Padma Awards Full list 2023 of 106 recipients named for civilian honours
Posthumous Padma Vibhushan for Mulayam Singh Yadav, ORS pioneer Dilip Mahalanabis
The list of top civilian honours to recognise distinguished service includes nine Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri awards; 19 of the 106 awards will go to women; seven are posthumous honours; personalities from poll-bound States feature on list
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.
2. These Awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. For the year 2023,the President has approved conferment of 106 Padma Awards including 3 duo cases (in a duoc ase, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 6 Padma Vibhushan,
9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri Awards. 19 of the awardees are women and the list alsoi ncludes 2 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 7 Posthumousa wardees.
Padma Vibhushan
| Balkrishna Doshi (Posthumous) | Others – Architecture | Gujarat |
| Zakir Hussain | Art | Maharashtra |
| S M Krishna | Public Affairs | Karnataka |
| Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous) | Medicine | West Bengal |
| Srinivas Varadhan | Science & Engineering | USA |
| Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
Padma Bhushan
| S L Bhyrappa | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| Kumar Mangalam Birla | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| Shri Deepak Dhar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| Vani Jairam | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| Swami Chinna Jeeyar | Others – Spiritualism | Telangana |
| Suman Kalyanpur | Art | Maharashtra |
| Kapil Kapoor | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| Sudha Murty | Social Work | Karnataka |
| Kamlesh D Patel | Others – Spiritualism | Telangana |
Padma Shri
With PTI inputs)
PDF list of 2023 Padma awards
Source: Ministry of Home Affairs