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 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

Literature and Education-
8. Shri A Surya Prakash 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
Literature and Education-
20. Shri Rambahadur Rai 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 Modi(Posthumous) Public Affairs Bihar
26. Shri Vinod Dham Science and Engineering United States of Ame

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 Ame
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
43. Shri Bheru Singh Chouhan Art Madhya Pradesh
44. Shri Bhim Singh Bhavesh Social Work Bihar
Smt. Bhimavva Doddabalappa
45. 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 Sheth(Posthumous) Literature and Education Gujarat
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
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
Shri Hugh and C o l l e e n Literature and Education-
66. Uttarakhand
Gantzer(Posthumous)(Duo)* Journalism
67. Shri Inivalappil Mani Vijayan Sports Kerala
68. Shri Jagadish Joshila Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh
Art
69. Smt. Jaspinder Narula 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
Literature and Education-
78. Shri Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer Tamil Nadu
Journalism
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 Chitampalli Literature and Education Maharashtra
88. Shri Miriyala Apparao(Posthumous) Art Andhra Pradesh
89. Shri Nagendra Nath Roy Literature and Education West Bengal
90. Shri Narayan (Bhulai Bhai)(Posthumous) Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
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 Ame
95. Shri Onkar Singh Pahwa Trade and Industry Punjab
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
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 Ame
Smt. Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-
119. Medicine Kuwait
Sabah
Shri Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan
120. Literature and Education Rajasthan
Bissa)
121. Shri Shyam Bihari Agrawal Art Uttar Pradesh
Medicine
122. Smt. Soniya Nityanand Uttar Pradesh

123. Shri Stephen Knapp Literature and Education United States of Ame
 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
Shri Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik
127. 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
Shri Vadiraj Raghawendracharya
132. 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 Maharaj Others-Spiritualism Bihar
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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