The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday announced the Padma awards on the occasion of the country’s 74th Republic Day. Mulayam Singh Yadav, Zakir Hussain, KM Birla and Siddha Murthy are among the 106 Padma awardees this year.
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The Padma Awards – one of the country’s highest civilian honors – are given in three categories, namely Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, for excellence in various disciplines and fields of activity such as art, social work, public affairs, science. Took and engineering, commerce and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.
Here is the complete list of Padma Awards:
Padma Vibhushan (6)
| S.N | Name | Playground | State country |
| 1 | Shri Balakrishna Doshi (later) | Other – Architecture | Gujarat |
| 2 | Mr. Zakir Hussain | Art | Maharashtra |
| 3 | Shri SM Krishna | A public issue | Karnataka |
| 4 | Shri Dilip Mehlanabis (later) | medicine | West Bengal |
| 5 | Shri Srinivas Vardhan | Science and Engineering | United States of America |
| 6 | Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav (later) | A public issue | Uttar Pradesh |
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Padma Bhushan (9)
| S.N | Name | Playground | State country |
| 7 | Shri SL Bhairappa | Literature and education | Karnataka |
| 8 | Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla | Commerce and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Shri Deepak Dhar | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 10 | MS. Vani Jairam | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 11 | Swami Channa Jayar | Other – Spirituality | Telangana |
| 12 | MS. Suman Kalyanpur | Art | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Shri Kapil Kapoor | Literature and education | Delhi |
| 14 | Ms. Sudha Murthy | Social work | Karnataka |
| 15 | Shri Kamlesh D. Patel | Other – Spirituality | Telangana |
Padma Shri (91)
| S.N | Name | Playground | State country |
| 16 | Dr. AS Sukma Acharya | Other – Spirituality | Haryana |
| 17 | MS. Jodhaya Bai Bega. | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
18 | Shri Premjit Baria | Art | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman And Dev |
| 19 | mrs. eat what | Art | Chhattisgarh |
| 20 | Shri Manshur Chandawar | medicine | Madhya Pradesh |
| 21 | Shri Hemant Chauhan | Art | Gujarat |
| 22 | Shri Bhanubhai Chitara | Art | Gujarat |
| 23 | Ms. Hemoparova Chautia | Art | Assam |
| 24 | Shri Narendra Chandra Debbarma (later) | A public issue | Tripura |
| 25 | MS. Subhadra Devi | Art | spring |
| 26 | Shri Khadhar Wali Dodikula | Science and Engineering | Karnataka |
| 27 | Shri Himachandra Goswami | Art | Assam |
| 28 | Ms. Pritikana Goswami | Art | West Bengal |
| 29 | Shri Radha Charan Gupta | Literature and education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 30 | Shri Modadugu Vijay Gupta | Science and Engineering | Telangana |
| 31 | Shri Ahmad Hussain and Shri Muhammad Hussain *(Pair) | Art | Rajasthan |
| 32 | Shri Dilshad Hussain | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 33 | Shri Bhikkhu Ramji Date | Social work | Maharashtra |
| 34 | Shri CI Ishaq | Literature and education | Kerala |
| 35 | Shri Ratan Singh Jaggi | Literature and education | Punjab |
| 36 | Shri Bikram Bahadur Jamatiya | Social work | Tripura |
| 37 | Shri Ram Kuiwangbe Jain | Social work | Assam |
| 38 | Shri Rakesh Radhishyam Jhanjhanwala (posthumous) | Commerce and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 39 | Shri Ratan Chandra Kar | medicine | Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
| 40 | Shri Mahipat Kavi | Art | Gujarat |
| 41 | Shri MM Kirwani | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 42 | Shri Urez Khambatta (later) | Commerce and Industry | Gujarat |
| 43 | Shri Parashuram Kumaji Khanne | Art | Maharashtra |
| 44 | Shri Ganesh Nagappa Krishnaraj Nagar | Science and Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 45 | Shri Magoni Charan Kunar | Art | Odisha |
| 46 | Shri Anand Kumar | Literature and education | spring |
| 47 | Shri Arvind Kumar | Science and Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 48 | Shri Domar Singh Kanwar | Art | Chhattisgarh |
| 49 | Shri Risingbur Karkaling | Art | Meghalaya |
| 50 | Ms. Heerabai Lobi. | Social work | Gujarat |
| 51 | Shri Mol Chand Lodha | Social work | Rajasthan |
| 52 | MS. Rani shouted | Art | Karnataka |
| 53 | Shri Ajay Kumar Mandavi | Art | Chhattisgarh |
| 54 | Shri Prabhakar Bhanodas Munde | Literature and education | Maharashtra |
| 55 | Shri Gajanan Jagannath Mane. | Social work | Maharashtra |
| 56 | Shri Antriyami Mishra | Literature and education | Odisha |
| 57 | Shri Naduja Pandipapanahalli Monivenaktappa | Art | Karnataka |
| 58 | Prof. (Dr.) Mahendra Pal | Science and Engineering | Gujarat |
| 59 | Shri Uma Shankar Pandey | Social work | Uttar Pradesh |
| 60 | Shri Ramesh Parmar and Ms. Shanti Parmar *(Pair) | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| 61 | Dr. Nalini Parthasarathy | medicine | Puducherry |
| 62 | Shri Hanumantrao Pasopoliti | medicine | Telangana |
| 63 | Shri Ramesh Patangay. | Literature and education | Maharashtra |
| 64 | Ms. Krishna Patel | Art | Odisha |
| 65 | Shri K Kalyan Sundaram Pillai | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 66 | SHRI VP UPCOCKTON PUDOWAL | Social work | Kerala |
| 67 | Shri Kapil Dev Prasad | Art | spring |
| 68 | Shri SRD Prasad | the game | Kerala |
| 69 | Mr. Shah Rashid Ahmad Qadri | Art | Karnataka |
| 70 | Shri CV Raju | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 71 | Shri Bakshi Ram | Science and Engineering | Haryana |
| 72 | Shri Chiruval K. Raman | Other – Agriculture | Kerala |
| 73 | MS. Sujata Ramdurai | Science and Engineering | Canada |
| 74 | Shri Abridy Nageshwar Rao | Science and Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 75 | Shri Pareshbhai Rathwa | Art | Gujarat |
| 76 | Shri B Ramakrishna Reddy | Literature and education | Telangana |
| 77 | Shri Mangala Kanti Rai | Art | West Bengal |
| 78 | MS. KC Ranrimsangi. | Art | Mizoram |
| 79 | Shri Vidyul Gopal and Shri Masi sounds *(pair) | Social work | Tamil Nadu |
| 80 | Shri Manoranjan Sahu | medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 81 | Shri Patait Sahu | Other – Agriculture | Odisha |
| 82 | Shri Rituk Sanyal | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 83 | Shri Kota Sachidananda Sastri. | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 84 | Shri Sankaratri Chandrasekhar | Social work | Andhra Pradesh |
| 85 | Shri K Shanthoiba Sharma | the game | Manipur |
| 86 | Shri Nekram Sharma | Other – Agriculture | Himachal Pradesh |
| 87 | Shri Gurucharan Singh | the game | Delhi |
| 88 | Shri Laxman Singh | Social work | Rajasthan |
| 89 | Shri Mohan Singh | Literature and education | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 90 | Shri Thonaujam Choba Singh | A public issue | Manipur |
| 91 | Shri Prakash Chandra Sood | Literature and education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 92 | Ms. Nihuno Surhi | Art | Nagaland |
| 93 | Dr. Janam Singh Suya. | Literature and education | Jharkhand |
| 94 | Shri Kushok Thekse Nawang Cannabis Stenzen | Other – Spirituality | Ladakh |
| 95 | Shri S. Subraman | Other – Archaeology | Karnataka |
| 96 | Shri Moa Subong | Art | Nagaland |
| 97 | Shri Palam Kalyana Sundaram | Social work | Tamil Nadu |
| 98 | MS. Raveena Ravi Tandon | Art | Maharashtra |
| 99 | Shri Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari. | Literature and education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 100 | Shree Dhani Ram Toto | Literature and education | West Bengal |
| 101 | Shri Tola Ram Apreeti | Other – Agriculture | Sikkim |
| 102 | Dr. Gopalsamy Veluchami | medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 103 | Dr. Ishwar Chandra Verma | medicine | Delhi |
| 104 | Ms. Komi Nariman Wadia | Art | Maharashtra |
| 105 | Shri Karma Wangchu (later) | Social work | Arunachal Pradesh |
| 106 | Shri Ghulam Muhammad Zaz | Art | Jammu and Kashmir |