Padma Awards 2022 News

President Draupadi Murmu presented the Padma Awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. The President has awarded Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Shri to 55 citizens. SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav has been posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan. This honor was given to son Akhilesh Yadav.

President Draupadi Murmu honored 106 celebrities with Padma Awards for the year 2023 at the Civil Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. Of these, 6 have been awarded Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan, 91 Padma Shri and 7 people have been awarded posthumously.

Like every year, this year also the Padma Awards have been announced on the eve of Republic Day. A total of 106 Padma awards have been announced including 6 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri. This list also includes 3 posthumous honors. Former Defense Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav will also be given the Padma Award.

6 celebrities were selected to be honored with the Padma Vibhushan Award. After which PN Haksar, who was the Principal Secretary of Indira Gandhi, has refused to accept this honour. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has raised questions by tweeting.

Late Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav will be honored with the Padma Vibhushan Award. 6 personalities from different Kshetras will be honored with Padma Vibhushan Award.

Sonu Nigam was awarded the Padma Shri by President Ram Nath Kovind on March 28 The singer has been credited to have sung more than 6,000 songs in 28 languages

In a tweet, the Mahindra Group Chairman heaped praise on the 125-year-old yoga practitioner, saying that “his grace and dignity was both humbling and inspiring.” India’s top business tycoon also said that he is “proud to belong to a country from where Yoga originated.”

Today, President Ram Nath Kovind has honoured all such people of the country with Padma awards, who have enhanced the country's honour in art, music and other fields. One of them was 126-year-old Swami Sivananda of Varanasi, who was honoured with the Padma Shri award today. When he walked barefoot on the splendid red carpet of President House, the whole country was proud. Before receiving the award, Swami Sivananda also paid obeisance to Prime Minister Modi. After which Prime Minister Modi also bowed his head in front of him and thanked him and accepted his greetings.

This year, no names were announced for 'Bharat Ratna' 'Padma Vibhushan' is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service 'Padma Shri' for distinguished service in any field This year a total of 128 Padma awards are being conferred The awardee list includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners, NRI, PIO, OCI

General Bipin Rawat, the first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) who died in an IAF helicopter crash in December last year, was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan award on Monday.

Politician Kashi Prasad Pandey refused to accept the Padma Shri award for some personal reasons

General Rawat was India's, longest-serving four-star General Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister late Kalyan Singh was also awarded Padma Vibhushan posthumously Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were conferred Padma Bhushan

Singer Sonu Nigam and Olympic gold-medallist Neeraj Chopra have been conferred with a Padma Shri

The nominations/recommendations for Padma Awards will be received online only on the portal https://padmaawards.gov.in The ministry informed that the government is committed to transforming Padma Awards into "People`s Padma"

Nominations for Padma Awards have opened The last date to submit nominations, recommendations is September 15 The recipients' names are announced on the Republic Day