Four eminent personalities from Odisha have been conferred Padma awards, the announcement for which was made by the Government of India on Wednesday.
Odisha's Maguni Charan Kuanr (Art), Antaryami Mishra (Literature & Education), Krishna Patel (Art), Patayat Sahu (Agriculture) have been conferred with the prestigious Padma Shri.
This year, 106 Padma Awards, including 3 duos (where the award is counted as one), have been conferred. Apart from the 6 Padma Vibhushans, including three posthumous, there are 9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri awardees. These include 19 women and two foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCIs. Four other Padma Bhushan/Padma Shri awardees are posthumous.
Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, former External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, and tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were conferred the Padma Vibhushan on the occasion of Republic Day 2023.
Other recipients of the country's second-highest civilian award are eminent architect Balkrishna Doshi - who just passed away on Tuesday, doctor Dilip Mahalanabis, who pioneered the wide use of ORS (Oral Rehydration Solution) that is estimated to have saved over 5 crore lives globally, and Indian American mathematician S.R. Srinivas Varadhan.
Following is the list of 106 people who have been selected for Padma awards on the eve of 74th Republic Day.
The Awards are given in various disciplines and fields of activities like art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service.
'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.
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 Zaz