Padma Awards 2023: SM Krishna, Kumar Mangalam Birla honoured

Former Karnataka chief minister SM Krishna, who announced his retirement from active politics earlier this month was honoured with the second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan on Wednesday.

Along with him, noted industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and famous playback singer Suman Kalyanpur were also honoured at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

President Draupadi Murmu also conferred billionaire stock market investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, who had passed away last year, with Padma Shri (posthumously) along with several unsung heroes.

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. For the year 2023,
the President has approved conferment of 106 Padma Awards including 3 duo cases (in a duo
case, the Award is counted as one).

The list comprises 6 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri Awards. 19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 2 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 7 Posthumous awardees.

Full of Padma Awards 2023 here:

Padma Vibhushan
Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous)
Balkrishna Doshi (Posthumous)
Zakir Hussain
SM Krishna
Mahalanabis (Posthumous)
Srinivas Varadhan

Padma Bhushan
SL Bhyrappa
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Deepak Dhar
Vani Jairam
Swami Chinna Jeeyar
Suman Kalyanpur
Kapil Kapoor
Sudha Murty
Kamlesh D Patel

Padma Shri
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 & Mohd Hussain (Duo)
Dilshad Hussain
Bhiku Ramji Idate