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.