Padma Awards 2023

On the eve of India's 74th Republic Day, the Union Home Ministry announced the Padma awards, which will be conferred by the President of India in a formal ceremony. This ceremony is organized every year around the month of March/April at Rashtrapati Bhavan. This year the President has approved the conferment of 106 Padma Awards.

Padma Awards are given in various disciplines and fields of activity, such as science and engineering, arts, social work, public affairs, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. The awards are announced every year on the occasion of Republic Day by the Union Home Ministry.


Padma Awards - one of the country's highest civilian awards, are given in three categories:

  • Padma Vibhushan - 'Padma Vibhushan' is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service
  • Padma Bhushan - 'Padma Bhushan' is given for the country's valuable contribution in civilian areas.
  • Padma Shri - Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of high service in any field and 'Padma Shri' for distinguished service.

List of Winners Padma Awards

The list includes 6 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri awardees. 19 women have also been included in the awardees.

Padma Vibhushan (6)
Number Name Area State / country
1 Balkrishna Doshi Other – Architecture Gujarat
2 Zakir Hussain Art Maharashtra
3 SM Krishna Public Works Karnataka
4 Mulayam Singh Yadav Public Works Uttar Pradesh
5 Dilip Mahalanabis medical West Bengal
6 Srinivasa Burdwan Science and Engineering USA
Padma Bhushan (9)
1 S.L. Bhairappa Literature and Education Karnataka
2 Kapil Kapoor Literature and Education Delhi
3 Kumar Mangalam Birla Commerce and Trade Maharashtra
4 Deepak Dhar Science and Engineering Maharashtra
5 Vani Jayaram Art Karnataka
6 Dr Himmatrao Bawaskar Art Maharashtra
7 Swami Chinna Jiyar Other – Spiritual Telangana
8 Kamlesh D. Patel Other – Spiritual Telangana
9 Sudha Murthy Social Service Karnataka
Padma Shri (91)
1. Munishwar Chandavar Medical Madhya Pradesh
2. Ratan Chandra Kar Medical Andaman and Nicobar Islands
3. Nalini Parthasarathy Medical Puducherry
4. Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti Medical Telangana
5. Manoranjan Sahu Medical Uttar Pradesh
6. Gopalasamy Veluchamy Medical Tamil Nadu
7. Dr Ishwar Chandra Verma Medical Delhi
8. Dr. Sukma Acharya Other; Spiritualism Haryana
9. Kushok Thiksey Nawang Chamba Stanzin other ; Spiritualism Ladakh
10. Narendra Chandra Debbarma public affairs Tripura
11. Thunaojam Chouba Singh public affairs Manipur
12. Cheruvayal K Raman Other; agriculture Kerala
13. Patayat Sahu Other; agriculture Odisha
14. Nekram Sharma Other; agriculture Himachal Pradesh
15. Tula Ram Upreti Other; agriculture Sikkim
16. Jodhaiyabai Baiga Art Madhya Pradesh
17. Premjit Baria Art Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu
18. Usha Barle Art Chhattisgarh
19. Hemant Chauhan Art Gujarat
20. Bhanubhai Chitra Art Gujarat
21. Hemoprova Chutiya Art Assam
22. Subhadra Devi Art Bihar
23. Hem Chandra Goswami Art Assam
24. Pritikana Goswami Art West Bengal
25. Mangla Kanti Rai Art West Bengal
26. Ahmed Hussain and Mohammad Hussain Art Rajasthan
27. Dilshad Hussain Art Uttar Pradesh
28. Ritvik Sanyal Art Uttar Pradesh
29. Kavi Mahipat Art Gujarat
30. Pareshbhai Rathwa Art Gujarat
31. M.M. Keeravani Art Andhra Pradesh
32. Kota Satchidananda Shastri Art Andhra Pradesh
33. Parashuram Komaji Khune Art Maharashtra
34. Maguni Charan Kunar Art Odisha
35. Domar Singh Kunwar Art Chhattisgarh
36. Ajay Kumar Mandavi Art Chhattisgarh
37. Risingbor Kurklang Art Meghalaya
38. Queen Machaiyya Art Karnataka
39. Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa Art Karnataka
40. Ramesh Parmar and Shanti Parmar Art Madhya Pradesh
41. Krishna Patel Art Odisha
42. K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai Art Tamil Nadu
43. Kapil Dev Prasad Art Bihar
44. Shah Rasheed Ahmed Qadri Art Karnataka
45. CV Raju Art Andhra Pradesh
46. Kisi Runremsangi Art Mizoram
47. Kumi Nariman Wadia Art Maharashtra
48. Raveena Tandon Art Maharashtra
49. Ghulam Muhammad Jaz Art Jammu and Kashmir
50. Nehunuo Sorhi Art Nagaland
51. Moa Subong Art Nagaland
52. SRD Prasad Game Kerala
53. K. Shanathoiba Sharma Game Manipur
54. Gurcharan Singh Game Delhi
55. Bhiku Ramji Idate Social Work Maharashtra
56. Gajanan Jagannath Mane Social Work Maharashtra
57. Bikram Bahadur Jamatia Social Work Tripura
58. ramkuiwangbe jeene Social Work Assam
59. Hirabai Lobi Social Work Gujarat
60. Moolchand Lodha Social Work Rajasthan
61. Laxman Singh Social Work Rajasthan
62. Uma Shankar Pandey Social Work Uttar Pradesh
63. VP Appukuttan Poduval Social Work Kerala
64. Vadivel Gopal and Mr. Masi Sadaiyan Social Work Tamil Nadu
65. Palam Kalyana Sundaram Social Work Tamil Nadu
66. Shankuratri Chandrasekhar Social Work Andhra Pradesh
67. Karma Wangchu Social Work Arunachal Pradesh
68. Modadugu Vijay Gupta Science and Engineering Telangana
69. Shri Khadar Valli Dudekula Science Engineering Karnataka
70. Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagar Science Engineering Andhra Pradesh
71. Abbareddy Nageswara Rao Science Engineering Andhra Pradesh
72. Arvind Kumar Science Engineering Uttar Pradesh
73. Prof. (Dr.) Mahendra Pal Science Engineering Gujarat
74. Bakshi Ram Science Engineering Haryana
75. Sujatha Ramadorai Science Engineering Canada
76. Rakesh Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala Trade and Industry Maharashtra
77. Ariz Khambatta Trade and Industry Gujarat
78. Radha Charan Gupta Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
79. CI Issac Literature and Education Kerala
80. Ratan Singh Jaggi Literature and Education Punjab
81. Anand Kumar Literature and Education Bihar
82. Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande Literature and Education Maharashtra
83. Antaryami Mishra Literature and Education Odisha
84. Ramesh Patange Literature and Education Maharashtra
85. B. Ramakrishna Reddy Literature and Education Telangana
86. Mohan Singh Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir
87. Prakash Chandra Sood Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
88. Dr. Janam Singh Soy Literature and Education Jharkhand
89. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
90. Dhaniram Toto Literature and Education West Bengal
91. S. Subbaraman other ; Archeology Karnataka

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