This year, President Droupadi Murmu has approved the conferment of 139 Padma Awards. (Images: Express Archives)
Padma Awards 2025: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has announced the names of the awardees who volition person the highest civilian awards—Padma Awards—for the twelvemonth 2025. This year, President Droupadi Murmu has approved the conferment of 139 Padma Awards.
Among the awardees, 23 are women, and the database includes 10 individuals categorised arsenic foreigners, NRIs, PIOs, oregon OCIs, arsenic good arsenic 13 posthumous awardees. Now, let’s spot who each person been awarded nether the lit and acquisition class for this year.
Thirty awardees volition beryllium given Padma Awards nether the Literature and Education class successful ceremonial functions which volition beryllium held astatine Rashtrapati Bhawan usually astir March oregon April.
Padma Awards 2025: Padma Vibhushan
This year, 7 radical volition get the highest grant which is fixed for exceptional and distinguished work to the country. Under the Education category, MT Vasudevan Nair from Kerala volition beryllium awarded the Padma Vibhushan Posthumously.
Other radical who volition person the grant are, Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy, Justice (Retd.) Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar, Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia, LakshminarayanaSubramaniam, Osamu Suzuki and Sharda Sinha.
Padma Awards 2025: Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is fixed to radical for distinguished work of precocious order. This twelvemonth nether the Literature and Education category, Bibek Debroy, A Surya Prakash, and Rambahadur Rai volition person the awards.
Other awardees are Vinod Dham, Shekhar Kapur, Shobana Chandrakumar, Pankaj Patel, Pankaj Udhas, P R Sreejesh, and Nandamuri Balakrishna among others.
Padma Awards 2025: Padma Shri
This twelvemonth Padma Shri volition beryllium fixed to those radical who person worked successful a distinguished immoderate field. Under the Literature and Education category, Anil Kumar Boro, Arunoday Saha, Arvind Sharma, Chandrakant Sheth, David R Syiemlieh, Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid, Gita Upadhyay, Hriday Narayan Dixit, Hugh and Colleen Gantzer, Jagadish Joshila, K L Krishna, Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer, Lalit Kumar Mangotra, Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli, Nagendra Nath Roy, Nitin Nohria, Pratibha Satpathy, Ramdarash Mishra, Renthlei Lalrawna, Sant Ram Deswal, Seeni Viswanathan, Sheen Kaaf Nizam, Stephen Knapp, Syed Ainul Hasan, Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla, and Vadiraj Raghawendracharya Panchamukhi.