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Padma Awards

• The Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian honors of India.
• This Award is announced by the government of India on the occasion of Republic Day.
• Padma Awards were started in the year 1954. These awards are given by the President of India.
• The Padma Awards recognize achievements in all fields of activities or subject matters which involve an element of public service.
• The Padma Awards come under the aegis of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of India.
• The Padma Awards are conferred every year on the recommendation of Padma Awards Committee constituted by Prime Minister.
• The Padma Awards Committee is chaired by the Cabinet Secretary and includes the Home Secretary, Secretary to the President and four to six eminent persons as members.
• The Government of India instituted two civilian awards- Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan in 1954. Padma Vibhushan had three categories, Class I, Class II and Class III.
• Later, these were renamed as Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri under the Presidential notification issued on January 8, 1955.

Padma awards were started in the year 1954, except for a short gap during the years 1978, 1979 and 1993 to 1997, these awards have been announced every year on Republic Day.

• These awards are given in various subjects/fields of activities, such as the arts, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil services etc.

Padma Awards are given in three categories

1. Padma Vibhushan for exceptional and distinguished service.
2. Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of the highest order.
3. Padma Shri for Distinguished Service.

First Padma Awards Winners

• Satyendra Nath Bose is the first recipient of Padma Vibhushan

• Tanjore Balasaraswati was the first female dancer to receive the country’s second highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan.
• Vishwanathan Anand was the first sportsperson to receive the Padma Vibhushan award.
• Balbir Singh Dosanjh is the first sportsperson to receive the Padma Shri award from Government of India.
• Milkha Singh was the first athlete to be awarded the Padma Shri award.
• Padma Bhushan awardee, Alarmel Valli, renowned for Bharatanatyam, is also an exponent of Odissi dance form.
• Faizal Ali Dar became the first Padma Award winner in sports from Kashmir.
• Nargis Dutt was the first actress to be awarded the Padma Shri.
• The first film personality to receive the Padma Bhushan award was Satyajit Ray (1992)

Padma Awards 2025

• The Government of India has announced 139 Padma Awards for 2025 on the eve of Republic Day.
• This year 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri awards have been announced.

• These awards will be given to citizens who have made extraordinary contributions in various fields.
• Among the Padma Award winners, 23 are women.
• These also include 10 foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI category people.
• These are 13 personalities who are being given awards posthumously.

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Padma Vibhushan 2025 winners

1. Shri Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy- Medicine- Telangana
2. Justice (Retd.) Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar- Public Affair- Chandigarh.
3. Smt. Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia- Art- Gujarat
4. Shri Lakshminarayana Subramaniam- 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

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Padma Bhushan 2025 winners

1. Shri A Surya Prakash- Literature and Education- Journalism- Karnataka
2. Shri Anant Nag- Art- Karnataka
3. Shri Bibek Debroy (Posthumous)-Literature and Education- NCT Delhi
4. Shri Jatin Goswami- Art-Assam
5. Shri Jose Chacko Periappuram-Medicine- Kerala
6. Shri Kailash Nath Dikshit-Others- Archaeology- NCT Delhi
7. Shri Manohar Joshi (Posthumous)- Public Affairs- Maharashtra
8. Shri Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti- Trade and Industry- Tamil Nadu
9. Shri Nandamuri Balakrishna-Art- Andhra Pradesh
10. Shri P R Sreejesh- Sports- Kerala
11. Shri Pankaj Patel- Trade and Industry- Gujarat
12. Shri Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous)-Art- Maharashtra
13. Shri Rambahadur Rai– Literature and Education- Journalism- Uttar Pradesh
14. Sadhvi Ritambhara- Social Work- Uttar Pradesh
15. Shri S Ajith Kumar- Art- Tamil Nadu
16. Shri Shekhar Kapur- Art- Maharashra
17. Ms. Shobana Chandrakumar- Art- Tamil Nadu
18. Shri Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous)- Public Affairs- Bihar
19. Shri Vinod Dham- Science and Engineering- USA

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Padma Shri 2025 Winners (Total 113 announced: listed below)

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SN	Name	Field	State/Country
1	Shri Adwaita Charan Gadanayak	Art	Odisha
2	Shri Achyut Ramchandra Palav	Art	Maharashtra
3	Shri Ajay V Bhatt	Science and Engineering	United States of America
4	Shri Anil Kumar Boro	Literature and Education	Assam
5	Shri Arijit Singh	Art	West Bengal
6	Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
7	Shri Arunoday Saha	Literature and Education	Tripura
8	Shri Arvind Sharma	Literature and Education	Canada
9	Shri Ashok Kumar Mahapatra	Medicine	Odisha
10	Shri Ashok Laxman Saraf	Art	Maharashtra
11	Shri Ashutosh Sharma	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
12	Smt. Ashwini Bhide Deshpande	Art	Maharashtra
13	Shri Baijnath Maharaj	Others-Spiritualism	Rajasthan
14	Shri Barry Godfray John	Art	NCT Delhi
15	Smt. Begam Batool	Art	Rajasthan
16	Shri Bharat Gupt	Art	NCT Delhi
17	Shri Bheru Singh Chouhan	Art	Madhya Pradesh
18	Shri Bhim Singh Bhavesh	Social Work	Bihar
19	Smt. Bhimavva Doddabalappa Shillekyathara	Art	Karnataka
20	Shri Budhendra Kumar Jain	Medicine	Madhya Pradesh
21	Shri C S Vaidyanathan	Public Affairs	NCT Delhi
22	Shri Chaitram Deochand Pawar	Social Work	Maharashtra
23	Shri Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous)	Literature and Education	Gujarat
24	Shri Chandrakant Sompura	Others-Architecture	Gujarat
25	Shri Chetan E Chitnis	Science and Engineering	France
26	Shri David R Syiemlieh	Literature and Education	Meghalaya
27	Shri Durga Charan Ranbir	Art	Odisha
28	Shri Farooq Ahmad Mir	Art	Jammu and Kashmir
29	Shri Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
30	Smt. Gita Upadhyay	Literature and Education	Assam
31	Shri Gokul Chandra Das	Art	West Bengal
32	Shri Guruvayur Dorai	Art	Tamil Nadu
33	Shri Harchandan Singh Bhatty	Art	Madhya Pradesh
34	Shri Hariman Sharma	Others-Agriculture	Himachal Pradesh
35	Shri Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale	Art	Punjab
36	Shri Harvinder Singh	Sports	Haryana
37	Shri Hassan Raghu	Art	Karnataka
38	Shri Hemant Kumar	Medicine	Bihar
39	Shri Hriday Narayan Dixit	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
40	Shri Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous)	Literature and Education-Journalism	Uttarakhand
41	Shri Inivalappil Mani Vijayan	Sports	Kerala
42	Shri Jagadish Joshila	Literature and Education	Madhya Pradesh
43	Smt. Jaspinder Narula	Art	Maharashtra
44	Shri Jonas Masetti	Others-Spiritualism	Brazil
45	Shri Joynacharan Bathari	Art	Assam
46	Smt. Jumde Yomgam Gamlin	Social Work	Arunachal Pradesh
47	Shri K. Damodaran	Others-Culinary	Tamil Nadu
48	Shri K L Krishna	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
49	Smt. K Omanakutty Amma	Art	Kerala
50	Shri Kishore Kunal (Posthumous)	Civil Service	Bihar
51	Shri L Hangthing	Others-Agriculture	Nagaland
52	Shri Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer	Literature and Education-Journalism	Tamil Nadu
53	Shri Lalit Kumar Mangotra	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
54	Shri Lama Lobzang (Posthumous)	Others-Spiritualism	Ladakh
55	Smt. Libia Lobo Sardesai	Social Work	Goa
56	Shri M D Srinivas	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
57	Shri Madugula Nagaphani Sarma	Art	Andhra Pradesh
58	Shri Mahabir Nayak	Art	Jharkhand
59	Smt. Mamata Shankar	Art	West Bengal
60	Shri Manda Krishna Madiga	Public Affairs	Telangana
61	Shri Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli	Literature and Education	Maharashtra
62	Shri Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous)	Art	Andhra Pradesh
63	Shri Nagendra Nath Roy	Literature and Education	West Bengal
64	Shri Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
65	Shri Naren Gurung	Art	Sikkim
66	Smt. Neerja Bhatla	Medicine	NCT Delhi
67	Smt. Nirmala Devi	Art	Bihar
68	Shri Nitin Nohria	Literature and Education	United States of America
69	Shri Onkar Singh Pahwa	Trade and Industry	Punjab
70	Shri P Datchanamoorthy	Art	Puducherry
71	Shri Pandi Ram Mandavi	Art	Chhattisgarh
72	Shri Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai	Art	Gujarat
73	Shri Pawan Goenka	Trade and Industry	West Bengal
74	Shri Prashanth Prakash	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
75	Smt. Pratibha Satpathy	Literature and Education	Odisha
76	Shri Purisai Kannappa Sambandan	Art	Tamil Nadu
77	Shri R Ashwin	Sports	Tamil Nadu
78	Shri R G Chandramogan	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
79	Smt. Radha Bahin Bhatt	Social Work	Uttarakhand
80	Shri Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy	Art	Tamil Nadu
81	Shri Ramdarash Mishra	Literature and Education	NCT Delhi
82	Shri Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar	Art	Maharashtra
83	Shri Ratan Kumar Parimoo	Art	Gujarat
84	Shri Reba Kanta Mahanta	Art	Assam
85	Shri Renthlei Lalrawna	Literature and Education	Mizoram
86	Shri Ricky Gyan Kej	Art	Karnataka
87	Shri Sajjan Bhajanka	Trade and Industry	West Bengal
88	Smt. Sally Holkar	Trade and Industry	Madhya Pradesh
89	Shri Sant Ram Deswal	Literature and Education	Haryana
90	Shri Satyapal Singh	Sports	Uttar Pradesh
91	Shri Seeni Viswanathan	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu
92	Shri Sethuraman Panchanathan	Science and Engineering	United States of America
93	Smt. Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	Medicine	Kuwait
94	Shri Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa)	Literature and Education	Rajasthan
95	Shri Shyam Bihari Agrawal	Art	Uttar Pradesh
96	Smt. Soniya Nityanand	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
97	Shri Stephen Knapp	Literature and Education	United States of America
98	Shri Subhash Khetulal Sharma	Others-Agriculture	Maharashtra
99	Shri Suresh Harilal Soni	Social Work	Gujarat
100	Shri Surinder Kumar Vasal	Science and Engineering	Delhi
101	Shri Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj)	Others-Spiritualism	West Bengal
102	Shri Syed Ainul Hasan	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
103	Shri Tejendra Narayan Majumdar	Art	West Bengal
104	Smt. Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi	Art	Manipur
105	Shri Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla	Literature and Education	Gujarat
106	Shri Vadiraj Raghawendracharya Panchamukhi	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
107	Shri Vasudeo Kamath	Art	Maharashtra
108	Shri Velu Aasaan	Art	Tamil Nadu
109	Shri Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar	Art	Karnataka
110	Shri Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj	Others-Spiritualism	Bihar
111	Smt. Vijayalakshmi Deshamane	Medicine	Karnataka
112	Shri Vilas Dangre	Medicine	Maharashtra
113	Shri Vinayak Lohani	Social Work	West Bengal

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