New Delhi: Veteran socialist chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Late Mulayam Singh Yadav, and medical skilled Dilip Mahalanabis, identified globally for his work on Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), have been amongst these conferred the Padma Vibhushan award by President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday.
Author and philanthropist Sudha Murty, physicist Deepak Dhar, who is thought for his long-standing analysis profession in statistical physics, novelist S L Bhyrappa and Vedic scholar Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji got the Padma Bhushan at a operate held at Rashtrapati Bhavan right here.
Yadav, who was additionally India’s defence minister and long-time parliamentarian, and Mahalanabis, who returned from the US to serve within the 1971 Bangladesh conflict refugee camps, got the honour posthumously.
Yadav’s son, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, acquired the award on his behalf, whereas Mahalanabis’ award was acquired by his nephew.
#WATCH | Late Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav conferred the Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) by President Droupadi Murmu.
His son & SP chief Akhilesh Yadav receives the award. pic.twitter.com/VOdb8XzUNo
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Music director M M Keeravaani, who bagged India’s first Oscar for an unique track for the ‘RRR’ track ‘Naatu Naatu’ and Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon have been amongst those that acquired the Padma Shri.
#WATCH | Actor Raveena Tandon receives the Padma Shri from President Droupadi Murmu pic.twitter.com/9BaFYP3TZi
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Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J P Nadda and several other Union ministers and different friends have been current on the operate.
The President had accepted the conferment of 106 Padma awards, together with three duo circumstances (in a duo case, the award is counted as one), on the eve of this 12 months’s Republic Day.
A complete of 53 awardees got the honour on Wednesday — three Padma Vibhushan, 5 Padma Bhushan and 45 Padma Shri.
The different distinguished personalities got the awards on March 22.
Padma awards are conferred in three classes — Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. India’s prime civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, has not been given to anybody since 2019.
The awards are given in numerous disciplines and fields of actions reminiscent of artwork, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, commerce and trade, medication, literature and training, sports activities and civil service amongst others.
Padma Vibhushan, the nation’s second-highest civilian award, is given for distinctive and distinguished service; Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of excessive order; and Padma Shri for distinguished service in any subject.
Many of the awardees are unsung heroes who’ve been silently working for the betterment of society and folks, and whom the Narendra Modi authorities has been honouring ever because it got here to energy in 2014, officers mentioned.
