Padma Awards: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan & Padma Shri

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.

History:

Padma Awards were instituted in the year 1954. Except for brief interruptions during the years 1977 to 1980 and 1993 to 1997, these awards have been announced every year on Republic Day. The award is given in three categories, viz. Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, in the decreasing order of importance.

• Padma Vibhushan for “exceptional and distinguished service”. Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award in India.
• Padma Bhushan for “distinguished service of a high order”. Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in India.
• Padma Shri is awarded for “distinguished service”. Padma Shri is the fourth-highest civilian award in India.

Unlike national honors, the Padma awards do not include cash allowances, benefits, or special concessions in rail / air travel. Per a December 1995 judgment of the Supreme Court of India, no titles or honorifics are associated with the Bharat Ratna or any of the Padma awards; honorees cannot use them or their initials as suffixes, prefixes or pre- and post-nominals attached to the awardee’s name. This includes any such use on letterheads, invitation cards, posters, books etc. In the case of any misuse, the awardee will forfeit the award, and he or she is cautioned against any such misuse upon receiving the honour.

• The decoration comprises a sanad (Certificate) issued under the hand and seal of the President and a Medallion.
• The recipients are also given a replica of the medallion, which they can wear during any ceremonial / State functions etc., if they desire.
• A commemorative brochure giving out brief details in respect of each award winner is also released on the day of the investiture ceremony.

Padma Awards: Selection Process

These awards seek to recognize work of any distinction… and is given for distinguished and exceptional achievements / service in all fields of activities / disciplines, such as art, literature and education, sports, medicine, social work, science and engineering, public affairs, civil service, trade and industry, etc. All persons without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex are eligible for these awards.

In 2015, the BJP government decided to end the practice of ministers recommending names for Padma awards and replaced it with any Indian citizen recommending a person for Padma awards online. The government said that this was done with the belief that every citizen has something to contribute to the nation and that contribution should be integrated with the country’s growth. Accordingly, several hitherto unknown citizens were awarded Padma awards in 2017. The role of the state governments was also minimized.

Padma Awards 2024

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.

These Awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March / April every year. For the year 2024, the President has approved conferment of 132 Padma Awards including 2 duo cases (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri Awards. 30 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 8 persons from the category of Foreigners / NRI / PIO / OCI and 9 Posthumous awardees.

Padma Vibhushan (5)

S.No:	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)

S.No:	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)

S.No:	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
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
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
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
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
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

Note: * In Duo case, the Award is counted as one.