Image Source : FILE IMAGE Late singer SP Balasubrahmanyam awarded Padma Vibhushan 2021
Every 12 months, the Padma award winners are introduced on the eve of Republic Day, and this 12 months was no completely different. The Padma awardee listing was introduced late Monday night. Although Bollywood has no recipients this 12 months, late playback legend SP Balasubramanyam has been honoured posthumusly with Padma Vibhushan. He is the one identify from the leisure business amongst seven names who’re recipients of the second-highest civil honour. Carnatic singer Chithra has been awarded Padma Bhushan, third highest honour whereas singer Bombay Jayashri Ramnath has been awarded with Padma Shri.
For these unversed with the Padma Awards, they occur to be one of many highest civilian awards and are given in three classes, viz Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri. The Awardees are chosen from completely different fields of actions together with artwork, social work, public affairs, science, drugs, literature, and schooling, and so forth.
The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday introduced the awards that embrace seven Padma Vibhushan awards, 10 Padma Bhushan awards, and 102 Padma Shri awards. This time, 29 of the awardees are girls and the listing consists of 10 individuals from the class of foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, 16 posthumous awardees and one transgender award winner.
Late Bala Subrahmanyam was standard as SPB or Balu within the film world, had recorded over 40,000 songs in 16 languages over a interval of 5 many years. He died on September 25 in Chennai. He was 74. Balasubrahmanyam was on life assist measures since Aug 14 for extreme Covid-19 pneumonia.
He has received six National Awards as Best Male Playback Singer for his works in 4 completely different languages — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. He has been a recipient of Padma Shri in 2001 and Padma Bhushan in 2011.
The Padma Vibhushan is awarded for distinctive and distinguished service, the Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of excessive order, and the Padma Shri for distinguished service in any discipline.
The awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial features that are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan often round March or April yearly.
-With IANS inputs
