Padma awards: 2025
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2025
Jan 25, 2025: Press Information Bureau
1. Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.
2. These Awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at RashtrapatiBhawan usually around March/ April every year. For the year 2025, the President has approved conferment of 139Padma Awards including1 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 7Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri Awards. 23of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and13Posthumous awardees.
Padma Vibhushan(7)
| SN |
Name |
Field |
State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Shri Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy |
Medicine |
Telangana |
| 2 |
Justice (Retd.) Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar |
Public Affairs |
Chandigarh |
| 3 |
Smt. Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia |
Art |
Gujarat |
| 4 |
Shri LakshminarayanaSubramaniam |
Art |
Karnataka |
| 5 |
Shri M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous) |
Literature and Education |
Kerala |
| 6 |
Shri Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous) |
Trade and Industry |
Japan |
| 7 |
Smt. Sharda Sinha (Posthumous) |
Art |
Bihar |
Padma Bhushan(19)
| SN |
Name |
Field |
State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 |
Shri A Surya Prakash |
Literature and Education-Journalism |
Karnataka |
| 9 |
Shri Anant Nag |
Art |
Karnataka |
| 10 |
Shri Bibek Debroy(Posthumous) |
Literature and Education |
NCT Delhi |
| 11 |
Shri Jatin Goswami |
Art |
Assam |
| 12 |
Shri Jose Chacko Periappuram |
Medicine |
Kerala |
| 13 |
Shri Kailash Nath Dikshit |
Others-Archaeology |
NCT Delhi |
| 14 |
Shri Manohar Joshi(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
| 15 |
Shri Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti |
Trade and Industry |
Tamil Nadu |
| 16 |
Shri Nandamuri Balakrishna |
Art |
Andhra Pradesh |
| 17 |
Shri P R Sreejesh |
Sports |
Kerala |
| 18 |
Shri Pankaj Patel |
Trade and Industry |
Gujarat |
| 19 |
Shri Pankaj Udhas(Posthumous) |
Art |
Maharashtra |
| 20 |
Shri Rambahadur Rai |
Literature and Education-Journalism |
Uttar Pradesh |
| 21 |
Sadhvi Ritambhara |
Social Work |
Uttar Pradesh |
| 22 |
Shri S Ajith Kumar |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
| 23 |
Shri Shekhar Kapur |
Art |
Maharashtra |
| 24 |
Ms. Shobana Chandrakumar |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
| 25 |
Shri Sushil Kumar Modi(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Bihar |
| 26 |
Shri Vinod Dham |
Science and Engineering |
United States of America |
