Mulayam Sigh Yadav je prejel drugo najvišjo civilno nagrado v Indiji
Razpisana je podelitev nagrad Padma za leto 2023. Šest ljudje vključno z ustanoviteljem stranke Samajwadi Mulayamom Singhom Yadavom, nekdanjim glavnim ministrom Karnatake SM Krishno, priznanim arhitektom BV Doshijem in mojstrom tabla Zakirjem Hussainom, so prejeli Padma Vibhushan, drugo najvišje indijsko civilno priznanje.
Nagrade Padma – ena najvišjih civilnih nagrad v državi, se podeljujejo v treh kategorijah, in sicer Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan in Padma Shri. Nagrade se podeljujejo v različnih disciplinah/področjih dejavnosti, in sicer v umetnosti, socialno delo, javne zadeve, znanost in inženiring, trgovina in industrija, medicina, literatura in izobraževanje, šport, državna uslužbenca itd. 'Padma Vibhushan' se podeljuje za izjemne in ugledne storitve; 'Padma Bhushan' za ugledno službo visokega reda in 'Padma Shri' za ugledno službo na katerem koli področju. Priznanja so razpisana vsako leto ob dnevu republike.
Te nagrade podeljuje predsednik Indije na slovesnih prireditvah, ki potekajo v Rashtrapati Bhawanu običajno okoli marca/aprila vsako leto. Za leto 2023 je predsednik odobril podelitev 106 Padme Nagrade vključno s 3 dvojnimi primeri (v dvojnem primeru se nagrada šteje kot ena) po spodnjem seznamu. Seznam vključuje 6 nagrad Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan in 91 nagrad Padma Shri. Med nagrajenci je 19 žensk, na seznamu pa sta tudi 2 osebi iz kategorije Tujci/NRI/PIO/OCI in 7 posmrtnih nagrajencev.
Tukaj je celoten seznam ljudi, ki so letos prejeli nagrade Padma.
| SN | Ime | Polje | Država/država |
| 1 | Shri Balkrishna Doshi (posmrtno) | Ostalo – arhitektura | Gujarat |
| 2 | Shri Zakir Hussain | Umetnost | Maharashtra |
| 3 | Shri SM Krišna | Javne zadeve | Karnataka |
| 4 | Shri Dilip Mahalanabis (posmrtno) | Medicina | West Bengal |
| 5 | Shri Srinivas Varadhan | Znanost in inženirstvo | Združene države Amerike |
| 6 | Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav (posmrtno) | Javne zadeve | Uttar Pradesh |
Padma Bhushan(9)
| SN | Ime | Polje | Država/država |
| 1 | Shri SL Bhyrappa | Literatura in izobraževanje | Karnataka |
| 2 | Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla | Trgovina in industrija | Maharashtra |
| 3 | Shri Deepak Dhar | Znanost in inženirstvo | Maharashtra |
| 4 | Gospa Vani Jairam | Umetnost | Tamil Nadu |
| 5 | Swami Chinna Jeeyar | Drugi – Spiritualizem | Telangana |
| 6 | Gospa Suman Kalyanpur | Umetnost | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Shri Kapil Kapoor | Literatura in izobraževanje | Delhi |
| 8 | Gospa Sudha Murty | Socialno delo | Karnataka |
| 9 | Shri Kamlesh D Patel | Drugi – Spiritualizem | Telangana |
Padma Shri (91)
| SN | Ime | Polje | Država/država |
| 16 | Sukama Acharya | Drugi – Spiritualizem | Haryana |
| 17 | Gospa Jodhaiyabai Baiga | Umetnost | Madhya Pradesh |
| 18 | Shri Premjit Baria | Umetnost | Dadra in Nagar Haveli ter Daman in Diu |
| 19 | Gospa Usha Barle | Umetnost | Chhattisgarh |
| 20 | Shri Munishwar Chanddawar | Medicina | Madhya Pradesh |
| 21 | Shri Hemant Chauhan | Umetnost | Gujarat |
| 22 | Shri Bhanubhai Chitara | Umetnost | Gujarat |
| 23 | Gospa Hemoprova Chutia | Umetnost | Assam |
| 24 | Shri Narendra Chandra Debbarma (posmrtno) | Javne zadeve | Tripura |
| 25 | Gospa Subhadra Devi | Umetnost | Bihar |
| 26 | Shri Khadar Valli Dudekula | Znanost in inženirstvo | Karnataka |
| 27 | Shri Hem Chandra Goswami | Umetnost | Assam |
| 28 | Gospa Pritikana Goswami | Umetnost | West Bengal |
| 29 | Shri Radha Charan Gupta | Literatura in izobraževanje | Uttar Pradesh |
| 30 | Shri Modadugu Vijay Gupta | Znanost in inženirstvo | Telangana |
| 31 | Shri Ahmed Hussain & Shri Mohd Hussain *(Dvojec) | Umetnost | Rajasthan |
| 32 | Shri Dilshad Hussain | Umetnost | Uttar Pradesh |
| 33 | Shri Bhiku Ramji Idate | Socialno delo | Maharashtra |
| 34 | Shri CI Issac | Literatura in izobraževanje | Kerala |
| 35 | Shri Rattan Singh Jaggi | Literatura in izobraževanje | Punjab |
| 36 | Shri Bikram Bahadur Jamatia | Socialno delo | Tripura |
| 37 | Shri Ramkuiwangbe Jene | Socialno delo | Assam |
| 38 | Shri Rakesh Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala (posmrtno) | Trgovina in industrija | Maharashtra |
| 39 | Shri Ratan Chandra Kar | Medicina | Andamanski in Nikobarski otoki |
| 40 | Shri Mahipat Kavi | Umetnost | Gujarat |
| 41 | Shri MM Keeravaani | Umetnost | Andhra Pradesh |
| 42 | Shri Areez Khambatta (posmrtno) | Trgovina in industrija | Gujarat |
| 43 | Shri Parshuram Komaji Khune | Umetnost | Maharashtra |
| 44 | Shri Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagara | Znanost in inženirstvo | Andhra Pradesh |
| 45 | Shri Maguni Charan Kuanr | Umetnost | Odisha |
| 46 | Shri Anand Kumar | Literatura in izobraževanje | Bihar |
| 47 | Shri Arvind Kumar | Znanost in inženirstvo | Uttar Pradesh |
| 48 | Shri Domar Singh Kunvar | Umetnost | Chhattisgarh |
| 49 | Shri Risingbor Kurkalang | Umetnost | Meghalaja |
| 50 | Gospa Hirabai Lobi | Socialno delo | Gujarat |
| 51 | Shri Moolchand Lodha | Socialno delo | Rajasthan |
| 52 | Gospa Rani Machaiah | Umetnost | Karnataka |
| 53 | Shri Ajay Kumar Mandavi | Umetnost | Chhattisgarh |
| 54 | Shri Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande | Literatura in izobraževanje | Maharashtra |
| 55 | Shri Gajanan Jagannath Mane | Socialno delo | Maharashtra |
| 56 | Shri Antaryami Mishra | Literatura in izobraževanje | Odisha |
| 57 | Shri Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa | Umetnost | Karnataka |
| 58 | Prof. (dr.) Mahendra Pal | Znanost in inženirstvo | Gujarat |
| 59 | Shri Uma Shankar Pandey | Socialno delo | Uttar Pradesh |
| 60 | Shri Ramesh Parmar in ga. Shanti Parmar *(Dvojec) | Umetnost | Madhya Pradesh |
| 61 | dr. Nalini Parthasarathi | Medicina | puducherry |
| 62 | Shri Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti | Medicina | Telangana |
| 63 | Shri Ramesh Patange | Literatura in izobraževanje | Maharashtra |
| 64 | Gospa Krishna Patel | Umetnost | Odisha |
| 65 | Shri K Kalyanasundaram Pillai | Umetnost | Tamil Nadu |
| 66 | Shri VP Appukuttan Poduval | Socialno delo | Kerala |
| 67 | Shri Kapil Dev Prasad | Umetnost | Bihar |
| 68 | Shri SRD Prasad | Šport | Kerala |
| 69 | Shri Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri | Umetnost | Karnataka |
| 70 | Shri CV Raju | Umetnost | Andhra Pradesh |
| 71 | Shri Bakshi Ram | Znanost in inženirstvo | Haryana |
| 72 | Shri Cheruvayal K Raman | Drugo – Kmetijstvo | Kerala |
| 73 | Gospa Sujatha Ramdorai | Znanost in inženirstvo | Kanada |
| 74 | Shri Abbareddy Nageswara Rao | Znanost in inženirstvo | Andhra Pradesh |
| 75 | Shri Pareshbhai Rathwa | Umetnost | Gujarat |
| 76 | Shri B Ramakrishna Reddy | Literatura in izobraževanje | Telangana |
| 77 | Shri Mangala Kanti Roy | Umetnost | West Bengal |
| 78 | Gospa KC Runremsangi | Umetnost | Mizoram |
| 79 | Shri Vadivel Gopal & Shri Masi Sadaiyan *(Dvojec) | Socialno delo | Tamil Nadu |
| 80 | Shri Manoranjan Sahu | Medicina | Uttar Pradesh |
| 81 | Shri Patayat Sahu | Drugo – Kmetijstvo | Odisha |
| 82 | Shri Ritwik Sanyal | Umetnost | Uttar Pradesh |
| 83 | Shri Kota Satchidananda Sastry | Umetnost | Andhra Pradesh |
| 84 | Shri Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar | Socialno delo | Andhra Pradesh |
| 85 | Shri K Shanathoiba Sharma | Šport | Manipur |
| 86 | Shri Nekram Sharma | Drugo – Kmetijstvo | Himachal Pradesh |
| 87 | Shri Gurcharan Singh | Šport | Delhi |
| 88 | Shri Laxman Singh | Socialno delo | Rajasthan |
| 89 | Shri Mohan Singh | Literatura in izobraževanje | Jammu in Kašmir |
| 90 | Shri Thounaojam Chaoba Singh | Javne zadeve | Manipur |
| 91 | Shri Prakash Chandra Sood | Literatura in izobraževanje | Andhra Pradesh |
| 92 | Gospa Neihunuo Sorhie | Umetnost | Nagaland |
| 93 | Dr. Janum Singh Soy | Literatura in izobraževanje | Jharkhand |
| 94 | Shri Kushok Thiksey Nawang Chamba Stanzin | Drugi – Spiritualizem | Ladakh |
| 95 | Shri S Subbaraman | Drugo – arheologija | Karnataka |
| 96 | Shri Moa Subong | Umetnost | Nagaland |
| 97 | Shri Palam Kalyana Sundaram | Socialno delo | Tamil Nadu |
| 98 | Gospa Raveena Ravi Tandon | Umetnost | Maharashtra |
| 99 | Shri Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari | Literatura in izobraževanje | Uttar Pradesh |
| 100 | Shri Dhaniram Toto | Literatura in izobraževanje | West Bengal |
| 101 | Shri Tula Ram Upreti | Drugo – Kmetijstvo | Sikkim |
| 102 | dr. Gopalsamy Veluchamy | Medicina | Tamil Nadu |
| 103 | Ishwar Chander Verma | Medicina | Delhi |
| 104 | Gospa Coomi Nariman Wadia | Umetnost | Maharashtra |
| 105 | Shri Karma Wangchu (posmrtno) | Socialno delo | Arunachal Pradesh |
| 106 | Shri Ghulam Muhammad Zaz | Umetnost | Jammu in Kašmir |
Opomba: * V primeru Duo se nagrada šteje kot ena.
(Vir: obvestilo MHA https://www.padmaawards.gov.in/Content/PadmaAwardees2023.pdf)
