PM Modi congratulates Padma Awards recipients

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the recipients of the Padma Awards, expressing admiration for their contributions across diverse sectors. He posted on X, saying, “Congratulations to all those who have been conferred the Padma Awards. India cherishes their contribution across diverse sectors. May they continue to inspire people with their exceptional work.”

Home Minister Amit Shah also extended his congratulations to the Padma awardees, commending them for creating exemplary instances and enhancing the nation’s pride with their service. Shah posted on X, “I extend my warmest congratulations to the change makers of our society who have been selected for the Padma Awards for their distinguished contributions to different fields. PM Modi has rationalized the Padma Awards ceremony to make it a platform to appreciate individuals setting pioneering examples for social change.”

He added, “The individuals conferred with the Padma Awards have not only created brilliant examples for others to follow but also have elevated the pride of the nation with their service.”

On the eve of Republic Day, former Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, along with four others, including the late social worker and founder of Sulabh International Bindeshwar Pathak, received the Padma Vibhushan, the country’s second-highest civilian award.

The Padma Vibhushan was also awarded to popular Indian actress Vyjayantimala Bali, actor, film producer, and former politician Konidela Chiranjeevi, and classical Bharata Natyam dancer Padma Subrahmanyam.

Among the 17 recipients of the Padma Bhushan were Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty, Indian pop and playback singer Usha Uthup, former Supreme Court justice M Fathima Beevi (posthumous), and consultant in the department of cardiology Ashwin Balachand Mehta.

The Padma Shri, the fourth-highest honor, was conferred upon 110 recipients, including Khalil Ahamad, Badrappan M, Kaluram Bamaniya, Rezwana Choudhury Bannya, Naseem Bano, and Ramlal Bareth.

The list of Padma Awardees for the year comprises 132 names, including two duo cases. There are five Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan, and 110 Padma Shri Awards. Thirty of the awardees are women, and the list includes eight individuals from the categories of foreign non-resident Indian (NRI), person of Indian origin (PIO), overseas citizenship of India (OCI), and nine posthumous awardees.

Padma Vibhushan (5)

SN	Name	Field	State/Region/Country
1	Ms. Vyjayantimala Bali	Art	Tamil Nadu
2	Shri Konidela Chiranjeevi	Art	Andhra Pradesh
3	Shri M Venkaiah Naidu	Public Affairs	Andhra Pradesh
4	Shri Bindeshwar Pathak (Posthumous)	Social Work	Bihar
5	Ms. Padma Subrahmanyam	Art	Tamil Nadu

 

Padma Bhushan (17)

SN	Name	Field	State/Region/Country
6	Ms. M Fathima Beevi (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Kerala
7	Shri Hormusji N Cama	Literature & Education – Journalism	Maharashtra
8	Shri Mithun Chakraborty	Art	West Bengal
9	Shri Sitaram Jindal	Trade & Industry	Karnataka
10	Shri Young Liu	Trade & Industry	Taiwan
11	Shri Ashwin Balachand Mehta	Medicine	Maharashtra
12	Shri Satyabrata Mookherjee (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	West Bengal
13	Shri Ram Naik	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
14	Shri Tejas Madhusudan Patel	Medicine	Gujarat
15	Shri Olanchery Rajagopal	Public Affairs	Kerala
16	Shri Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo  alias Rajdutt	Art	Maharashtra
17	Shri Togdan Rinpoche (Posthumous)	Others – Spiritualism	Ladakh
18	Shri Pyarelal Sharma	Art	Maharashtra
19	Shri Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur Medicine		Bihar
20	Ms. Usha Uthup	Art	West Bengal
21	Shri Vijaykanth (Posthumous)	Art	Tamil Nadu
22	Shri Kundan Vyas	Literature & Education – Journalism	Maharashtra

 

Padma Shri (110)

SN	Name	Field	State/Region/Country
23	Shri Khalil Ahamad	Art	Uttar Pradesh
24	Shri Badrappan M	Art	Tamil Nadu
25	Shri Kaluram Bamaniya	Art	Madhya Pradesh
26	Ms. Rezwana Choudhury Bannya	Art	Bangladesh
27	Ms. Naseem Bano	Art	Uttar Pradesh
28	Shri Ramlal Bareth	Art	Chhattisgarh
29	Ms. Gita Roy Barman	Art	West Bengal
30	Ms. Parbati Baruah	Social Work	Assam
31	Shri Sarbeswar Basumatary	Others – Agriculture	Assam
32	Shri Som Datt Battu	Art	Himachal Pradesh
33	Ms. Takdira Begum	Art	West Bengal
34	Shri Sathyanarayana Beleri	Others – Agriculture	Kerala
35	Shri Drona Bhuyan	Art	Assam
36	Shri Ashok Kumar Biswas	Art	Bihar
37	Shri Rohan Machanda Bopanna	Sports	Karnataka
38	Ms. Smriti Rekha Chakma	Art	Tripura
39	Shri Narayan Chakraborty	Science & Engineering West Bengal
40	Shri A Velu Ananda Chari	Art	Telangana
41	Shri Ram Chet Chaudhary	Science & Engineering Uttar Pradesh

SN	Name	Field	State/Region/Country
42	Ms. K Chellammal	Others – Agriculture	Andaman & Nicobar  Islands
43	Ms. Joshna Chinappa	Sports	Tamil Nadu
44	Ms. Charlotte Chopin	Others – Yoga	France
45	Shri Raghuveer Choudhary	Literature & Education	Gujarat
46	Shri Joe D Cruz	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
47	Shri Ghulam Nabi Dar	Art	Jammu & Kashmir
48	Shri Chitta Ranjan Debbarma	Others – Spiritualism	Tripura
49	Shri Uday Vishwanath Deshpande Sports		Maharashtra
50	Ms. Prema Dhanraj	Medicine	Karnataka
51	Shri Radha Krishan Dhiman	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
52	Shri Manohar Krishana Dole	Medicine	Maharashtra
53	Shri Pierre Sylvain Filliozat	Literature & Education	France
54	Shri Mahabir Singh Guddu	Art	Haryana
55	Ms. Anupama Hoskere	Art	Karnataka
56	Shri Yazdi Maneksha Italia	Medicine	Gujarat
57	Shri Rajaram Jain	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
58	Shri Jankilal	Art	Rajasthan
59	Shri Ratan Kahar	Art	West Bengal
60	Shri Yashwant Singh Kathoch	Literature & Education Uttarakhand

SN	Name	Field	State/Region/Country
61	Shri Zahir I Kazi	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
62	Shri Gaurav Khanna	Sports	Uttar Pradesh
63	Shri Surendra Kishore	Literature & Education – Journalism	Bihar
64	Shri Dasari Kondappa	Art	Telangana
65	Shri Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy	Literature & Education	Karnataka
66	Ms. Yanung Jamoh Lego	Others – Agriculture	Arunachal Pradesh
67	Shri Jordan Lepcha	Art	Sikkim
68	Shri Satendra Singh Lohia	Sports	Madhya Pradesh
69	Shri Binod Maharana	Art	Odisha
70	Ms. Purnima Mahato	Sports	Jharkhand
71	Ms. Uma Maheshwari D	Art	Andhra Pradesh
72	Shri Dukhu Majhi	Social Work	West Bengal
73	Shri Ram Kumar Mallick	Art	Bihar
74	Shri Hemchand Manjhi	Medicine	Chhattisgarh
75	Shri Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao  Meshram	Medicine	Maharashtra
76	Shri Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous)	Art	Uttar Pradesh
77	Shri Ali Mohammed & Shri Ghani  Mohammed* (Duo)	Art	Rajasthan
78	Ms. Kalpana Morparia	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
79	Ms. Chami Murmu	Social Work	Jharkhand

SN	Name	Field	State/Region/Country
80	Shri Sasindran Muthuvel	Public Affairs	Papua New Guinea
81	Ms. G Nachiyar	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
82	Ms. Kiran Nadar	Art	Delhi
83	Shri Pakaravur Chithran Namboodiripad  (Posthumous)	Literature & Education	Kerala
84	Shri Narayanan E P	Art	Kerala
85	Shri Shailesh Nayak	Science & Engineering	Delhi
86	Shri Harish Nayak (Posthumous)	Literature & Education	Gujarat
87	Shri Fred Negrit	Literature & Education	France
88	Shri Hari Om	Science & Engineering	Haryana
89	Shri Bhagabat Padhan	Art	Odisha
90	Shri Sanatan Rudra Pal	Art	West Bengal
91	Shri Shankar Baba Pundlikrao  Papalkar	Social Work	Maharashtra
92	Shri Radhe Shyam Pareek	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
93	Shri Dayal Mavjibhai Parmar	Medicine	Gujarat
94	Shri Binod Kumar Pasayat	Art	Odisha
95	Ms. Silbi Passah	Art	Meghalaya
96	Ms. Shanti Devi Paswan & Shri  Shivan Paswan* (Duo)	Art	Bihar
97	Shri Sanjay Anant Patil	Others – Agriculture	Goa

SN	Name	Field	State/Region/Country
98	Shri Muni Narayana Prasad	Literature & Education	Kerala
99	Shri K S Rajanna	Social Work	Karnataka
100	Shri Chandrashekar Channapatna  Rajannachar	Medicine	Karnataka
101	Shri Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit	Literature & Education Madhya Pradesh
102	Shri Romalo Ram	Art	Jammu & Kashmir
103	Shri Navjivan Rastogi	Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh
104	Ms. Nirmal Rishi	Art	Punjab
105	Shri Pran Sabharwal	Art	Punjab
106	Shri Gaddam Sammaiah	Art	Telangana
107	Shri Sangthankima	Social Work	Mizoram
108	Shri Machihan Sasa	Art	Manipur
109	Shri Omprakash Sharma	Art	Madhya Pradesh
110	Shri Eklabya Sharma	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
111	Shri Ram Chander Sihag	Science & Engineering	Haryana
112	Shri Harbinder Singh	Sports	Delhi
113	Shri Gurvinder Singh	Social Work	Haryana
114	Shri Godawari Singh	Art	Uttar Pradesh
115	Shri Ravi Prakash Singh	Science & Engineering Mexico
116	Shri Seshampatti T Sivalingam	Art	Tamil Nadu

SN	Name	Field	State/Region/Country
117	Shri Somanna	Social Work	Karnataka
118	Shri Kethavath Somlal	Literature & Education Telangana
119	Ms. Shashi Soni	Trade & Industry	Karnataka
120	Ms. Urmila Srivastava	Art	Uttar Pradesh
121	Shri Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Posthumous)	Art	West Bengal
122	Shri Gopinath Swain	Art	Odisha
123	Shri Laxman Bhatt Tailang	Art	Rajasthan
124	Ms. Maya Tandon	Social Work	Rajasthan
125	Ms. Aswathi Thirunal Gouri  Lakshmi Bayi Thampuratty	Literature & Education Kerala
126	Shri Jagdish Labhshanker Trivedi	Art	Gujarat
127	Ms. Sano Vamuzo	Social Work	Nagaland
128	Shri Balakrishnan Sadanam  Puthiya Veetil	Art	Kerala
129	Shri Kurella Vittalacharya	Literature & Education Telangana
130	Shri Kiran Vyas	Others – Yoga	France
131	Shri Jageshwar Yadav	Social Work	Chhattisgarh
132	Shri Babu Ram Yadav	Art	Uttar Pradesh

 

Instituted in 1954, the Padma Awards are among India’s highest civilian honors, announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. Conferred in three categories – Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri – the awards recognize exceptional and distinguished service in various fields, with an emphasis on public service. The Padma Awards Committee, constituted by the Prime Minister, recommends the awardees, with the final approval from the Prime Minister and the President of India.