Maha: Padma awards conferred on 14 eminent personalities Manohar Joshi & Pankaj Udhas awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously
Mumbai, Jan 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Centre on the eve of Republic Day on Saturday conferred Padma awards on 14 eminent personalities from Maharashtra. Former Lok Sabha Speaker and former Maharashtra Chief Minister late Manohar Joshi and a renowned Fazal and playback singer late Pankaj Udhas have been posthumously awarded Padma Bhushan. Moreover, twelve others have been awarded Padma Shri. The list includes Calligrapher Achyut Palav, former SBI chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya, veteran actor and Maharashtra Bhushan Ashok Saraf, veteran classical singer Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, leading actor Shekhar Kapur, Baripada forest conservator Chaitram Pawar, veteran singer Jaspinder Narula, naturalist, wildlife conservationist and Marathi writer Maruti Chitampalli, veteran flautists Ronu and Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar, agricultural expert Subhash Sharma, painter Vasudev Kamat and senior homoeopathy expert Dr Vilas Dangre.
