Ministry of Home Affairs

Padma Awards 2025 announced

Posted On: 25 JAN 2025 9:00PM by PIB Delhi

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 Public Affairs Chandigarh

Khehar

3. Smt. Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia Art Gujarat

4. Shri Art Karnataka

LakshminarayanaSubramaniam

5. Shri M. T. Vasudevan Nair Literature and Education Kerala

(Posthumous)
 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- Karnataka

Journalism

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- Uttar Pradesh

Journalism

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 Public Affairs Bihar

Modi(Posthumous)
 26. Shri Vinod Dham Science and Engineering United States of
America

Padma Shri (113)

SN Name Field State/Country

27. Shri Adwaita Charan Gadanayak Art Odisha

28. Shri Achyut Ramchandra Palav Art Maharashtra

29. Shri Ajay V Bhatt Science and Engineering United States of

America

30. Shri Anil Kumar Boro Literature and Education Assam

31. Shri Arijit Singh Art West Bengal

32. Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya Trade and Industry Maharashtra

33. Shri Arunoday Saha Literature and Education Tripura

34. Shri Arvind Sharma Literature and Education Canada

35. Shri Ashok Kumar Mahapatra Medicine Odisha

36. Shri Ashok Laxman Saraf Art Maharashtra

37. Shri Ashutosh Sharma Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh

38. Smt. Ashwini Bhide Deshpande Art Maharashtra

39. Shri Baijnath Maharaj Others-Spiritualism Rajasthan

40. Shri Barry Godfray John Art NCT Delhi

41. Smt. Begam Batool Art Rajasthan

42. Shri Bharat Gupt Art NCT Delhi

SN Name Field State/Country

43. Shri Bheru Singh Chouhan Art Madhya Pradesh

44. Shri Bhim Singh Bhavesh Social Work Bihar

45. Smt. Bhimavva Doddabalappa Art Karnataka

Shillekyathara

46. Shri Budhendra Kumar Jain Medicine Madhya Pradesh

47. Shri C S Vaidyanathan Public Affairs NCT Delhi

48. Shri Chaitram Deochand Pawar Social Work Maharashtra

49. Shri Chandrakant Literature and Education Gujarat

Sheth(Posthumous)

50. Shri Chandrakant Sompura Others-Architecture Gujarat

51. Shri Chetan E Chitnis Science and Engineering France

52. Shri David R Syiemlieh Literature and Education Meghalaya

53. Shri Durga Charan Ranbir Art Odisha

54. Shri Farooq Ahmad Mir Art Jammu And

Kashmir

55. Shri Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh

56. Smt. Gita Upadhyay Literature and Education Assam

57. Shri Gokul Chandra Das Art West Bengal

58. Shri Guruvayur Dorai Art Tamil Nadu

59. Shri Harchandan Singh Bhatty Art Madhya Pradesh

60. Shri Hariman Sharma Others-Agriculture Himachal Pradesh

SN Name Field State/Country

61. Shri Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale Art Punjab

62. Shri Harvinder Singh Sports Haryana

63. Shri Hassan Raghu Art Karnataka

64. Shri Hemant Kumar Medicine Bihar

65. Shri Hriday Narayan Dixit Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh

66. Shri Hugh and Colleen Literature and Education- Uttarakhand

Gantzer(Posthumous)(Duo)* Journalism

67. Shri Inivalappil Mani Vijayan Sports Kerala

68. Shri Jagadish Joshila Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh

69. Smt. Jaspinder Narula Art Maharashtra

70. Shri Jonas Masetti Others-Spiritualism Brazil

71. Shri Joynacharan Bathari Art Assam

72. Smt. Jumde Yomgam Gamlin Social Work Arunachal Pradesh

73. Shri K. Damodaran Others-Culinary Tamil Nadu

74. Shri K L Krishna Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh

75. Smt. K Omanakutty Amma Art Kerala

76. Shri Kishore Kunal(Posthumous) Civil Service Bihar

77. Shri L Hangthing Others-Agriculture Nagaland

78. Shri Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer Literature and Education- Tamil Nadu

Journalism
SN Name Field State/Country

79. Shri Lalit Kumar Mangotra Literature and Education Jammu And
Kashmir

80. Shri Lama Lobzang(Posthumous) Others-Spiritualism Ladakh

81. Smt. Libia Lobo Sardesai Social Work Goa

82. Shri M D Srinivas Science and Engineering Tamil Nadu

83. Shri Madugula Nagaphani Sarma Art Andhra Pradesh

84. Shri Mahabir Nayak Art Jharkhand

85. Smt. Mamata Shankar Art West Bengal

86. Shri Manda Krishna Madiga Public Affairs Telangana

87. Shri Maruti Bhujangrao Literature and Education Maharashtra

Chitampalli

88. Shri Miriyala Art Andhra Pradesh

Apparao(Posthumous)

89. Shri Nagendra Nath Roy Literature and Education West Bengal

90. Shri Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh

(Posthumous)

91. Shri Naren Gurung Art Sikkim

92. Smt. Neerja Bhatla Medicine NCT Delhi

93. Smt. Nirmala Devi Art Bihar

94. Shri Nitin Nohria Literature and Education United States of

America

95. Shri Onkar Singh Pahwa Trade and Industry Punjab

SN Name Field State/Country

96. Shri P Datchanamoorthy Art Puducherry

97. Shri Pandi Ram Mandavi Art Chhattisgarh

98. Shri Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai Art Gujarat

99. Shri Pawan Goenka Trade and Industry West Bengal

100. Shri Prashanth Prakash Trade and Industry Karnataka

101. Smt. Pratibha Satpathy Literature and Education Odisha

102. Shri Purisai Kannappa Sambandan Art Tamil Nadu

103. Shri R Ashwin Sports Tamil Nadu

104. Shri R G Chandramogan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu

105. Smt. Radha Bahin Bhatt Social Work Uttarakhand

106. Shri Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy Art Tamil Nadu

107. Shri Ramdarash Mishra Literature and Education NCT Delhi

108. Shri Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar Art Maharashtra

109. Shri Ratan Kumar Parimoo Art Gujarat

110. Shri Reba Kanta Mahanta Art Assam

111. Shri Renthlei Lalrawna Literature and Education Mizoram

112. Shri Ricky Gyan Kej Art Karnataka

113. Shri Sajjan Bhajanka Trade and Industry West Bengal

114. Smt. Sally Holkar Trade and Industry Madhya Pradesh

115. Shri Sant Ram Deswal Literature and Education Haryana

SN Name Field State/Country

116. Shri Satyapal Singh Sports Uttar Pradesh

117. Shri Seeni Viswanathan Literature and Education Tamil Nadu

118. Shri Sethuraman Panchanathan Science and Engineering United States of

America

119. Smt. Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Medicine Kuwait

Al-Sabah

120. Shri Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Literature and Education Rajasthan
Kishan Bissa)

121. Shri Shyam Bihari Agrawal Art Uttar Pradesh

122. Smt. Soniya Nityanand Medicine Uttar Pradesh

123. Shri Stephen Knapp Literature and Education United States of

America

124. Shri Subhash Khetulal Sharma Others-Agriculture Maharashtra

125. Shri Suresh Harilal Soni Social Work Gujarat

126. Shri Surinder Kumar Vasal Science and Engineering Delhi

127. Shri Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Others-Spiritualism West Bengal

Maharaj)

128. Shri Syed Ainul Hasan Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh

129. Shri Tejendra Narayan Majumdar Art West Bengal

130. Smt. Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi Art Manipur

131. Shri Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla Literature and Education Gujarat

 SN Name Field State/Country

132. Shri Vadiraj Raghawendracharya Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh

Panchamukhi

133. Shri Vasudeo Kamath Art Maharashtra

134. Shri Velu Aasaan Art Tamil Nadu

135. Shri Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar Art Karnataka

136. Shri Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Others-Spiritualism Bihar

Maharaj

137. Smt. Vijayalakshmi Deshamane Medicine Karnataka

138. Shri Vilas Dangre Medicine Maharashtra

139. Shri Vinayak Lohani Social Work West Bengal

Note: * In Duo case, the Award is counted as one.

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