Varadhan – Science & Engineering
5. Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous) – Public Affairs
6. Balkrishna Doshi (Posthumous) – Architecture

Padma Bhushan (9)

1. S L Bhyrappa – Literature & Education
2. Kapil Kapoor – Literature & Education
3. Kumar Mangalam Birla – Trade & Industry
4. Deepak Dhar – Science & Engineering
5. Vani Jairam – Art
6. Suman Kalyanpur – Art
7. Swami Chinna Jeeyar – Spiritualism
8. Kamlesh D Patel – Spiritualism
9. Sudha Murty – Social Work

Padma Shri (91)

1. Shri Anand Kumar – Literature & Education
2. Shri Radha Charan Gupta – Literature & Education
3. Shri Rattan Singh Jaggi – Literature & Education
4. Shri C I Issac – Literature & Education
5. Shri Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande – Literature & Education
6. Shri Antaryami Mishra – Literature & Education
7. Shri Ramesh Patange – Literature & Education
8. Shri Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari – Literature & Education
9. Shri Dhaniram Toto – Literature & Education
10. Shri Prakash Chandra Sood – Literature & Education
11. Janum Singh Soy – Literature & Education
12. Shri Mohan Singh – Literature & Education
13. Shri B Ramakrishna Reddy – Literature & Education
14. Shri Arvind Kumar – Science & Engineering
15. Shri Khadar Valli Dudekula – Science & Engineering
16. Shri Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagara – Science & Engineering
17. Shri Modadugu Vijay Gupta – Science & Engineering
18. (Dr.) Mahendra Pal – Science & Engineering
19. Sujatha Ramdorai – Science & Engineering
20. Shri Abbareddy Nageswara Rao – Science & Engineering
21. Shri Bakshi Ram – Science & Engineering
22. Jodhaiyabai Baiga – Art
23. Shri Premjit Baria – Art
24. Usha Barle – Art
25. Shri Hemant Chauhan – Art
26. Shri Bhanubhai Chitara – Art
27. Hemoprova Chutia – Art
28. Shri Hem Chandra Goswami – Art
29. Pritikana Goswami – Art
30. Shri Domar Singh Kunvar – Art
31. Shri Risingbor Kurkalang – Art
32. Subhadra Devi – Art
33. Shri Ahmed Hussain & Shri Mohd Hussain – Art
34. Shri Dilshad Hussain – Art
35. Shri Parshuram Komaji Khune – Art
36. Shri Maguni Charan Kuanr – Art
37. Rani Machaiah – Art
38. Shri Ajay Kumar Mandavi – Art
39. Krishna Patel – Art
40. Shri K Kalyanasundaram Pillai – Art
41. Shri Mahipat Kavi – Art
42. Shri M M Keeravaani – Art
43. Shri Mangala Kanti Roy – Art
44. K C Runremsangi – Art
45. Shri Ritwik Sanyal- Art
46. Shri Kota Satchidananda Sastry -Art
47. Shri Kapil Dev Prasad – Art
48. Shri Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri – Art
49. Shri C V Raju – Art
50. Shri Pareshbhai Rathwa – Art
51. Shri Moa Subong – Art
52. Raveena Ravi Tandon – Art
53. Coomi Nariman Wadia – Art
54. Neihunuo Sorhie – Art
55. Shri Ghulam Muhammad Zaz – Art
56. Shri Ramesh Parmar & Ms. Shanti Parmar – Art
57. Shri Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa – Art
58. Shri Bhiku Ramji Idate – Social Work
59. Shri Bikram Bahadur Jamatia -Social Work
60. Shri Ramkuiwangbe Jene – Social Work
61. Hirabai Lobi – Social Work
62. Shri Moolchand Lodha – Social Work
63. Shri Gajanan Jagannath Mane – Social Work
64. Shri Uma Shankar Pandey – Social Work
65. Shri V P Appukuttan Poduval – Social Work
66. Shri Laxman Singh – Social Work
67. Shri Palam Kalyana Sundaram – Social Work
68. Shri Karma Wangchu (Posthumous) – Social Work
69. Shri Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar- Social Work
70. Shri Vadivel Gopal & Shri Masi Sadaiyan – Social Work
71. Shri Narendra Chandra Debbarma (Posthumous) – Public Affairs
72. Shri Rakesh Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala (Posthumous) – Trade & Industry
73. Shri Areez Khambatta (Posthumous) – Trade & Industry
74. Shri Ratan Chandra Kar – Medicine
75. Nalini Parthasarathi – Medicine
76. Shri Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti – Medicine
77. Shri Munishwar Chanddawar – Medicine
78. Gopalsamy Veluchamy – Medicine
79. Ishwar Chander Verma – Medicine
80. Shri Manoranjan Sahu – Medicine
81. Shri S R D Prasad – Sports
82. Shri Cheruvayal K Raman – Agriculture
83. Shri Tula Ram Upreti – Agriculture
84. Shri Patayat Sahu – Agriculture
85. Shri Nekram Sharma – Agriculture
86. Shri K Shanathoiba Sharma – Sports
87. Shri Gurcharan Singh – Sports
88. Shri Thounaojam Chaoba Singh – Public Affairs
89. Shri Kushok Thiksey Nawang Chamba Stanzin – Spiritualism
90. Sukama Acharya – Spiritualism
91. Shri S Subbaraman – Archaeology