Padma Awards 2025 announced

26 JAN 2025, 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
	Shri Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy	Medicine	Telangana
	Justice (Retd.) Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar	Public Affairs	Chandigarh
	Smt. Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia	Art	Gujarat
	Shri LakshminarayanaSubramaniam	Art	Karnataka
	Shri M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous)	Literature and Education	Kerala
	Shri Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous)	Trade and Industry	Japan
	Smt. Sharda Sinha (Posthumous)	Art	Bihar

Padma Bhushan(19)

SN	Name	Field	State/Country
	Shri A Surya Prakash	Literature and Education-Journalism	Karnataka
	Shri Anant Nag	Art	Karnataka
	Shri Bibek Debroy(Posthumous)	Literature and Education	NCT Delhi
	Shri Jatin Goswami	Art	Assam
	Shri Jose Chacko Periappuram	Medicine	Kerala
	Shri Kailash Nath Dikshit	Others-Archaeology	NCT Delhi
	Shri Manohar Joshi(Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
	Shri Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Nandamuri Balakrishna	Art	Andhra Pradesh
	Shri P R Sreejesh	Sports	Kerala
	Shri Pankaj Patel	Trade and Industry	Gujarat
	Shri Pankaj Udhas(Posthumous)	Art	Maharashtra
	Shri Rambahadur Rai	Literature and Education-Journalism	Uttar Pradesh
	Sadhvi Ritambhara	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
	Shri S Ajith Kumar	Art	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Shekhar Kapur	Art	Maharashtra
	Ms. Shobana Chandrakumar	Art	Tamil Nadu
	Shri Sushil Kumar Modi(Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Bihar
	Shri Vinod Dham	Science and Engineering	United States of America